Attribution is the explanation for why people behave the way they do. Fundamental Attribution error is thinking what we do is completely right and underestamating the extent of our actions. Saying something with out thinking, it through.
Sterotypes are making rash things with out knowing anything about a group. Illusory correlation is like saying, "the only time i forget my pencil is when i am about to take a test". Stereotypes basically live off these illusories, people just make assuptions they believe to be true but aren't
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Blogging personality
The things that influenced my personality the most is how my parents react to things. I learned a lot watching how things unfold in front of my parents. One thing i learned is that if somebody accueses you of something you didn't do you find that person and you and him sit down and figure it out. Do just get by be remembered, my grandpa told me that, he also taught me say what you want because alot of people will not. Doing these things have got me in a bit of trouble but it has made some pretty good memorize.
The defense mechanism i use the most is repression, alot of people have done wrong to me, but i just kinda let it go, freindship is more important to me than fights.
The movie that i found the most interesting is Breeze presentation. It broke down the chapter so i could easily understand, it was like having mrs zwickey walking me through the whole chapter. Some of the interesting things from this video i found are, the tests you can take that tell you your own psychodynamic perspectives. The inkblot tests sound interesting and i wouldn't mind taking the tests.
The defense mechanism i use the most is repression, alot of people have done wrong to me, but i just kinda let it go, freindship is more important to me than fights.
The movie that i found the most interesting is Breeze presentation. It broke down the chapter so i could easily understand, it was like having mrs zwickey walking me through the whole chapter. Some of the interesting things from this video i found are, the tests you can take that tell you your own psychodynamic perspectives. The inkblot tests sound interesting and i wouldn't mind taking the tests.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Chapter 9
The first thing i found really interesting about this chapter is how they would use chipanzees to see if animals could think. I found the resaults to be amazing. A chip named Ai would be able to remember numbers that were flashed in front of him for a few seconds, and it says unlike humans he could put them in tap them on to a computer screen in numerical order. Also there was a parrot named alex that could comprehened numbers up to 6. From reading this i am not to sure if we are the smartest mamals, maybe the best taught but, these are some amazing animals.
Another thing i found interesting about this chapter is how when we grow from zero months to twenty-four plus months we learn speech. Looking at the table in the book it is pretty interesting how fast we really seem to pick up on speech. At about 4 months we make sounds, and from that point on we just keep moving up. Making sounds that are said often in our house holds, saying just one word that makes are parents flip, to moving up to a few short senteces and finally to rapid complete sentences. I think it is pretty cool by the time we are of the age of 2 we are just about capable to make sentcnes, starting from just making sounds its pretty impressive.
Lastly i never really knew what to call this but in this chapter i found out that when i have a problem and i always try to solve it the same way, it is called fixation. This happens to me alot when i play a game called bloxorz, you have to try and move a blox into a certan trap door, it is all about how you aprouch cornors and how you move on the tiles, i will add the link to the game and try it out it is difficult and if you fail try not to fixate on how you did it before you failed.
http://www.learn4good.com/games/maze/bloxorz_flash_puzzle.html
Another thing i found interesting about this chapter is how when we grow from zero months to twenty-four plus months we learn speech. Looking at the table in the book it is pretty interesting how fast we really seem to pick up on speech. At about 4 months we make sounds, and from that point on we just keep moving up. Making sounds that are said often in our house holds, saying just one word that makes are parents flip, to moving up to a few short senteces and finally to rapid complete sentences. I think it is pretty cool by the time we are of the age of 2 we are just about capable to make sentcnes, starting from just making sounds its pretty impressive.
Lastly i never really knew what to call this but in this chapter i found out that when i have a problem and i always try to solve it the same way, it is called fixation. This happens to me alot when i play a game called bloxorz, you have to try and move a blox into a certan trap door, it is all about how you aprouch cornors and how you move on the tiles, i will add the link to the game and try it out it is difficult and if you fail try not to fixate on how you did it before you failed.
http://www.learn4good.com/games/maze/bloxorz_flash_puzzle.html
Sunday, November 15, 2009
chapter 8
The first thing i found interesting is how are brain stores memory and how we retrieve memory. To have memory our brains use three stages or steps. first encoding to gather information. Next storage, to keep that memory for later when it is needed. Finally to get when you need it, Retrieval, to get it so your brain can remember it. its pretty cool that its seems to be a lot like a computer, you work on your project, encoding. Once you are done you save you project, storage. Finlay if you ever need it you can "retrieve it from you hard drive of your computer".
