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I thought the experiments really showed how people react in different situations. It is interesting that all of the experiments show how people follow others. How if someone is given a job they will do that job even if they know that they will eventually hurt someone else. Human nature only needs to think that they are doing something important in order to follow someone without any thought to themselves about what they are doing is wrong.
Social influence is the way people act when even a job or the way they are treated. When someone is given a job that they don’t normally have then they act completely different then any other time. When I am partnered up with someone on a project, I act more like a leader. I show my ideas and I do as much as I can to help out or do most of the work. I usual procrastinate a lot. Also when I have to speak to people that I don’t know I can do it but when someone doesn’t tell me to or if I am by myself it is very hard for me to come up with the courage to talk to the stranger.
The most interesting thing I learned in this class is the mind is a very powerful thing, the fact that the mind controls your action in situations that you normally would not think of. Your unconscious mind is where your disorders come from and your wonder about all the things that happen to yourself. There are different reactions that people you normally thought wouldn’t do actually will do in order to obey someone are do their job. I also believe that your dreams are the most interesting thing someone has. Dreams can be unlocking your unconscious mind and can show what you are most stressed about through different interpretations.

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I believe that psychological disorders are mainly in your unconscious mind that interferes with one's everyday life. In the text, psychological disorders are ongoing patterns of thought, feelings, and actions that are deviant, distressful, and /or dysfunctional. Abnormal is not always dealing with psychological disorders. I think that men that dress in pink is abnormal but to them and some others it is completely normal. When I have sugar I act with a lot of energy and aggression which will make me seem abnormal but that is how some people react to sugar. Not everyone reacts the same way in certain situations. There is such a high stander in society that it seems that everyone could have a disorder but everyone reacts and thinks differently. In order to have a disorder one needs to really not have control on their reactions in situations that make them sometimes destructive to others. Everyone has an abnormal habit to others some how in some way.


I believe that I have a disorder call Obsessive-compulsive disorder. This disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/ or actions. These senseless or offensive thoughts never go way and "haunt" you. I have the obsessive-compulsive disorder because when ever I get done eating I have to wipe my mouth area at least five times and then a few times later on during the day. It is really annoying but I always think that there are food stains on my face and I hate the fact that it could be there.

The most interesting thing I learned is the diagnoses of schizophrenia is 1 in 100 which is a lot of people and there is a set of quadruplets that all have this disorder. It is interesting that they all have the disorder and I wonder, and I am sure others too, that a lot of disorders can be inherited and developed by how you are raised. Everyone have different interpretations on all situations which make it difficult to understand where disorders come from.

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My personality is different than my friends. I am hyper at times and other times I seem to be too mature for my age. I can get really crazy when I am with my friends and if I have a little sugar. My friends like that I can make them laugh and smile. I think it is a positive thing that I can be funny and crazy with my friend and I think that it is a good trait to be serious when I am working. I am a studious person and I try my hardest at school. I like to play games and joke around with people but I do like to try to get all of my work done as soon as possible, which is a very good trait to have. I am very caring, more caring than I want to be, sometimes. I try to be mean, but it doesn’t work out the way I want it to. I think it is a positive trait to be caring. I think all people just need someone to care about them. I am also happy person, not much can make me made or sad. I usually am always happy or hyper. I like it is a positive trait to be a happy go lucky person. I’m shy at times and I can be cowardly. I won’t do certain thing because I’m scared of what people may think of me or I don’t want to get into trouble. I don’t think that cowardly is a good trait to have. I get nervous and sometimes can’t handle certain situations. My nerves always get the best of me, so I think it is a bad trait to have.
I am a pessimistic person. I like to be careful in life and be prepared. I am optimistic some days but I like to be a knowing to what the future. Most of the time I say I am going to fail a test that I studied really hard, but I usually do a lot better than I think to then I feel better. When I am optimistic I always get disappointed in my grade for doing bad and so I don’t like being optimistic to I am not disappointed. I also like being pessimistic to the fact that I am more prepared for trips. I always like that it will rain or I will eat more than I usually can handle. That way I have enough food for all trips. I end up with too much food and I have some left over so I am able to give others some food when they need it. I am happy to be a pessimistic.

