Technologies in my Career

Technologies have improved in the last decades. Mobiles, internet, computers have come to be extremely important objects in our lives and now they invade every space of our days. Also, technologies are used in every scope of the society. Today it’s almost impossible imagine our jobs without technologies, either our schools or colleges. Power Points presentations, data shows are part of our daily vocabulary because we actually use them every day. Today, I’m going to talk about the use of technologies within the different subjects I’ve studied this year.

First of all, I would like to talk about Laboral Psychology. In this subject, we use power point presentations, so the teacher speaks while he looks at them reflecting in the board. This technology is important because it allows teachers to organize better the information, and also allows teachers to show better how they do that. One of the benefits of using these technologies is that now you can pass through the slides using a little remote control, so now teachers don’t have to stay next to the mousse of the computers and they can walk and walk.

In Psicopatología Infanto-Juvenil, we use another technology. It is similar to the previous one, but it is also distinct. In one of the presentations we had to do to present in the classes, one of the groups used a program called “Prezi”. This program it is like power point, but it is different because it allows people to pass in a stylish way each slide. When each slide disappears, the next one appears turning around the screen. Also, this program allows people to show videos in an easier way.

Also, we have to use other technologies to have a nice perform in university, like Skype, MSN and Microsoft Word. Sometimes, when we have to deliver works or papers, we had to work in group, but it is not possible to stay in other’s house. So, thanks to these programs now we can work in group at night easily.

In conclusion, technologies have improved in the last decade, and now we can enjoy all the benefits of using them. It is important to remember that technologies probably will improve even more, and it is important for us to continue learning how to use them. Also, I can conclude that nowadays technologies have break into schools, colleges and universities, giving an extra use to these amazing discovers made by man.

where I have lived.....

I have lived in 5 houses and in 3 different city. First I lived in old Chillán when I was very child then I with family moved to Chillán, to a place that nearly to downtown and parent`s work and my school. In last house I could say that I lived most part of my life. I liked this house was very nice, my bedroom was decorated by me. I remember that I painted yellow.
Then, I when was 16 years old, my family and me moved to Concepción. In this place we have live in one house. Also this it very nice and big, it is two-story house, it have 4 bedroom. Now in this house are living my parents and my old brother because I moved to Santiago when I finished to school for going to university. So I live in Santiago, this is my third city, in this place I have lived in 2 flat. The fist flat I lost it whit earthquake, so I moved to other flat very near to the first. Also is very near to my university. This last flat I like less that the fist but likewise is comfortable and it have the same number room. This flat has 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a kitchen, a living and a balcony. Here I live whit a friend, is a girl that I know here, she study odontology in the same university.
About my flat, Also I can say that it in a convenient location, it have near a lot of shops, two supermarket, a lot of banks. My neighborhood is safe. I don’t know my entire neighbors, only know that my next-door neighbor have a two daughter very loud voice, but in general my building is very quite. I like where I live.

I`m not fanatic to the recycling but I think that it`s very important worry of the environment. In the Tv and radio I always hear that they encourage to people take care to environmet, I think that is a matter that is a fashion, all the natural things is a fashion now. The mass medio invited to people to make more exercise outdoor or eat more vegetables, but I think that is a very good fashion. I hope this fashion not finish.

I try to make things to take care of the environment, for example when I going to buy to supermarket I try to take the things in my backpack in stead of in a plastic bag, or I always turn off the lights in my house when nobody use it. Also I like walk so I prefer walk in stead of take a bus, also with this action I take care to environment, and I take care my health. Sure! This is only when I can because when too far to walk. I have no choice.

In general I think that is little incentive is given to people to care for the environment, is advertised with the issue but no concrete steps are taken, some stores have bags of recyclable material but do not make a concrete incentive for people to used it, I read somewhere a very good idea, was that the stores could charge $ 10 for using a non-recyclable bag so people would use recyclable bags. that I think a good measure for people to really cooperate

My building try to recycling the rubbish, there are a place to leave the plastic rubbish, other place to paper and cardboard rubbish and the other to glass rubbish. I consider that the buildings that use solar energy are very cool. Everyone could use it. But sometimes the things to take care the environment are very expensive as the solar panel, or there are not much advertising to product that not damage to environment. This is something else that could be changed so that everyone could help with a grain of sand in it to care for the environment

Art´s tastes

Today I going to talk about art. In my opinion the art is a

expression of feeling, so aren´t wrong or ugly art, only is. Also I think that the art is very important for the cultura. Is a expression of cultura. What I like about art is that you see a something that you can to interpret anything as a proyective test. Well, this is more probable in abstract art, while in other art you can found the real copy of reality as photograph but is a paint. I admire to painter that make this art. I sometime go to museums when friends come to visit me elsewhere. I take them to museums, for example: “Bellas Artes” museum. I remember that when I was a child, sometime my mom took me to art exhibition and I liked.