The next thing if found to be interesting was the types of memory, there are four types of memory. First sensory memory, or very brief recordings of sensory information. Next is short-term memory, or memory that is used for stuff like your credit card pin, or peoples telephone numbers and such. Then there s long-term memory, or memory that is used for how to read, how to write, walk, talk, and things that we have learned as we go. I found it also interesting that long-term memory is limitless, you can learn and remember things important to your life, till the day you die. Finally there is working memory, or basic what is your good and evil person. It is a mix of short-term and long-term memory to make you who you are by your experiences.
The finally thing i found interesting is chucking. I did not know much about what this was but now that i know i plan on using it a lot. For test studying this will be so useful, to make things so simple for your brain to remember them easier. And to think our brain sometimes does this automatically. Pretty cool
I think memory is very important to humans because most of how people act is things that happen to them, so if everybody did not have there memories of things that happen to them i think we would be a lot alike. I think Clive is still a human, and he does experience things but the fact of him forgetting things makes him a just more interesting. Clive is still a human just a little confused.
I still trust my own memorise, but when i think about what i did like yesterday i am really tiring to remember as much as i can just to see if i can. Looking back at my memorize that i can honestly remember with out people telling me some part of it, seem to be all learning things, like when i broke my leg, or when i got in trouble as a kid,or the first day i counted to a hundred.
one concept that i really found interesting was the findings of Hermann Ebbinghaus. He theorized about storage decay, and it was proved by the findings of Harry Bahrick. I think it is important for people to know this because we should keep coming back to our memorize so that they do not decay be lost for ever.
The next thing if found to be interesting was the types of memory, there are four types of memory. First sensory memory, or very brief recordings of sensory information. Next is short-term memory, or memory that is used for stuff like your credit card pin, or peoples telephone numbers and such. Then there s long-term memory, or memory that is used for how to read, how to write, walk, talk, and things that we have learned as we go. I found it also interesting that long-term memory is limitless, you can learn and remember things important to your life, till the day you die. Finally there is working memory, or basic what is your good and evil person. It is a mix of short-term and long-term memory to make you who you are by your experiences.
The finally thing i found interesting is chucking. I did not know much about what this was but now that i know i plan on using it a lot. For test studying this will be so useful, to make things so simple for your brain to remember them easier. And to think our brain sometimes does this automatically. Pretty cool
I think memory is very important to humans because most of how people act is things that happen to them, so if everybody did not have there memories of things that happen to them i think we would be a lot alike. I think Clive is still a human, and he does experience things but the fact of him forgetting things makes him a just more interesting. Clive is still a human just a little confused.
I still trust my own memorise, but when i think about what i did like yesterday i am really tiring to remember as much as i can just to see if i can. Looking back at my memorize that i can honestly remember with out people telling me some part of it, seem to be all learning things, like when i broke my leg, or when i got in trouble as a kid,or the first day i counted to a hundred.
one concept that i really found interesting was the findings of Hermann Ebbinghaus. He theorized about storage decay, and it was proved by the findings of Harry Bahrick. I think it is important for people to know this because we should keep coming back to our memorize so that they do not decay be lost for ever.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Chatper 7*
The first thing i found interesting was observational learning. More specifically the monkey experiment. This is really amazing to me how monkey, and other animals can be trained or, manipulated to do things. Even though the monkeys pictures are the same but in different spots on the screen, the monkey figures it out to get a banana. Just like people watching others do something and then trying for them self. Like watching are parents do things, and then later doing the same thing exactly the same, I find it quite interesting.
Another thing i find interesting is the antisocial effect. I think this is a big problem now a days. I watched people die on TV, and kids get abducted, it was kinda scary because i really didn't understand that it was just TV. Also i played Grand Theft Auto, it was a cool game but you learn about being a "gangsta" and killing people, fighting and such. Its not all bad i mean it makes the world that much more real but, what if kids think the new movie 2012 is real and start asking their parents if they can get on the government ships? If i was 6 or 8 i wouldn't know what to think. I thought about that quite a bit actually.
