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.

Personality

I think Carl Rogers theories kind of make the most sense to me. if you surround yourself with good people, you will probably be a better person because of it. But if you surround yourself with bad people then you will most likely get into trouble. I think some of your personality may come from this, but some you are born with, or create from your home life or environment.

I know I have used the reaction formation defense mechanism. One time when I was young we were jumping off this little cliff and i was scared. But when it finally became my turn, I set my fear aside and it was replaced by bravery. So, I jumped off. Now-a-days though, I jump off huge cliffs and some old bridges, crazy as it seems, I think I'm just being a kid. I am not scared anymore. Another defense mechanism I have used displacement. When a big test is coming up, I often get irritable to my friends if they are talking while I'm trying to study. Little things can set me off, just because I have a big test. But after I make it up to them by bringing pizza and hanging out with them.

The movie that I enjoyed the most was probably Psychology:The Human Experience. There was a part that modeled an over all look at how a persons personality is based on. It is remembered by the model OCEAN. The O is for openness, the C is for conscientsciousness, the E is for extraversion, the A is for agreeableness, and the N is for nuerocism. This is how they can base all peoples personality. But the rest is genetics or environments. That is what decides the rest of our personality.

Thinking and Language

Without language we could not be the sophsiticated race that we are today. Thinking also has brought us far, but without one we can not survive. I learned in this chapter that I have insight, a sudden and often realization of the solution of a problem. I have done this numerous times. I will be trying to figure out the solution to a problem go to bed, then wake up in the morning and it would be like someone just turned a switch. I would know how to solve the problem and it would feel like it was starring me in the face the whole time.
Second, the rule of overconfidence, the tendency to be more confident than correct. I really thought this was more of a personality trait than a function in your brain. It is funny that it is a function because now boys have an excuse to so overconfident (just kidding boys ;) ) Anyway being overconfident can be bad and tend to have not so great consequences.Sometimes in the relationships overconfidence is a quality to have.
Thirdly, I learned that is important for babies to babble when they are young. This will eventually lead to the one-word stage. This is when babies start to recognize syllable with the meaning like mama and papa. It is interesting how babies learn from our example too. They just mimic us and eventually learn the meaning. It is fascinating.

Pschism My Head Is Spinning

My train of thought was to light the candle with the end of the match. I didn't think to much about it just did it.
Participants turned the shape in their minds and each degree they had to turn it took them a constant amount of time per degree. So the larger the degree the increased the reaction time.
I think the pattern fits me. I had a longer reaction time for each degree I turned the shape in my head.
Yes the two looked very similar. My reaction time looked the same as the other graph. So, my reaction time increased as the degree increased. Yes, it showed a decrease as the degree went back down.

Memory

If we did not have a memory the world would be very chaotic. We would have no idea about anything. We couldn't hold jobs or have relationships because once something would happen wouldn't remember it. If we tried to learn something we would forget why we were there in the first place. It would probably end with people dying early because we wouldn't remember to eat, bathe, or drink.
Clive Waring knows nothing, but whatever was happening before his accident. H has no idea of time or the date. He knows nothing about what is happening in the world. He would have no idea what is going in his life. He has no part in the world around. To anyone, but his wife, he is no one.
I don't see anything different about my memory, I just understand it a bit more. I now understand how when someone says something, I say what, and as they are about to repeat themselves I am already repeating what they said. Which I do all the time.
Flashbulb memories. They are important because they can recall an important event to us. We can recall exactly where we were at that point in time. It is sometimes bad but sometimes good. Like it could help find the killer to a murder and so on and so forth.