Act Of Kindness

In my family we do a christmas giving every year. It is a big secret and nobody is supposed to know, so shhhhhh. Since it is for an assignment I think I can tell. We take between ten or fifteen family's who are not going to be able to have much of a christmas. We get a tree and then presents for them. We get the ages of the parents and of the children in their family and go christmas shopping for them. This past week I was shopping for a six year old. I thought that she would like dolls and little princess dress up things. I want her to have a good christmas and lots of presents to open. Our family will continue to do this till christmas. Then we wrap all the present and drop them off at their houses. After christmas we start shopping again for next years group of families. I have never gotten a thank you, but I feel I don't need one when I feel good inside anyway.

This class

I enjoyed this class. There were things I did like a lot. Everyday I would come in here and learn something new. It was never a boring class. We were always doing something different. This kept the class interesting. The homework wasn't bad, and the quizzes weren't either. The homework was mostly fun, like go animate. So overall I liked this class.

The worst thing is this class was the our school's security issues. I didn't like how I wasn't able to open up some of the videos at school. I also didn't like the way my computer didn't want to open my blog account. But that's technology for you.

I used psychology actually a lot during this class. I kind of over analyzed things sometimes. Like I would think about how my friend was figuring out a problem in the brain. Or I would constantly find out what a person's bubble is. It was all fun and I would usually tell them afterwards. I have learned a lot in this class.

Not My Type

Attribution is the theory that we explain someone's behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition. The process of attribution is someone behaves in a way and we judge them on that situation. The fundamental attribution error is overestimating the influence of personality and underestimating the influence of situations. Like Hitler everyone thought he was so smart and trusting and was leading their country to victory, but in actuality, he was mass murdering millions of people.

Stereotypes are a generalized (sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) belief about a group of people. Illusory correlations is the perception of a relationship where none exists. If you see a picture of the twin towers, you think about Muslims and terrorist, this is illusory correlation and stereotypes. If you see a picture of a farm, you think of cows and farming. These are all examples of the relationship. You generalize a picture with a stereotype.

North Dakota Null

F 1. I salivate at the sight of mittens.

F 2. If I go into the street, I’m apt to be bitten by a horse.

F 3. Some people never look at me.

F 4. Spinach makes me feel alone.

T 5. My sex life is A-okay.

T 6. When I look down from a high spot, I want to spit.

F 7. I like to kill mosquitoes.

F 8. Cousins are not to be trusted.

F 9. It makes me embarrassed to fall down.

F 10. I get nauseous from too much roller skating.

F 11. I think most people would cry to gain a point.

F 12. I cannot read or write.

F 13. I am bored by thoughts of death.

F 14. I become homicidal when people try to reason with me.

F 15. I would enjoy the work of a chicken flicker

F 16. I am never startled by a fish.

T 17. My mother’s uncle was a good man.

T 18. I don’t like it when somebody is rotten.

T 19. People who break the law are wise guys.

F 20. I have never gone to pieces over the weekend.

T 21. I think beavers work too hard.

F 22. I use shoe polish to excess.

T 23. God is love.

F 24. I like mannish children.

F 25. I have always been disturbed by the sight of Lincoln’s ears.

F 26. I always let people get ahead of me at swimming pools

T 27. Most of the time I go to sleep without saying goodbye.

T 28. I am not afraid of picking up door knobs.

T 29. I believe I smell as good as most people.

T 30. Frantic screams make me nervous.

F 31. It’s hard for me to say the right thing when I find myself in a room full of mice.

T 32. I would never tell my nickname in a crisis.

T 33. A wide necktie is a sign of disease.

F 34. As a child I was deprived of licorice.

F 35. I would never shake hands with a gardener.

F 36. My eyes are always cold.

I really have no idea what this test is for. At first, I thought it was for like our feelings for certain things, then it threw me off with weird questions. In the middle the I thought it was more towards prejudice, but that also threw me off with another set of random question. In the end, I was just so confused they asked all the most random questions in the world. I am not sure this test even had a point, unless it was to confuse the participant, because that is what it did.

Prejudice Worksheet

1.____Ranchers ____are jolly

2.___Texas people__drive Cadillacs

3.___Brunnettes___have more fun

4.___Grandmas_____are thrifty

5.____Men____are great lovers

6.____Drunks______cause civil disorders

7.____Guys____are great “fighters”

8.___Men__are poor drivers

9._____Asians_____all look alike

10.__Women__are absent minded

11.___Witches___are shrewd and crafty

12.___Children___make good wives

13.___Druggies__live off other people

14.___Tasmanian Devils___have hot tempers

15.___Puppies___are easygoing and friendly

Fallout Shelter

34 year old male architect who is alleged to be a homosexual

28 year old male physicist will only enter if he can bring his gun

20 year old male black militant

23 year old female graduate student who speaks publicly on the virtues of chastity

30 year old female M.D. who is an outspoken bigot

a high school student

Big Five

Openness to Experience/Intellect-70% You are relatively open to new ideas.

Consciousness-69% You are relatively well-organized and reliable.

Extraversion-96% You are extremely outgoing, social, and energetic.

Agreeableness-87% You are good-natured, courteous, and supportive.

Neuroticism-1% You probably remain calm, even in tense situations.

1. I think the test was pretty accurate. I agreed with all of my scores except the openness score. I think I am a lot more open to new experiences then the score I got. I am a very curious person, but my score wasn’t all that bad. Overall, it was right.

2. I was surprised to see my score so high on the agreeableness. I see myself as pretty understanding, but I do tend to disagree with people a little bit more than the score I got. Maybe I’m to harsh on myself who knows!

3. I think my extraversion score was very true. I am very social and outgoing. This has led me to pursue a career in zoology. I would ultimately like to work in a zoo, where I would have to talk to people and tell them about animals. My neuroticism score would also make it easy to work with animals and people because I am very calm.

4. I think that my traits have guided me into a very social, talkative group that is very outgoing. This group made me a social person, but I still am very calm. Some of my friends are calm, I am closer with them then the drama causers.