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.