Last Psychology Blog

Here is a Psychology question for everyone from the book? I will also provide the answer.

Q: How do we tend to explain others' behavior and out own?

A: We generally explain people's behavior by attributing it to internal dispositions and/or to external situations. In committing the fundamental attribution error, we underestimate the influence of the situation on others' actions. When explaining our own behavior, we more often point to the situation. Our attributions influence our personal, legal, political, and workplace judgements.

Good-bye Everyone. Hoped everyone enjoyed Psychology.

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Psychology Overview - Second to last Blog

I have never been one to dive into the mind. Its works are too confusing for me to understand. I also don't care how it works, only that it does. I will not miss this class.

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Not My Type

The process of attribution is the theory that we explain some one's behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition.

The fundamental attribution error is the tendency for observers, when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition.

Stereotypes are a generalized (sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) belief about a group of people.

Illusory correlations are related to stereotyping because is how we think a person is because of the way that they are acting at that moment.

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Psychology Chapter 13

In the lecture, Oedipus was talked about a little. He killed his father and slept with his mother. It was an example of the "it". "It" wants this and "it" that. Oedipus wanted to be with his mother and his father was in the way. This is a form of incest.

Personality has a lot to do with behavior and reward/punishment. If you are rewarded for doing something good, you will continue to act and do that certain behavior. If you are punished when you do something bad, like swear, you will not swear again because you know that you will get punished for it. Of course, there are some people who can't or don't take a clue and learn. They will continue to get punished.

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Birth Order

I am the youngest of two. My sister is five years older than me. That is a bit a of gape. My sister is very protective of me. If someone threatens me or calls me bad names, my sister will get into their face.

If I were the oldest in my family, I would also be very protective of my younger siblings.

If I were a boy but still the youngest, I would not be all that different. I was raised with my male cousins. I would still wear jeans. My room might still look a little like the same.

I never want children. All I have to do is look at my sister and myself. I just shudder.

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Video

I am not into political talks. I have never been able to follow along.

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Thinking and Language

Does different types of languages affect our way of things?

In the English language, you say what you mean. In other languages, you can say one thing and mean something completely different. You have to look into the context sometimes to understand what a person is saying.

People who are not big talkers can be very smart. But the problem is that some people think that people who don't talk are not smart. That is basically saying that you have to talk to be smart.

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Talking or Not

Animals have their own way. Although they don't form words, they talk with their body and sounds that they make. A wolf talks with its eyes. A dog that is the leader of a pack, it will walk around slowly and it fur will be standing up on end if you get a new dog. It showing the new dog who is boss. It has something to do the eyes. 

Elephants use their trunks and low rumbles to communicate with other elephants. I don't quite understand animal communication but it is very interesting.  

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MY HEAD IS SPINNING

When they asked you to light the candle, it was like a miracle to you were able to do it so quickly. Hello, some of us have been lighting candles for a long time. It was not hard at all to figure out that they wanted you to light a candle.

Some of the Rs took a few more seconds to figure out if they were backwards or normal. My line on the graph was off the top. That must mean that I was good. Most of the exercises took me only a few hundreds microseconds.

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THREE DAY WEEKEND

I did not do one of my blogs last week. I ran out of time. At least I now have something to write about. On Friday, when I woke up, I was so sick. I could barley go out to the barn and do my chores. It was a miracle that my sister was home and she let me sleep until we had to go to Ladysmith for an appt. 

We go to the chiropractor almost every Friday. She just makes us feel so much better. She got rid of my headache right away by resetting my neck. 

I hate when I wake up and I am sick. I am always better by that night. What really bugs me is that I can never get any homework 

done. 

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DNA OR EYE WITNESS

I watched the video about the woman who was raped and she put the wrong man into prison. it is scary to think that our memory can be so faulty. I mean, this woman studied her attacker so that she would be able to identify him later and get him off of the streets. This goes to show you that we can be wrong even though we think that we are 100% correct.

Thompson and Cotton are now very good friends. They travel around telling attorneys and detectives their story.

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Memory Gone Gone

Memory always us to remember important events. Memory helps shape us into who we are today. Through memories we remember the ones that we one and care about. Life would be black. We could not remember our family and friends. We could not go to school because we could not remember anything was taught to us. Clive Waring is a lost man because if he has no memories then he has no purpose in life. Yes because if you build up enough short term memory, it will be moved to long term memory. I do see my memories different. They can be lost so easily. You should be able to trust your own memories. However, your mind will make up things to fill in blank spots.

