Blog 3

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.

intro

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.