Finally what i found the ability to be conditioned amazing. Like i said before i am extremely condition to my cell phone while doing this blog my phone went off 18 times, not once did i not check it the moment it made noise. We don't even realize that we are till we learn about things like this. very interesting.
Also Kevin hamel = Warrior
Another thing i find interesting is the antisocial effect. I think this is a big problem now a days. I watched people die on TV, and kids get abducted, it was kinda scary because i really didn't understand that it was just TV. Also i played Grand Theft Auto, it was a cool game but you learn about being a "gangsta" and killing people, fighting and such. Its not all bad i mean it makes the world that much more real but, what if kids think the new movie 2012 is real and start asking their parents if they can get on the government ships? If i was 6 or 8 i wouldn't know what to think. I thought about that quite a bit actually.
Finally what i found the ability to be conditioned amazing. Like i said before i am extremely condition to my cell phone while doing this blog my phone went off 18 times, not once did i not check it the moment it made noise. We don't even realize that we are till we learn about things like this. very interesting.
Also Kevin hamel = Warrior
Monday, November 2, 2009
chapter 6 blog
The first thing i found interesting in this chapter was about sensation. It involves touch sensations, like i have wondered before why i can tickle my self and it does not tickle, but if somebody else does it makes me want to laugh and get away. after reading this chapter i have concluded that it is because our brains are smart enough to know when we tickle our selves and when it is unexpected from somebody else. Going along with this i found the rubber-hand illusion to be greatly interesting. It is cool, well hot, how our body makes warm+cold=hot. This is really cool and when i got thinking about it when it is really cold out side and you have been out side and you come in to take a shower and i always don't put the water to hot because when i feel it with my hands , which have been in my warm gloves, feels warm. When the water feels warm to my hands and then i put my foot under it to test it, it is true it feels like it is burning, so i basically lived this but never really thought about the why part till reading this chapter.
Another thing i found interesting about this chapter was what do the tastes we taste mean? after reading the chapter I found a cool table that explains about what each taste means. It goes like this, sweet means energy source. That makes sense i guess sugar is basically fuel for our bodies and it is accepted like that. Next is Salty, meaning "sodium essential to physiological processes", i really don't know what that all means but i pretty much took it as you need salt to think. Close? I'm not for sure. Next Sour, i never knew that we take sour as "potentially toxic acid", when we eat sour skittles our brain thinks its toxic acid, well candy is sort of acidic i guess. Moving on bitter mean poisons. So 85 % cocoa chocolate does kinda taste like poison, but its suppose to be good for you so i don't know. Finally, a thing called "Umani" mean "potential to grow and repair tissue". I don't know what "Umani" is but i could use some!
Finally the last thing i found cool is how a little girl has no feeling for pain, i think this would be cool but dangerous. Like the girls mother says, it would be hard for a little girl not to bump in to things and not fall in cry, but yet walk away like it didn't happen. If all little kids where like that there would be a lot of deaths i think. So I'm sort of torn it would be cool for sports you wouldn't feel the concussion pain, but than again you could die. You sprain your ankle and keep playing and then you end up ripping all the ligaments in you foot. So the more i have thought about it, I'm cool with feeling the pain, that little girl is going to have to remember if she thinks that should have hurt to get checked out or she could really be in trouble.
Another thing i found interesting about this chapter was what do the tastes we taste mean? after reading the chapter I found a cool table that explains about what each taste means. It goes like this, sweet means energy source. That makes sense i guess sugar is basically fuel for our bodies and it is accepted like that. Next is Salty, meaning "sodium essential to physiological processes", i really don't know what that all means but i pretty much took it as you need salt to think. Close? I'm not for sure. Next Sour, i never knew that we take sour as "potentially toxic acid", when we eat sour skittles our brain thinks its toxic acid, well candy is sort of acidic i guess. Moving on bitter mean poisons. So 85 % cocoa chocolate does kinda taste like poison, but its suppose to be good for you so i don't know. Finally, a thing called "Umani" mean "potential to grow and repair tissue". I don't know what "Umani" is but i could use some!
