Revision Week: Day 2

So continues the exciting saga of Erin's revision week before exams. I have to say, I don't think I'll ever get use to this whole exams after winter break thing. Though, I'm surprisingly more prepared this year. I've actually studied. Sign of maturity?

Anyway:

8 days until the English exam
9 days until the Psychology exam

"There is evidence that infants can not only imitate facial expressions but can understand the emotions behind them. In a study, infants were tested to see if they could understand emotions. The experimenter first got the child use to passing objects back and forth. Then the child was presented with a bowl of broccoli and a bowl of fish crackers (you know...the snack the smiles back). The child was encouraged to choose a snack to eat. Inevitably, the child would choose to chow down on the fish crackers. After the child has sometime to eat their snack the experimenter would take the two bowls. He tried a bit of broccoli and made a pleased face with satisfied "yum" noises. Then he tried a fish cracker. He looked disgusted and made "yucky" noises. He then passed the two bowls back to the child and asked them if they could give him something to eat. In most, but not all cases, the child will eventually pass him a bit of broccoli. This provides evidence that young children can use facial expressions to guide their own social interactions." There are videos to go along with this of babies who "pass" and "fail" this test. There was one we watched which was absolutely hilarious. This little girl looks at the experimenter as if to say, "Really?! You want this!?" Adorable.

But quite possibly the most important thing I have learned (or revised I should say) today is something my lecturer said during the original lecture. "If you give broccoli and fish crackers to a child they will never eat the broccoli." Life lessons right there.

The Start of Revision Week

Today starts revision week. This means that we have no classes for the whole week and that exams will start next week. My first exam is my English exam on May 27. Well, technically, my first exam was today. Today was my Gaelic Oral Exam and I've been told that I did very well. I know that there are at least 2 questions where I didn't get any points, but out of 20 questions that doesn't worry me at all.

So, what is my plan for the next week as I don't have classes. Well, every day I'm going to work on my Psychology report which is due in on Friday. I have two psychology courses and my practical course does not have a final exam. The final grade is based on our two practical reports (the first one I got an 18) and the MCQs. I'm hoping that I will do as amazing on this report as I did on the last report because I'm haven't done particularly well on the MCQs. I'm also going to choose the books I'm going to use for the English exam and reread them (or read them for the first time...). Finally, for an hour or two a day, I'm going to work very hard on Gaelic. Last semester I got a 17 on the final exam and I'm really hoping for an 18-20 this semester.

Now, you may be asking, "Erin, if you have such big plans for your grades this semester then why are you spending time writing on this blog that apparently no one reads?" That's a very good question and I shall tell you the truthful answer. I'm writing on the blog because I've been working on my practical report for the past hour and I had trouble starting off the introduction so I decided to take a little break so that my brain can relax for just a little and forget about having to write eloquently or grammatically correct. That's right people, I don't really put effort into these posts that you wait for.

I also thought I would tell you guys that Lisa and I are signing the lease this evening. Hooray! Once we've signed this piece of paper we will not have to worry at all about housing for us. We'll be helping Marlene and Amy throughout the week as we're hoping to find them a flat nearish to us.

Well, That's all from me for now. I'm going to continue working on the introduction for my report. Perhaps tomorrow, if you're all very good little bloggers, then I shall tell you what the report is about.