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.

Exam Two

This exam I actually did worse on. I studied more for it than the first one but I feel like there was a lot more information that I had to know for it and it was more in depth. But I also think I did worse because the first one I believe I got like a C+ so I thought I could do it again but turns out I couldn't. I learned that I need to start studying ahead of time by a lot and take better notes during lectures and otehr talks that we have in class.

Field Day

The field trip that we went on was actually a very interesting experience. I think it really put a little bit of college life into more of a perspective. Being on your own, being in charge of getting to where you need to be, and taking the responsibility to learn in your own hands. I really enjoyed the mini lecture because it was little information that was very interesting. Then going to the actualy lecture was really nice, I felt like I learned a lot more than watching it in class because it's a first hand experience and even though there was more freedom to not pay attention, I think that I was able to focus more. I learned about infants learning and everything and how they really start to try ot comprehend or talk at the earliest at twelve months.

Chapter 8

What I learned from this chapter was that language isn't just the spoken words but also the written dialect and the meanings of different symbols and gestures put together. If you wanted to teach someone more than one language the best age to get that done by is the age of seven because after that it is more complicated for the brain to grasp the concepts of the symbols and meanings of words for those different languages. Also, I learned that hueristics are not the most promising forms of making things more simple to learn, they just make them faster. Babies can understand there mother's native language more than they will pick up on another language because they are used to their mother's voice and so they will tune into the sound of it more and put together their actions or gestures and tones used.

Chapter 7

I learned the differences between short term and long term memory in this chapter along with many other things. Short term memory only holds information for a short amount of time, usually about 10- 15 seconds unlike long term memory which the information is stored almost permanently. Memories can decay which means fade away over time which results in causing us to forget things or maybe less clearly remember things. I also learned that a great way to remember things is by chunking. Chunking is when you get a set of information and instead of just repeating the order of it all over and over again you group things up that are related in some way or make some sense to you and then it usually helps you remember more and it is an easier way of doing so. The average person's memory can hold about seven things at a time in short term memory for example if you see a list of ten items for a brief period of time then you have to recite them all from just remembering what you saw in those few seconds, usually most people can only remember about seven of the things form that list. Those are a couple things that I learned from reading this chapter seven.

Exam 1 Results

This first test that we took was a little on the tough side for me. I studied by myself, I reviewed a little bit with a friend, and I went to the review session for as much as I could, which actually helped quite a bit. I honestly thought I was going to get lower than fifty percent but I ended up with a C+ after correcting that one answer that was actually right but got marked wrong. I was happy with that because it exceeded my expectation. Now that I know how these exams are going to be I think I am more aware of what I should study more, like the powerpoints from lectures, and so on. I definately know that I can and will do better on my next exams so I think that this one was a good overview on what the rest will be like.

The Brain

Just from listening to the lectures and doing the worksheets i learned a lot of new things about the brain. I knew about the frontal lobe but i was honestly clueless about the rest. I learned that occipital lobe controls vision and the temporal lobe is like object recognition and long term memory. A way that i remember where the temporal lobe is, is that it is by the temples. I learned the differences between neurons and cells and some of them are like they both have cell membranes, nucleus, and organells. But then neurons have long processes which are in the dendrites and axon, then they conduct elecrical signals, and one more is that they use synapse which is how they basically communicate.Also, Broca's area of the brain if damaged can cause a speech impedimate, for example stuttering. There are no sensory neurons in the frontal lobe which i didn't know. So basically if you get hit there you will feel it on your skin but you won't actually feel pain in the brain unless it hits a sensory area. Those are a few of the things that I learned from these lectures by professor Gewirtz

Chapter Two

Chapter two talked a lot about the descrptive methods and how they worked in psychology.  They were naturalistic observation, surveys, and case studies. Then you also use correlation and experiments to. naturalistic observations are when you watch individuals and how they respond and act around things so you are just watching them be themselves, but they do not know because otherwise they would change how they respond around you. Surveys are basically questionairres. There are many forms of them but they get the views or interests of groups of people not just one or two, so they can be more accurate when trying to figure something out about things among people. Also, there are case studies that are when you just study one individual not a group but it helps you find out characteristics about someone or issues with them. Case studies are more narrow of a study and deal with more direct situations. But in chapter two they also tie inn correlation again and talk about things from chapter one that still tie in with psychology so I am starting to get more familiar with them all because I keep relearning things that I have already read about.

Chapter One

Throughout chapter one i have learned a lot more about psychology that I had no clue about before. For example I learned that Apophenia means that you try to relate things that happen to some specific reason, like if you itched your nose and then someone texts you saying that they were tinking about you. Usually people say that if your nose itches then it means someone is thinking about you but in fact it is just coincidence. Then Pareidolia means to look at things and make shapes out of them or make them out to be a shape of importance, for example you look at a cloud and it looks like a face. I have also learned more about Metaphysics and Pseudoscience. Also, I know more about confirmation bias and how those come into play with real life situations. Those are a few things that I learned about in chapter one.

1st Post

So my goals for this course would be being able to maintain an A or B the whole time, to study for all my tests as much as possible, and to do all of the homework in detail or to be able to keep really clear and detailed notes. I also would like to get as much out of this as possible, which I think that I will. Some of the things that I got from reading the High School v. College pages was that to make a long story short, college is way more work and time consuming than high school. In high school teachers will basically guide you through everything like your parent basically but in college they expect you to step up and be the responsible one, to be able to keep up with your reading and work, to be able to listen, to be able to hand things in or complete work on time, and to be able to handle things more like an adult. In high school the teachers teach right out of the book but in college they can talk about something totally away from the book, which requires you to go ahead and do the reading yourself while remembering what they had talked about also. Professors make you control your own time and let you use it how you want. In high school your parents and teachers basically tell you all the time what you have to do and when you should get it done by. High school the teachers write everything down and tell you what to copy so help you, while in college the professors will talk the whole time and just expect you to be able to pick out key points and get them down on your own. That is basically some of the stuff I learned from the High School v. College page.