Posted 5 Years From Now to Section 02 & 03 F11 Psy 1001
Thinking back on this semester, I cannot believe that I learned so much! It is crazy to me to think that after reading the entire textbook, and attending every lecture and discussion, we have only touched base on most topics...
Posted The Big Five and Personality to Section 02 & 03 F11 Psy 1001
Everyone has a different personality. There are no two people who are exactly alike, and there are loads of diverse ways to describe someone. You're exuberant, quiet, shy, excitable, enigmatic, detailed, controlling, aggressive, optimistic, nagging, opportunist, and so on and...
Posted Gender Identity and What It Means to Section 02 & 03 F11 Psy 1001
In Chapter 10 of the Lilienfeld text, there is a very brief section in which the textbook discusses gender identity, and the biological and social influences on gender. As defined by the book, gender identity is an "Individual's sense of...
Posted Languages and Our Minds to Section 02 & 03 F11 Psy 1001
Growing up, I always loved languages, and speech. I thought that the different ways people said things, and how many different languages there are in the world was extraordinary. I always felt very lucky to have grown up speaking two...
Posted Lucid Dreaming to Section 02 & 03 F11 Psy 1001
Lucid Dreaming: The experience of becoming aware that one is dreaming. In Chapter 5 of the Lilienfeld text, the authors spend the first part of it talking about sleep, sleep cycles, the stages of sleep, and sleep disorders. They briefly...
Posted To Experiment or Not to Experiment? to Section 02 & 03 F11 Psy 1001
In Psychology, one often asks questions about how the brain works, how society works, why certain people do something, and so on and so forth. A way for psychologists to be able to answer these types of questions, is to...
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