blog 13

The studies are very interesting seeing how some people get into roles and how they can be evil and by human nature just go overboard. People are also influenced by everyone and everything around them, we see how are friends act and think its ok even if its not, or if we watch tv and see what people say on there we think its ok to say. The most interesting thing ive learned in this class is how humans think in a weird way. We all think different and noone is the same which i think is pretty cool and our minds our so complex it is an interesting subject and a cool thing to learn.

blog 12

I think that a person has a disorder when they do something that is socially not normal and they even know it. I dont mean just a little weird but if they really do some weird and crazy things then i think they have something. I also think that it is in alot of peoples heads sometimes. Some people can act abnormally on some days but if they do it all the time they may be just seen as weird and not in the normal group of people but it probally is not a disorder.
I have not had a disorder or have known anyone with a disorder so i am going to describe anti-social disorder. This disorder the person does not have any interest in hanging out with friends and they can be very quiet, and seem nice. Some murderers have this disorder. I think this would be a not so bad disorder since it describes me somewhat but the murdering part would be for the crazy over the edge type.
I am most interested in the amount of people that have disorders. This is kinda cool and concerning, even tho i dont think that all these people really have disorders.

blog 11

My personality is shy, and quiet. I like to be alone alot and dont always hang out with friends. I think i might be bipolar because one day i want to be loud, have fun, hang with friends, and dont want to be alone. The next i may want to be alone. I have a quiet personality. I think my personality traits that are the best are: respectful-I am respectful to people and that makes me more likable, hard working-I do my best at everything i do and makes people happy, quiet-I dont say inapropiate things usually and try to be nice friend, fun-I can be fun when i go out and have good time with others, inteligent-I know alot of things that are useful and make the best of it. My worse personality traits are: crabbyness-I dont like being nagged alot and makes me upset, annoyed easily-Get mad a supid things, being short with people-I dont always put that much into conversations and seems like i am just brushing them off. I am not always that optimistic because if i know what will happen i dont try, but if i dont know and think that i have a chance to do this then i am optimistic. I am not pessimistic that often, just when im having a bad day or am crabby. For sports i am usually optimistic, like going into a game i think we always have a chance, but if there alot better i am pessimistic and say were gunna lose. If I am at school and dont want to be there i will get crabby and short but if im at a party i will be social and have fun. This is because i am not doing sumtin i want to do and i am selfish often too. I tend to think that i never do anything wrong and things shouldnt be blamed on me but i know in my mind it is true that i am not right, and usually i am wrong, but i usually use denial.

blog 10

Thinking is cognition, and consists of all you do in your mind and even with movement. I think i am not very creative at really anything, although i can problem solve ok. Sometimes at home if i need something done while im working outside and something breaks ill need to fix it and be creative because you never seem to have the right equipment. Being creative is very important and can help you in the long run. I did not know that there were so many intelligence catagories and that we could think so different.

Blog #9

If we did not have memories then our personalities would be totally changed and a this would not be good because we wouldnt know who or what we are. Life would probabaly be interesting because everything was new but there would be no progress in life and be very frustrating for others around him. She must be very patient and loving of him. I would get to frustrated having to take care of him and him not remembering anything really but then again most guys dont remember that much stuff so it all be the same. I feel lucky to have a good memory that i do and i hope i never lose it. Yes i see memory more as a good think to have and try to keep and better it. I trust all my memories and see them as the same because i know they really happened and like to think i have a good memory even if i dont. Storage is probably the most important subject in this chapter because your memory needs storage to keep the important stuff and some of the other stuff that it holds. The more storage you have in your mind the better you can do in school and in life in general.

