Showing posts with label Psychology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Psychology. Show all posts

Thursday, October 8, 2009

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. 

TTFN

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

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.