Thinking In Color and Do-It-Yourself Porn

Samantha Patton was doing an experiment about abstract words. She embodied cognition was the words must be grounded in the environment. An example she gave us was that visual is processed faster than anything else. An apple that is green is processed faster than an apple that is shiny or tart. The experiment was going to be concrete words versus abstract words. The data collection was they had 52 students, 200 nouns, 50 concrete words, and 150 abstract words. The students had a free response to write any color they seen when the word was said. They ended up with eleven main colors: red, yellow, purple, pink, black, grey, blue, white, green, brown, and orange. The experiment had low kappa and low agreement on the words. They then took the top 75 abstract words and 75 fillers and used it for another part of the experiment.

The experiment was going to have around 30 people that was taking the test again. It was going to be a stooped based format. Brown was excluded from the color choice; so they were left with only ten colors. Their expectations were to based on the response time and accuracy of how good they matched the colors.

The whole point of these experiments were to prove that abstract words could be ground words just as much as concrete words were. A man asked the question, “why did you use colors to determine if it was a ground word?" "Why didn’t you use objects instead?" They said that if they used objects then their free response would have been all over the place and they were not going to be able to narrow them down and put them in group the way that they did.

Benjamin Marshall was a young man that did a report on porn that was produced by people that did it their self. Meaning it wasn't from a big company and they acted in their own work. The young man spoke very fast, it almost seemed as if he had memorized his whole paper. He spoke of using slapping during intercourse. Many people thought that it was down grading to women. They felt that it doesn’t matter if the woman likes it or not they should there should not be an act a violence against them. The man that was doing it said that he does not hit unless he is sure that the women liked to be hit.

He gets into a lot of other videos and mentions one about a man that is about ten years older than a young boy that’s from the ages of twelve and fourteen. Many people that watched it thought that it was a boring video because the boy did not seem interested in what was going on. Abuses of minors are not brought to the public as exploitation until somebody actually says something about it. A question was raise at the end of his reading. Why is it that when an older man messes with a younger female or male that it is made a big deal, but when an older female messes with a younger underage female nobody says anything about it .

Throughout two reading I went to I thought that time went by a lot fast then I had though. I thought that it was going to be big science talk, and that I wasn’t going to be able to understand it. At first I couldn’t understand what Mr. Marshall was saying because of how fast he read, but I finally caught on. The lectures kept my attention and was quite interesting to me.