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• Posted Personality to PSY 1001 section 06-07 Spring 2012
  In five years, I think I will still think about what shapes our personalities and what influences them the most. I never realized all the different things that can change our personalities, and also what helps create our personalities. I...
• Commented on Alzheimer's: Life Changing at Minimum
  My Grandma had alzheimers and my Grandpa has alzheimers. I didn't really know much about the disease until it directly affected my family. Seeing my Mom have to deal with this and how much time she has put into caring...
• Commented on Young Children
  I never really thought about this concept before talking about it in class. This concept is so obvious to me but I'm sure when I was younger I would have fallen for this study and chosen a container instead of...
• Commented on Pros and Cons for being bilingual
  I have always been jealous of people who are fluent in more than one language. I wish I was fluent in another language besides english. I tried to take Spanish in middle school and high school, but it never clicked,...
• Commented on Lies
  I think that it is difficult to judge when choose whether or not to trust a lie detector test. With all the different aspects of the test that could cause a false answer, it is hard to know what is...
• Commented on Lie Detection
  Before reading about lie detector tests, I used to think they were exactly like in movies and TV shows. This caused me to wonder why they aren't used as often, and why some are opposed to them. But after this...
• Commented on Are You Smarter Than The Media?
  I have never looked at intelligence this way, as how successful you are and not your IQ score. And I think this is an interesting way to look at it. I definitely think that the successful intelligent people get more...
• Commented on Twin Studies
  There were many sets of twins in my high school, I noticed many of the same things you did. Some identical twins were very similar, while other identical twins were completely opposite. And the same thing with fraternal twins. Some...
• Commented on Who's that girl? It's Jess!
  New girl is one of my new favorite shows. I love how different it is than most other shows and I think your analysis of the big five model for Jess is perfect. I love her uniqueness and how there...
• Commented on The need to belong
  I can relate to you with the sense of needing to belong by declaring a major. Before I had declared my major, when ever someone would ask me what my major was and I would say that I didn't know,...
• Commented on Birth Order
  According to the characteristics stated for each ranking of birth, my characteristics should be for a first born, yet I'm the youngest child. Also, my older brother has characteristics that should be for a later-born, but he is the oldest....
• Commented on Optical Illusions and Visual Perception
  Optical Illusions have been something that I have always been interested in too. I look at them and try to see the different variations that others see. I try to create reasons for why I see it one way but...
• Commented on Quit Feeling Bad About Yourself
  I agree with you that society has almost formed us to compare ourselves to others. This how we are graded, how we decide what is normal for us to do, and many other things that are involved in our daily...
• Posted Did He Really Disappear? to PSY 1001 section 06-07 Spring 2012
  After watching the video in lecture a couple weeks ago about whether or not children realize if an object is still there when it is covered up or if they think that it actually disappears when it is covered up....
• Commented on Becoming Self-Aware
  I think self awareness is a very complex topic. There are many positives and negatives to being self aware and not being self aware. I think it needs to be there as a reason for the actions we make. I...
• Commented on Our most beloved memories - not what we remember
  I think this has to do with remembering this a certain way for so long, so that once you are told that it is incorrect, it's hard for you to remember the change the next time you remember the event....
• Commented on Selectivity of early memories
  I think its very strange how photographs can trigger our memories. Just from a picture that captures a second of the whole experience, we can remember most of the experience, even specific details from it. I have also found that...
• Commented on Flying kites with my uncle too?
  I have many memories like this that my parent remember better and differently. Many times when my parents tell stories to others, that I believe I remember correctly, I am surprised at how much more to the story there is....
• Commented on That's gonna leave a mark...
  This advertisement definitely creates a response when you see it. It has a little bit of a shock value because of how intense the injury is. It took me a few seconds to realize that the head was not covered...
• Commented on Can You Turn Up The Volume?
  This is something that I notice in my life too. My parents ask my to turn up the volume on the TV all the time. But I definitely agree with your statement that we need to be more aware of...
• Posted Mosquito Ringtone to PSY 1001 section 06-07 Spring 2012
  Most people have heard of the mosquito ringtone. The high pitch ringtone used on student's phones in class that many teachers are unable to hear when the phone goes off. If you have not heard of this ringtone, or have...
• Commented on Extraordinary Evidence for Aliens? I think not
  This is a controversial subject that is based more off of what people want to believe than scientific reasoning. The reasoning for believing in aliens in not scientific and cannot always be trusted reasoning, as you said, because of this...
• Commented on Cellphone Radiation
  I have heard that the radiation is bad for you for many years. I used to always ignore it and use my cell phone when ever I wanted, or not care when I stood in front of a microwave. But...
• Posted Blog 1, Chapter 14 to PSY 1001 section 06-07 Spring 2012
  Chapter 14 is about our personalities. This chapter looks at what shapes our personalities, the effects certain events can have on our personalities, some theories about personalities, and some models about personalities. First, the chapter looks at studies done on...