If you were ever in something traumatic like a car accident or bank robbery and later tried to remember the event, you would find that you would only remember very little of it. This is important because when something takes you by surprise or happens very fast, you can't remember it.

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Life

It is not fun to get thrown off of a horse. I went horseback riding on Wednesday. I was out in one our fields when something spooked my horse. She went one direction and I went the other direction. She stood by me for a few minutes and then she took off back to the barnyard where the other horses were. I never ride with a saddle. The only time that I use a saddle is when I ride our Percheron gelding. He does not like to be ridden and will buck you off. This is not the first time I have been thrown from a horse.

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No Pain No Gain

Pain does help us. It tells us when we have done too much and our bodies cannot handle it. It tells us when to take it easy. We we could never feel pain, we might just work ourselves to death. I once read this book about a woman who could take people's pain with her touch. She met a guy in a bar who use to be an assassin and had been taken prisoner and tortured to within an inch of his life. The doctors did not take his pain away completely because his body was still healing. She took his pain away completely. He ends up getting into a fist fight with his brother. His brother punches him in the chest and breaks something. The woman can heal people but she would go into a coma if she tried too hard.

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Psychology Chapter 7

I did not find anything interesting about this chapter. I was full of theories and I hate theories. An example of conditioning is how we answer questions that ask our opinion. When we answer question using our thoughts, we get them marked wrong because that was not the answer that the teacher was looking for. Teachers tell us to be free thinkers. but when we do, we are punished for it.

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Parents, School, and Report Cards

Parents are know for giving money to their children for what kind of grades that they get. They give $30 for an A, $20 for a B, $10 for a C, and $5 for a D. I find that absolutely ridicules. Children should not get any money for B's, C's, or D's.

I get money for my grades from my sister. She pays me $50 per quarter and I have to have all A's . That is the only way. I also have this thing against seeing anything but an A on my report car. If I do see anything other than an A, I get very depressed. A B makes me feel second rate. It is a horribly feeling.

Anyway, back to my original thought. Is our need to reward our children ingrained from our past or just a mental thing. My parents never got paid for their grades.

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Rewards, Good or Bad

I find that what Candi wrote in her blog is completely right. I has happened to me. If someone offers me money to do something for the chore, I do not put my full effort into it because I know that I will still get the money at the end.

I don't do it mentally but subconsciously. It is my sister who usually offers me the money. I do have to pay her back later in the form of doing all of her barn chores while she is at college.

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Psychology Chapter 6

I reviewed the illusions. The Enigma, the Stereokinetic Phenomenon, the Motion Aftereffect (Waterfall Illusion), the Lilac Chaser, the Pyramid Illusion, the Moon Illusion, the T-illusion, and the Looming by Luminance.

What I learn from the tutorials is that they give me a headache that is very painful. I did not like looking at them.

These tutorials did not surprise me at all. I see them all the time on the Internet. I find them very annoying. They always give me a headache. Can we please never do anything like that ever again? My head is now pounding.

If we stare at something for a long time, we will not take it in and we will start to see things that don't really exist.

You can go through an entire day without taking any of it in and we will just forget that that day happened and go on with our lives.

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Weather :-(

Cold weather has always gets me down. I get cold and all I very want to do is to just rap up in a blanket with a cup of hot coco. I hope everyone stays warm this weekend and have fun.

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Lefties and Righties

I agreed with Candi. We read left to right and that is how we do everything else. I shot with my left eye, but I am right handed. It is weird when you actually think about it. It has never before caught my attention. It sometimes just amazes me how much of our life that we do not take in.

I just realized that when we walk in the halls at our school, we walk with our right arm closer to the walls. It just feels more natural than walking with our left arm closer to the wall.

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Psychology Chapter 5

Chapter 5 Exploring Human Development

Why would any one think that a baby was born a blank slate? It is true that babies can not do a lot of things but if you just watch a baby one day after it is born and you can see that they will respond a women's voice better than a man's.

It is funny to watch a baby look at their refection. Babies will look at their reflection a lot of time if they find a reflective surface. They will make faces at themselves in the reflective surface.

There are animals like chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas, dolphins, elephants, and magpies that have demonstrated self-recognition of their mirror image.

The videos were very interesting about how babies will react to things. The experiment that I thought was funny that they performed was have a baby crawl across a piece of clear plastic over what looks like the floor. The younger babies will do it but not the older ones. It looks like they will fall if they crawl out on the clear plastic sheeting. Babies can be too smart for their own good sometimes.

