#13

During Asch's Conformity the children acted better when there was a democratic leader. This actually does not shock me. That seems like the probable answer. During Milgrmas experiement that was the one that surprised me. i thought that that many people would not go n with it but they did. I don't know what i would do if i was put in that place. i think that i would probably stop after it got to over half way but then again im not in the experiment and its different when you are not ther and you are judging on what you would do. In the Stanford Prision Experiment that surprised me that people acted that way. I would of thought that they would of been able to keep reality separate from the fake. Although i gues i would of got cought up in it too. the studies tell us that humans like to follow others. we like to fit in with the others around us and we don't like to stand out. we like to follow orders beacuse we dont want to get hurt if we don't. The human nature is very manipulative.
Social influence is when others do something and you feel like you have to do it too. Something that i often do is when people are talking about how they liked a certain movie or a song, i don't want to be the odd one out so i say that i like it too and i just go along with what they are saying. Another is when my friends say that they are excited about something and that they cant wait for it, even if im not all the excited about it i might still agree. sometimes just to not hurt their feelings and others just fit in.
The most interesting thing that i learned in this class is how the humans are influenced by others We don't like to stand alone and sometime we will do anything to fit in. One of my favorite chapters what the personality disorders. i don't know why but i really am interested in all of that stuff and it is just plain interesting to me.

#12

When someone has a psychological disorder they usually have ongoing patterns of thought, feelings, and actions that are deviant, distressful, and/or dysfunctional as stated in the book on page 594. there are different norms in all different countries. so we may look at people and say that that just isn't right but it could be totally normal for them. when these things become harmful to you or others this is when it becomes a psychological disorder. When someone acts abnormally it doesn't mean that they have a psychological disorder. its when it starts to hurt them or others that it is a psychological disorder and if they have to do something like check the stove 10 times before leaving thats a psychological disorder.
Schizophrenia is when someone has a split from reality that shows itself in disorganized thinking, disurbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions. The person will have delusions and voices that talk to them and tell them to do stuff. usually it isn't good things that these voices want you to do. They may also have hallucinations. there are 1 in 100 people that will develop this disease. it is actually more common than you think. This disease often ocurs in older men and women. It can also occur in young children, typically during the transition from childhood to adulthood. If i were to have this disease my life would be 100% different. I don't even know how my life would be possible. I would have to depend on my fmily more and i would not have very many friends. I would see things and think that they are real. I would try to hurt others and myself. This disease could ruin a family.
What i thought was intresting was the chart on page 631. It lists all the psychological disorders and the perecntage at how likely people are to get them. The top pf that list was any mental disorder. and econd was mood disorder. Another intresting thing was intresting was how they diagnose you with a psychological disorder. there is actually a book DSM-IV-TR. this defines a diagnostic process and 16 clinical sundromes.

#11

I have many different personality traits that make me who i am. Some of the traits that i consider to be good ones are the fact that i am very caring. I always want to help people and i always want the best for them. Some people tell me that i am too nice and that in the end i am the one that is going to get hurt. Another positive thing about my personality is that i like to people say that i am easy to talk to. I usually have something to say and i never try to hurt people with my words but it does happen. I just try to make conversation with others. Something that is not the best about my personality is that i am very shy. I don't like it when i don't know something and everyone else does. I hate surprises, usually. Sometimes they turn out fun but i hate not knowing anything. People tell me that i am a good listener and that when they need someone to talk to about their problems they know that they can always count on me to help them and just listen to them. Another good thing about me is that i like to have fun. I like to be with people and enjoy their company. Something that is not so good about me is that sometimes i let people walk all over me. i sometimes don't learn from my mistakes and it can often cause me pain in the long run, but sometimes its fun too. A good thing about me is that i cam trusting and when i say that i am going to do something i do it. I like to be a person that people can count on and that they trust in.
I would say that i am defiantly more optimistic than i am pessimistic. I like to have fun and just think the good of things and everyone. I used to be more pessimistic but i figured out that life isn't nearly as fun that way. So this summer i kind of changed how i looked at things and it turned out that you have a lot more fun that way.
Depending on the situation my personality does change. When something is to be taken serious i tend to look at it serious and when it is funny then i have fun with it. My mood, i guess you could say, changes with the situation. I usually know what i am supposed to be doing and when i am supposed to do it. Something that also changes st how shy i am. When i have to step up and do something that has to be done, i out aside my shyness and just do it. If it is just a regular situation though i like to be the shy one.
I tend to have displacemetn a lot. when something isn't going right or the day isn't going good or if i am mad at my parents i tend to take it out on my family or my friends. They don't deserve it, but it jsut happens. Another is Denial, this happended to me when my boyfriend broke up with me. It was hard to accept and it didn't seem real. It took a while for it to set in and when it did i tried to make it seem like it didn't happend and then i ened up getting all mad and having displacement again. I definalty have had repression. I do not remember a lot of stuff that has happened in my life. Some stuff i just dont want to remember and other stuff i just plain forget.

