#4

I listened to Teen and sleep. It stated in there that over half of teens do not get enough sleep. I am totally one of those teens. My life is hard enough to find time to be with family and friends and still find time for sleep. I am always yawning and seeing other people yawn in school or where ever i go. Everything that I heard was what has been said for a long time.
I learned that there are 4 stages to sleep. The first stage is when you experience fantastic images. Then stage 2 happens. This stage lasts for about 20 minutes. You can still be awakened in this sleep without too much difficulty. The next stage, stage3, is a transitional stage. Then you are in stage 4. This stage lasts for 30 minutes. It is in this stage that you begin to walk in your sleep or talk in your sleep.
Something that was kind of surprising to me was that we do have selective attention. Your brain cannot focus on 2 things at once. You cannot listen to 2 people talk and be able to say what each one was trying to tell you. You focus in on one subject and keep your attention there. When you drive a car at first you need your undivided attention, after a while you are able to do more things when you drive because your brain has become used to multitasking with this particular object.
I read the article "What? Me Bias?" and it was about people that are subconsciously bias toward President Obama, even if they voted for him. I completly argee with this. People are bias no matter what. Some of it is how we were raised while others is just normal for us and it is natural. We are bias no matter what the subject is. We all have our favorites and our least favorites. Sometime we don't know why we don't liek something all we know is that we don't like it.

#3

I looked at the "Seeing More Than Your Eye Does" and Contrast/Color "Illusion". The Seeing more than your eye does, was about how your eye has a blind spot in it, and your brain just makes up what should be there. It's not a small one either, it is relatively large. The contrast/color "illusion" was about how your eyes make the same color appear as a different color according to the colors around it. I learned that everything is not as it always seems. Your eyes sometimes makeup what you see or adjust it. Nothing really surprised me I had heard of this before but one thing that did surprise me was the one activity that I did with the colors, and one seeming darker than the other when in fact they were the same color. Basically everything is not as it always seems and this jsut bring the proof to this. I don't think that this really changes how we look at the world or how we live in it. We have adapted to this and don't think about it on a daily basis. I also never knew that they divide brains in living people to help with seizures. The patients were normal and did not have any side effects that where life threatning. I also learned that left handed peole are more numerous amoung peole with reading disabilities, allergies, and migraine headaches. It is also common in musicans and artist. There is really no more benefit or loss to being a left handed person or a right handed person.

#2

Research is everything when you are trying to figure out a problem. Without research you would have no idea what was the background and what you are trying to figure out. With research you will be able to figure out if someone already tried the experiment before you and if so you can decide what you want to try differently. An example of this would be, if you were a shy quiet person and you wanted to know if that made you less self confident or if you were the same as everyone else, you could do research on it and find out what other people have already tested or you could make your own experiment. Something else that I have learned was that random events have a pattern to them. We try to look for them and we often find them while we are trying to make scene of something that is completely random. Another is that our culture is what shapes us as humans. It shapes our behavior and our willingness to work, and our promptness and our frankness. Psychologist also study animals to learn how they communicate within themselves and how they react to one another. This way they will better understand what humans are thinking and what they are doing at times.

Psychology section 1

Before this class psychology to me was like the study of the mind. That's all I really knew. I've never really thought about it before this. After reading this I know that it has more to do with how your mind works and why we do the things that we do. Psychology has a major effect on my life. People always think about others and what made them get mad or what made them happy that day. We all use psychology with out even thinking about it. I learned that our common sense is not what we think is going to happen but what has happened in the past and how we learn from out mistakes. I also learned that hindsight is what makes us overconfident. At the time something can seem very difficult but when we look back at it it seems like it was easy once we knew the answer.

Introduction

My name is Courtney Nikolai, I'm from Stratford, and in 17 years old. Psychology is the study of the way that humans act and their reasons for thinking the way that they think and why we do some of the stuff that we do. This is important so that we can get a better understanding to why we do some of the stuff that we do. My parents were a big part of how my life turned out. They have always been there for me whenever I need them.