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.