#13

The tests are very intersting because they tell us a lot about us as people and how when we are driven to do something that we dont want to do we will do it or how when nothing depends on what we do we will pass averagely and when something depends on what we do we will excell at it greatly. Social influence is when the things around you are pressuring you to do what they want like peer pressure. The two cases in which i have been social influenced is when I used to skate board i would do things like listen to new heavier music that my friends listened to so i wouldnt look like the odd one out, and the other social influences i gave into was that i would make fun of less fortunate people when my bad groups of friends did. Now i dont really do that because i have matured and am past that now. THe most interesting thing that i have learned is that this class will help you realize that the behaviors people exhibit can be explained and treated if it is socially unexceptable.

#12

A psychological disorder is a deviant, distressful, and dysfuntional behavior pattern acording to the book. If a person acts abnormally they dont necessarily have a psych disorder, they could just be a little dofferent than the rest of the people unless the abnormality affects there personal health and the health of others then they would have a disorder that people should be concerened about. In my family i have a cousin who is bipolar. Bipolar is when u have periods of depression and periods of manic states. My cousin however seems to be stuck on her manic state because she will stay up all hours of the night and will draw pictures because she is a good artist. When she is on her lows she will start to compalin about all the things that have gone wrong in her life and create a sob story to get attention. my cousin will make outrageous claims and think that certain things not at all possible will haoppen just for her. The most interseting thing that i have learned about is that people can be easily diagnosed with psych problems with only minor tell tale signs and that people who have an antisocial disorder can be very good talkers.

Post 11

My personality is genrally normal. There really isnt anything strange i can tell you. The five positive aspects of my personality are that 1.im nice, 2. im funny, 3. im understanding, 4.im kind and 5. im outgoing. The three things i am not proud of is that I can be a complete turn aroiund of my normal self those three are 1. i can be a total jerk, 2. i can be unaproachable, 3. i can be really sarcastin and condasending, these only happen when really annoying people try to get me to be like this, and it also happens on off days that i just dont feel like dealing with people. I think that i am an optimistic person because i look towards the future and know that i can do well. The other way that i am optimistic is that i can always find the light to dark situations. Two traits that change from situation to situation are kind and nice, they usually get replaced by total jerk and sarcasm. The situations that provoke these changes are when i get annoyed since it happens easily. i think that these changes can be bad because they make people mad at me and then they try to turn it around on me at a later date.

blog Post 10

One thing that i thought was really cool, was that if kids learn to talk with there hands first its paves the way for the kid to learn words better because he can identify the object. As I learned this i realized that i always talk with my hands and if it isnt always major I still do it to some extent. I think that I am a creative person. I always have ideas flowing from my brain, but all arent good ideas. I create these ideas when I have down time or when my A.D.D. kicks in just ask Ryan and Jeremy how that goes. I am always doing something with my hands and when me and my dad have to do things around the house and the objective is to fix something and my dad cant do it i always think of ways it can be done and 99.9% of the time my creativity pulls through. I may not always be able to carry out my creativity but i know that others could because i dont have the ability to carry them out. The thing that was most interesting was that there are many forms of intelligence and that can be interpereted to anyones life.

blog post 8

Classical Conditioning- A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events

Operant Conditioning- A type or learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher

The diference is that classical it learning on how to link events and stimuli and has nothing to do with how we learn behaviorial habits. this is all so interesting becuase it helps me show that how I devleoped came through operant conditioning, because if i was bad i got spanked and if i was good i got a reward like money or an E for effort and all that good stuff For poositive reinforcement when ever i get really good grades my parents will reward me with cash and what not to keep me doing what i am doing because i know that i will keep getting money. A form of punishment that i got when i was litte was me and my sister would fight and i would be the start because she would gang up on me and when i would hurt her i would get spanked and i have learned to not startfights. The most interesting thing that i learned was that if you play a certaing sound or something as a trigger and after that trigger goes off and you award someone with it that after a while the reward wesopones becomes voluntary and the person will mindlessly reach out or expect the reward

Post 6

I learned that my grandpa had it a lot harder than I did, and i dont think that i would like to be a teenager at that time. One thing that i learned from chapter four was that some cultures are totally way different in that some leave there kids out on the street while that are in the stores because there is so much trust in the community. In chapter five i learned that if you abuse a child it can retard his development and that is interesting because maybe thats why some kids are slower that others because the had different forms of disipline.

Blog Post 5

The first thing that I found intereseting was that people spend six years of their lives dreaming, this is interseting to me because I cant fathom that this would take six years of my life up. The second thing that I thouhgt was interesting was that Hypnosis is triggered by your susceptibility to being hypnotized and that you can control what you do. I also didnt know that amphetamines tiggered a dopamine release and this triggers you being more social and you having a "feel good" type of night.

Blog Post # 3

The activities that I did were "Seeing more than your eye does", which shows you that your eye has a blindspot where it makes up images, and the second avtivity is "contrast/color illusion" and that one makes you distinguish if optical illusions are tricks or not. I thought that i would learn from those activities but it was kind of a let down cause i had done similar things in the past, when I took anatomy and physiology. This does change how we interact with the world, because we think that we can see everything but in turn we cant cause even out own eyes make things up. The video "Man with two brains" was very interesting in the fact that he can can use both hands seperatley, but on the other hand it would be frustrating not being able to comprehend what some things are because you would need both hemispheres to work together to process them.

Blog Post 1

I thought that psychology was just the study of how people operate and how they behave and what makes them do the things that they do. Now that I have read chapter one I realized that mos of my assumptions were in the ball park but that there was more too it like how they do studies with control groups and random people and charts and reserch what kind of culture they come from. I think that psychology effects my life in the way that if i understood it better that I'd be able to tell if something is wrong with a person and maybe be able to tell that later on in the walk of life if I become a teacher that i child would have behavioral problems. The first thing that i learned was that a there are studies done to find out things in peoples lives that can be potentially in everyones lifem, and this really gets me intrigued cause i would not mind donig experiments and finding out evidence to help further research in the field of psychology. The second thing that really caught my attention was that u can learn a lot about a persons behavior on how their culture is, I like that because i never really knew that and it would be interesting to that correlation.

Blog Post 2

The importance of research is to to get enough evidence to support what you are looking for or to disprove a fact that you know can't be supported. I have learned that when you know something is going to happen and it does that it is called hindsight bias, I personally didnt know about this and it happens to me a lot i guess i just have to much of a predivtive life. Another thing that I learned in this chapter is that case studies are a hands on type of research that helps people learn the things that all of us have deep inside of us. The last thing that i learned is that people behave differently based on how their culture has acted in the past years.

Intro Blog

My name is Dylan Geiger im 17 years old and am a student at loyal high school. The way I am today is because my parents have made me respect other people and be polite. I think that psychology is important because it helps us analyze how people think. I think that psychology is the study of people mental happenings.

intro blog

My name is Dylan im from Loyal, and I am funny i guess and ya idk what else to put