Finally the last thing i found cool is how a little girl has no feeling for pain, i think this would be cool but dangerous. Like the girls mother says, it would be hard for a little girl not to bump in to things and not fall in cry, but yet walk away like it didn't happen. If all little kids where like that there would be a lot of deaths i think. So I'm sort of torn it would be cool for sports you wouldn't feel the concussion pain, but than again you could die. You sprain your ankle and keep playing and then you end up ripping all the ligaments in you foot. So the more i have thought about it, I'm cool with feeling the pain, that little girl is going to have to remember if she thinks that should have hurt to get checked out or she could really be in trouble.
Illusions Blog
I love looking at illusions, but i always worry about getting hypnotized and then breaking my computer. Any way the illusions i looked at were "stepping feet", Stereokinetic Phenomenon, “Rotating Snake” ,Snake Illusion ad lib,Pinna-Brelstaff Illusion,Motion Aftereffect (Waterfall Illusion),Spiral aftereffect, and Roget's ‘Palisade’ Illusion. What i learned from these illusions is that your brain seems to foucus solely on the first thing it sees, and then after a while you see what you are suppose to. What i found surpriseing is when they give you a illusion like Reverse Spoke Illusion when you speed it up it looks as if the lines are moving, but slow it down and you realize that the spokes are not spining. This activity really made me think, maybe when i see something that dosent seem right prolly look again and may really look. Like when you know you put something somewhere and you can not see it because you are looking to fast, it really makes me mad when that happens to me.
These illusion happen all the time in our daily life. It happens to me when people with striped shirts walk by each other and the shirts are different colors and it looks like one big blob.
These illusion happen all the time in our daily life. It happens to me when people with striped shirts walk by each other and the shirts are different colors and it looks like one big blob.
Friday, October 23, 2009
chapter 5
One of the things i learned from this chapter is about the differense between nature/nurture. Nature is our gentic inheritance, and nurture or experiences taht influence our development. I put much thought into this and found the fallowing. I think that you only inherit so much, the way i see it you onlyhave ruffly 5 years to install all the morals you want to you kids. After that you will find you self or child learning things you really didn't want them to. Once in school we learn things constuctive and negitve things. The nature can only hold up to so much nurture. I am andy turenne and thats what i think.
Also i found Jean Piaget studies to be pretty cool, he really worked hard to anser some difficult questions. Piage's stages of cognitive develop is very intersting, to have all that information broke down that simple must have taking lots of time and studies. It is all so intersting, i like the sensorimotor stage the best. It says in the book that infants before the age of 6 months just live in the present which is pretty cool i think it just shows how much we really develope as the years go on. Can you imagine if we knew where something was, but then somebody put a blanket over it and we had no idea where it went, i think it would be pretty funny, i would hide stuff from my brothers with little effort. Piaget, i think is somebody to look up to, he always looked at thinks with a different angle then his peers i like to think that i also do.
Final one thing i also found interesting in this chapter is social identity. I like this because it asks who am I? really how do we really know what is in store for us. Also like when i get dressed i really don't think about, O i have to wear this because all my friends do, i like certain shirts and stuff but its not like i am looking to be somebody else. I do see myself actually doing somethings that i think about later as why did i do that, that isn't me, so i think if you say you aren't looking for who you are its a lie. Like Taylor Swifts song says "I didn't know who i was supposed to be at 15" is actually pretty right on.
This chapter cover allot of interesting things and also people i enjoyed reading it.
Also i found Jean Piaget studies to be pretty cool, he really worked hard to anser some difficult questions. Piage's stages of cognitive develop is very intersting, to have all that information broke down that simple must have taking lots of time and studies. It is all so intersting, i like the sensorimotor stage the best. It says in the book that infants before the age of 6 months just live in the present which is pretty cool i think it just shows how much we really develope as the years go on. Can you imagine if we knew where something was, but then somebody put a blanket over it and we had no idea where it went, i think it would be pretty funny, i would hide stuff from my brothers with little effort. Piaget, i think is somebody to look up to, he always looked at thinks with a different angle then his peers i like to think that i also do.
Final one thing i also found interesting in this chapter is social identity. I like this because it asks who am I? really how do we really know what is in store for us. Also like when i get dressed i really don't think about, O i have to wear this because all my friends do, i like certain shirts and stuff but its not like i am looking to be somebody else. I do see myself actually doing somethings that i think about later as why did i do that, that isn't me, so i think if you say you aren't looking for who you are its a lie. Like Taylor Swifts song says "I didn't know who i was supposed to be at 15" is actually pretty right on.
