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• Posted Baby Brains to PSY 1001 Section 02-03 Spring 2012
  There are plenty of psychology concepts that I will need to use later in life: the theories of learning for teaching and raising children, the "Big Five" personality traits, and the three stage theory of memory. But what interests me...
• Commented on "Anybody else have to go to the bathroom?"
  No one likes being the odd one out. Remember the video from lecture of the "non-conformist" artist guy? He fell to the Asch test in very little time. In a packed sports venue, we go to the concessions together and...
• Commented on Let's Get Down to Studying
  In 7th grade, my physical science teacher had us study for 10-15 minutes a night a week before the test. That's just over an hour total of studying. Everyone got A's on her tests. Granted, it was 7th grade, and...
• Commented on Stress: A Part of our Everyday Lives
  Not only is meditation good for getting rid of stress, It's great for falling asleep! It's crazy how calming your mind down can calm your body, and vice versa....
• Commented on Teach or Be Taught
  As a fellow future high school teacher, I agree with you. Just as important to the teaching and learning processes that we learned are the personality differences. We've all been in class with people of diverse personalities, but we've never...
• Commented on Go away please
  I really think the personality lectures helped me to understand other people more; or at least to tolerate certain behaviors. Especially people who are rather neurotic. I always thought before that they should just change, and it couldn't be that...
• Commented on The Hunger Games
  I have a hard time believing that images are always more powerful than written words. Especially since, in my experience, the books are always more violent than the movie counter-part (Jurassic Park the novel has a man watching his own...
• Commented on Harmful Ideals
  I feel like sexual attractiveness is socially constructed versus genetic. What seems to be genetic is the urge to survive and reproduce healthy offspring. It's interesting to see this play out in different areas of the world where different health...
• Commented on Charlie Bit my Finger- What makes an Online Video go viral?
  It's interesting that people like to share emotions so much. I wonder what other reasons cause people to share videos. I feel like one is the phenomenon that people get pleasure from being the first to discover something. People like...
• Commented on The Modern Demise & How to Live Ethically
  To understand why the two shows are popular, we should look at them one at a time. South Park contains very little virtuous activity. However, South Park is heavily satirical, and the viewer is aware that South Park is making...
• Commented on Boredom Made Me a Lie Dector
  The gestures you mentioned all are reasonable give-aways fro lying. However, they are also used in other circumstances, such as convincing someone you are telling the truth (when you actually are being truthful)....
• Commented on Divorce? It may not be as bad as you think.
  The problem with divorce and the effects on children is that there are so many variables that influence the children. It depends on the relationship with each parent, why there was a divorce, age, etc. The same emotional trauma can...
• Commented on Are Children Really Able to Understand Punishment?
  After watching videos on infant bonds with their parents, I wonder if the same form of communication still exists when the children are older. That is, they communicate well through extralinguistic information. Perhaps if the parent looks disappointed, the child...
• Posted Functional Fixedness and Scrabble (and other similar 3rd party games) to PSY 1001 Section 02-03 Spring 2012
  I am proud to say that I recently have overcome a serious case of functional fixedness and a mental set at the same time! By now, the Zynga game "Words With Friends" has become extremely popular on facebook. It is...
• Commented on Mariah Carey is my Biological Mother!
  It seems like a crazy idea for your brain to come up with, but it actually makes a lot of sense if you think about it. What's interesting is that you created an identity for your biological mother. The concept...
• Commented on Twin Telepathy?
  I think young siblings like the twins here seem to communicate with their own "language" because they understand each other through emotional expressions. There is no syntax here, but the inflections and body language expressed could have been learned from...
• Commented on Parlez-vous français? O Español? O Italiano? Oder Deutsch?
  People often say that they weren't "designed" to do math, econ, essay writing, learn other languages. While this could be true, a large part of it is could also be how much you tune your brain to perform certain tasks....
• Commented on Do they really work?
  With the increase in availability of these medications, it should come as no surprise that students are using them to try to up their performance. People use drugs everyday. Any time you have seen a person drinking a cup of...
• Commented on Dreams: A figment of the imagination or a visual pathway into the future?
  In my experience, dreams function a lot like poetry. They are a conglomeration of emotions and ideas, many of them recycled from recent events, and formed into a sort of story. Can you find meaning behind it? Yes. Can it...
• Commented on Active Sleeping
  You pose the idea that "active sleeping" could be a genetic factor. But like everything, I think it could be a little bit of nurture thrown in as well. Other causes could be stress and anxiety. In my brother's case,...
• Commented on Look in the Sky! Its a duck....a plane....Psychology?
  Our spacial attention is certainly a natural wonder and a marvel of evolution. What's interesting to me on a psychological standpoint is why people fill in details in different ways. You say you see an old man in your room...
• Commented on Can Our Religious Faith Be Found in a Gene?
  In my experience, I would say being religious is in nurture. I truly believed in God for a long time. I prayed every night before I went to bed, I went to mass, and went to Catholic school. But my...
• Commented on Bigfoot, UFOS, Ghosts, and God?
  Where Bigfoot researchers differ from Ghost Hunters is that they have a more tangible idea. A Sasquatch is, after all, supposed to be a living thing similar to the great apes. These Bigfoot hunters are trapped, because all they need...
• Commented on Nature AND Nurture? New Outlook on the Timeless Debate
  I think it would be difficult to try "nurturing your kid's nature" because it is difficult to know what behavior is genetic. How do you know your child is aggressive because of his or her genes and not from certain...
• Commented on Subtle Observations
  I think in this case, body language certainly affects the interviewee's responses. I would make the assumption that all of those being questioned were nervous at the start. What interests me is that the smile was needed with the head...
• Posted Is Being Human Nature or Nurture? to PSY 1001 Section 02-03 Spring 2012
  It seems like a no-brainer, that we are humans by birth and until death. But perhaps we can turn out to be a whole variety of things. Take the Oxana Malaya for example. Oxana was abandoned at 3 years old...
• Posted Language: Intuition or Not? to PSY 1001 Section 02-03 Spring 2012
  Being able to produce complex languages is one of the key aspects that differentiate us from other animals. It is responsible for our ability of creating knowledge and storing it. It's how we are able to write expensive Psychology text...