My personality changes mainly when there is an important job for me. I like to joke around and have fun, but if there is something that must get done I am serious about getting it done. It helps me to priorities my values and understands what it important. It will help with getting the job done. I also change from a happy mood into a sadder mood whenever someone close to me is having a bad day or is putting me down. I wouldn’t want to do or say anything to make that person hate me so I just tend to be more quiet and give them the space that they need. It helps me to me not so hyper and helps me rethink what I am about to do.
I am usually always in denial. When I see something like shoplifting or something on TV that is a home video I always think that it is fake. I don’t believe what is in front of my eyes. I could eye witness something and don’t believe it in my head. I know it but then I don’t what to know it, but you just can’t get it out of your head. I also have repression of a lot of things that happened in my childhood. I didn’t have that bad of time growing up but something things that happened to me that we bad like breaking my arm I just don’t remember much of it. As the years go on the memory slow fades more and more. I block out a lot of bad things in my life if I want to or not. Displacement is another that I do. I always beat up my pillow or do something when I am mad at someone. I can’t beat them up then I would get into more trouble. It just happens like that and once a month I can’t control my emotions very well so I try to be by myself a lot. So don't get in my face when I am PMSING!!

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Solving problems is a very interesting subject. The fact that through trial and error we learn all the basic idea we need to understand. We use algorithms, step-by-step procedures that guarantee a solution. Sometimes that fact that there is no pattern for strategy is also interesting. Puzzles that people encounter are answered in our minds like a flash of reality. I word insight brings all of the ideas to together of one common solution.


Creativity defines me very well. I am very creative in different ways. I can make up stories out of thin air and I can excaudate many details that make the stories seem more adventurous, more imaginative. The stories and image I can tell and make others believe is what I am best at. Being creative can save much time and can help in companies to promote their product. I rather be creative then good at art, because there is no art without creativity.

I think that the twin and adoption studies were quite interesting twins acutely score about the same on tests. Adoption enhances that intelligence scores of mistreated or neglected children seem to be different from what I have thought. Fraternal twins are just like any other kind of siblings but are treated like the same because people expect them to be. Then you have to factor in how the children were treated to understand their development and understand why they have certain test scores. I always wondered what it would be like to have a twin and understand the importance of that understandment.

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Memory is very important to defining who we are as human beings. It is the way we learn and teach others of past experiences. Memory is the way we know what to do anything when the right time comes. If we didn't have any memory we would know how to do anything. We would walk around the world and die soon after because we can't protect ourselves and don't know how to take care ourselves. If a person can't remember after 20 second then that person most likely can't do anything on his or her own. I could not live in Clive's wife's shoes and she handles the memory damage really well. I would not be able to handle him not remembering anything that I said. I feel that my memory is not the best but I am glad to have that instead of nothing at all. I don't know what I would do if I had Clive's memory. I would be paranoid and so scared not to remember anything.

I don't see my memories working any differently than before. I think that my memories are the same as always because I don't have much of a memory from before. My memory sometimes works differently than other. I usually need something to remind me of anything but I can't recall anything off hand without hints. I trust my memories because they are in my mind. In the reemerging and forgetting video people can make others remember memories different by distorting the truth and making the fantasy seem like reality. I am mainly the same way. People can tell me things and I would believe the truth and the lie even if they are complete opposites.

Memory has holes and people need to forget in order to function. I believe that people that can't forget anything can use it to good use but also can drive people crazy. It is important for people to forget about the worst things that happen in their lives in order to be happy but to remember the concepts in order for it to not be a repeated mistake. It is important in my life because there is a lot of bad things that happened to me that I want to forget but the concept sticks in my mind. The images of those days don’t haunt me anymore but I know what happened so I am better prepared for the future.

