In this chapter we talked about stereotypes and how we normally aren't correct when we don't know someone. My current event is about that, making mistakes.
I thought I knew my boyfriend pretty well, but it wasn't until a couple days ago when I actually know him. We have been going out for about 2 years now and its hard to believe that I just now know him and what I mean to him. A couple days ago I told him some bad news and thought we would break up FOR SURE, but he didn't. I couldn't believe that we didn't, but that was alright for me. I thought that because of what I told him that he would break up with me (stereotype) I thought that almost everyone who would gave their boyfriends that bad of news would not stay together. I was died wrong, I fell for the fundamental attribution error. I thought that people would just break up without actually knowing what would happen. In the end I found out that my boyfriend isn't like that stereotype I thought he fell in and that he cares about me very very much and that I am very important to him.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Chapter 16
Attribution: The process of attribution is basically a theory to help us understand what causes our behavior in different situations. We want to know why people act the way we do. We want to observe others and in doing that we think we are in control of our own behaviors and situations. The fundamental attribution error is when someone thinks they know something just by observing it and when they actually see or know about the something they normally are wrong with what they thought. It is an error almost everyone makes because we like to judge people, a lot.
Stereotypes: Stereotypes are a belief about a group of people, we normally aren't accurate with our thinking because not all people fit in the stereotype we put them in. For example if we say all fat people are jolly, there could be a fat person that is definitely NOT jolly ( I think we all know this one.) The reason i picked fat people is because that's what I wrote on my assignment, so don't get mad please. My example was basically my next topic, illusory correlations and how they are related to stereotypes. We often want to correlate people with groups which in reality we can't. Like my example said we not say all fat people are fat because there is always an exception.
Stereotypes: Stereotypes are a belief about a group of people, we normally aren't accurate with our thinking because not all people fit in the stereotype we put them in. For example if we say all fat people are jolly, there could be a fat person that is definitely NOT jolly ( I think we all know this one.) The reason i picked fat people is because that's what I wrote on my assignment, so don't get mad please. My example was basically my next topic, illusory correlations and how they are related to stereotypes. We often want to correlate people with groups which in reality we can't. Like my example said we not say all fat people are fat because there is always an exception.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
The Charmeleon Effect
Does mimicry of others have an impact on how others like us? To see of it does Chartrand and Bargh carried out an experiment showing how likable you are, do we mimic automatically even strangers, and do high-perspective-takers exhibit the Chameleon effect more.
To see if people automatically mimic others, even strangers they had 78 participants who had a chat with insiders of the experiments. Some did more smiling, some face touching, and others foot wiggling. The result was that yes people will automatically mimic others, even strangers.
To see if mimicry increased liking they sat down the 78 participants in a chat room with the people that wiggled their foot more and touched their face more. The result of that one was that mimicry does in fact increase likability.
To see if high-perspective-takers exhibit the chameleon effect more they took 55 students and had them fill out a questionnaire, and empathy. They sat down opposite from them a person who did the face touching and foot wiggling. The result was that high-perspective-takers did 30% more touching of the face and 50% more foot wiggling then low-perspective -takers.
This is kinda like we hypnotise others to like us. If you need help with getting someone you should try mimicking them and see what happens.
To see if people automatically mimic others, even strangers they had 78 participants who had a chat with insiders of the experiments. Some did more smiling, some face touching, and others foot wiggling. The result was that yes people will automatically mimic others, even strangers.
To see if mimicry increased liking they sat down the 78 participants in a chat room with the people that wiggled their foot more and touched their face more. The result of that one was that mimicry does in fact increase likability.
To see if high-perspective-takers exhibit the chameleon effect more they took 55 students and had them fill out a questionnaire, and empathy. They sat down opposite from them a person who did the face touching and foot wiggling. The result was that high-perspective-takers did 30% more touching of the face and 50% more foot wiggling then low-perspective -takers.
This is kinda like we hypnotise others to like us. If you need help with getting someone you should try mimicking them and see what happens.
Ads for Unhealthy Foods Increase Children's Consumption 45%
Obesity is becoming a BIG concern in the U.S. now. People are starting to be curious to whose fault it is. The people at Yale University made an experiment with 118 kids in between the age of 7-11. They sat the kids in front of a TV with cartoons. Some of the kids had commercials with snack food and the others had non-snack food commercials.
Later they had the snack of "Goldfish." The data showed that 45% more kids eating the snack from the commercials of snack food then the other kids.
There was a 2nd experiment but this time it was with adults and instead of cartoons they watched a comedy show called "Whose Line Is It Anyways,"(very funny show, you should watch it.) The participants were divided into 3 groups. The first group saw snack food adverts, the second nutritional foods, and the third non-food products. After the show was done they took the participants into a different room and told them to try different foods. It consisted of veggies, multi-grain chips, cookies, trail mix, and snack mix. They could eat as much as they wanted.
The data showed that the group who ate more was the first group with the snack food commercials. They eat more then the other two, the second group who ate more was the second group with the nutritional foods. So it has been shown that the media has a huge impact of how much we eat. It's not all its fault, but it has a big part.
Later they had the snack of "Goldfish." The data showed that 45% more kids eating the snack from the commercials of snack food then the other kids.
There was a 2nd experiment but this time it was with adults and instead of cartoons they watched a comedy show called "Whose Line Is It Anyways,"(very funny show, you should watch it.) The participants were divided into 3 groups. The first group saw snack food adverts, the second nutritional foods, and the third non-food products. After the show was done they took the participants into a different room and told them to try different foods. It consisted of veggies, multi-grain chips, cookies, trail mix, and snack mix. They could eat as much as they wanted.
The data showed that the group who ate more was the first group with the snack food commercials. They eat more then the other two, the second group who ate more was the second group with the nutritional foods. So it has been shown that the media has a huge impact of how much we eat. It's not all its fault, but it has a big part.
Our Minds Are Black Boxes-Even to Ourselves
This PsyBlog was talking about whtat we think of ourselves and others just by information we have. They did an expirement of a person called Jill. They had 128 participants to judge weather if she was the right person or not for the job of working in a crisis center. Some of the "Judges" were told different things then others. They then had to tell how much she sympathy she had, how much the judges liked her, and howmuch flexibility she showed for solving problems.
The result of seeing what we think of someone before we actually know them is...DIFFERNT. People thought that because she had good looks that she would be more sympathic but the judges judged her to be less sympathic and so on.
It's kinda interesting reading that what we think can be totally different until we know someone, It's just like the common saying, "Don't judge a book by its cover."
The result of seeing what we think of someone before we actually know them is...DIFFERNT. People thought that because she had good looks that she would be more sympathic but the judges judged her to be less sympathic and so on.
It's kinda interesting reading that what we think can be totally different until we know someone, It's just like the common saying, "Don't judge a book by its cover."
Chapter 13
There are a lot of things that influence my personality. For one my boyfriend for sure does. He pretty much is what I base my life on. Anyone who knows me would probably agree with that one. Others would have to be my family and friends. Before my boyfriend came my friends are who I hung around with most of the time. I grew up with them and they basically shaped the way I am. My family came even before my friends so I would have to say they have a lot of influence on my personality. I am very close to my family and after almost 2 years with my boyfriend I consider him as family. My friends would be the second thing and then just our environment would be the third thing. If I lived somewhere else I would believe I would be different then who I am now.
