in Unit 9.

In this chapter it talks about intelligence and language, something that people must possess to function normally in life. We must be intelligent in order to put our words together and make sentences that other people who know our language can understand and communicate back. Genetics have a huge part in how we retain information.

Something that shocked me in this chapter was the idea that people have a stereotype threat. Which means Performance decrement so that are caused by the knowledge of cultural steryotypes. This idea doesn't shock me, but it does make me raise my eyebrow. I am Dominican and Cuban, most people would see me and automatically put the title of "not so intelligent." I remember in elementary school, I lived in Colorado and I was the only fair skinned, curly haired, almond shaped eyed girl in the class. They depicted me as being of African American decent and all my other classmates had blonde hair and blue eyes. They spoke to me differently and thought I wasn't going to learn as fast as they would so, being nice and naive, they tried explaining things to me slower and tried being nice to me by helping me do projects. I turned out to help them with all the writing assignments, which was surprising to them. We were kids then so I didn't take too much offense and they didn't know any better. Once they realized I was just as smart they spoke to me different and asked me for help. I feel like any other kid would have dumbed down in order to fit in to what they thought the other kids saw in them, to be normal. 

Learning. Everyday.