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Classical Conditioning: If a stimulus that results in an emotional response is repeated alongside another stimulus which does not cause an emotional response, eventually the second stimulus will result in the same emotional response. Classical Conditioning is thus ‘learning by association’. An example would be like a mother feeding a child. A mother would have the microwave running to warm the food and then feed the child. Afterwards the child knows that every time that the microwave runs the child would receive food. Operant Conditioning: Is the conditioning of actions and consequences. Classical conditioning forms an association between two stimuli. Operant conditioning forms an association between a behavior and a consequence. It is interesting because they can work together or be completely different. You can train someone with a classical condition to a different condition through operant conditioning. In my life it is interesting to learn about natural behaviors and if you can train a behavior to something completely opposite. Having some natural conditioning of certain behaviors and want to change them there are was for me to have a different result.
Positive reinforcement is the presentation of something pleasant or rewarding immediately following a behavior. When I was little I would get to stay up late if I didn’t wine or act badly. I loved to watch TV but my brothers were the ones that wanted to go to bed because the programs were not appropriate for me.


A negative reinforcement is the avoiding of the presentation of something bad or negative. When I was little I would do everything that I was told to do, like clean my room, so I wouldn’t get grounded. I was very convincing back in the day.

Punishment is the punishing someone for doing as they were suppose to buy physical pain or the lack of an award. When I was really little my brothers blamed me for breaking something that they broke and I got grounded for it. It made me very mad and I cried for the entire day.

The thing that interested me the most was the punishment. It is interesting that punishment behavior is suppressed and not forgotten, teaches discrimination, teaches fear, and may increase aggression when coping with problems. What I reminds me most of all is the new child punishment laws. When I was little parents were able to spank their kids and it hurt but now a days you can because it would be consider being child abuse. Kids today can get away with anything and parents have no power to control them. Kids run wild in the shops and will not stop crying at all. I believe that children can endure some physical punishment as long as it doesn’t go to far. This is why I am not planning on having children in the future. They control everything and I don’t believe that they should be qualified to do so.

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1. Sensation is what you sense with your 5 senses: hear, see, smell, touch, and taste. Perception is how you interprate what you sense. Like tasting a lemon, you perceive it to be sower, but not everyone have the same perception, because someone else, like me, will not think it is sower but watery.
2. The best thing I read in this chapter is the infants on the Visual Cliff. It is interesting that they know depth perception and know that the floor is lover on the other side. It doesn't change the way I think about anything. It applies by knowing that at the infant stage you can develop enough and learn to know depth perception.
3. Even 24,576 Measurements Couldn't Prove Plants Have Souls- Gustuv Fechner wanted to prove that plants had souls. He did experiments to measure the relationship between stimulus and the resulting sensations. In one experiment he took 24,576 measurement and then wrote a book to help his progress.
It is interesting to know if plants have souls or not. If anyone had a spirt inside their body is beyond me. I changes but wonder if they do or don't. It applies by some people with not eat plants anymore because they would not want to kill anything with a soul.

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1. I learned that it is hard life back then, but you didn't need a high school degree to get a good job. I was surprised that it is expected for men to go to work right after their 8th grade year. My life you are expected to go through school until you graduate from college in order to get a good job. I would not because I believe that school is a very important part of life and I would not want to work so hard for so little return.
2.I thought that the video showed a good representation of parenting and adolescence. My adolescent years are stress full and full of confusion. I think that these years of adolescents is important, by experience, to learn and to shape you future life.
3. I learned in chapter 4 is that cultural differences are a lot different than I thought. The fact that it is alright for men in Arab to greet each other with a kiss. I find it oddly weird, but what we do is weird to them.
4. The most surprising thing that I read from chapter 5 is that babies are born legally blind. A baby go through motor stages also from sit to crawl to walk to run. Babies learn fast and realize different things by the age of 3 months.

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The most interesting thing that I learned in this chapter is that the Olson twins are in identical but in fact fraternal twins. I always thought that they looked identical but I guess I was mistaken. I use to watch them all the time and was not able to tell the difference between the two. I also found that the more enriched a rats environment is the better the brain cell grow and enrich themselves. Comparing to a non enriched rat; the enriched rat seem to have a heavier and thicker brain cortex. With that they are able to solve more thought out situations and learn. The last thing that really interested me was the gender aggression. Men admit to be more aggressive than women and through many experiences they are more likely to be a physical aggressor and a firm believer in their own thoughts and ideas. I believe this is true in most cases but not all. I find that in today's socitiy men are becoming less aggressive and women are becoming more aggressive because of the equallity the socitiy has today.