Althoug I consider that the art is beatifull. I have not the skills to make it. Never I try. Must be because only I take an interest in see it. Also can be that never anyone encouraged me to do it.

Although saying that I go to museums and I like art, I could not talk a lot of painte

rs. Maybe I could name some famous painters such as: Velazquez, Michelangelo, Dali, Monet, Van Gogh …. Of these painters named I like the paintings of Van Gogh and Monet in the colors of his paintings

As Picasso is the artist that I know best. Picasso because I remember that in the school I had to make a presentation of the life of picasso in arts class, and on that occasion I got the idea to make a play of his life. In addition, my colleagues had to make a copy of Guernica it was a painting commissioned by the Spanish government to Picasso during the Spanish Civil War.

If low serotonin levels aren't responsible for depression, what is?

One of the

disorders that psychology can treat are those

about mood. In this category, we can find depression, for example. In relation to this subject, I found an online diary (www.guardian.co.uk) with an article in it. This article was about effects that pharmacologic treatments were supposed to have in people with depression. This article was also about how antidepressive treatments works and how they have been developed.

First of all, it is important to consider that depression implies a chemical unbalance on a cerebral level. Scientists thought that was related to a decrease of monoamines. According to this, scientists thought that if they developed a method to increase this neurotransmissors, they could treat depression. For years they tried and tried, but they found some problems. The first problem was that antidepressive treatments take at least a month to make an effect. This, was inconsistent with the monoamines theory.

The second problem was that these treatments didn’t work for all patients. They found that just a 60% was effective.

The third problem was much more complicated. Scientists found that if they reduce the serotonine or monoamines in people in order to induce depression people didn’t always shows the disorder or symptoms. So, they throw away monoamines as an valid explanation.

In exchange, scientists proposed another theory, neurogenesys theory. This theory would come to replace monoamine theory by giving a better explanation of the phenomena. So, now scientists are trying to improve in this capacity to produce neurogenesys instead monoamine.

Neurogenesys treatment shows to be an interesting idea. But it is not perfect. In fact, studies cannot distinguish real changes in depressed humans. Som studies have shown interesting founds, but others just don’t.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2010/sep/28/depression-serotonin-neurogenesis

You see movie in the cinema or in your house?

Today I going to write about to go a cinema and a movie I have seen. I few time go to the cinema. I think that there are movies that it see better in the cinema while there are the others movie that it`s not worth pay to see in the cinema. The movie that I have seen in the cinema are The lord of the ring, Avatar 3D, Shutter Island and Inception. All this are very good movies and I recommend you.
But in general I like see a movie in my house and also I see the very good movies in my house. I sometimes download movies to internet. For me, see a movie It`s a good activity to night`s Friday, where I need to relax.
My favorite film is “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”. I don’t remember when see it because was long ago.Is a north American’s film to 2004, its director is Michel Gondry and the principal actors are Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet, too you see Elijah Wood, Mark Ruffalo, Kirsten Dunst, Tom Wilkinson. The film presents a history when Joel (Jim Carrey) meets to Clementine (Kate Winslet) in the improvised trip but it’s not the first time than are together. Through to film you discover that they meet to before. They had a long relation but Clementine decide to finish the relation and she go to doctor Howard Mierzwiak to blot out the all Joel`s regards. Joel too made brain laundering to forget to her. The film is very fun and interesting because it`s not lineal in the time. The film can be confusing but in the end you understand all history. Any way who has not tried to forget someone?

Also I reccomend you this movie.

Places to Go: Santiago in few pictures

Santiago is a beautiful place to live in. I’m from Concepcion, and, even knowing that Concepcion is a wonderful place, I prefer Santiago because it has a lot of strange and unknown places to visit.

For example, once I went Santiago for the day like I always do, and I visited a place called the “sculpture’s park”, and I founded there a lot of green and interesting surprises. There were many trees (I like a lot trees) and sculptures made with dif

ferent kinds of metals, and also was a pair of benches for people to sit in them. This park is about five minutes from the concrete and gray city, and it’s a relief to the smog.

Well, like I said before, I lived long time ago in Concepcion. But I love there. So, sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, a stranger, when I come to Santiago. So, if I have to name places that a foreigner or a tourist should visit, I would name, first of all, the sculpture’s park. Then, I think I will choose a mall. Any mall. The

reason is that a foreigner or a tourist would feel like home.

The third place I would recommend to a foreigner or a tourist would be “Plaza de Armas” It is a place full of life, with a lot of painters painting everywhere, pigeons flitting around and making funny sounds and people walking and talking all the time. I like, for example, to chase pigeons in Plaza de Armas. That’s my favorite thing to do. I like, also, to see how human statues do their shows.

That’s for now.