The personality trait theory that makes the most sense to me is Carl Rogers Self Theory. It pretty much is how we see ourselves. It makes us see who we are and also who we would like to be. It lets us show acceptance and approval towards others we want to and other positive things. The theory also says that we have a positive self-concept and fulfillment in a genuine, accepting, and empathic environment. I pretty much use all the defence mechanism. I use them to protect my emotions and just me. Sometimes I don't want to use them but it just happens its automatic.
The personality trait theory that makes the most sense to me is Carl Rogers Self Theory. It pretty much is how we see ourselves. It makes us see who we are and also who we would like to be. It lets us show acceptance and approval towards others we want to and other positive things. The theory also says that we have a positive self-concept and fulfillment in a genuine, accepting, and empathic environment. I pretty much use all the defence mechanism. I use them to protect my emotions and just me. Sometimes I don't want to use them but it just happens its automatic.
Friday, December 4, 2009
Current Event 8
This chapter was about personality, so I am just going to tell about what my personality is and how good and bad it is for me.
I have a pretty good personality to start off with but it can sometimes get me into trouble. I try to be as nice as possible with saying "Ya I can do that," or "Ya no problem." I can only take so much of it. Here's a story about one of those moments where I just had enough and blew up at someone.
One of my friends asked me about 3 weeks ago to ran with her. Of course, I said sure. I thought she just meant for that day because one of her other friends that she was suppose to ran with, wouldn't. SO it went for about 2 weeks and I had enough. I told her that I didn't want to ran and that I didn't like just running. She told me that I was running, that was the end of the line. I told her that actually I wasn't going to run and that me and my boyfriend were going to do something fun that involved working out. After that she hasn't really talked to me as much as she use to. So my personality got me in trouble because now I kinda lost a close friend.
I have a pretty good personality to start off with but it can sometimes get me into trouble. I try to be as nice as possible with saying "Ya I can do that," or "Ya no problem." I can only take so much of it. Here's a story about one of those moments where I just had enough and blew up at someone.
One of my friends asked me about 3 weeks ago to ran with her. Of course, I said sure. I thought she just meant for that day because one of her other friends that she was suppose to ran with, wouldn't. SO it went for about 2 weeks and I had enough. I told her that I didn't want to ran and that I didn't like just running. She told me that I was running, that was the end of the line. I told her that actually I wasn't going to run and that me and my boyfriend were going to do something fun that involved working out. After that she hasn't really talked to me as much as she use to. So my personality got me in trouble because now I kinda lost a close friend.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Current Event 7
Have you ever had someone that was overconfident in themselves? I'm sure you have, this is one of my stories about someone else being overconfident in themselves. One day I was having this conversation with a group of my friends. We got into an argument on who was right. You know how girls are we think we are right now matter what. What really sucks is when you know you are right and know that the other person is wrong and you have no way of telling them they are wrong because they don't want to listen to you or what you have to say. This one friend is ALWAYS overconfident on her answer, normally she is wrong. Even if we have 5 different people telling her she is wrong it doesn't matter. In the end we found out we, the other friends, were right and she was wrong. Then she says that she said what we said along. Then we get into another argument about what she said and it goes on and on and on.
Chapter 9
This chapter was on thinking and language. There was multiple things to talk about in this chapter but the 3 main things I am going to talk about are prototypes, algorithms, and what heuristics are.
We have different prototypes for different things. We make mental images to what something is suppose to look like. For example when someone says "square" we automatically think and picture a shape that has 4 congruent sides and angles. Everyone might have a little different prototype then others. Some people might see a little different image in their head about things. Making everyone unique. Another thing is that some people might see a penguin more like a bird then a robin, it depends how much they are around each bird and their views on it.
Algorithms are a step-by-step procedures that guarantees a solution. They can be time consuming and taking a lot of work. It is pretty much like trail and error. Sometimes it could be really fast guess you are a good guesser and tried and excelled the first time, but other times it could take you for ever to figure out. For example a math problem. If you didn't know how many times 5 went into the number 2,225, you would have to try a lot of numbers to get to 2,225 (if you didn't have a calculator).
Heuristics is a quicker way to find a solution. We tend to find ways to combined things or think of ways that seem logical. For example in the math example from above, we would know that the last number would have to be either a 5 or a 0, that means we can eliminate 8 numbers it could end with. Also we know that 5 goes into 100 four times so that means there is probably going to be a 4 as well in the answer. You still have to use trial and error to find the rest of the answer but its a little quicker then algorithms.
(the answer is 445)
We have different prototypes for different things. We make mental images to what something is suppose to look like. For example when someone says "square" we automatically think and picture a shape that has 4 congruent sides and angles. Everyone might have a little different prototype then others. Some people might see a little different image in their head about things. Making everyone unique. Another thing is that some people might see a penguin more like a bird then a robin, it depends how much they are around each bird and their views on it.
Algorithms are a step-by-step procedures that guarantees a solution. They can be time consuming and taking a lot of work. It is pretty much like trail and error. Sometimes it could be really fast guess you are a good guesser and tried and excelled the first time, but other times it could take you for ever to figure out. For example a math problem. If you didn't know how many times 5 went into the number 2,225, you would have to try a lot of numbers to get to 2,225 (if you didn't have a calculator).
Heuristics is a quicker way to find a solution. We tend to find ways to combined things or think of ways that seem logical. For example in the math example from above, we would know that the last number would have to be either a 5 or a 0, that means we can eliminate 8 numbers it could end with. Also we know that 5 goes into 100 four times so that means there is probably going to be a 4 as well in the answer. You still have to use trial and error to find the rest of the answer but its a little quicker then algorithms.
(the answer is 445)
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Current Event 6
This chapter talked about memory. Like memory loss and short/long-term memory, and the case of Clive. It is really hard for me to remember things for tests or something that isn't too important to me. When it comes to studying I study the night before and then after the test the next day I forget what I even learned. I have created short-term memory, I remember it only for a short while and then it's gone like it never existed. I HATE THAT!!! I wish I could remember everything I ever have learned! But we all know that isn't possible. So I guess I have to deal with out I have, take the case of Clive. I would rather know has much as I know now then what he does. I feel sooo bad for him. He doesn't remember ever tasting anything or even his own wife's name. I mean yeah he remembers that she is important in some way, but doesn't remember that she comes to visit him everyday or who she really is. I don't think I could really live that way, I mean I would rather live like that then not living at all, but it would defenitly be hard!
In class we did an activity, we had to listen to a list of 20 words and then write down all the words we could. The first list was pretty easy I got 17 out of 20, not bad at all for me. The next list not so good I got maybe 12 out of 20. The last list, yeah lets not go there. The reason why I did so good on the first list is because the things in the list could be grouped together. The second list wasn't all that easy with grouping, the last list before we could write anything down our teacher told us to count backwards from 21 by 3's. That would be why I didn't do too good on the 3rd one, I only got 6.
In class we did an activity, we had to listen to a list of 20 words and then write down all the words we could. The first list was pretty easy I got 17 out of 20, not bad at all for me. The next list not so good I got maybe 12 out of 20. The last list, yeah lets not go there. The reason why I did so good on the first list is because the things in the list could be grouped together. The second list wasn't all that easy with grouping, the last list before we could write anything down our teacher told us to count backwards from 21 by 3's. That would be why I didn't do too good on the 3rd one, I only got 6.