Blog #8

Classical conditioning is a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events. An example of classical conditioning is a dog salavating when hungry once a keeper walked into the room. Operant conditioning is a type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher. An example of this would be having a response to an action of the person. Classical is having to do with teaching things through events rather than punishers or things of that sort. This is interesting because it shows the different ways to teach other animals or people things and the way the brain functions. Positive reinforcement is when u give rewards for a positive event. This would be like if i get straight A's and my mother would give me 50 dollars for doing good. The reinforcment would be the 50 dollars and that is positive. Negetive reinforcement is when someone takes something away to help you. If i was locked in handcuffs and someone took them off for me it would help me because i am now free but also be negetive because something has been taken away. Punishment is having something unpleasent happen to you because of a specific action. If i didnt clean my room my mom would say i couldnt go out and that would be unpleasent and would be because i didnt clean my room. I think that the most interesting thing in this chapter was how you can teach something to saluvate just by associating a noice to its food. This can be used in zoos to call animals to eat and have jobs like that for help.

blog 7

I would tell them that the perception is how we see and interpret things and sensation is how we preceive smells or things we feel. I think it is interesting how the brain works and seems to interpret things. I changes how i think because now you can take a second look at things and try to view them a different way that is not how you usually see things. The article i read was about how we only focus on one thing that is clearly perceived but our periphrial vision is blurred out and we just get a hint of whats going on. This is important to how we see things because we have to turn our attension to a single thing and we can not clearly see two things at once. If we play sports we can somewhat see a base runner if your a pitcher but it is not clearly seen and is very blurred.

Blog 6

I learned that it was not totally different back then, but there was some differences. Then they didnt have as much focus on school as much as today, we have more homework and are tought in preperation for college. I would not have liked it as much then because you would have to work on the farm and then there was more respect for people, but you could get away with alot if you really wanted to back then. I agree with what the video was saying and we all have to go through the same things and deal with it, being either a parent or a kid. I enjoyed my adolences and my parents are never really on my case but thats because im not that bad of a kid besides a few minor tickets but i have a 3.5 gpa and compared to my brother they cant really complain but they still do. I am very shy so i dont think that im going to be very good as an adult at first but will deal with it. In chapter 4 i learned how different other cultures are from us just based on greetings and how we think that some ways they greet is very weird. In chapter 5 i learned the base on which younger kids pick up on things and the way they think is funny.

post #5

In this chapter i learned the difference between fraternal and identical twins and i thought that was interesting to know how different ways that we develope and how twins are made. I learned the about nature and nurture which i think that they both have equal effects on the way we grow up. Also that natural selection is like how animals mate and how it relates to us in some ways.

#4

I watched the mind awake and asleep video. I learned that we usually just dream of what is in our mind and try to make sense of it. For me this will make more sense of unusual dreams for me and others. This is very interesting just to think of how you think and analze stuff without even thinking about it. I learned that you can do alot of things without even thinking of then just because you've done it for so long. I am suprised that animals also have REM sleep. I agree with the thinkings of how feelings are thought up in your sleep and i guess i dont really have anything to disagree with.

#3

I did the contrast/color illusions, which is just the way a color is the same but in a different setting appears to be a totally different color. The other one i did was the Seeing more than your eye does, which is when there is two points on the screen and you cant see the other if one eye is open. I learned where our eyes blind spot was and thought that was pretty cool and how we precieve things that are the same but look different. I was suprised about the blind spot, it was weird to see everything but that dot. This can applie to everyday life because if were driving and focused on a spot and for some reason only one eye works we may not see a car or deer coming at us. Yes this changes the way i look at colors because you have to take into account the shading and settings. I learned what parts of brain do what, and that we pretty much see everything the opposite of the way it comes into our mind. I think that it is pretty cool that we are able to do that and that with help the brain can be stimulated to do really anything. I think this is something new and interesting that the field of science is going into.

post #2

The importance of research is that if you dont do your research their really is no credibility to your point or idea. research that is relevant to my life is like a researcher saying that school is bad for kids, so we dont have to go is relevant because it has to do with me. Culture is shared ideas and behaviors that one generation passes on to the next. This is important because you are different from people. Statistical significance means that the observed difference is probably not due to chance variation between sample. Meaning that the differences are always going to be there. Standard deviation is the more useful standard for measuring how much scores deviate from one another. Shows the difference more so that you can tell the accual differences.

chap. 1

Befor this class i thought it was just about how we study each other but it is broader and more advanced. I think psychology affects us all the time because people are always interacting with how other people and seeing the way they think. I find that the history and the begining is interesting in how Arostotle first thought of the way they thought back then.

intro

I am Jeremy Schiller. I go to school in Loyal. I am 17 years old. I think living on a farm has shaped me because you have to get up early and be responsible. Psychology is important so you understand what people think and why. Psychology is the the study of how humans think and why.