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• Posted Make up for Development discussion to Psy 1001 section 16 & 17 Spring 2012
  Upon reviewing this chapter for the final exam I found a few interesting concepts to consider. One is the continuation of the nature versus nurture debate. A term coined nature via nurture appeared in this chapter because humans create or...
• Commented on chapter 5
  I find your post to be a great summary of the chapter. One thing that I took away from this chapter was the part about drugs. You even said it in your post, legal drugs are way too often dangerous....
• Commented on INT DS Make-up: Intelligence
  When I think of the full year vs 3/4 of the year debate I think of operant conditioning. As students it is our job to retain the information that we learn. As laid out during operant conditioning, the subject retains...
• Commented on Blog 2: What about animal training?
  I find the last line of your post to be very ironic. Is it the people who are robbed of their independence, or the animals? While animal training can be very useful, I do not think it is fair to...
• Commented on Abnormal is normal
  I agree with you. I actually wrote my last blog post before I read this chapter. Had I read this chapter first, I would have written about it. Do you think, however, that we are over diagnosing some of these...
• Commented on Smart Phones and The Younger Generation
  Video games lead to thinking though. TV is just observing whereas playing the video game requires actual processing. For this reason I do not think you need empirical evidence to justify playing video games at a young age. And as...
• Commented on The shaping of are interests
  I agree with you. I cannot wait until the next superbowl to analyze the commercials through this lens. I wonder what the most effective controlled stimulus is? Any ideas? Sex seems to sell very well, but do you think that...
• Commented on A World of Grays
  Interesting blog. I view it the same way. Another form of this is political action in the economy. All politicians seem to think that they know exactly how the economy functions, and how to fix it. In reality there are...
• Commented on Operant Conditioning to Make My Future Students Successful
  Isn't it funny how useful psychology can be to out lives? Anyways, you should just remember to use a random assignment of who gets a reward (out of those who did well on the test). As discussed in lecture, this...
• Commented on What I will remember about Psych
  I did my blog on memory as well. It is truly a magnificent topic! The one thing that I left out, but you mentioned is the creation of false memories. We proved it by putting words onto lists when the...
• Commented on What i Will remember in 5 years
  Intriguing blog post. This utopian idea of getting rid of the bystander effect is an interesting concept. I do think that prosocial behavior has the potential, by it's nature, to become much more widespread. With that said, we should take...
• Commented on Budweiser Advertisement Analysis
  Interesting blog. The way I see it is that Budweiser is trying to classically condition us to enjoy their product. They offer the unconditioned stimulus of sex and success to cause a positive emotion. When they pair budweiser with these...
• Commented on The Powers of Persuasion
  Good blog. I agree with you on the importane and presence of persuasion in our society. We are persuaded every day to do things that we might not other wise do. One way to persuade someone is to offer an...
• Posted Final Blog Post: Remembering Psychology to Psy 1001 section 16 & 17 Spring 2012
  Greetings bloggers, Today we were asked to reflect on what we will take away from psychology. In response to what will I still remember 5 years from today, ironically I will remember the chapter on memory. Whether it is facts...
• Commented on I'm not a Skeptic, I'm a Scientist!
  Good post. I agree with you on the uses of these principles through every day life. In particular I enjoy finding the simplest explanation for tricky events. When I use this method I feel as though my thought process is...
• Posted I Need to Belong to Psy 1001 section 16 & 17 Spring 2012
  Greetings bloggers, Today I would like to discuss the need to belong. This "need" comes from our biological need to have interpersonal connections. We seek to socialize, and receive negative emotions when we can not. Stanley Schater's study showed us...
• Commented on Bridesmaids- the Irish and the American collide.
  I haven't seen many chick flicks or love stories, but I do have a movie in mind that displays a relationship development based on proximity, similarity, and reciprocity. The movie that comes to mind is The Sandlot. In The Sandlot,...
• Commented on Do lie detectors...lie?
  This post is indeed very interesting. I think that the reason lies exist in the first place is because as humans we are so bad at detecting lies. If we could effectively (better than 90% of the time) identify when...
• Posted Stuck on Literal Interpretations to Psy 1001 section 16 & 17 Spring 2012
  Hello bloggers, For this blog I would like to dig into the concept of functional fixedness. Because our brain often times identifies objects as having one single purpose, we can fail to see the alternative uses of that object. This...
• Commented on Violence and Video Games
  Why do you think that this correlation exists? Given that there are a lot of variables that go into violence (not just video games) it is possible, but not likely that violence caused by video game playing has actually gone...
• Commented on Liar Liar
  I agree with your overall concept of lie detection. If we were great at detecting lies as humans than the art of lying would disappear because it would be of no use. The reason why lying exists is truly because...
• Posted Double Trouble to Psy 1001 section 16 & 17 Spring 2012
  Greetings fellow bloggers: For this blog I would like to write about polyglots and the benefits of being bilingual. I am not fully bilingual, but I am proficient in Spanish and fluent in English. Pictures were vital to my learning...
• Posted Emotion and Advertising to Psy 1001 section 16 & 17 Spring 2012
  After looking at ads on youtube by which sellers manipulate emotions to sell products, I stumbled upon a Google commercial from 2010 that was rather interesting. For this blog, first I will give a quick summary of the ad. The...
• Commented on Philosophers still cannot decide!
  You question at the end is very interesting. "Is it worth it?" Upon further thinking, our lives as humans are shaped by this question. Whether it is purchase, a club to join, or even to get out of bed in...
• Commented on Acetycholine- finding a cure to Alzheimer's?
  Yes, once the damage is done it cannot be reversed. The cells are destroyed. But, I do believe that we can find a cure that would completely halt Alzheimers, instead of just slowing it down. However, would there be a...
• Commented on Chapter 1: Psychology and Scientific Thinking
  I also find the "hot hand" topic in this book to be very interesting. While the book does a great job explaining how it is just a random sequence, I believe that they forgot about a variable that could influence...
• Posted Blog #1: Chapter 4 to Psy 1001 section 16 & 17 Spring 2012
  Blog post 1.pages Chapter 4 is all about sensation and perception. When our brain sees an image it immediately begins determining what the image represents. One piece of this chapter that I found particularly interesting was the fact that context...