Chapter 8
Memory is very important without it we don't remember anything...obviously. Memory makes us remember things about us and about others. We could not remember tasting anything and therefore could be tasting things for the first time, so you think. We wouldn't now who we really are if we don't remember things that we do. If we didn't have a memory we would be confused almost all the time. People would talk to us like we should know them and if we don't remember things we wouldn't know why people are talking to us when they just left the room for one minuete. For Clive, he doesn't remember things when they are gone for a short time. He wasn't always like this if happened once when he had a headache and got worse as the days went on after about 5 days he started to forget things. He can remember some things like riding a bike or citing music, it is an ingraved skill in his head. He said that he has never tasted anything that he tastes things for the first time. He also doesn't remember his wife's name, but he remembers that she is important and that he loves her.
Our memory is a very important thing. I always thought well I hate my memory because I cant remember anything. Well, I take that all back now after watching Clives case. It seems like I remember a lot now. I guess I can't really relay on my memory as much as I think because something could be right in front of us and not notice it, then when someone asks if we saw something,and they now it was there, we would say no even though there was something else there. It's just like the experiment in the text book did, they told students to count how many times the basketball was passed that they half of them didn't notice something walking through the middle of the court. The idea that we don't really know what we remember is intriging because in investagations that's what the police relay on, eyewittnesses, to tell the truth and taking their word what happened. They people could think they are telling the truth but they just didn't realize what really happened.
Our memory is a very important thing. I always thought well I hate my memory because I cant remember anything. Well, I take that all back now after watching Clives case. It seems like I remember a lot now. I guess I can't really relay on my memory as much as I think because something could be right in front of us and not notice it, then when someone asks if we saw something,and they now it was there, we would say no even though there was something else there. It's just like the experiment in the text book did, they told students to count how many times the basketball was passed that they half of them didn't notice something walking through the middle of the court. The idea that we don't really know what we remember is intriging because in investagations that's what the police relay on, eyewittnesses, to tell the truth and taking their word what happened. They people could think they are telling the truth but they just didn't realize what really happened.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Memory Exercises
While doing all the different exercises I realized that we like to group things together to try to remember things. With the list of words to remember the first list was really easy to remember because all the words could be divided into 5 groups of 4 different words in each. The 5 different groups were colors, directions, guys names, fruits, and different types of money. Our minds grouped them together so it was easy to remember, when the next list came it was a little harder to remember because the words didn't group with anything together and it was hard. The next list was even harder because before we were able to write anything down you got interrupted by other things that had nothing to do with the list. I could barely remember any of the words. Once our minds get interrupted it is hard to remember anything anymore.
In life I could think that I remember things just fine, but when I am tested with my memory I see that I really don't remember too much. While studying, if I don't study and look at the text for a long enough time, I could just be a waste of time. I have to look at the material for a long enough time for my mind to get the concept and remember it. When I think I'm telling the trust to others, I may just be giving them things that I saw, but there could be things that I just didn't want to look at or didn't see because my mind was mainly on one thing. I was trying to focus on one thing so I could remember that and not see anything else around me, even though it could be right next to the thing I was concentrating on.
In life I could think that I remember things just fine, but when I am tested with my memory I see that I really don't remember too much. While studying, if I don't study and look at the text for a long enough time, I could just be a waste of time. I have to look at the material for a long enough time for my mind to get the concept and remember it. When I think I'm telling the trust to others, I may just be giving them things that I saw, but there could be things that I just didn't want to look at or didn't see because my mind was mainly on one thing. I was trying to focus on one thing so I could remember that and not see anything else around me, even though it could be right next to the thing I was concentrating on.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Current Event 5
This chapter reflects in my life because it's all about learning. Without this information it would be very hard as a parent or teacher to teach kids new things. I know people haven't read this book and knew what to do to teach, like my mom hasn't read this but is a very good parent. For me to read this helps me learn how to teach my child or children, in about 10 or so years. I know it is a LONG ways away but I hope I can remember what I read.
The chapter talked about how to learn a new behavior. I think that there is 4 different steps in learning. I had to train my dog how to sit, easy said then done. The first step is to tell her to sit and put her butt done repeatedly. After about a day of putting her butt down for her i told her to sit about 4 times and then if she didn't I would put her butt down for her again on the 4th time. After of course she got the hang of that, then I switched to doing it an unexpected number of times. For example say I said it 3 times and then put her butt down, then I would say it 6 times the next to put her butt down. After she got the hang of that she was almost trained to sit, but there is one last step. The next day I would say sit randomly and she would do it, then I would say it again randomly and she wouldn't so I would have to put her butt down and say sit again for her to remember what to do. Of course after every time she sat when I said sit I gave her a treat so now she knows when I say sit she will get a treat. When she does something good she KNOWS she is getting a treat, so sometimes so will go to the bathroom outside just to get a treat and then about 5 mins later she will want to go outside again to get a treat. She's such a putts!!! But I LOVE her and couldn't live without her!!!
The chapter talked about how to learn a new behavior. I think that there is 4 different steps in learning. I had to train my dog how to sit, easy said then done. The first step is to tell her to sit and put her butt done repeatedly. After about a day of putting her butt down for her i told her to sit about 4 times and then if she didn't I would put her butt down for her again on the 4th time. After of course she got the hang of that, then I switched to doing it an unexpected number of times. For example say I said it 3 times and then put her butt down, then I would say it 6 times the next to put her butt down. After she got the hang of that she was almost trained to sit, but there is one last step. The next day I would say sit randomly and she would do it, then I would say it again randomly and she wouldn't so I would have to put her butt down and say sit again for her to remember what to do. Of course after every time she sat when I said sit I gave her a treat so now she knows when I say sit she will get a treat. When she does something good she KNOWS she is getting a treat, so sometimes so will go to the bathroom outside just to get a treat and then about 5 mins later she will want to go outside again to get a treat. She's such a putts!!! But I LOVE her and couldn't live without her!!!
Chapter 7
This chapter was a lot more interesting then the other chapters in my opinion because it was on how we learned. It told me what steps to take to learn or even teach someone how to learn something new.
Classical Conditioning is something that you remember after its been done to you repeatedly. There is a stimuli followed by something good or bad, when that stimuli is repeated over and over again you remember when that stimuli happens your will trigger that something that happened either good or bad. I know I'm not good at explaining things, so I'll give you an example. When an owner of a dog abuses their dog by hitting it with their hand on the dog's head, the dog will then connect the hand going over its face to being hit. When someone else just wants to pet the dog and be nice to it, the dog will flinch afraid it will get hit again. The hand going up in the air over its face triggered the memory that the hand is the thing that hits and hurts it.
When I see this in real life, which I have before, I can't believe it. I just want to take the dog away from their owner and keep it for myself where I know it wont get hurt and abused again. I love animals and I HATE seeing them getting hurt by others.
Classical Conditioning is something that you remember after its been done to you repeatedly. There is a stimuli followed by something good or bad, when that stimuli is repeated over and over again you remember when that stimuli happens your will trigger that something that happened either good or bad. I know I'm not good at explaining things, so I'll give you an example. When an owner of a dog abuses their dog by hitting it with their hand on the dog's head, the dog will then connect the hand going over its face to being hit. When someone else just wants to pet the dog and be nice to it, the dog will flinch afraid it will get hit again. The hand going up in the air over its face triggered the memory that the hand is the thing that hits and hurts it.
When I see this in real life, which I have before, I can't believe it. I just want to take the dog away from their owner and keep it for myself where I know it wont get hurt and abused again. I love animals and I HATE seeing them getting hurt by others.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Illusions
Some of the illusions I went to, to look at were "Stepping Feet","Motions Induced Blindness", "Rotating Snake", "Fading Dot", "Mona", "Shimmer","Trapezoidal Window", "Café Wall Illusion","The Brick Illusion", and "The Hidden Bird."
