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.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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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