Chapter 13

In this chapter I became aware of more of how the people around you have a greateer influence on you than most people actually notice. For example, even by just being in your group of friends you may not agree with what they have to say at first but over time it's weird but you eventually develope a sense for everything in common with them. You don't really even notice it until you read something like this and it really sticks out and makes you watn to be the one to be different out of everyone.

Chapter 15 and 16 Blog

Chapter 15
Some of the things I learned in this chapter include how there are some diseases that only develope in some countries and then there are the ones that are worldly diseases. They are called culture- bound syndromes and Cultural universality. There nare also many different types of phobias that all deal with different things. Some of them are agoraphobia, specific, and social phobias. They all deal with what people are afraid of but then they consist of different items that cause the fear. Agoraphobics are afraid of being in situations that getting out of would be hard. For example, At a party and not being able call a parent or get a ride home so you are stuck  and have a chance at having a panic attack. Those are a couple things from this chapter that I learned about.

Chapter 16
There are a lot of different facts in this chapter but the main points all correlate with psychoanalysis. There are many steps that need to be taken in the process. Thos are free association, interpretation, dream analysis, resistance, transference, and working through. Those are all very detail- oriented steps that require a lot of time and patience in order to find out what is causing people to be troubled adn to life the causes up adn confront them head on with the patient. This theory was brought up by Frued and it found to be very useful using these steps. There are many different therapy approaches but the one that really interested me was the flooding and virtual exposure because it is bringing out the phobias and confronting them personally over and over again to try to get rid of that fear. Those are some simple facts that I learned fromthis chapter that I took great interest in!

Chapter 12

This chapter was interesting especially because stress eventually hits everyone in different amounts. I have been stressed lately and so this chapter was very beneficial and informational. I learned that there are different ways that you can deal with stress like behavioral, cognitive, decisional, informational, and emotional control. They are all different ways to deal with stress and they all are helpful in different ways or everyone has their certian ones that they use to get through. Also, it talked aobut how stress does infact play a huge role in how your body feels. An example is, if you are very stressed for a long period of time you will defianately not have the greatest health but if you are only stressed for a little period of time then you will most likely staty more healthy but maybe not a hundred percent. That's just some of the things that I found very interesting in this chapter.

Exam 3 Reflection

I was quite unsatisfied with my results. I didn't do as good as I thought I would and it was a let down. In fact I did terrible. I think I need to find better ways of studying and I definately need to start studying earlier than the week of. There seemed to be a lot of questions that I thought had multiple answers so I had to choose between two answers for quite a bit of them. I will definately be more prepared next time and bring my grade back up.

Chapter 14

Throughout this chapter I learned that the ego is a main part of how people think. The superego is basically the advisor of the ego because it controls the moral concious and that means it controls what you think about situations and more of the long term affects that your choices might have made. The ego is different because it really goes off of how high the anxiety levels of the choices you face are. If the options brings high anxiety level then it will push you more towards the less stressful option. I also learned that there are many defense mechanisms and some of them are repression, regression, projection, and displacement. They are all ways that people try to deal with the past or present problems that they face. Some involve hiding your past events that have occured and some make you act a great difference in your actual age. That is some of the stuff that I learned from this chapter.

Chapter 9

This chapter was particularly interesting because it explained how intelligence is impacted and how it can be passed on or related between people. For siblings that are blood adn raised together the intelligence level differs from the intelligence levels of siblings that don't live together. I thought it was weird to find out how the higher level of related genes you have to someone resembles both of your IQ's. I thought that it just solely depended on how you learned and just your environment, I didn't really put that much thought into that your genes actually do have a huge role in the IQ level.

Chapter 11

Chapter 11 was actually really interesting I thought. I didn't know that out of all of the emtions that people express there are only seven main ones. I learned more about how when the main emotions mix it creates secondary emotions. The way I think of that is the color wheel. There are many colors n the world but only four primary colors that when mixed they create a bunch of other colors and secondary colors, just like emotions. Also, without emotions there would be very little way to tell how people were communicating with others. Or nontheless they wouldn't be able to tell if you were kidding, being serious, mad, sad, or happy. So emotions are needed in the world in order to properly communicate. Through emotions we have different body langueages to. Whether it be postures we have or through one of the four different personal space levels. So whether it is actually using emotions on your face, posutre, or simply the distance you stand from someone you are always communicating through those ways to not just language.