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• Commented on Where do YOUR parents fit?
  I would have to say that my parents have an authoritative parenting style. They gave me and my siblings freedom, but if we misbehaved there were definitely consequences. I am glad that my parents were not too strict with me...
• Commented on Sticky Situations: Stress
  I also wrote my blog post on stress and I participated in the same study as well. It really is important for people to learn that sometimes you can't control a situation but you can control your attitude towards it....
• Commented on Don't Believe Everything You Hear
  I agree that it is important to always be skeptical about stories told my the media. It is important to know what research is behind a story and what source it comes from. It is true that we should always...
• Commented on What I Want To Be When I Grow Up
  I agree with your blog post. I too will remember the six principles of scientific thinking. It is very easy now to apply the six principles of scientific thinking to situations in everyday life, especially stories written by the media...
• Posted Coping with Stress to Psy 1001 Section 04-05 Spring 2012
  I think that in 5 years from now I will remember the topic about stress the most. Everyone will always have some kind of stressor in his or her life whether it is stress with school or a job or...
• Commented on Why I can't remember what I learned last semester!!???
  It is frustrating to me when I can't even remember concepts from my previous classes last semester! It is amazing how much memory our brains can hold, yet it is difficult to retrieve that information. It is interesting how doing...
• Commented on What would you do?
  I did not know about the bystander effect before taking this class, and now that i have learned about it, i can see examples of it in society. The example of the girl being abducted with many people around is...
• Commented on Conforming to Society
  Conformity is a very interesting concept when analyzed. It is amazing how students in Solomon Asch's classic study of conformity changed their answers to fit in with everyone else even though everyone else's answers were completely wrong. This study shows...
• Commented on Expectations
  I love this movie and the story that it tells. It really does show how proximity can play such a big factor in falling in love. However, in the movie Allie and Noah are not really similar in anyway; he...
• Commented on Are Identical Twins Identical?
  I think that the identical twins separated at birth studies are really interesting. Although being separated the twins still had similar personalities and interests. It makes sense that the twins would be different in some ways because they could have...
• Commented on What is True Beauty?
  This is an interesting point that you brought up. It is quite remarkable how much the definition of "beauty" has changed over time and how different it is across cultures. It is interesting how someone can find people with blonde...
• Commented on A Problem Solving Society
  I agree that problem solving has become a very important skill to have. It is important to be intelligent and know basic knowledge but you can't advance until you can think outside of the box and think of new innovations....
• Commented on How does Divorce Affect Children?
  It is unfortunate that so many marriages end in divorce these days. It makes sense that if parents were fighting a lot before a divorce the children may be more understanding and accept the separation better compared to children with...
• Commented on Hearing Bilingual: How Babies Sort Out Languages
  I agree with your statement about wishing that your parents were bilingual, it would have been nice to know two languages growing up! It is interesting how much infants learn so early in life, especially when it comes to language....
• Commented on What's Your Intelligence Type?
  Your blog is very visual and interesting. I would have to agree that I did not really know about how there are multiple intelligences. I would say that my strongest intelligence types are naturalistic and spacial intelligence. I would say...
• Posted Adolescents are less guilty because of age? to Psy 1001 Section 04-05 Spring 2012
  In Chapter 10 there was a short side note about Lee Malvo who was seventeen when he participated in the Washington, DC, sniper killings in October 2002 and other various killings that resulted in 42 shootings. He was the accomplice...
• Commented on Forgetting Loved Ones
  This post is very interesting and it really makes you think. It is sad to think that it is likely that someone you know and love could have Alzheimer's disease one day. Losing your memories has to be very frustrating...
• Commented on Teaching your gold fish to roll over
  This was a very interesting post! I had no idea that you could train goldfish to do tricks. I had always thought that goldfish were not very intelligent, but after seeing that video it is clear that they are intelligent...
• Commented on An Advertisement Likely to Work
  I think the advertisements that you posted are very powerful and gripping. It is interesting how both associate smoking with something that people are commonly afraid of. The message does have the ability to strike people's emotions, however, like you...
• Commented on Unregulated and Uncontrolled: Our Addiction to Sugar
  It is very interesting to me that sugar in some aspects can have the same overall effect on us as Alcohol! We need more sugar overtime to feel the "sugar high" that we get. It is also scary that we...
• Commented on How Much Exercise do we Each Day = A MYSTERY!
  It is unclear how much exercise we need each day to stay healthy. It is frustrating to hear so many different answers from different sources. However, it makes sense that we need a certain amount of exercise to maintain our...
• Posted Beyond Nature vs. Nurture: Parental Guidance to Psy 1001 Section 04-05 Spring 2012
  Why do some children grow up to be doctors, lawyers, designers, or athletes? Whether children choose a profession because of genes or because of the nurture they get from their parents is still debated about to this day. Psychologist George...
• Commented on I Hope I Don't Get Sick Before the Final!
  I agree with your statement about feeling like you might get sick during finals week because I feel the same way! It makes sense that stressors are a factor in getting sick. However, one time on vacation I actually got...
• Posted Chapter 1 - "This potato has a face!" to Psy 1001 Section 04-05 Spring 2012
  This potato really does look like face, doesn't it? This type of phenomena can be referred to as pareidolia, which means seeing meaningful images in meaningless visual stimuli. In other words it is when people see images in random...