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• Posted Reposting Blog 3 becuase didn't get graded first time: Intelligence in the Media to PSY 1001 section 06-07 Spring 2012
  In the media intelligence tends to be associated with people who are socially awkward and have poor communication skills. The media tries to portray smart people as nerds with no friends while the athletic jocks are dumb and have a...
• Posted Reposting Blog 3 becuase didn't get graded first time: Intelligence in the Media to Reposting Blog 3 because it didn't get graded 1st time: Intelligence in the Media
  In the media intelligence tends to be associated with people who are socially awkward and have poor communication skills. The media tries to portray smart people as nerds with no friends while the athletic jocks are dumb and have a...
• Posted Why I will remember operant conditioning from psychology to why I will remember operant conditioning from psychology
  Operant conditioning is learning controlled by the consequences of the organism's behavior. The things that we can do in order to train animals using operant conditioning are amazing. This can be used to make animals perform actions that they would...
• Posted Intelligence in the Media to Intelligence in the Media
  In the media intelligence tends to be associated with people who are socially awkward and have poor communication skills. The media tries to portray smart people as nerds with no friends while the athletic jocks are dumb and have...
• Commented on A Whale of a Tale!
  I have also always loved to go to sea world and watch the amazing tricks that these animals can do. I would like to know what kind of schedule they use for training these animals (fixed ratio, fixed interval, variable...
• Commented on When you become you
  This is a really interesting video. A lot of us can take for granted the fact that we can recognize ourselves and think that it would always be that way. I think that it would be interesting to learn how...
• Commented on Chapter 12: Stress, Coping, and Health
  I wonder whether this chapter talked about how some people turn to drugs to deal with stress? I know a lot of people in college who turn to alcohol when they feel stressed out. This would be an example of...
• Commented on How to train an animal.
  It is truly amazing what operant conditioning can allow us to do. Can you imagine life without this? Something we take for granted like a well trained dog would be impossible to have without operant conditioning. They would not sit...
• Commented on A subconscious nowhere: The mystery of what's happening in our brains during sleep.
  This is very interesting to think that even when we are sleeping our brain is still active. It is interesting to know that our unconscious mind is not interacting with other parts of our brain. I would like to know...
• Commented on When does one become aware of self?
  I think that it is interesting that chimpanzees and orangutangs are the only other creatures to display self awareness. I would have thought that since dolphins are one of the most intelligent animals that they would also display self awareness....
• Commented on Can you Hear What I Hear?
  I was fascinated by this claim that the only reason that teens can hear the "teen buzz" ringtone is due to their less developed brains. I google searched other possible reasons that we can hear this and older people can't....
• Posted Extraordinary Evidence for Aliens? I think not to PSY 1001 section 06-07 Spring 2012
  This article on paranormalhaze.com makes a few decent claims as to why there are Aliens in our universe. It however does not prove the existence of Aliens because there is a significant lack of extraordinary evidence to explain this...
• Posted Determining Intelligence: the IQ test (Chapter 9) to PSY 1001 section 06-07 Spring 2012
  In chapter nine the book discusses different measurements of intelligence and goes into depth about the IQ (intelligent quotient) test. This test can show us many things about the differences in IQ scores between groups of people. One interesting thing...