This chapter cover allot of interesting things and also people i enjoyed reading it.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Chapter 4 blog
I really enjoyed this chapter it was cool to learn about twins and things.
I go to school with 3 sets of twins, and lately i have been observing them more. While watching them i realized that with the set of identical twin girls they do everything together. All there classes are the same, they sit by each other, they talk about what homework there going to do first, If i had a twin i think our conversations would be different. Second set girl/boy, boy slacks off, the girl gets great grades and is good at sports. The boy is hilarious in class we call him T.Y.Z.Y, but he just kinda gets by, he could be just like his sister but doesn't try. And finally, Connor (his is in our class) and his bro.. There both really good at sports, Connor is a beast in basketball, and Spencer is a football beast. I think there both kinda there own people, there both do great stuff but its completely different stuff. Connor will play basketball outside and Spencer will play xbox. So that's what i have gained from my twin recon.
Also a few things i never really didn't understand very well was the difference between identical and fraternal Twins. I just assumed that twins were twins, boy i was wrong. If i understand correctly fraternal twins are basically just the same as me and my brother. I found that to really interesting, there born at the same time but there no more the same then if they were born 11 days or 3 years apart. Identical i understood some what look the same, act the same, are the same.
one thing i always wondered from watching the movie "parent trap" was do you think twins know if they are separated and can like feel like there is some part of them missing like a sibling. And also i do know that there was only one person playing both the twins in that movie. I just wanted to put that down because i was thinking about that since i was like 10.
Finally i found that molecular genetics. Genes that that influence behavior so the way i think has a lot to do with what genes i inherited from my parents.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Back up, The extra credit.
When we talked about this in class i could not wait to try it. Like Mrs. Zwicky said people will back up and try to keep a arms length between you and them when you are talking. I tried this with people in school and they would start walking away from me to keep the distance. It was pretty hilarious. when i tried it with my father he put his hand out and held me at a arms length away when i tried to talk to him and asked "are you okay". It was pretty funny, my own father was like get away from me. After trying this I don't think that i will keep doing it, because i would like to have a conversation where the person is not trying to avoid me.
Friday, October 9, 2009
chapter 3 the Two mind tracks
This was a very interesting chapter for me, simple because it is about something i excel greatly in. It i also very cool how our brain is like a different person. You are sleeping but there is so much more going on.
One thing that i thought i new but really didn't is what is sleep? What does sleep really do for us? i just asumed that when you sleep you are recharging your batteries (I am just kidding but you probly get my point), but sleep is so important to letting your brain restore it self, and letting our limbs get a rest from carring us around. I didn't know most of your growing happens while sleeping but i guess it makes sense just never really need to think about it before i took this class.
Before this chapter i really didn't know much about REM sleep, to tell you the truth i did not know it meant rapid eye movement. With that i did not know that this type of sleep is responsible for dreams. Also i did not realize how important dreams/REM sleep is to humans. It made me laugh thinking if i don't get REM sleep i could become psychotic, I never thought of it as that important.
Another thing i found intresting about this chapter is the circadian rhythm. Our bodies synchorize every 24 hours basically like the earth. Its just like earthly climates, in the morning ourbodies heat rises, as the sun is rising to heat up the earth. I think its cool for those people who are earth lovers.
I learned alot about sleep and our two-track mind and such. It all is so benificaly for the rest of your life understanding your self.
One thing that i thought i new but really didn't is what is sleep? What does sleep really do for us? i just asumed that when you sleep you are recharging your batteries (I am just kidding but you probly get my point), but sleep is so important to letting your brain restore it self, and letting our limbs get a rest from carring us around. I didn't know most of your growing happens while sleeping but i guess it makes sense just never really need to think about it before i took this class.
Before this chapter i really didn't know much about REM sleep, to tell you the truth i did not know it meant rapid eye movement. With that i did not know that this type of sleep is responsible for dreams. Also i did not realize how important dreams/REM sleep is to humans. It made me laugh thinking if i don't get REM sleep i could become psychotic, I never thought of it as that important.
Another thing i found intresting about this chapter is the circadian rhythm. Our bodies synchorize every 24 hours basically like the earth. Its just like earthly climates, in the morning ourbodies heat rises, as the sun is rising to heat up the earth. I think its cool for those people who are earth lovers.