I learned that our eyes deceive us and pretty much lie to us. They make us think something is happening when it really is just something else that is moving even if it is staying still. I also learned that our eyes are always moving, even if you don’t think you are moving, your eyes really are. They have to move to collect information in order to see.
One thing that surprised me was learning that even if my eyes are still they are moving by themselves to see images. So when the picture is still and has at least 2 different colors in a circle it seems like it is moving in a circular rotation, when really it isn’t. Our eyes sometimes lie to us.
When people say that they didn’t do something and another says yes you did I saw it with my own 2 eyes, they may have been deceived by their eyes. Everyone has a different perspective on things and how they see it. I could see one thing in a picture while a different person can see something different.
It doesn’t really change my perspective on the world. I see the world as I did before. I just now know that the reason why it seems like we see something moving when it really isn’t. And that our eyes can deceive us, but it doesn’t really change how I see the world.
Are You A Liar?
This blog was about people lying and how much they lie in order to make people like them. They experimented on three different groups; competent, likable, and a control. The people were on dates and while on the dates they were being videotaped. After the date was over they watched the video and told if they were lying or not. The result was that more people lie when they are talking about making themselves more competent. It was showed that the average number of lies for all groups combined was just a little bit under 3 for 10 minuets. The myth that men lie more then women was wrong while doing this experiment. When the lies were made into groups of feelings, achievements, plans, explanations, and facts the men showed to lie more about their feelings trying to make them seem likable and the women lied more about their feelings when trying to seem competent.
This study shows that people will lie about 3 times in 10 minuets just to make themselves seem more impressive to others. I know that I do lie sometimes to make myself seem better then I really am, but who doesn't? I'm pretty sure this study has shown that a lot more people then just me lie to others.
This study shows that people will lie about 3 times in 10 minuets just to make themselves seem more impressive to others. I know that I do lie sometimes to make myself seem better then I really am, but who doesn't? I'm pretty sure this study has shown that a lot more people then just me lie to others.
The Truth About Self-Deception
This blog is about self-deception and how people will lie to themselves about things. In this experiment, people reruited 30 students to do a "psychological and medical aspects of athletics" of course the students were being lied to. What they were really getting them selves into was an experiment on how people will lie make themselves feel better. The students were told to put their arms into cold water and see how long they could do it for. They were told it was somehow link to health. Really they just wanted to show people that they deceive themselves. After the participants were done putting their arms in the water they went on an exercise bike. While on the excise bike they were told that there are two different types of hearts, one heart was associated with poor health and shorter life expectancy. The other type was better health and longer life. After they were done with the bike they did the test again. The ones that got told that leaving your arms in the cold water for a longer amount of time was good and that they were healthier, stayed in the water longer then the first time. The ones that got told the cold water was bad stayed in the water for less amount of time.
This study showed that people lie to themselves to make them seem better. They well lie and look for evidence that supports their self-deception.
This study showed that people lie to themselves to make them seem better. They well lie and look for evidence that supports their self-deception.
Chapter 6
In this chapter I learned about our senses and absolute threshold. They were very interesting to me because it told me how our senses work.
The absolute threshold is our awareness of things. It turns out we are right a minimum of 50% of the time. Every time we detect light, sound, pressure, taste, or order we are normally right over 50%, but for some it is at 50%. As we get older it is harder for our senses to detect these thresholds. The sensitivity to high pitched sounds declines, and makes it harder to hear.
The sense of touch is really interesting. It is a combination of other senses such as pleasure, warm, cold, and pain. Kinesthesis is also in our bodies, it is in our systems and it allows us to control our body parts such as how far we can move our arms or how far we can move our legs. If we didn't have kinesthesis in our bodies then we would hurt ourselves by hyper-extending everything in our body.
Another thing that intersted me was how or actually what we are hearing. I ncever thought that we heard different air waves, I thought our ear drums just bounced off sound into our brains. What it actually is is air waves. Air waves are bands of compressed and expanded air. When they are at different frequencies they make different sounds, letting us to be able to hear things that are happening around us.
The absolute threshold is our awareness of things. It turns out we are right a minimum of 50% of the time. Every time we detect light, sound, pressure, taste, or order we are normally right over 50%, but for some it is at 50%. As we get older it is harder for our senses to detect these thresholds. The sensitivity to high pitched sounds declines, and makes it harder to hear.
The sense of touch is really interesting. It is a combination of other senses such as pleasure, warm, cold, and pain. Kinesthesis is also in our bodies, it is in our systems and it allows us to control our body parts such as how far we can move our arms or how far we can move our legs. If we didn't have kinesthesis in our bodies then we would hurt ourselves by hyper-extending everything in our body.
Another thing that intersted me was how or actually what we are hearing. I ncever thought that we heard different air waves, I thought our ear drums just bounced off sound into our brains. What it actually is is air waves. Air waves are bands of compressed and expanded air. When they are at different frequencies they make different sounds, letting us to be able to hear things that are happening around us.
Friday, October 23, 2009
How Long To Form A Habit
This article on pschblog was asking how long it took to make a habit. Most people think it is 21 to 28 days, but that is only what a doctor wrote in a book because he noticed his patients recovering from an amputation. The end result was that everyone is different and it depends on what you want to make a habit of. In this article they had 96 participants to try to make eating a piece of fruit with lunch or doing a 15 minuete jog everyday a habit. They then were asked to record how automatic it was for them to do this each day. The graph of these recordings showed that it was easier to make a habit of eating a peice of fruit with lunch then running 15 minuets, but the average amount of days to make a habit was 66 days. Even though this study showed that it took about 66 days, creating a habit could take anywhere from 18 to 254 or maybe even longer. They also noticed that if you miss a day it doesn't have a major effect on forming an habit.
This is a very interesting article because in our freshman orrientation class we learned that it takes 30 days to create a habit. It is very interesting because now I know that my class didn't give me correct information and that it makes me think that that class wasn't that good for me to be in.
This is a very interesting article because in our freshman orrientation class we learned that it takes 30 days to create a habit. It is very interesting because now I know that my class didn't give me correct information and that it makes me think that that class wasn't that good for me to be in.
Current Event 4
In the chapter if talks about babies and how they don't like to be held by strangers or even sometimes people they know, they would rather be held by their own parents. I can relate to this because my family has a lot of babies. When I wanted to hold my little cousin she cried so loud for her mom to take her back. I was very sad because I really wanted to hold her, she is so cute. When I gave her back to her mom she instantly stopped crying. So her mom tried to give her to me again to see what would happen, sure enough she started to cry even louder then the first time.
When I read about stranger anxiety with babies I found out why she wanted her mom back. Babies don't like it when they are away from their parents they are content with them and most of the time don't like to be departed from them. In the book they had an example of one baby playing with her toys and with her mom in the room, as soon as the mom left the baby for very distressed and wanted her mom back. When the mom came back she wanted her mom to never leave her again. When I gave my baby cousin back to her mom and her mom tried to give her to me again, she cried louder. I think that is because she didn't want to leave her mom again so she wanted to make her mom realize that she did NOT want to be held by me but by her.
