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• Commented on Flying kites with my uncle too?
  This subject is really interesting to me too. It is weird how you think you had a memory, but instead you remember later that you actually dreamt it, or remembered that a friend was the one that had had the...
• Commented on PTSD
  My friend who was overseas for the military also had the same thing! I remember a few 4th of July's ago, I invited him to see Apple Valley's firework show with me and he said he couldn't go because he...
• Commented on Baby Development
  I thought it was interesting that infants didn't really have a sense of self until around a year (I think!). I liked the video we saw in lecture where the little infant looked in the mirror and didn't know that...
• Commented on Biases of the experimenter
  I also agree. Not even the perfect experimenter, player, etc. can be free of bias. Everywhere you go you will always have bias, but we can always strive to have NO bias and create minimal bias (sorry that was a...
• Commented on Blog 1 Chapter 5
  I think hypnosis is a weird topic to discuss. It has always interested me however. During my high school senior party, there was a hypnotist there, and some of my friends actually seemed as if they were hypnotized! I'm a...
• Commented on Strange Psychotherapies and why they "work". (Chapter 16)
  I think some people need to believe in SOMETHING or they will feel lost and confused about the world (this is only a guess of course). I don't think that placebo effects are all that bad, especially if it actually...
• Commented on Human Development (Ch. 10)
  This is an interesting point. I thought that the sister study was interesting too; I have a friend who is raising 2 kids and it is weird (but amazing!) to see them develop into the beautiful girls they're becoming. Of...
• Commented on Chapter 12: Stress, Coping, and Health
  Everyone should read this chapter, because we ALL have unhealthy levels of stress at some point in our lives. However, we must remember that good stress is accompanied with college, but when that good stress exceeds that certain point, it...
• Commented on Nature vs. Nurture: Homosexuality
  That is really the only option (being genetic) that I can think of for homosexuality. I've heard of researchers examining brains of homosexuals, and no one has been able to find differences between homosexuals and heterosexuals. It would show if...
• Posted Classical Conditioning to PSY 1001 section 06-07 Spring 2012
  Before this class, I knew what classical conditioning was. I knew who Ivan Pavlov was, and what Pavlovian conditioning was. Both my parents have psychology degrees, and talk about the subject occasionally. I think that this is a very important...
• Commented on Pros and Cons for being bilingual
  I never thought about the translation of certain words in one language to another language that way. I guess I never really thought of having some words in one language not exist in another. This blog reminds me of a...
• Commented on Super Bowl Brains
  This article reminds me of more primitive styles of living; what I mean by that is just our natural ability to do what we need to do in times of need. For them, they might be at a heightened level...
• Commented on Bigfoot Sightings
  You're exactly right - people see what they WANT to see. Kids can be especially biased because they have great imaginations, when in reality it was probably just a bear (or maybe an actual person; lately there have been a...
• Commented on Whose memory is correct? Yours? Mine?
  I don't think we can get rid of the "false memory." I've certainly tried, but it's pretty much impossible. Another way that we can have a false memory is thinking of something that we thought happened to us, but in...
• Commented on Mosquito Ringtone
  I've had something similar to this on my phone! I had it during high school, and many others had this on their phones as well; it was VERY funny watching the teacher have a mini freak out trying to figure...
• Commented on Cross Cultural Business
  I have seen first hand in retail the idea of Western managers making hasty business decisions. For example, some of my managers that I've had in the past would hire someone who had shown up in a jeans and t-shirt...
• Commented on Eternal Sunshine of the "Splotchy" Mind
  I don't think it would be that good for our society to turn to that. Wouldn't we be deleting good emotions too? You've always heard about the idea that never experiencing pain in life will lead you to not recognize...
• Commented on The need to belong
  I agree with this post, and the comment above. During the weekend when I'm going through the academic year, I don't feel quite restless, but during the summer when I have NO school I become bored, and sometimes even sad...
• Commented on Birth Order
  I agree with the idea you have that people want an explanation for how they are. Based on that idea, people COULD live up to the "expectations" of birth order, and ultimately make the expectations come true (maybe?) because they...
• Commented on The Book was Right
  I can see where the book is coming from, but I see differences in my own life from the book. For example, my friend (a guy) is TERRIBLE at anything spatial; he cannot remember for the life of him how...
• Commented on Are we destined into certain weights?
  Yeah, I believe as well that we are not "destined" to have a certain set weight; I, for example, am a little overweight and I STILL crave high-caloric foods, and you see this in many other people as well. In...
• Commented on The horrors of eugenics
  When I was reading this section of the textbook, I was wondering HOW whoever regulated the sterilization got every person's IQ. Was it required? I probably just answered my own question...but yes, you would NEVER see anything like that today!...
• Posted Anorexia to PSY 1001 section 06-07 Spring 2012
  This blog post is a somewhat personal to me, because I've had a friend in high school that had an eating disorder. My friend had anorexia, but was extremely embarrassed by it, and didn't tell anyone (I feel as if...
• Posted When you become you to PSY 1001 section 06-07 Spring 2012
  Have you ever asked yourself when you started knowing that a tree is a tree, or a desk is a desk? Have you ever wondered when you started distinguishing yourself from other living things (such as knowing that you are...
• Posted Memory. to PSY 1001 section 06-07 Spring 2012
  So, because my memory has failed me again, this will probably be one of the last blog posts of my class. It was a good thing however, that I caught the little thought of "some blog thing" crossing the back...