I learned alot about sleep and our two-track mind and such. It all is so benificaly for the rest of your life understanding your self.
Implicit Association Test Blog (Fat or skinny)
In my test it was to distinguish fat people from skinny people by looking at there face. And then it would put positive words and have pictures of fat people and skinny people and you would read the word and put positive and/or negative for the word. It was kind of tricky because i was thinking about the earlier part of it were it was all about the faces. So i think the test is sort of set up to get the results that Harvard wants.
Friday, October 2, 2009
chapter 2 blog
While reading this chapter i found also about the brain i never understood how many parts there really where. I new that our brains where complex, i now understand why it is so hard to understand people. '
One thing i can take away from this chapter is the understanding of how we all can be so different. The possibility is endless for how many different ways are brain can react. I dont belive that this will change how i look towards people, becuase there is just as many things going on in my head.
In this chapter i learned about the different parts of the brain and how they work. It is very interesting to find how many parts are need to do simple things like breathe. the brain is extremely complex.
Another thing i learned from chapter 2 is that the brain uses chemicals to make our reactions. These chemicals are all the same in people but how are brains receptor them will make you who you are. Like on t.v they say depression can be treated by taking drugs that will make these receptors work the way they should.
Finally in this chapter i learned that it is possible to split a human brain. This i found to be remarkable, a split brain, and the guy can draw two shapes at once. Don't even try it you can do it, i have tried and failed miserably.
One thing i can take away from this chapter is the understanding of how we all can be so different. The possibility is endless for how many different ways are brain can react. I dont belive that this will change how i look towards people, becuase there is just as many things going on in my head.
In this chapter i learned about the different parts of the brain and how they work. It is very interesting to find how many parts are need to do simple things like breathe. the brain is extremely complex.
Another thing i learned from chapter 2 is that the brain uses chemicals to make our reactions. These chemicals are all the same in people but how are brains receptor them will make you who you are. Like on t.v they say depression can be treated by taking drugs that will make these receptors work the way they should.
Finally in this chapter i learned that it is possible to split a human brain. This i found to be remarkable, a split brain, and the guy can draw two shapes at once. Don't even try it you can do it, i have tried and failed miserably.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
the man with two brains.
when we watched the man with two brains i found it to be extremely interesting. it showed how the guy drew two shapes one shape with each hand at the same time, when trying this in class Monday i found it to be extremely difficult if not impossible. I tried 5 times while kevin hamel laughed at my defeat. i would consider this procedure for fun but i like having one brain just the same.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
thinking critically
To me there is no level of the importance of research. The way i see it, we would have nothing as we do today if people hadn't gone out and researched. Would America even exists if somebody hadn't said, "hey lets sail the other way maybe we can get there faster". Research is huge, everything we base our lives on today is based on past peoples research, and the future will depends on people going out and expanding our knowledge. Look at the big craze for alternative fuels, we all ready have some great ideas out there, hydrogen power, how are we going to fit that into a affordable car, with research and development. I hope to someday become a mechanical engineer someday and i hope to invent or improve something that will make our living better. Research is of the utmost importance.
While reading on Psyblog i found a very interesting blog titled, "why do we do dumb or irrational things?" I found this interesting because i find myself asking this same question. Its pretty funny I think when people say "why would you do such a thing?" Well if you don't know how would I. In the blog it lists 10 "insightful stories" about why people might do dumb things with out realizing it. The first one is the best i believe the "halo effect" it states that because we see Hollywood stars as people above us we might also assume that there are also smarter than us. How untrue, yea Brittany Spears is a genius in Hollywood, and i can fly. I found this blog to be very interesting, and i really could relate it to my life.
One of the things i learned while reading this chapter was about overconfidence. I think this is important because i can relate. Just as the people talked about in the book, they made decisions a head of time and were a 100% sure that they were correct, but really they weren't. Just like a test i thought was going to be so easy and when i had taken it, i went through it as if it was nothing, guaranteeing that it is correct to myself and get the results back to find i got only 80% correct. If only i would have been a little more concerned about it i would have really thought it through and done better.