When I read about stranger anxiety with babies I found out why she wanted her mom back. Babies don't like it when they are away from their parents they are content with them and most of the time don't like to be departed from them. In the book they had an example of one baby playing with her toys and with her mom in the room, as soon as the mom left the baby for very distressed and wanted her mom back. When the mom came back she wanted her mom to never leave her again. When I gave my baby cousin back to her mom and her mom tried to give her to me again, she cried louder. I think that is because she didn't want to leave her mom again so she wanted to make her mom realize that she did NOT want to be held by me but by her.
Chapter 5
In this chapter I have learned more then three things for sure but the three that I am going to type about are Piaget, babies and how they act, and the three different types of parents.
Cognition is all the mental activites associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. Jean Piaget researched child and how they responded to things. For example he gave them tests and noticed that the ones they got wrong others also got wrong. In his study he found out that children's minds aren't developed like adults. His results found that a typical new born to 2-year-olds have a mind set of experiencing new things just by the 5 senses. Two to seven-year-olds don't logically think they act by what they see, they don't really think for them selevs. 7 to 11-year-olds think logically about events, they think for themselves and can grasp concepts. Twelve through adulthoods are becoming more mature and can think with logical reasoning.
Babies develop an anxiety for their parents. If they are approuched and taken away to be held by a stranger, they sometimes cry and reach for someone they know or recognize. When babies are with their parents they are happy and can play with ease, when the parents leave they are distressed and cry. When the parents come back the babies just want their parents and be comforted by them.
There are three different types of parents, authoritarian, permissive, and authoritative. Authoritarians, they are the type of parents that are very strict and don't let you get away with anything. Permissive parents are very laid back and don't really care what you do. Authoritative parents have a little bit of both types. They are strict but also let their child or children do things and get away with some things. Children with Authoritative parents nomally grow up to have a high self-esteam, self-reliance, and social competence usually have warm, and have concern towards others. Children with authoritarian parents are less social skilled and self-esteam. Children with permissive parents are more aggressive and are immature when they grow up.
Cognition is all the mental activites associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. Jean Piaget researched child and how they responded to things. For example he gave them tests and noticed that the ones they got wrong others also got wrong. In his study he found out that children's minds aren't developed like adults. His results found that a typical new born to 2-year-olds have a mind set of experiencing new things just by the 5 senses. Two to seven-year-olds don't logically think they act by what they see, they don't really think for them selevs. 7 to 11-year-olds think logically about events, they think for themselves and can grasp concepts. Twelve through adulthoods are becoming more mature and can think with logical reasoning.
Babies develop an anxiety for their parents. If they are approuched and taken away to be held by a stranger, they sometimes cry and reach for someone they know or recognize. When babies are with their parents they are happy and can play with ease, when the parents leave they are distressed and cry. When the parents come back the babies just want their parents and be comforted by them.
There are three different types of parents, authoritarian, permissive, and authoritative. Authoritarians, they are the type of parents that are very strict and don't let you get away with anything. Permissive parents are very laid back and don't really care what you do. Authoritative parents have a little bit of both types. They are strict but also let their child or children do things and get away with some things. Children with Authoritative parents nomally grow up to have a high self-esteam, self-reliance, and social competence usually have warm, and have concern towards others. Children with authoritarian parents are less social skilled and self-esteam. Children with permissive parents are more aggressive and are immature when they grow up.
Friday, October 16, 2009
How Rewards Can Backfire and Reduce Motivation
This is an article that I found on psychblog. It happened to be very interesting to me. These two professors took 51 pre-schoolers between the ages of 3 and 4, they wanted to know if the kids would draw pictures better if they were given a reward, not given a reward, or give them a reward but not until the end would make a difference. In this study they took each pre-schooler one by one into a room for 6 mins. After about 3 days they did it again and compared data. The data showed that kids proform better if they draw first and then get a reward. The kids that knew they were getting a reward didn't have good preformence with the pictures. The kids that knew they weren't getting a reward did almost as well as the ones that didn't know they were getting a reward until after.
This study shows that giving rewards to kids isn't always the best thing to do. If they know already that they are getting a reward they don't have to worry if they did good or bad. This reminds me of my team. There is this one girl on there that knows she is going to get to play no matter what. So, she doesn't have to worry about screwing up of giving up a lot of points because she isn't going to go out of the game because of it. It sucks because she has a really bad additude too, I think it has something to do with that she knows she is going to get to play no matter what and she doesn't care.
This study shows that giving rewards to kids isn't always the best thing to do. If they know already that they are getting a reward they don't have to worry if they did good or bad. This reminds me of my team. There is this one girl on there that knows she is going to get to play no matter what. So, she doesn't have to worry about screwing up of giving up a lot of points because she isn't going to go out of the game because of it. It sucks because she has a really bad additude too, I think it has something to do with that she knows she is going to get to play no matter what and she doesn't care.
Chapter 4
In this chapter I learned about twins, identical and fraternal. This chapter was very interesting with all the different things about twins. How they vary from everyone else and how fraternal twins are just like regualar brother and sisters. Even though they are twins in reality they should just be brother and sister or brother and brother or sister and sister, but because they are twins their mind set is that they have a twin so they should somewhat be a like.
I learned that identical twins have the same copy of genes, just not the same amount of the copied genes. Because they don't have the same amount it is a reason why sometimes one twin is very ill when they are born and one is healthy. Fraternal twins are like I said before they don't have the same copies as each other so they are just brothers or sisters.
Another thing I learned in an identical pair of twins if one of the twins gets a disease it is 60% more likely for the other twin to have the same disease later on or it could be around the same time as the other is diagnose that the twin will get it. If a pair of fraternal twins has a twin with a disease it is 30% more likely that the other will get it. Another things about twins that I learned was about divorces. If an identical twin gets divorced then the other one has 5.5 times greater the more likely to get divorced, fraternal 1.6 times.
The last thing I'm going to talk about on here is about our enviroment and how it effects us. No matter what you say how and where you grow up has an effect on you. For example if I wouldn't have grown up in a small town I might be not as courteous as I am today. In a bigger city people aren't as friendly or nice to others as people in a smaller town. In a smaller town people know almost everyone in the town and everyone gets a long with a lot of people. Yes I know that everyone doesn't get along with everyone but there are more people that get along with each other then don't get along. I also think it would have an affect on me as a person because my family is very family oriented, I think if I didn't live so close to my family that my sisters and I wouldn't go to family gatherings or family events.
I learned that identical twins have the same copy of genes, just not the same amount of the copied genes. Because they don't have the same amount it is a reason why sometimes one twin is very ill when they are born and one is healthy. Fraternal twins are like I said before they don't have the same copies as each other so they are just brothers or sisters.
Another thing I learned in an identical pair of twins if one of the twins gets a disease it is 60% more likely for the other twin to have the same disease later on or it could be around the same time as the other is diagnose that the twin will get it. If a pair of fraternal twins has a twin with a disease it is 30% more likely that the other will get it. Another things about twins that I learned was about divorces. If an identical twin gets divorced then the other one has 5.5 times greater the more likely to get divorced, fraternal 1.6 times.
The last thing I'm going to talk about on here is about our enviroment and how it effects us. No matter what you say how and where you grow up has an effect on you. For example if I wouldn't have grown up in a small town I might be not as courteous as I am today. In a bigger city people aren't as friendly or nice to others as people in a smaller town. In a smaller town people know almost everyone in the town and everyone gets a long with a lot of people. Yes I know that everyone doesn't get along with everyone but there are more people that get along with each other then don't get along. I also think it would have an affect on me as a person because my family is very family oriented, I think if I didn't live so close to my family that my sisters and I wouldn't go to family gatherings or family events.
