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• Posted Language to Psychology 1001 Sections 10-11 Spring 2012
  The concept in psychology I think I will remember 5 years from now would have to be the section about language development. I think it is very interesting the different stages of learning languages that babies go through. They start...
• Commented on Regression as Defense Mechanism
  I agree with the comments above. I also use music to remember things of the past. But I never did think of them as defense mechanisms. Another thing, although obvious, I always look at pictures of the past as to...
• Commented on Memorable Moments in Learning
  I agree with the statements above. One part I found really interesting would be the stages of language development. That we learn things in a different order. We almost start out saying certain sentences correctly but then begin to say...
• Commented on What is Love? Baby don't hurt me.
  I would have to say I agree with the statements above. But I hope and seem to believe that we choose a mate or find love based on a mixture of all those characteristics, the technical ones, like could they...
• Commented on Rise of the Planet of the Apes
  I agree. I really found this section very interesting. Especially when they started to talk about the reasons we fear snakes and heights, and the calories thing. Some of these could be considered good now days but other bad. I...
• Commented on How is intelligence portrayed in the media?
  I agree with some of the comments above in that the role of women is definitely increasing and becoming more important. But I believe that women will never really surpass men, that they will continue to be equal. I am...
• Commented on Video Games and their impact
  I agree with the comments stated above. Maybe violent video games have somewhat of an impact on children being violent, but there is no way to prove that. I also believe that we should look at the other factors as...
• Commented on Our Brain is Like a ... Palace.
  I agree with some of the posts above in that the memory palace seems like it would work to memorize a few things but not maybe all of the terms in our psychology book... But I think I would forget...
• Commented on Do Ask, Do Tell: An encouragement for freedom of expression and sexual orientation in the military
  I agree with some of the comments above and think they are very interesting. Like stated above, I am sure that inappropriate things go on with heterosexuals just as much of not more so than homosexuals, so why should we...
• Posted Relationships: how we meet our better half to Psychology 1001 Sections 10-11 Spring 2012
  Well, according to the psychology book, there are a few major roles that pertain to where we find this person. We look at things like proximity, similarity, reciprocity as in if they like you, and then you are more likely...
• Commented on So Imprinting Isn't Completely Ridiculous?
  This does sound interesting. So would that mean that imprinting is what happens when say a baby pig is taken away from its mother right after birth and left with say a wolf or something that takes care of it...
• Commented on combatting racism today in America
  I thought that this was interesting, as to I didn't realize that these race crimes were still happening. It is indeed very sad and we should put a stop to it....
• Commented on Oh Na Na, Whats My Name?
  Sounds interesting, I did not know the different types of amnesia. But the one that jason has in these movies does seem to be very rare I have never heard of anyone having it for such a long period of...
• Posted Who is in charge of making your decisions, your consciousness or your unconscious brain? to Psychology 1001 Sections 10-11 Spring 2012
  Based on the video posted on the psychology website, called The Secret You, we see that a man did a test to see what really was making the decisions about what he would do. He went into a machine to...
• Commented on The Ames Room Illusion
  This is a very interesting concept. I never really realized how much it was used in movies, and I just never payed that much attention....
• Commented on Supertasters
  I have never heard of this before but it is very interesting and explains a few things to me. I am such a wimp when it comes to eating spicy things and am also very sensitive to tomato sauce... I...
• Commented on What Adults Can't Hear..Are the rumors true?
  That is a great experiment, but there are still some adults out there that can here the high pitched noise. My mom, who is 52 years old can also hear the high pitched noises, but I don't think she has...
• Commented on Wait I can get away with only 15 minutes a day??
  I would have to agree with the fact that people should exercise at least 15 minutes a day to live a better life style. But if they want to continue to say get into better shape, they should maybe increase...
• Commented on Chapter 13: Social Psychology
  This summary and chapter sound very interesting in this is what I mainly thought that aggression came from in the first place is how you felt at the time and if you are just the type of person that gets...
• Commented on What is psychology, anyway? A summary of Chapter 1
  I really like the way that you summarized what chapter one is about, you seemed to catch all of the main points and make it interesting to read. I also really like the graphic you put at the end!...
• Commented on Chapter 14 Personality
  I though what you said was interesting about whether our personalities are genetic of if they come from our surroundings. Though I have not read this chapter yet, I believe that our personalities come from a mixture of both our...
• Commented on Chapter 7 Memory
  I agree with what you are saying in that I am also interested in memories and how we are able to recall so much information. The same thing happens to me that I think I know the answer to some...
• Posted Chapter 7, Memory to Psychology 1001 Sections 10-11 Spring 2012
  This chapter is specifically about memory and how are brain works. It gives reasons for the different types of memories, why we don't remember some of our memories, and things people use to trigger memories or remember them. What fascinated...