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.