Do our parents matter?!?!
Okay for our homework assignment we had to write about our parents. I guess I never really thought about it before, but yes our parents matter a lot. They have a lot to do with how we are and how we grew up. So I guess they are the reason we are who we are today. They really make a differece in my life, they are always there for me when I need them the most. They are also there when I don't want them to be. But I know they are just trying to make me the best they think I should be.
In the assignment it asked to think about if I was in a different family how would that effect my life? Well, I found out that it would probably change my life a lot. If I lived with one of my friends I wouldn't have had a father to grow up with, no male presence at all. In my family my dad was the one to yell and punish me, so I always cried to mom about it and she was always there to tell me it was going to be okay and not to worry because my dad still loved me. If I didn't have two parents one would yell and I wouldn't have anyone to cry to and tell me things would be okay. My friend also doesn't have any siblings so I would only have one sister instead of two. That would effect me too because if I wasn't liking one of my sisters one day I would just go to the other one and play with them and didn't have to deal with the other one that was making me mad.
All in all parents are very important, they make you, you. If you don't like what they tell you or what they say to you just remember they still love you and they are only hoping that they are doing the right thing. So, go home and tell your parents thank you for making you who you are today.
In the assignment it asked to think about if I was in a different family how would that effect my life? Well, I found out that it would probably change my life a lot. If I lived with one of my friends I wouldn't have had a father to grow up with, no male presence at all. In my family my dad was the one to yell and punish me, so I always cried to mom about it and she was always there to tell me it was going to be okay and not to worry because my dad still loved me. If I didn't have two parents one would yell and I wouldn't have anyone to cry to and tell me things would be okay. My friend also doesn't have any siblings so I would only have one sister instead of two. That would effect me too because if I wasn't liking one of my sisters one day I would just go to the other one and play with them and didn't have to deal with the other one that was making me mad.
All in all parents are very important, they make you, you. If you don't like what they tell you or what they say to you just remember they still love you and they are only hoping that they are doing the right thing. So, go home and tell your parents thank you for making you who you are today.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Chapter 3
This chapter had a lot of surprising and interesting things. If a person is not fully blind they are still able to see a little, right? Well of course the answer is yes, but what I learned with the dual processing, the eye sends information to different parts of the brain and allows us to see a little. There is multiple parts, if one part is damaged then your mind can fill in the rest of the little you do see. For example, this one person had too much Carbon Dioxide while taking a shower and is now partially blind. She is able to recognize and discriminate objects. Her brain activity is normal in the area concerned with reaching or grasping objects, but damaged in the area concerned with consciously recognizing objects.
The second thing I found interesting and surprising was in the book it had a story about one person who got in a car accident and was not consciously aware of anything. When the doctors took a scan of her brain they found something that said differently. when they asked her to think about playing tennis her scans told them that she was responding to what they told her to do even though her body wasn't moving. I found this very interesting and didn't know that could happen.
Another thing I learned was I now know why there is a law against talking on your cell phone while driving. I always thought this was a stupid law because it's just like you are talking to a person next to you. But if you are talking and holding the phone to your ear you can cause an accident. I see how this is a law because as I read, you might think you can multitask, but what your mind is really doing is switching from one thing to the other without realizing it. If your are talking with your arm up and driving your are doing more things then if you were just driving with one other person. But I still have one question then, If your do it all the time wouldn't your subconscious do everything for you, like it said, your subconscious is doing things you don't even notice you are doing, so it just feels like your are just focused on the road?
One thing that I don't really agree with in the book is that they say that there are genes to becoming an acoholic or can be able to be addicted to drugs. I strongly disagree with it because I believe that it is how you grow up and what is around you. My dad smokes and is addicted to it, I would never in my life smoke. You also hear about children with two parents that smoke and they don't smoke. It's all about your surroundings and how you got brought up with peer pressure and such.
The second thing I found interesting and surprising was in the book it had a story about one person who got in a car accident and was not consciously aware of anything. When the doctors took a scan of her brain they found something that said differently. when they asked her to think about playing tennis her scans told them that she was responding to what they told her to do even though her body wasn't moving. I found this very interesting and didn't know that could happen.
Another thing I learned was I now know why there is a law against talking on your cell phone while driving. I always thought this was a stupid law because it's just like you are talking to a person next to you. But if you are talking and holding the phone to your ear you can cause an accident. I see how this is a law because as I read, you might think you can multitask, but what your mind is really doing is switching from one thing to the other without realizing it. If your are talking with your arm up and driving your are doing more things then if you were just driving with one other person. But I still have one question then, If your do it all the time wouldn't your subconscious do everything for you, like it said, your subconscious is doing things you don't even notice you are doing, so it just feels like your are just focused on the road?
One thing that I don't really agree with in the book is that they say that there are genes to becoming an acoholic or can be able to be addicted to drugs. I strongly disagree with it because I believe that it is how you grow up and what is around you. My dad smokes and is addicted to it, I would never in my life smoke. You also hear about children with two parents that smoke and they don't smoke. It's all about your surroundings and how you got brought up with peer pressure and such.
Current Event 3
Since I found out that I have been doing my current events kinda wrong, I was just talking about what happened to me, I now know that I have to blog about something that happened to me that involves the chapter. So, I have going to talk about my dreams.
One night I had a dream that I was with my boyfriend at someone's house. A lot of my other friends were there as well. I was having a lot of fun until I got a call from my mom. She was very frantic and was crying, so I asked what's wrong, what happened? She told me that my house was on fire!!! I couldn't believe what I was hearing and I told my boyfriend that we have to go now! He didn't care and just wanted to stay. I told my mom that I didn't know what to do because I didn't have a ride back to my house, I was in Marathon. She then proceed to tell me that the house was burnt to the ground...my dad was in the hospital with severe burns and my dog, Cassie, didn't make it out of the house on time. Needless to say I woke up crying.
I may have had this dream because that day I was super super tired and couldn't' fall asleep when I wanted to. I was at the person's house the day before and my boyfriend and other friends were there, so that's why I dreamt I was at that house. I think because I didn't get a lot of sleep that my mind was thinking about bad things and had a nightmare. After I woke up I tried going back to sleep but I could only think about my dog dying, my dad in the hospital and that I have no house to go home to anymore. Some how I made my self go to sleep for 5 and a half hours, then I had to get up for school. For school I didn't want to do anything and I just wanted to go home.
One night I had a dream that I was with my boyfriend at someone's house. A lot of my other friends were there as well. I was having a lot of fun until I got a call from my mom. She was very frantic and was crying, so I asked what's wrong, what happened? She told me that my house was on fire!!! I couldn't believe what I was hearing and I told my boyfriend that we have to go now! He didn't care and just wanted to stay. I told my mom that I didn't know what to do because I didn't have a ride back to my house, I was in Marathon. She then proceed to tell me that the house was burnt to the ground...my dad was in the hospital with severe burns and my dog, Cassie, didn't make it out of the house on time. Needless to say I woke up crying.
I may have had this dream because that day I was super super tired and couldn't' fall asleep when I wanted to. I was at the person's house the day before and my boyfriend and other friends were there, so that's why I dreamt I was at that house. I think because I didn't get a lot of sleep that my mind was thinking about bad things and had a nightmare. After I woke up I tried going back to sleep but I could only think about my dog dying, my dad in the hospital and that I have no house to go home to anymore. Some how I made my self go to sleep for 5 and a half hours, then I had to get up for school. For school I didn't want to do anything and I just wanted to go home.
