Ch. 2

In this chapter the author is talking about the neurons and the connections inside the human brain. Children and infants have more neurons in their brains than adults do. The more a human repeats a certain behavior, the more rapid and constant that behavior comes to them. These habits and patterns that we learn are called reflexive behaviors. Program cell death means that unused cells must die, they are useless and soon don't exist. If these cells did not die we would be overwhelmed and paranoid about events that were new and random to us. This chapter explains the disability of autism and how children with it have a harder time comprehending things then people who have full neurological development. Also talks about how in the animal kingdom their young have to learn on their own and they are not taught how to do certain things they just learn from their mistakes constantly.

The argument throughout this chapter is basically about how the brain works and learning about ourselves. The author shows us that we as infants and children start off with more neurons than when we age as adult. In the past people believed that as we got older we gain neurons, but the truth is as we get older we lose about 40 percent of the neurons we used to have. If we did have this many neurons there would be to many things going through are heads and humans would be paranoid and freaking out everyday because they would be overwhelmed and over thinking everything. I do agree with her argument because everything she is talking about is facts about our brains and how the connections of them work in our daily lives. Also how kids with autism have a harding time concentrating and learning certain things because their brains our different from ours. She shows how a lot of people have different neural conditions and learn in a different way like people with Williams Syndrome. People with Williams Syndrome have lower IQ scores then people without and struggle with learning from what studies show.