Another thing i learn from this chapter is the placebo effect. I have always wanted to learn about this, i have heard of studies that show people are given basically vitamins that are said to help them study. I find this important because it shows how you make your brain rely on something to insure that you do well. Could you just saying i will study and it will all come back to me during the test be enough. No. So we rely on basically nothing to give are selves that confidence that we had in us all along. I couldn't stop reading about it.
Finally i learned about measures of variations. This important/useful in so many ways, mathematically and psychologically. You can use it to understand peoples habits, like what time they would get to work or what time they show up to school. I think this would be a good way to test habits, and you need measures of variations so that's why i believe it is important.
While reading on Psyblog i found a very interesting blog titled, "why do we do dumb or irrational things?" I found this interesting because i find myself asking this same question. Its pretty funny I think when people say "why would you do such a thing?" Well if you don't know how would I. In the blog it lists 10 "insightful stories" about why people might do dumb things with out realizing it. The first one is the best i believe the "halo effect" it states that because we see Hollywood stars as people above us we might also assume that there are also smarter than us. How untrue, yea Brittany Spears is a genius in Hollywood, and i can fly. I found this blog to be very interesting, and i really could relate it to my life.
One of the things i learned while reading this chapter was about overconfidence. I think this is important because i can relate. Just as the people talked about in the book, they made decisions a head of time and were a 100% sure that they were correct, but really they weren't. Just like a test i thought was going to be so easy and when i had taken it, i went through it as if it was nothing, guaranteeing that it is correct to myself and get the results back to find i got only 80% correct. If only i would have been a little more concerned about it i would have really thought it through and done better.
Another thing i learn from this chapter is the placebo effect. I have always wanted to learn about this, i have heard of studies that show people are given basically vitamins that are said to help them study. I find this important because it shows how you make your brain rely on something to insure that you do well. Could you just saying i will study and it will all come back to me during the test be enough. No. So we rely on basically nothing to give are selves that confidence that we had in us all along. I couldn't stop reading about it.
Finally i learned about measures of variations. This important/useful in so many ways, mathematically and psychologically. You can use it to understand peoples habits, like what time they would get to work or what time they show up to school. I think this would be a good way to test habits, and you need measures of variations so that's why i believe it is important.
Three door dilemma
For such a simple game, it was fun i thought. It makes you want to play more, before i started it said play 20 times, i was thinking there is no way i am going to play this 20 times by the time i looked down i had played it 34 times. I thought for sure i had a pattern figured out and just like that it was broken. I found it to be really addicting.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
writting 1
Reading the prologue, well it was long, but i found it interesting. Psychology has been deep in the history books, i think its cool how the first real psychological test was relatively simple. This shows that people have always been interested in the brain and actions.
Before i read the prologue i thought it was going to be really boring like some other classes i have, but there are so many things that just make your brain just start thinking. I was thinking about this question. Do our human traits develop through experiences, or are we born with them? I dont believe that we are born with total traits, but maybe we have like things in our brain that make it easier for us to pick up on traits. Really i have no idea.
Before i read the prologue i thought it was going to be really boring like some other classes i have, but there are so many things that just make your brain just start thinking. I was thinking about this question. Do our human traits develop through experiences, or are we born with them? I dont believe that we are born with total traits, but maybe we have like things in our brain that make it easier for us to pick up on traits. Really i have no idea.
what I think about psychology.
i think that psychology is important to understand people. i think it will be fun to learn about this field. I like how you have to think about every question. I am exited to learn about the parts of the brain and such. Also i am excited to maybe learn about how people perceive things, maybe get the upper hand on what people are thinking. I think i am good at telling people what they want to hear this class can only help i think.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
INTOR BLOG
My name is Andrew Turenne I am 17 years old and I live in the town of Thorp. One thing that has really made me who I am is that my parents own Turenne Livestock market. Growing up with a growing business really helped me to learn skills about people, and how to interact with them. Also I have spent more days in the hospital than I have had birthdays. Between broken bones and punctured hand tendons I've seen the operating table enough.
I think that studying psychology is important to understand why people do things and how people can take the same situation and react differently.
To me psychology means, well not exactly sure but, to study like I said above, how people react, and act and such.
I think that studying psychology is important to understand why people do things and how people can take the same situation and react differently.
To me psychology means, well not exactly sure but, to study like I said above, how people react, and act and such.
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