Reading tags

Loretta tagged me a while back and I am just getting to it. Actually, when I have a minute to blog, I write 3-4 and then schedule them to post later. In reality, if you could see me now, I am sitting in class, taking notes and talking about human development across the lifespan, as if anything much has changed from the last 3 incarnations of this course. If you could see my dashboard, I have at least 3 scheduled and 5-6 in draft form that are works in progress. As long as they are stewing, they should be really good when they finally get posted.

But back to the tag:

Rules:

1. Get the book that's on your nightstand (or whatever you happen to be reading).

2. Open it to page 56 and find the 5th sentence.

3. Post the next couple of sentences on your blog, along with these instructions.

4. Do not go and find your favorite book; it has to be the one you are reading now!

5. Tag five other people to do the same.

Development Across the Life Span, Robert Feldman 2006

Ok, pg. 56 is a table and I do not want to go to the bother of scanning and saving and inserting, so I am going to just open to a random page in this chapter

Pg. 35: The evolutionary perspective draws heavily on the feild of ethology, which examines the ways in which our biological makeup influences our behavior. a primary proponenet of ethology was Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989), who discovered that newborn geese are genetically preprogrammed to become attached to the first moving object they see after birth.

I know. Facinating stuff. Now I have to go finish my paper on the summary of Piaget's Theories and stages of learning and then compare them to one other theory of classical and operant conditioning.

I don't suppose you also want to discuss if there is a "fixed" determination of the role of genetics vs. environment, or if it is variable? Didn't think so.

But that is ok, because tomorrow is Jack Frost day, so we'll talk about nippy noses instead.

And I am supposed to tag 5 people now, but I am tired and still have writing to do, so consider yourself tagged if you want to play. Then you can come back and tell me in the comments and I'll go see what good books you are reading.

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Indeed.