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• Posted Nature Vs. Nurture: A New Light/ Are you a supertaster? to Psy 1001 section 16 & 17 Spring 2012
  In the past few years, a new light has been shed on the Nature Vs. Nurture debate, the discovery of Epigenetics. The idea behind Epigenetics is "the expression of any one gene is embedded within a biological system influenced by...
• Commented on Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks
  I found the units involving conditioning very interesting as well. It is something that can be seen through out every day life, which is what I like to learn about. I'm definitely more interested in ideas that I can apply...
• Commented on Development: Does Media Increase Violence?
  I think that children can be affected by violence in some ways, but not all. I absolutely believe that if a child is reared in a very violent environment (parents are violent, gang violence, etc.) then this can greatly affect...
• Commented on Social Psychology
  I was taught the Milgrim Experiment in my high school psychology class and it has stuck with me up until this point when we learned about it again. It is a very interesting, though somewhat morbid experiment. It is scary...
• Commented on Never read a book by it's cover
  I agree IQ will stick with me as well. I found the discussion we had about considering using IQ as a qualification in the hiring process interesting but especially difficult, since I had to fight for the use of IQ....
• Commented on WELP. DEES IZ IT
  I thought the part in the book about how to help get rid of procrastination was really interesting. As college students with a lot going on, we all tend to procrastinate as much as possible. The section about rewards was...
• Posted Everyone is different to Psy 1001 section 16 & 17 Spring 2012
  Something that we learned this semester in Psychology 1001 that will stick with me for a long time is the personality section. It was not only interesting to learn about, but completely true. I especially enjoyed the vacation activity we...
• Commented on Will Discrimination Ever End?
  I completely agree with you. I also grew up in a smaller town and there were probably 94 % white people with very few other minorities. When you said you were a little nervous to go somewhere that had a...
• Commented on Billy Madison
  I agree with your original analysis of Billy Madison's personality. However, in the end of the paragraph you talk about how personality can change and that is somewhat the case for Billy throughout the movie. Billy begins to care more...
• Commented on Personality tests galore
  In one of the REP studies I did I had to evaluate faces on whether they were pleasant or unpleasant with a few different things in between. The study you did somewhat reminded me of the one I did, that...
• Posted Bridesmaids- the Irish and the American collide. to Psy 1001 section 16 & 17 Spring 2012
  In the ever popular movie, Bridesmaids, the main character Annie meets a cop by the last name Rhodes, who she eventually falls in love with by the end of the movie. In the book there are three major principles that...
• Commented on "Oh, my, God. Becky, look at her butt."
  I think the biggest factor in low self-esteem and eating disorders is the influence of the media. Images of the "perfect" woman are everywhere from on TV, in magazines, on billboards, written about in books, and heard on the radio....
• Commented on Beauty Standards as Reflection of the Society
  This outlook on beauty from different cultures is very interesting. Of course, we are all very familiar with the United States and the idea of beauty here: tall, thin, tan, clear skin, perfect teeth, pretty eyes, etc. We as a...
• Commented on Kohlberg's Moral Dilemmas--Breaking Bad
  I think that this is a complicated situation. There are definitely other ways Walt can make money for his family, but how much money is the issue. He clearly needs a lot of money with a handicapped child, another child...
• Commented on Parenting: What's right and wrong
  I agree that there isn't set guidelines or types of parenting that each parent sticks to. It's complicated when there are so many different situations that kids and parents can be put into. I think more often than not parents...
• Commented on Liar Liar
  Lying is definitely a tricky thing to detect, especially if a person is good at it. Reading this entry actually made me think of an episode of the show "Pan Am" that I saw a few months ago. In the...
• Commented on Not All Group Members are Lazy
  The topic you chose to relate to salience of surface similarities is very interesting because it is something everyone in class, or in college for that matter, can relate to. We've all been forced to do group projects, when most...
• Commented on alzheimer's...it happens to the best of us
  This is interesting to me because since my grandmother has this disease my mother and I have talked about ways to prevent it. She has told me keeping active and keeping my BRAIN active is one way to prevent it,...
• Commented on something YOU probably don't know
  This is very interesting information, and as your title exclaims; I was not aware of it. My grandmother on my Mom's side actually has Alzheimer's Disease and it truly is a horrible thing. She has had it for probably a...
• Commented on Emotion and Advertising
  Yes, I do very much agree with your stance. Google does a great job at manipulating emotions in such a short time period that this commercial allows. It's a very interesting way to go about making a commercial since there...
• Commented on Dead to the World; All at Once
  Although comical, this would be a very life changing disorder to have. Can you imagine falling asleep during important meetings at work or while driving? That would be dangerous and embarrassing! I too think of the movie Rat Race when...
• Posted Is this a dream? to Psy 1001 section 16 & 17 Spring 2012
  In Marcus de Sautoy's video, The Secret you, he volunteers himself for a sleep study based on brain activity and consciousness. For the study he was given mild shocks to his brain while wearing equipment that measured his brain activity....
• Commented on TURN THAT OFF!
  This is really interesting. I, like everyone else, has heard this extremely high pitched sound from phones before but I never knew why we could hear it and adults couldn't. I also had no idea people used that as a...
• Commented on Sleepwalking
  I have been sleepwalking many times throughout my life and am still surprised to wake up and have someone tell me what I did or where I went. I've gotten up and walked to my parents bedroom and woken them...
• Commented on Are You in Control?
  You make a very good point and with the evidence offered by Du Sautoy it would be difficult to argue against. I do agree with the fact that we make decisions subconsciously and the brain goes through neuronic processes to...
• Posted Blog #1- Chapter 3 to Psy 1001 section 16 & 17 Spring 2012
  Chapter 3 dives into biological psychology, which refers to the study of the relationship between the nervous system and behavior. The section I found most intriguing in this chapter is the "Which Side of Our Brain Do We Use for...