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Teen and Sleeping is the most interesting to me. The fact that teen need 9 hours of sleep amazes me. I only get 8 and i feel fine in the morning and I am not tired, but like the article states technology gets in the way of teens sleeping. I know that last night I didn't get to bed untill 11 because I was chating with my friends that I don't see everyday. I strongely disagree with the studies that you need 9 hours of sleep. I don't get drowsy during class and I am able to learn at full capatcity. I am usually in bed by 10 and I get up at 6 which is 8 hours.

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1. The first activity I took was the Time to Think: Making Observations which was being able to click fast on a button when an object appears. Then it starts to get harder by having to read word and do as they say. Lastly they ask you to do the opposite of the directions. I learned that your reactions are slow ask your mind is given more to think about which didn't surprise me at all, because the more the brain has to process the more time it need in order to do an action. It applies to everyday life by knowing that the more complicated at job may be the more time it will take to do it. Multitasking is possible but will take more time to do each activity. It doesn't change the way that I perceive the world.

2. The other activity I did was Seeing More than Your Eye Does which is keeping your right eye on a plus on the left and getting closer to the screen the dot on the right disappears, but then it get weird. The dot is replace with the color behind it and also completes the line that is through it. I concluded that your eyes have a blind spot in it that the brain can't interpret it, which surprise me by the fact it disappears and whats behind it takes its place. It applies to life by blind spot affecting our actions and not seeing something when watching a different object. It changes my way of how I will look at objects so I do not miss anything.

In this unit I also learned that Drugs and other chemicals can do much worse to your brain than I thought. The single bit from a widow spider can be very lethal even though they are so small. The other thing that I learned was that dominance in hand is effected by the brain. Right hands (majority of people) use mainly one side of their brain and a Left hands (about 10%) use an equal amount of their brain. I'm not sure how it really effects me now but is something that is interesting to learn about.

The Man with Two Brains is a very interesting video that shows what side of the brain controls what you think and interpret what you see in the world. I like the end of the movie when it talks about what side of the brain your shouldn't go without which is the left side of the brain.

Related to "Thinking Critically" Chapter

The importance of research is to gain knowledge and to compare answer with other sources. Using research is a great way to get an idea of what your subject is about and so you can do experiments in the future. I use research in my papers for school. In order for me to write about any subject, I must first know what I need to write about, that way I can learn and put my own points of view into my paper. Three think I learned lately were the perspectives of science. The three that I learned most about are neuroscience- which is the brain functioning to make emotions, memories, etc., Evolutionary- Traits of emotion and experience that is passed down to the offspring, and Psychodynamic- which is my favorite and is the unconscious mind acting on its own and making unknown actions. My dreams send messages to me that I don't understand fully but I know there is something there.

Chapter 1

I thought that psychology was simplely the mind and reactions in situations before I started this class. I didn't realize how in deepth psychology goes into science. Psychology affects my life greatly. My reactions to people and situations are very different in some case, because of who I am and how I was raised. The two thing I found most interesting in chapter one is overconfinence and how long it took me to unscramble the words. Sometime I am overconfindent and then I find that I didn't as good of a job as I thought. Like unscrambling the word took me a very long time because I didn't have a certain knowledge on the words. I was very confused and I am trying to understand the best that I can.

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Hello my name is Cassandra Zuelke, but everyone calls me Cass. I go to Stratford High School and I am 18 years old. The person that shaped me the most over the years would have to be my mother, because she is very controling on how I should act and look. I think Psychology is important to study, because it is critical to understand how people would react to certain situations and how to advoid unnessissary damage to the human brain. I think Psychology is the study of human actions and reaction. The studies indicate how people feel and how people around them will react. The fact that people act differently is dependent on how people take and understand what they sense. Like in this picture, some will see beauty and others will feel empty and small.