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• Commented on The Scientific Method
  I agree this is something that was very important to this class and it will also be something that you can apply to the rest of your life in everything that you do...
• Commented on What Moves Us
  I also found this information to be very interesting however there was so much that was thrown at me at once and all of the concepts and idea are pretty similar that I dont think I could/will remember it all...
• Commented on Remembering to Remember
  Good post, the memory unit was interesting to me also. I get what you were trying to say and it could be interesting to see you you make the idea of remembering these things important enough to switch it from...
• Commented on When worlds collide, depend on Tom Cruise to save your life!
  I think that that is something that looking back on is extremely funny however if I were in that situations wouldn't have been at all. Back then they didnt have all of the technolgies that we have today so it...
• Commented on Psychology & Me
  I forgot about these as well, it really makes you think about how you should try and think about things from other peoples perspectives and try and see where they are coming from...
• Commented on What's Wrong With Red Ink?
  very interesting I was never aware of the red ink idea, guess I'll be sure not to do that now. But it is interesting to me how every culture generates different ways of going about performing things and these ways...
• Commented on How can you not?
  I couldn't agree more not only did we see them since the start of the class we used them a lot. I also believe that these principals are something that we can apply to other everyday situations as well...
• Commented on Mind the Jackelopes
  I couldn't agree more, we must question things that we are told about and told to do becasue if we dont the world will not be a good place. The more we question things the more we are thinking for...
• Commented on Pet Training and Me
  Very interesting, I dont have any pets currently but I used to. I feel like blaming animals not just dogs is a much easier solution than blaming ourselves for whats happening. Its interesting how easy it can be to teach...
• Commented on In all Honesty
  I agree I am not a psych major at all and will for sure not remember the majority of the stuff that we covered. However I agree that I will remember bits and pieces about things that we covered in...
• Commented on Snow Globed World
  I agree, even though we hear stories and see pictures of how things used to be it is hard to imagine living back then. When we are older and have grand kids they will be thinking the same things about...
• Posted the six principals that I won't forget to PSY 1001 Section 02-03 Spring 2012
  The idea/concept that I will remember the most and continue to use to most from this class are the six principals of scientific thinking. They are as you probably know ruling out rival hypotheses, correlation vs. causation, falsifiability, replica ability,...
• Posted peek a boo to PSY 1001 Section 02-03 Spring 2012
  Growing up people probably played peek a boo with you when you were little. Chances are that you were so young that you don't even remember playing the game. But as you got older and began to be around young...
• Commented on Street Art
  those pictures are great. I have seen pictures like these before but never in person. I also have never seen that you must be standing at the right angle to see the picture in 3 d. Its really cool to...
• Commented on Animal Training- Air Bud
  Good article it is very relatable. Even behind the training of the dog there is psychology behind the name of the dog being "buddy"... but this is a very common way to train all different types of animals. It is...
• Commented on Human Meat
  I agree that this picture/ad does a very good job of grabbing the attention of people. I also agree with your comparrison between it and packaged animals. When looking at this though it doesn't make me want to not eat...
• Commented on The Psychology of Social-network Sites
  This is very interesting I have never heard of this before. While I was reading it it also made me think about the stupid stuff that people do on tv shows and in magazines. These people are in the spot...
• Posted Sex, Penis, and Vagina to PSY 1001 Section 02-03 Spring 2012
  The title got your attention didn't it? That was the point. This relates to the cocktail effect. The cocktail effect is when you aren't paying attention but are able to pick out words from a conversation going on around you...
• Commented on Heuristics: A Bad or Good Thing?
  I agree this is something that is beneficial for humans, but I think what you said was perfect. It can be a bad thing. I think that the worst part about it is that it doesnt push people to challenge...
• Commented on Nature versus Nurture
  There are many similar blogs about this topic and I believe that its a combination between nature and nurture, while you may be born with somethings others must be taught to you....
• Commented on Where Does Personality Derive From?
  I read that book too, however I hated it but I can see the connection that you made. I agree with what you said and I feel that most people today would agree that both nature and nurture influece who...
• Commented on America's Most Powerful
  Thats very interesting, I have not seen that movie nor have I ever heard any of that before. Back then he really had no choice to be openly gay if he wanted to continue his career in office. However as...
• Commented on Football, Worth it or not?
  This is a very interesting blog that you wrote. I also played football growing up, I know I had concussions during some of my games but I also chose to keep playing in some of them and not tell the...
• Posted pseudoscience to PSY 1001 Section 02-03 Spring 2012
  Pseudoscience is a term that I had never heard of before I read this chapter, even though it's something that I have experienced and witnessed a lot. The place that I have seen it most is on TV in the...