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Memory Improvment

I am responding to Bethany's blog. I suppose it could true that nature does help remember stuff better. I have lived out in the country my whole life. There are some students at my school who are smarter than me and they live in town. Maybe you have to go for a walk for nature to improve your memory. Of course this all could be a flock.

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Meditation :-(

I am responding to Cassandra's meditation blog. I have never been into meditation. I picture someone who is sitting cross legged and humming an annoying tune. I have never had a very long attention span. I also have no desire to control my dreams. I love the mystery of them.

Falling asleep in class is good for students. If the teacher is just going on and on about something and not teaching us anything, then we need a way to past the time.

Psychology Chapter 4

What I find very interesting is the twin studies. Twins will be separated at birth and raised apart from one another. They will have this feeling that there is someone out there that or that they had a twin. You read about things like this all the time. Someone goes into a restaurant and there is someone who looks exactly like them. I would be freak out if something like that ever happened to me.

I look more like my mom than my dad. My sister looks more like our mom dad than our mom. I do not burn at all but just brown like my mom. You get the point now. In a way, my sister and I are completely different. I sometimes wonder if I do have a twin out there somewhere. I always wanted another sibling.

Men are more casual about things. Like in the video that we had to watch. Women

like to have a relationship. Men will find a wife who is younger than they are. For me,

this is not true. My mom is a least five years older than my dad.

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Coincidence or Not

HOW TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE IN TELEPATHY!

I read this article on Psyblog this week. It was very interesting. At least one-third of Americans report a belief in ESP. Another 40% refuse to rule out the possibility. Surveys in Europe have revealed similar figures. For myself, I do not believe in ESP or any form of it. I call it our mind making things up.

I am a realistic girl.

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Response to Candi's Blog

:) I am with Candi on this. I say that we all live with our parents until we are 25. Our parents will be so so sick of us by then for sure. Going to collage is a very big deal. How are we to know at 18 or 19 what we want to do for the rest of our lives. It is a very very big decision for one who is so young. HA!

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Three Door Dilemma

I won 59 times out of about 151 games. I really did not have a strategy. I just constantly clicked on door #2. It was a lot of fun. I did find out that if you clicked on door #1, you did not win a lot of the time. I believe that just choosing door #2 is the best strategy because it worked for me. I have no idea what practical significance this exercise have for solving everyday problems. I did the activity because I had to and it was fun to do. 

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Psych, Chapter 3

There are four levels of sleep. The first two are called light sleep. The last two are called deep sleep. During deep sleep, it is very difficult to wake the sleeper. You don't dream as much in light sleep as you do in deep sleep. 
I thought the Theories of Dreaming were interesting and surprising. Your mind tries to make sense out of everything that you think about and have learned. dreaming also helps you work out problems that you might have and were not able to work out while you were awake. Your mind also puts together situations that you a lot a feelings about.  
I did not find any part that I disagreed with. 

General reflections

The mind is an amusingly complex organ that is capable of many things. 

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Stupid Test

The Implicit Association test was so bogus. I did the Native American one. Native American's are more American than we are.
My answer to question one is that these test told me nothing about the unconscious mind. If any thing, I am prejudiced against white people or the "true Americans." I am not prejudiced against Native Americans at all. These tests do not tell me much about the influence my society has on me. Again I say that this test was bogus. It did not allow you to put want you really wanted to put. It forced you to put their answer instead of your own. To answer question three, I would have to say that we are not all that aware of our attitudes and the effect that they have on our actions and behaviors. These test have not changed my prejudiced. These tests were created by white people to make the public think that they prefer whites to Native Americans and that white people are better than Native Americans.

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MEN!!!

I knew that there was a reason why I have never wore make-up. I could not staid have men hit on me. I read the blog by Bethany. That would be a very interesting article to read. I wonder if I could find it somewhere. What is so great about make-up? All the time it takes to put on. I have more important things to do. I would prefer to go all natural.

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Response

I just read Cassandra's blog. She is right. When wen think of something and then suddenly we start to think about something else. It can get very annoying. The more we try to about something else, the more we think about that one. I heard about people who have learned to block memories and certain thoughts from their mind completely. It is almost like they erased it from their mind. I would love to learn that technique. I have unpleasant thoughts from my mind. But if I block those ones, I might lose ones that I treasure beyond belief.

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Brain Activities

I have done four of the activities on the serendip website.

