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• Posted "You Guys are Wrong! But..." to Sections 24 and 25 SP12 PSY 1001
  In this semester I have learned a lot from the introduction to psychology course. One thing I found extremely interesting and surprised me a lot is the social influences on conformity. People tend to alter their behavior as a result...
• Commented on Crazy Cat Lady
  This is a very interesting blog. I really like this topic. It's fascinating to know that how people tend to be attractive by others. But I think your mention people should equally give and take in a relationship. That is...
• Commented on Separated at Birth
  This is a very interesting topic. I found also found the twin study cases in our textbooks and classes very fascinating, especially the one that two brothers grow up in completely different families but still have similar personalities....
• Commented on How easy it is to NOT mess up your kids.
  This is a very interesting blog. What is the best parenting style is always a controversial topic. I agree with you that authoritative parenting style is the best way. It is a good choose to let children follow some rules...
• Commented on Taught in the classroom- Classical Conditiong.
  This is a very interesting topic. It's good to related what we learned in class with your major. I am also impressed with the activity we did to make our own ad when we were learning classical conditioning....
• Commented on Is Chocolate a Sign of True Love?
  This is a very interesting blog. I think people can have different ways to express love and their feelings. But I think it is a good thing that people use a certain things to show love because sometimes people just...
• Commented on Beauty in the eye of the Beholder
  This is an interesting topic and I agree with you that beauty varies from person to person. I can culture is a great factors. People enjoy different kind of beauty when they are from different countries and have different culture...
• Commented on Part of the Crowd
  I agree with you that whenever people are being watched by others, they will do well or even better than usual on things that they are already good at doing. You also chose a great picture because I think social...
• Commented on How the Big5 are reflected in your study habits.
  This is a very interesting blog. I think the big 5 survey we did in class can reflect out study habits. I also think that if we realize what kind of personality we have, we can try to change some...
• Posted "I Can Do Better When You Are Watching Me" - Social Facilitation to Sections 24 and 25 SP12 PSY 1001
  Is people's behavior best explained by the environment and situation they find themselves in, or by their personality, which guides behavior no matter what the situation is? We knew from the famous Situation vs. Personality Debate that both personality and...
• Commented on When Your Lie Detector Test Lies to You
  I have seen a lot scenes about detector tests in movies and found them very interesting. This blog help me know more about detector tests and know I realize that they aren't always reliable, like those scenes showed in movies....
• Commented on The Key to Weight Loss? Eating Snacks
  I really like your blog. The "Snack-All-Day" plan seems like a very useful diet. The diet plan I used to read are usually about skipping meals and that's not good for our bodies. I am happy to see these useful...
• Commented on Dying to be Beautiful
  I think this is a very interesting topic for a blog. As a girl myself, I can understand that girls are always worrying about gaining weight. It is understandable that everyone wants to be good-looking, but if someone over focus...
• Commented on Dying to be Beautiful
  I think this is a very interesting topic for a blog. As a girl myself, I can understand that girls are always worrying about gaining weight. It is understandable that everyone wants to be good-looking, but if someone over focus...
• Commented on True Versus False Memories - Lost in a shopping mall by Elizabeth Loftus
  I think this is interesting for a blog because the Paul Ingram's case we discussed in class is somewhat too frightening and not usually happen in our lives. So I want to find an example about false memory that is...
• Commented on Water: Dangerous to our Health?
  I think this is a very interesting topic. I had never thought about drinking water can be harmful to our bodies before I read this blog. I would like to search the Internet and find out more about how to...
• Commented on Diagnosing Rachel McAdams in "The Vow"
  I am very interesting in memory loss and I have seen people who had memory loss on many movies. But when I see the link in your blog, I realized that many things I seen on movies about memory loss...
• Commented on No, you did not tell me that!
  I really like the title of your blog. It's catch my attention immediately when I saw it. And I liked the part in the end of your blog that you combine your personal experience with false memory concept. Actually I...
• Posted True Versus False Memories - Lost in a shopping mall by Elizabeth Loftus to Sections 24 and 25 SP12 PSY 1001
  This week we learnt about false memories. I was amazed by this phenomenon because I never thought a person can have recollection of an event, or the details of an event, that did not actually occur. We did a very...
• Commented on Art Illusions
  This two examples are amazing. I think it is very clever and attractive to mix illusion with art....
• Commented on Were Lincoln and Kennedy Supernaturally Linked?
  This is a very interesting coincidences. I think when people read about this situation they just can't help connect all these things together and think there are some supernaturally connection between Lincoln and Kennedy. We should just remember to avoid...
• Commented on SAT: A) Accurate or B) Bogus
  I agree with the opinion although tests like SAT's and ACT's can help a college know how well a student study, test scores don't mean everything. Especially for some student who study very hard but not good at taking tests....
• Posted Development in Adolescence: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." to Sections 24 and 25 SP12 PSY 1001
  As human beings, we are always interested in how and why we change over the life span. Chapter 10 focuses on identify ways for us to think scientifically about human development. In evaluating how and why human change throughout the...
• Posted High-Order Conditioning to Sections 6 & 7 F11 Psy 1001
  Recently, we learnt classical conditioning in the learning chapter. When we learnt Pavlov's model of classical conditioning, we knew that in first-order conditioning, learning is acquired by pairing a conditioned stimulus (CS) with an intrinsically motivating unconditioned stimulus, for example,...
• Posted Why Large pupils more attractive? to Sections 6 & 7 F11 Psy 1001
  Recently, we learnt the visual system in the sensation and perception chapter. One concept I found very interesting is the dilation of the pupil when we were learning the structures of the eye. We see sclera, iris, and pupil when...
• Posted When Perception Deceives Us - Op Art to Sections 6 & 7 F11 Psy 1001
  Recently, we learnt the visual system in class. We can see shape, color and motion through our eyes, and when we process different ways of visual perception, we use different parts of our visual cortex. We also learnt about illusions....