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• Posted Useful Future Parent Tips that will Impact your entire Child's Life to Psy 1001 Section 04-05 Spring 2012
  There are few concepts that we covered in class and out textbook that I will easily remember 5 years from now. One concept that really stood out to me was the different parenting types such as: permissive, authoritative and authoritarian....
• Commented on Listen to Music; Create a Genius
  I do find it interesting that the Mozart Effect created a substantial swing in sales of Mozart's music and other classical music that was deemed to improve intelligence, etc. To me I feel that it is similar to Valentine's day...
• Commented on What would you do?
  I also found it very interesting like you did, that when the number of people increases in the area where a crime is taking place, the less likely it is for someone to help the victim, etc. I am not...
• Commented on Expectations
  I like that you incorporated The Notebook into psychology concepts. I do find it interesting that she stays with her rich fiance for a long time, but I feel that it is due to the money like you said. So...
• Commented on Relationship Formation in Forgetting Sarah Marshall
  I think that your blog is a great application of proximity, similarity and reciprocity. It allows us to make connections to movies we have seen and than relate that to our life experiences. It is a lot easier to understand...
• Commented on How Do Our Parents "Shape" Us?
  This is a great point to bring up and look back on how we were raised now that we are adults. I would definitely agree with you, that parenting style that our parents used had a great impact on who...
• Commented on Infant reflexes: impressive or not?
  This is quite interesting to learn about the 2 different reflexes that babies have at a very young age. It is crazy to think that they don't even need to learn these in a sense, they just know! The sucking...
• Commented on Just how much do divorces impact our children?
  I found your blog to be very interesting being that, my parents divorced when I was an infant. I would have to disagree with our book when it states that children of divorced parents to not have any long term...
• Commented on Oh my gosh! Why I cannot make it out!
  I do have to agree with you, that we tend to stick to our "old ways" of solving problems even if it keeps on giving us the wrong answer to the problem. I believe that it has to do for...
• Commented on Children Language Development
  In response to your blog, I would agree with you that if you wanted your child to be bilingual that playing games and matching pictures to words would be very helpful. But I believe that you left out an important...
• Posted Infants Language Abilities Soar High Above Adults to Psy 1001 Section 04-05 Spring 2012
  As Professor Melissa Koenig discussed the language development of infants and children is astonishing, due to the abilities that they possess without any preexisting knowledge or experience of how language works at a very young age. If when we...
• Commented on Slowly Losing Your Life
  I like this blog! I think it is interesting to think that even though we are all taking in large amount of information everyday, we will slowly lose all of that information as we age. If you think about it...
• Commented on Animal Language
  I think this is a great topic to talk about. I would say I agree with you that, animals do have their own individual language that differs from ours in several ways such as the sound and also the syntax....
• Commented on Self Awareness, or Spot Awareness?
  The idea you formed in your blog that most of the time humans are unaware of self until the age of 18-24 months is also connected with infantile autism when we get to an older age and are asked to...
• Commented on What do Detroit and Chrysler have in Common? Eminem.
  Reading your blog about the commercial and than actually watching the commercial made me more aware of the type of influences that Chrysler was trying to convey in the background. If I would have never read your statement about the...
• Commented on And You Think Your Dog Is Smart...
  This is rather interesting blog because we are always underestimating how smart other organisms are on earth. We automatically assume we are the smartest since we can talk, process language, etc. But in reality there are other organisms like dogs...
• Commented on Drinking and driving; how bad is it really?
  This blog is great. It might sound bad to say but this is something that college students need to be aware of. Being that most students are able to get from a party back to their apartment or to a...
• Commented on M.C Escher-Illusionary Genius!
  This is a great way to help us understand the basis of top-down and bottom-up processing. You really did a great job at breaking it down into simple parts and allowing us to see for ourselves how it applies to...
• Commented on Who Are You?
  This is a very interesting post. I like that you were straight forward about the points being made and backed up your information with sources. Regarding your question you referred to in your blog, I do feel that our consciousness...
• Commented on Disney's Incorrect Slogan
  I find your statement about dreams rather appealing. I differ slightly with how we should look at dreams. No matter what the dream is good, bad, the ugly or terrifying it means something. The ideas that Disney's movies puts into...
• Commented on Forecasting Happiness
  This topic easily catches my attention. I have always wondered how our emotions are regulated and how they are affected by exciting or depressing experiences that we go through. It is really interesting to learn that our emotions are pretty...
• Favorited Two (half) brains are better than one on Psy 1001 Section 04-05 Spring 2012
• Commented on Two (half) brains are better than one
  I find it rather interesting the topic of right-brained and left-brained thinking, it tends to be controversial topic and perhaps contains a myth or two. For a long time people have believed that you are either left-brained or right-brained,in meaning...
• Commented on Two (half) brains are better than one
  I find it rather interesting the topic of right-brained and left-brained thinking, it tends to be controversial topic and perhaps contains a myth or two. For a long time people have believed that you are either left-brained or right-brained,in meaning...
• Commented on Two (half) brains are better than one
  I find it rather interesting the topic of right-brained and left-brained thinking, it tends to be controversial topic and perhaps contains a myth or two. For a long time people have believed that you are either left-brained or right-brained,in meaning...
• Posted How Much Exercise do we Each Day = A MYSTERY! to Psy 1001 Section 04-05 Spring 2012
  It is clearly obvious that the amount of exercise that we need to do in one day differs from the source that you receive the information from. No one has the same answer, so lets look at a few examples...
• Posted Intelligence Beyond the Basics to Psy 1001 Section 04-05 Spring 2012
  A brief overview of Chapter 9: Intelligence and IQ Testing Overall the chapter defines in great detail what exactly intelligence is, what intelligence testing is, what it measures and how it has evolved, the influences that can effect the results...