The first activity that I did was the "Remember the Source." It was okay. I did better on the pictures than on the listening part. I just remember images better than words. I have never been a very good listener anyway.

The second activity was "The Four Color Problem." It is cool that you can see more colors at a distance than up close. Sometimes you only saw three colors and other times you see four colors.

The third one was the "Can You See What You Don't See?" activity. Don't even ask me about that one. I did it for about five minutes and still had no idea what I was suppose to do. I read the instructions if you are wondering that. They were all Greek to me.

The fourth one was the "Ambiguous Figures." The one that from a distance the one image looked like a skull but up close you could see a woman looking in her mirror at her dressing table.

Well, those are the four activities that I did. They did not make much sense to me. I never want to do anything like that ever again. Nothing really surprised me because we do it all the time. It just never registers in our conscious mind but our subconscious. That is way it looks so familiar. I could in a way, use the information that I learned by maybe not just glancing at something and think that I have learned all that there is to learn about that object. I should look more in depth at it before I make any decisions about it. I do think that this helps us perceive things differently.

I read a little in the book. It gives me a head ache just thinking about the many things that our brain is doing just while we write these blogs. In a way we are not learning anything new. We already knew this stuff, just not at this level. Well,

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See if anyone can figure what this means.

Blogging Time

Research helps you learn how certain works or how things grow at certain stages of its life. I was reading in one of my text books about how a scientist conducted a five year long research project she wanted to see how girls and boys make moral choices. If there were a difference between the two. It was proven that girls are more sympathetic than boys are. Boys will follow the rules only to the letter. Once something is no longer illegal, boys will do it. Girls follow the rules better and know that they should not do thing even if they are not illegal. Girls will also be sympathy to someone who took something, like food, to feed their family. Boys would not do that. The person took something and they will get punished for it. This is just another point that saws that women are nicer than men. Women also have a better view of the world and how thing work in it. Women can make better decisions than men. This should keep you men chewing at your bits for awhile.

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Prologue Questions

We are supposed to write up four questions based on what we read in the prologue.

Question 1: What did the early schools include?

Answer 1: Structuralism and functionalism

Question 2: What three schools will be described in later chapters?

Answer 2: Gestalt psychology in chapter 6, behaviorism in Chapter 7, and psychoanalysis in Chapter 13.

Question 3: Who encouraged explorations of down-to-earth emotions, memories, willpower, habits, and moment-to-moment streams of consciousness?

Answer 3: philosopher-psychologist William James.

Question 4: What is psychology's biggest question?

Answer 4: nature-nurture issue

Question 5: What are psychology's seven current perspectives?

Answer 5: Neuroscience, Evolutionary, Behavior genetics, Psychodynamic, Behavioral, Cognitive, and Social-cultural

Here are my five questions. Enjoy!

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Formal Blog

I thought that Psychology was about what makes you like what you think. It is about the mind and all that lovely stuff. I was right about Psychology but it is a lot deeper. It also has to do with your background, how you were raised, and your genetics. It is all very confusing. There many things, like neuroscience, evolutionary, behavior genetics, psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, and social-cultural, that contribute to how you think, dream, and act. These also play a part in what you want to do when you grow up. Psychology was being practiced in ancient times by people like Plato. There are also many different forms of psychology. My mind is going in turns just trying to read about all this stuff. It does hard to keep it all straight.

Just Saying Hi

Hello Everyone.

I just read a blog that was very interesting. It was written by Bethany. She was saying that she is the youngest of her family. I am also the youngest in my family. I only have one older sibling though. I do have to be patient with her. My parents have always treated us differently. She is their baby. She has always gotten away with more things than I have. Whenever my father is mad at her, he takes it out on me. Like if she didn't do some chores that he wanted done and told her to do them. He will yell at me and make me do them. Or if she says something to him and he gets mad, he will yell at me instead. My mom sees it sometimes, but not always. So I do know what it is being the youngest in a family.

Introduction

Hello.

My name is Kaitlin Wimer. I am a student at Flambeau. I'm seventeen. We were asked what Psychology is to us. Well, to me it is something that has to do with how we think and how we act. I have no idea if that is true. Psychology is important in some way. Just don't ask me how. I am drawing a blank. What really shaped me to the person that I am today is how I was raised. I was raised with my sister, who is five years old than me, and my cousins. We did ever things together. We were a lot of trouble for our parents, but we had fun getting into trouble. Well, so long.

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