Problems and Solutions

I dont have any problem with my goal, or dreams So there's nothing much to talk about here. I was able to see that I did pretty well in contacting my Role Models, and I learned alot about the route am heading, and what to be done as I get closer to the dream. I dont have any hard time, as I've follewed the step by step in how to figure out where you are stuck and how to get out, and pretty much I haven't been stuck, and Am happy my role models got back to me on time, and I got them to chat with easily without hazzels, and that I cherished and made me appreciate them more as my role model and wanting to keep striving higher to get to where they are today.

I did what I was supposed to do and I've blogged about it too. I contacted a Psychology professor who wrote on the student webmail site looking for students who are intrested in psychology research, so I went to his office hours and spoke to him one on one, luckily he was at his desk, and he seemed pretty nice and cool, and thta geered me more to really want to experience what he was all about{doing} Anyways like I said, it was fun and intresting, also there was another study on 13 year old kids who are were smoking, and their parents knows nothing about, but cuase of confidentiality in this reasearch we can't tell their parents about their kids, cause that will be bridging patients confidentiality, so you see it was just fun all around it...lol

What I want to do for next week will be to study hard for my up coming practice exam, for my MCAT which is coming around the corner December, yep! that's it, and pray for me to pass the exam, and hopefully I'll pass the exam...lol lol lol

Research with Professor Winer

I Met with Professor Winer and I enquired if he was doing any research studies at the moment and he said oh yes I am. I asked him if I could join just to see and perharps learn from it, he accepted and I was so pleased to go and see what he was researching on. First of all It was very intresting to see what his studies was all about. He was researching on::: (a) Suppose you want to develop a treatment program for children who are afraid of the dark. You interview children and parents and you learn that children’s fearfulness varies considerably from one night to another. Although the children are fearful most nights, sometimes they are not afraid. You also learn that many of the kids report nightmares regarding monsters, vampires and burglars. You wonder: are kids afraid of the dark itself, or are they only afraid of the dark when they have fearful images? To test this idea, you set up a 2 (Illumination: Light vs Dark) by 2 (Images: Fearful or Neutral) factorial study, and you use heart rate to measure the children’s fear levels.
(!)Let’s say you found a significant main effect for illumination and a significant main effect for fear images but no interaction. Draw a graph to show how such results would look (note: heart rates should fall between 80 and 130 beats per minute). How would you interpret the graph conceptually?
(!!) Lets say instead you found a significant main effect for fear images and a significant interaction. What would the graph of the results look like? How would you interpret these results? This was a very intresting research to work on cause we had to do some calculations, and findings as well as correlation effect if one thing led to the other, or if one thing causes another. Also Profeessor winner had us, I and some other students as well as the TA's under him work on another of his research, which is as followed, :::

A researcher wonders about how social influence affects cognitive ability. She takes a sample of 40 introverts and 40 extroverts and asks them to solve some difficult math problems in a crowded room and an uncrowded room. The researcher measures the number of problems solved (numbers can range from 0 problems solved to 25 problems solved).

Factor A
Crowded Room Uncrowded Room
Factor B Introverts 12 18
Extroverts 18 12




a. Name the independent variable Factor A
i. Identify whether Factor A is between-subjects experimental, within-subjects experimental, or non-experimental?
b. Name the independent variable Factor B
c. Identify whether Factor A is between-subjects experimental, within-subjects experimental, or non-experimental?
d. Name the dependent variable?
e. What is the scale of measurement for the dependent variable?
f. If the researcher wants 40 people per cell, how many subjects are required for this study
g. Calculate and label marginal means



Part 2:::
i. If there is a main effect of Factor A, describe in words. If there is not a main effect of Factor A, describe how the groups do not differ.
ii. If there is a main effect of Factor A, describe in words. If there is not a main effect of Factor A, describe how the groups do not differ.
h. Is there an interaction? Describe what your overall results mean in words. If there is an interaction, describe how the interaction qualifies any significant main effects.

It was pretty intense but I didnt regret joining them to figure out how to do this measures and figuring out the answers to these questions, and it was fun!!! The kids were sampled by randomazation, meaning likely hood of any member of the population is beign selected is known, random selection. It was intresting to know that a group of board members has to be notified to approave this research before he can go ahead to do it, they are called the IRB. Also the consent of both the children and their parents are needed before anything can be done, that is called informed consent. Whereby participants in the research must knowingly agree to participate in the study and participants must know what the study is on and the purpose of it. If they are not told it means you have deceived them and that is called Deception, hiding the true purpose of a study task from participants. Also if one does that one needs to tell participants at the end of the study the truth, and purpose why you did the test or experimental study, and that is called Debriefing, explaining the true purpose for the study including reasons for the deception. Which is to minimize negative effects, to convey educational value, to reveal conditions, and so that they don't feel duped.lol It was fun I can tell you that.

I had an individual friend take me around the school just for sight seeing

I dint get to do much, but at least I was able to visit the school, that's what matters. I went to the Administrative block, and their university hall, were their professors are and lots more places. Although I did not call ahead to make an appointment cause that will not be given unless it's in a group of new comers orientation. So I and a friend of mine, Adedayo, drove down to the school since it's not far from ur here, and she has a friend who actually lives on the north side of the campus and she took us around. And showed us where the science lab buildings were, where the library was and cafeteria building as well. So I was walked around individually by a friends friend. The best part about it is feeling like am already a student there, even when I wasn't yet, but the mere sight of the school makes me aspire more to further my dream. I can't wait.!!!1 The worst was that some buildings were quite old but should that borther me, nope! cause the oldness of it is not what matters but the uniqueness of the structure and what will be taught in that structure{building}...lol

Schools I Visited To Check their surroundings

I went to Loyola college of medicine, It's a school I see every sunday when am going to church and I always wished to tour it round, but I never did until on thursday the 29th and I enjoyed every bit of it.

I went to Northwestern college of medicine, which was a preference from my sister because she graduated from Northwestern university as a computer scientist. Moreso North Western uni is a good school, one of the best and top medical school in Chicago, that produces the top and best Doctors in which I have had encounters with some of them along my working career. And I would love to go there if am accepted.

My Mapped out Schools

I mapped out Medical schools I would love to go to. I called some and emailed some, to ask about what is required before one can get accepted: such as GPA, forms to fill, applications online, Affidafits to be sworn and signed in front of a lawyer, and so on and so forth. The list of the schools I mapped out are:

- Miami College of Medicine, I really wanted to go there so in my Junior year I went there to submit my application and toured around the school. It was big and nice

- Loyola College of Medicine on Maywood.

- Northwestern school of Medicine at evanston,(webmaster@northwestern.edu),

- College of Medicine @ Chicago il, on Taylor street.

- University of Winsconsin Medical School, North Chicago.

- Feinberg School of Medicine; Cognitive Neurology & Alzhemimers Disease center on - East Superior chicago il. This would be fun to get into because I studied Neuroscience so it would be fun to keep up with that trend.

- Mehary college of Medicine, at Nashville Tennesse. A very nice school which I have visited. I went to visit my friend there, he also finished undergrad here at UIC, and I went to say hi for three days and it was fun, and I promised to apply there.

- Emory school of medicine, Atlanta Georgia. I also have visited last year, I have five girl friends there 2 of them are in Medical school, so I went up there to see how they are doing, and for sure I fell in love with the school. It was beautiful and gracious. Nice buildings, sharp flower decorations and good place to go to school.

- International Medical School in the Caribbeans, University of Sint Eustatius School of Medicine.
The Caribbean will be the last and least result for me if I can't get into medical school in the states, which I know won't be the case.