IAT
When I took one of the test, I was surprised by what my results were. The test I took was what color skin do you prefer dark or white? I know that in my mind it doesn't matter what color you are I don't judge by it. My results said a different thing. It said I STRONGLY prefer white vs. dark. Maybe I didn't really do it right or something because if it had something to do with the amount of wrong clicks then that would explain why I got the results I did.
I think what this test was suppose to show me was that I can behavior or act differently then what I think I do. You could have a different side to you then what you think, but I do know that I don't have a problem or care what color people skins are. When others come up to me because they are friends of my friends, that are a different color, I talk to them just has I would if I was talking to one of my friends.
I think what this test was suppose to show me was that I can behavior or act differently then what I think I do. You could have a different side to you then what you think, but I do know that I don't have a problem or care what color people skins are. When others come up to me because they are friends of my friends, that are a different color, I talk to them just has I would if I was talking to one of my friends.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Chapter 2
In this chapter I read a lot about the brain and how it functions. It tells the body to do a lot of different things and if one part of the body isn't working right it sends a message to the brain and it tries to fix it or the body just can't function. The brain acts as one and it can't do two things at once. For example if you put a pencil in both hands and someone told you to draw circle with your right hand and a square with your left, you can't do it. Unless, you are the man with two brains. Because doctors cut the part where the two brains connect his brain has two independent parts. He is able to concentrate on two different things and be able to do and act upon the different things. Your brain also to do with what and why you do things you do, so basically if you didn't have a brain you wouldn't be here because your brain does everything. While researching, scientist for out that your brains act and are associated to brains of mice and chimpanzees. That didn't really surprise me because we always learn that monkeys are very smart and that we came from them originally. This chapter was very interesting and I think I learned a lot of things of how the brain works and all the functions it does.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
4 activities
The first activity I read and did was"Seeing More Than Your Eye Does". I learned that we have a blind spot in our eyes that is about one centimeter in circumference. It was kinda cool I mean I never even thought we had a blind spot in our eyes, not in a million years. We never see it or notice it because our minds make things up that aren't actually there and just fills in the hole. That and when you have both or your eyes looking they might have a different range of when you can't see so when one is in the blind spot the other one is still looking and can see. It kinda makes me realize things in a different way just because in the back of my head I know that I have a blind spot in my eye even though I never see it just looking.
The second activity I read was "Contrast/Color Illusions". It talked about how the light shines on objects and it gives us a different color in our minds, even if they really are the same color. In the activity I had to move one square from where it started to a different spot and I noticed the change of the color when the light started to hit it and then it was really the same color as the other square that I did not think was the same color at all. It didn't really surprise me just because I already did an activity when I was younger that did the same thing. In my life there is always different shades of colors, but really it could be the same color depending on what way the light hits it. It does have an impact on how I perceive things on the world because even though my mind tells me its a different color in the light then it is in a darker spot, it could be the same color and I just don't realize it.
The third activity I read and did was "Ambiguous Figures". In the activity I was made to look for two different things in one picture. For example in one picture one side of your brain tells you that arrows go one way and then look again and the other side of your brain tells you that the arrows go the other way. Nothing again didn't really surprise me because we did the activity in class and we kinda went over what it did. In every day life we use different sides of your brains all the time. I remember one time we had Christmas lights that moved and I said the light was going one way and my dad yelled at me because I was wrong, he obviously wasn't using the same side of the brain as me. But luckily my mom was there and she said that she saw it going both ways and that we both were right.
The fourth and final activity I did was "Construction Zone Practice". In that activity I watched two lights move from one corner to another and my brain made it seem like the dots were moving in a clockwise manner. In reality it was just repeating to different screens over and over again. It was really cool that I could see the dots just going around and around the square but then I felt dumb because all that the computer was doing was showing my two different screens over and over again. In life I think our minds trick us into thinking that something is happening that isn't really happening.
One thing I learned was that my mind plays tricks on me a lot. It makes me think about how many things I didn't see because my mind didn't want me to see them and how important the things that I missed were. The second thing I learned was my mind just fills in things that we really actually can not see. We have a blind spot in our eyes and we never notice it because our mind makes things up so we think we see something we really don't. The third thing I learned was the mind can use both sides of the brain, not at once, but it can see things differently. I think it is very interesting that we can use both sides of our brains and that the two different sides makes things look different from one another. This unit definitely makes me think of the brain a lot different because your mind and brain make things up and tricks you a lot in your life and before I knew it tricked us a little but after this until I have realized that it tricks us more then I ever thought.
The second activity I read was "Contrast/Color Illusions". It talked about how the light shines on objects and it gives us a different color in our minds, even if they really are the same color. In the activity I had to move one square from where it started to a different spot and I noticed the change of the color when the light started to hit it and then it was really the same color as the other square that I did not think was the same color at all. It didn't really surprise me just because I already did an activity when I was younger that did the same thing. In my life there is always different shades of colors, but really it could be the same color depending on what way the light hits it. It does have an impact on how I perceive things on the world because even though my mind tells me its a different color in the light then it is in a darker spot, it could be the same color and I just don't realize it.
The third activity I read and did was "Ambiguous Figures". In the activity I was made to look for two different things in one picture. For example in one picture one side of your brain tells you that arrows go one way and then look again and the other side of your brain tells you that the arrows go the other way. Nothing again didn't really surprise me because we did the activity in class and we kinda went over what it did. In every day life we use different sides of your brains all the time. I remember one time we had Christmas lights that moved and I said the light was going one way and my dad yelled at me because I was wrong, he obviously wasn't using the same side of the brain as me. But luckily my mom was there and she said that she saw it going both ways and that we both were right.
The fourth and final activity I did was "Construction Zone Practice". In that activity I watched two lights move from one corner to another and my brain made it seem like the dots were moving in a clockwise manner. In reality it was just repeating to different screens over and over again. It was really cool that I could see the dots just going around and around the square but then I felt dumb because all that the computer was doing was showing my two different screens over and over again. In life I think our minds trick us into thinking that something is happening that isn't really happening.
One thing I learned was that my mind plays tricks on me a lot. It makes me think about how many things I didn't see because my mind didn't want me to see them and how important the things that I missed were. The second thing I learned was my mind just fills in things that we really actually can not see. We have a blind spot in our eyes and we never notice it because our mind makes things up so we think we see something we really don't. The third thing I learned was the mind can use both sides of the brain, not at once, but it can see things differently. I think it is very interesting that we can use both sides of our brains and that the two different sides makes things look different from one another. This unit definitely makes me think of the brain a lot different because your mind and brain make things up and tricks you a lot in your life and before I knew it tricked us a little but after this until I have realized that it tricks us more then I ever thought.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Current Events 2
Last night was one of the worst nights I had in a long time. Getting ready for bed wasn't that bad, but when I actually went to bed disaster happened. I got into bed,plugged my phone into the wall, put my covers on, and started to sleep. That was until I started coughing. I couldn't stop and I really wanted to go to sleep. I went to bed at 10:30 and when I looked at the time when my mom came in it was 12:30, so I was coughing for at least 2 hours. My mom woke me up to some cough medicine, cough drops, and a humidifier. I'm guessing she couldn't sleep either because I was keeping her up with my coughing. I felt really bad but there wasn't anything I could do, plus I didn't know that I had been coughing that long or that load. Once I had my medicine and the humidifier I feel asleep until, my phone vibrated. I looked at my phone and thought I had a text message but I didn't, my phone shut off. Now, remember my phone was plugged into the wall. I just ignored it because I was really tired but it did it again. After that one I just turned off my phone not thinking it was my alarm clock for in the morning. So, in the morning I woke up to my boyfriend at 7:05. It was a good thing that he was there to wake me up, but I just wanted to sleep some more and skip first block. Needless to say he didn't let me and I had to get ready for school, but before I did I wanted to try to figure out my phone. When I plugged back in my phone I watched it charge, it went from one piece of the battery to two and then from two to three it was flashing. I thought, hey this is good my phone is charged, I was wrong. After about five seconds the battery went from flashing two to three to two to one to zero battery life and it died. I do not have my phone today and I really can't live without it, but I guess I have to learn to coop because I wont have one for awhile. :(
Friday, September 25, 2009
Thinking Critically
Research is important because with out research you don't really know real stats of things. With research we can also find out about somethings that people dont really know is out there, or even something as simple as a volleyball game and taking stats for it for when the converence needs it to decide first all-team or second all-team of lucky enough to make honorable mention.