#10

One thing that i learned in chapter 9 was the overconfidence. People tend to be overconfident over stuff that they have never done before. Students are a prime example. They tend to be very confident on how they are going to get their assignments done and that they will get them done on time and that it will only take a short amount of time. I do this a lot. I push off my homework thinking that it will only take me a couple of minutes to do it. In reality it takes me about 3o minutes to get it all done. People that are overconfident are also often more happy in life. They tend to be able to make harder decisions easier.
Emotional intelligence is the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions. I think that I am emotionally inteligent. I am very sensitive to how other people are feeling and what they are thinking. It bugs me when someone is upset and they dont want to talk about it. Sometimes i need to learn that i can't know everything and that soemtimes i wont know what to say. The fact that i am very sensitive does sometime smake relationships harder. When i don't know what the other person is thinking then i feel frustrated. Some people are hard to read and you cant tell what they are thinking so then i don't know if they are mad or not. I tend to talk either a lot then or not at all. I think that it is important to be emotionally intelligent. Some people do not like to talk about what they are feeling. Sometimes you can just tell what is going on and ask that person about it. sometimes all someone needs is someone to talk to.
I thought that the part on creativity was very intresting. I never knew that there was 5 components of creativity. I just thought that creativity was somethign that you either had or not and that it was something like drwing a picture or painting something. I used to think that i had no creativity whatsoever. I could not draw and i could not think of ideas in school when we had to create a picture or something like that. I lerned that creativity is measured in Expertise - a well developed base of knowledge, furnished ideas, images, and phrases we use as mental building blosks. I don't think i have any of this. Then there is Imaginituce thinking skills that provide the ability to see things in novel ways to recognize patterns. I might have som of this. Then there is a venturesome personallity this seeks new experiences, tolerates ambiguity adn risk and perserves in overcoming obstacles, i might have some of this. Intristic motivation is being driven more by intrest, satdifaction, and challenge than by external pressures, i have none of this. Then there is a crative environment thsi sparksm supports, sand refines creative ideas. I so have this, i just dont like to use it.

#9

Memory is something that completely makes us human being. Your memory is what makes you different from everyone else. With memory you know what you have tried to do in your life and you know what has worked and what hasn't worked. We remember our family and their faces and how we are related to them. If we didn't have memory everyone would be walking around not knowing anything and we would be able to even talk to one another because we wouldn't remember how to talk. We would not know anything. We would be like walking dead people. We wouldn't have jobs and we wouldn't have a family because we wouldn't know who was in our family and we wouldn't know how we got to where we were. Life would be pointless. There would be no point to it.
Clive Wearing is a man that has a memory that only lasts for 7 to 30 seconds. Even if he cant remember what he has done he is still a man and a human being. He is someone that is loved and someone that matters. If i was his wife I honesty don't know how i would handle this. It would be a day to day challenge and something that you would have to do. It cant be avoided. I think that the idea a him writing in his diaries is something that is very beneficial to everyone. Her own memory must be very good. She has to remember everything that he doesn't which is pretty much everything.
Honestly, i don't really think of how memory works differently now than i did before. It is something that i am very grateful for and something that i don't want to give up. My memories are my memories. They are something that i will remember an that may change but they will always have a special meaning to them. I still trust my memories and i think that they can be changed and i know that they cant always be true but if you don't believe in your memories than what is there to believe in. I know that they can be changed and that they may be altered but overall i still will believe in my memories. In the memory challenge i found the penny on my second try. It might of been a guess but i was also able to narrow it down from the other options that did not seem right to me.
Something that i found very interesting was when people could remember sexual abuse from the past that they had forgotten about. When people went to sessions and when they looked back into their past they were able to figure out what had happened to them and who did something to them. Personally I think that this is something that should only be done if the person is in danger from it. Why bring up old memories that would hurt you or the ones that you love. Maybe what you think happened you are making up because you feel that you need answers and this ist he only way that you are going to get them. This provides evidence that sometimes when we think we seen something or something happend we are really only making it up and that it never happened. This makes my life almost harder. If you want to know something but it will hurt you then why do you, then why would you want to know. Curiosity is a very powerful thing and it will sometimes get us in a lot of trouble and it can ruin your relationship with someone. I think that this procedure should only be done to peole that actually need it and that cant live with their lives knowing that something happend but don't know what. Others don't need it, it could jut ruin their lives even more.

