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• Posted The Art of Not Being A Choke Artist to Psy 1001 Section 04-05 Spring 2012
  The most important thing that I will remember in five years that I learned from Psychology is the Yerkes-Dodson Law. The Yerkes-Dodson Law demonstrates the relationship between arousal and performance. It shows that there is an upside down U...
• Commented on Not to be sexist but...
  You bring up an interesting thought about intelligence. it has been found that men tend to have more outliers in intelligence than women do. This means that there are more gifted men, but also more unintelligent men. This does not...
• Commented on Listen to Music; Create a Genius
  I liked the link for Mozart's music at the end. It might benefit me if I listen to it right before my exam, but it would only be short term. While listening to Mozart has not been shown to help...
• Commented on Relationship Formation in Forgetting Sarah Marshall
  I like your analysis of this movie a lot. It is a very creative connection that you made. However, I will make the argument that attraction actually plays a very strong role in this movie. Mila Kunis is highly attractive...
• Commented on Listen to Music; Create a Genius
  I liked the link for Mozart's music at the end. It might benefit me if I listen to it right before my exam, but it would only be short term. While listening to Mozart has not been shown to help...
• Commented on Why I can't remember what I learned last semester!!???
  I like that you pointed out that studying is not short term memory. People tend to not realized that short term memory only lasts for a couple of seconds,rather than a few months. Anything that goes beyond those first few...
• Commented on Love is Love
  You made some excellent points and I agree with you on all of them. However, they didn't really have to do with psychology. You can strengthen your argument by citing studies that show that homosexual couples are just as good...
• Commented on " I would be happy if I were skinny"
  I liked the points that you made on inner beauty quite a lot. The question that I raise is that while both boys and girls are affected by viewing images of beautiful models constantly, why is it that females developing...
• Commented on IQ and that Pesky Correlation VS Causation
  The point you make is very interesting. I would like to make that point that if these three factors are in fact correlated, we might be able to assume that they are probably related to "G". Maybe the same type...
• Commented on "What is Beautiful is Good"
  That is a really interesting observation that you had. What you are referring to is called the Halo effect. People have been found to see attractive people as possessing better qualities than they actually have. It is a real effect,...
• Posted Atkins: THIN Chance You'll Be Healthy to Psy 1001 Section 04-05 Spring 2012
  http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500165_162-584585.html The above article discusses the dangers of going on the fad diet, Atkins. Like most fad diets, Atkins tries to help people lose weight without having to diet or exercise as hard as necessary. The Atkins diet does this...
• Commented on Not one, but two?
  The appearance of Cryptophasia does not only come from impairment in twins. No child is born speaking a language. They develop linguistic skills slowly but surly. Cryptophasia can also be falsely perceived when twins are in the babbling stage of...
• Commented on The Addiction Solution
  That's an interesting point. Fighting fire with fire is always risky. Substituting one drug for another is the same case. Many people are afraid of taking pain medication because there is a risk of becoming addicted to it. The hope...
• Commented on Multilingualism
  While many Americans see English as an easy language, this is because many of them were raised with English as a first language. English is in fact one of the hardest languages to learn. This is in part because of...
• Commented on And You Think Your Dog Is Smart...
  It's amazing how much certain animals can learn. I wonder if the owner used reinforcements or punishments to motivate the dog to learn. If she didn't, imagine how much more the dog could have learned using positive reinforcement on a...
• Commented on What do Detroit and Chrysler have in Common? Eminem.
  I found this commercial to be very interesting and effective. Chrysler is clearly trying to improve their image. They end the commercial with the phrase "imported from Detroit". While you can not import something domestically because it simply makes no...
• Commented on Want to Help End the Recession?
  I agree with you that Chrysler is trying to make people feel patriotic when buying their cars. They do the same thing that the army does in their commercials. The basic idea is to say that there is nothing more...
• Commented on "Elvis" in animals------Whale!
  Not to state the obvious, whales and Elvis are different in several key ways. Elvis (most likely) played his songs for reasons other than sexual selection, and was most certainly not trying to figure out the size of his enemies....
• Commented on Forgetting Loved Ones
  I was watching the movie "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" recently, and it brought up an interesting fictional cure for Alzheimer's. In it, the scientist used gene therapy to restore brain cells in his father. The therapy not...
• Commented on The Bourne Memory
  I found this post to be really interesting. However, losing memory of just about everything you know is a common misconception for retrograde amnesia. While it is not proven exactly where and how memories are formed, it is a common...
• Commented on Just how much do divorces impact our children?
  I've never heard of the concept that children are better off being raised by a parent of the same sex when a divorce occurs. Many factors do come into play of course. For example, the parent who has more time...
• Commented on Disney's Incorrect Slogan
  That's a really interesting point that you make. However, I doubt Disney will be changing their slogan. That being said, I think another question one must ask themselves is why we dream so negatively? Also, what do these negative dreams...
• Commented on Homosexuality and the Nature/Nurture Debate
  I think that how people react to homosexuality depends a lot on the culture of where you are from. There are some countries that aren't as accepting as the United States. They have laws that make homosexuality punishable by death....
• Commented on Drinking and driving; how bad is it really?
  I agree with the person who said the DUI laws should be more harsh. When you get behind the wheel at any time, peoples' lives are in your hands. You aren't just hurting yourself when you drink and drive. You...
• Commented on Advertising-Tugging On Our Heartstrings
  The babies are the unconditioned stimulus. The happy feelings that people have about babies are the unconditioned response. The sprite is the conditioned stimulus, while feeling good about the sprite is the conditioned response. The advertisement is trying to make...
• Posted Cigarettes Are Guns? to Psy 1001 Section 04-05 Spring 2012
  This advertisement depicts a person smoking, but the shadow is that of a gun. Under it is the caption "Smoking Kills. About 106,000 people in the UK die each year due to smoking". Far from the days where guns...
• Commented on How Much Exercise do we Each Day = A MYSTERY!
  You cannot put a specific number on how much everyone needs to exercise every day. There are too many variables that go into it to make a general statement for everyone. There are genetics, diet, and work ethic. You better...
• Commented on How Much Exercise is Too Much Exercise?
  Your blog post offers a great perspective that isn't taken very often. In modern America, the media and public are much more concerned with obesity than over exercise. People don't realize that our society encourages over exercise. Offensive linemen in...
• Commented on The Dark Side of Ethics
  I believe that the controversy over ethics lies in where to draw the line. Just about every reasonable person knows that experiments that cause more harm than good should not be conducted. Ethics definitely hinders scientific knowledge because certain experiments...
• Commented on How Do These Guys Keep Becoming Sociopaths?
  I don't think that the findings are valid yet because they have not been replicated. Also, the deficiencies in the brain can be a case of mistaking correlation with causation. Like the taxi drivers in London with enlarged brains, maybe...