That leads me to the research that is relevant to my life. Volleyball is a big part of my life and my coaches are always keeping stats. Hopefully at the end of the season the other Marawood Conference well do some research and find me on the stats and make me 1st all-team but if i don't it's also OK. For softball i made honorable mention and the Marawood Conference did research on all of the girls that were in the sport and even though i didn't make an all-team I still got honorable mention.
One of the things that I have learnt are the three main components of the scientific attitude are a curious eagerness, skeptical scrutinize competing ideas, and an open-minded humility before nature. This is important because this attitude carries into everyday life as critical thinking, we need to have critical thinking in life if you want to do good at things. The second thing I learnt is that Psychological theories organize observations and imply predictive hypotheses. Then after constructing precise operational definitions of their procedures, and the researchers test their hypotheses, validate and refine the theory. It is important to have this theory for others to know what scientist do when they research, then for us, the people, can learn from them and know the correct way to research. The last thing I have learnt is that we have illusory correlations. Illusory correlations are random events that we notice and we have the sense of false infomation . Patterns or sequences occur naturally in sets of randon data, but we see them as meaningful connections. It's important to know that we do or can have these illusory correlations so when someone tells us that we aren't putting together the right pieces of the puzzle we can later understand why.
That leads me to the research that is relevant to my life. Volleyball is a big part of my life and my coaches are always keeping stats. Hopefully at the end of the season the other Marawood Conference well do some research and find me on the stats and make me 1st all-team but if i don't it's also OK. For softball i made honorable mention and the Marawood Conference did research on all of the girls that were in the sport and even though i didn't make an all-team I still got honorable mention.
One of the things that I have learnt are the three main components of the scientific attitude are a curious eagerness, skeptical scrutinize competing ideas, and an open-minded humility before nature. This is important because this attitude carries into everyday life as critical thinking, we need to have critical thinking in life if you want to do good at things. The second thing I learnt is that Psychological theories organize observations and imply predictive hypotheses. Then after constructing precise operational definitions of their procedures, and the researchers test their hypotheses, validate and refine the theory. It is important to have this theory for others to know what scientist do when they research, then for us, the people, can learn from them and know the correct way to research. The last thing I have learnt is that we have illusory correlations. Illusory correlations are random events that we notice and we have the sense of false infomation . Patterns or sequences occur naturally in sets of randon data, but we see them as meaningful connections. It's important to know that we do or can have these illusory correlations so when someone tells us that we aren't putting together the right pieces of the puzzle we can later understand why.
Prologue
What I thought Psychology was, was the way people react and act to others in everyday life. It helps study the things we do with our dreams or just why we do the things we do. While I was reading the prologue I found out that scientists define psychology as the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. In the definition it has multiple things that deal with it. One of the things it deals with is behavior. Behavior is anything an organism does and any action we can observe from it. The mental preocesses are the internal, subjective experiences we infer from behavior, like our thoughts, dreams, beliefs and feelings.
I think Psychology affects my life in many ways. Like i said before it is all around us and we can't get away from it. Psychology deals with how my feelings are and why I act that way, and they can be recorded or copied by someone else that sees me doing things. For example because I am a Senior the way I dress might want a 5th grades to dress just like me. The behavior part is in effect and that 5th grader just proved that how we grow up and watch others is how we will or might grow up as well.
One thing that I have learnt is how Psychology is really all around us. Even if it is by what effect we have on others. It's important to know that what we do or how we act can affect the way a person grows up and becomes. I also learnt how it all started. By Wilhlem Wundy a German and then by others later. It is important to know where it all started because it is our lives and we finially found out why we act the way we do and we can relate to more people more.
I think Psychology affects my life in many ways. Like i said before it is all around us and we can't get away from it. Psychology deals with how my feelings are and why I act that way, and they can be recorded or copied by someone else that sees me doing things. For example because I am a Senior the way I dress might want a 5th grades to dress just like me. The behavior part is in effect and that 5th grader just proved that how we grow up and watch others is how we will or might grow up as well.
One thing that I have learnt is how Psychology is really all around us. Even if it is by what effect we have on others. It's important to know that what we do or how we act can affect the way a person grows up and becomes. I also learnt how it all started. By Wilhlem Wundy a German and then by others later. It is important to know where it all started because it is our lives and we finially found out why we act the way we do and we can relate to more people more.
Current Events
This week has been a very eventful week, it's homecoming here at Edgar High of course its an eventful week. On Monday the dress up day was, dress up as your favorite movie actress or actor. I didn't know what to wear so I dressed up as what I thought was what a normal movie star dresses up as. On Tuesday the dress up day was dress up as your favorite animal. I was suppose to be a wild cat, but when i looked in the mirror I looked like a mouse. I like to think i was a cute mouse. Wednesday it was Halloween day, where you dress up how ever you want. I was a ganster, so was a lot of other people because it was a very easy thing to be and have around the house. On Wednesday I also got my phone taken away by one of the teachers. I was very sad just because I wasn't even using it and the person next to me was and he didn't get his taken away. I got my phone back at the end of the day and my principal said if i ever get it taken away again my parents have to come and get it from him. Thursday was dress up as your decade. The Senior class's decade was the 50's and I didn't have a poodle skirt so I asked my mom what I should wear because she did grow up around that time, so she helped me out and told me what I should wear. Friday, today, is school spirt day. Since I'm a Senior I got to wear one of the Senior guy's jersey all day. Today we have a lot of fun events during the second half of the day including, powder puff football, bedlum, all the classes skits, and the court game. I can't wait to find out who I am on court with.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
All About Me
Hi,
My name is Heather Krebsbach from Edgar High School. I am 17 years old.
I have two older sisters and a small white dog. I believe that my family has helped shape my life. I believe this because we are really close to one another and we are always there for each other when we are need to be.
Psychology is important to me because it is all around us with everything we do. Like one of my professors said, "It is in our everyday life and we can't escape it."
I think Psychology is the way people react and act to others in everyday life. It helps study the things we do with our dreams or just why we do the things we do.
My name is Heather Krebsbach from Edgar High School. I am 17 years old.
I have two older sisters and a small white dog. I believe that my family has helped shape my life. I believe this because we are really close to one another and we are always there for each other when we are need to be.
Psychology is important to me because it is all around us with everything we do. Like one of my professors said, "It is in our everyday life and we can't escape it."
I think Psychology is the way people react and act to others in everyday life. It helps study the things we do with our dreams or just why we do the things we do.
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