#8

Classical conditioning is a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events. This means that when we hear a familiar sound that we will get something in return. Like in the video that was showed in class in Thursday, the man gave the other man a mint every time he shut down his computer. Overtime the desk mate just put out his hand when he heard the computer shut down because he was used to have been offered a mint. When asked what he was doing the man didn't know. He said that it was just something that was instinctive. 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 when a small child is learning to be potty trained. If they don't go the bathroom while on the potty then they wont get some candy. But after a while they will learn that if they go to the bathroom when on the potty and not in their diaper they will get a piece of candy. Overtime they will learn that they will get candy when they do the right thing. The candy is an instinctive for them to go potty when they are supposed to. Clasical conditioning is when the child itself learns from its own behaviors . They will learn form their surroundings. Operant conditioning is when the child learns from the actions of others. Like the candy. The child learns that if they do the right thing they will get some candy for it. This applies to my life everyday. Sometimes I have to learn from my actions and others. Sometimes when i hear something like the door open I know that someone will enter the room. Or when I see lighting i know there will be thunder. I also learn that if I do the right thing that I might get a reward for it. Like if i drive safetly and do good in school, my parents wil buy me a laptop for school next year.
A positive reinforcement is something that makes you feel good about what you have just done. An example of this is like when i babysit all day for some kids that are not angels. When i am finished i get paid and the feeling of having that money that i actually worked for is defiantly a positive reinforcement. I get to spend that money the way that i want to and buy some stuff for myself that my parents would not buy me. Negative reinforcement is something when you know that you did something wrong. Like when a child is playing with toy and wont share it with the other children. The adult might say to them that its not very nice and dont you want to be a big boy and share your toys. The child knows that they should be doing the right thing but yet they are not getting yelled at or scolded. Punishment is when you know that you have done something wrong and you need something to do to repay what you have done. When i was little and with my sisters still, my parents , when we would fight, would not hit us or slap us but simply make us cleans the house or do some work outside or in the barn. This is how we learned to get along better or at least not fight with each other when our parents were around. We learned that if we did not get along and of we fought over the small stuff that didn't matter we were going to get in trouble for not getting along and fighting over small stuff.
In this chapter I learned that when observe others there are good and bad effects. These are called prosocial and anitsocial. Some of the prosocial are the manners in which people communicate. If you say hi to one another chances are that your child is going to be able to talk to people more freely and say hi just to be nice. Another is if you want your child to read, surround them with other people or children that are reading to help get them intreseted. Models are more effective than words. Some of the antisocial effects are agression. When parents tend to have a short temper their children will most likely tend to have a short temper also. A great example of this is television. Children watch way to much of it to begin with but they also see the actions beeing done. This is not a good role for children to follow. the violence on TV is only fiction but children don't know that and they think that it is real and try to follow what they see. For me this changes the way that i think about how my actions can affect others. especially children that i am around often. When i babysit sometime i think that the kids wont pick up on that and that they wont see it but they do. They are very observant. Children should be watching more positive shows on TV and when i have kids they are going to be limited to the amount of time that they get in front of the TV and what they will be able to watch.

#7

Sensation and perception are what many of us see every day. We see things and then we recognize them. We have five senses; hearing, touch, smell, taste, sight. With these five senses we can interpret what our surroundings are and where we are. When we something out brain has to tell us what we are seeing or if we smell something, our brain has to tell us what we are smelling. This is sensation and perception. Sensation is teh five sense and the the perception is how we interpret them.
One thing that I learned in Chapter 6 is optical illusions. Your mind can see only one thing at a time. When you look at a picture that could be either men marching or arrows going back and forth. You cant see them both together. You know that they are there but they aren't visible at the same time. this doesn't really change how i thing about anything but it does seem interesting to me. This changes my everyday life not really. I know that you cant see two things at once but this just emphasizes it more.
The article that i look at was Emotion, Learning, Attention and Perception. In this article it talked about how if you were looking down the barrel of a gun your thoughts might be interupted with emotion. he amygdala is an almond shaped structure in the medial temporal lobe, roughly in the center of the brain. While certainly not the only structure involved in emotional processes, it is the most extensively researched. You have two types of fear, observational and instructional. In both of these the amygdala is important. This was intresting because I never knew that there was one thing that controled your emotions. I thought it was just a bunch of things. This could be applied to everyday life beacuse when you start to get emotional over something you can finally know what is making you that way.