Posted Final Writing Assignment: The Concept in Psychology I Will Remember Most to Section 02 & 03 F11 Psy 1001
The concept in psychology that I feel I will remember five years from now is the Big Five personality traits. I really enjoyed the section on personality and am very interested in individual differences. Just the other night my...
Posted Overview of Freud's Paychoanalytic Theory of Personality to Section 02 & 03 F11 Psy 1001
In the 1920's (everyone's favorite psychologist) Sigmund Freud developed a theory of personality. In this theory he employs the ideas of psychic determinism or the assumption that all psychological events have a cause (pg. 547). In his 1923 book The...
Posted Polygraph testing to Section 02 & 03 F11 Psy 1001
In chapter 11 of our books we learned about polygraph testing. The book mentions that the Polygraph was born in the 1915 and I found that the Polygraph as we use it today has changed little if not at all...
Posted Do gal pals sync up periods? to Section 02 & 03 F11 Psy 1001
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=do-women-who-live-together-menstruate-together If you are a lady you have probably heard somewhere that if you spend a lot of time with another woman your menstrual cycles will "sync up" and that means you will have someone to share tampons and groans...
Posted Blog Assignment #2: Male Ejaculation as it Relates to Prostate Cancer to Section 02 & 03 F11 Psy 1001
Recently there has been some buzz in the media about men's sexual health as it relates to the development of prostate cancer. Claims have been made to whether there is a correlation between male ejaculation and the development of prostate...
Posted Correlation v. Causation: What Caused the Drop in Crime in the 1990's? to Section 02 & 03 F11 Psy 1001
My Research for this blog post came from the book "Freakonomics". The first time I saw the movie version of this book the following section caught my attention. The big question is why did the crime rate in United States...
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