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• Posted Classical Conditioning to Psy 1001 Section 04-05 Spring 2012
  One concept that I have learned this year in Psychology that I will remember five years down the road will probably have to do with Pavlov's research and discoveries regarding classical conditioning. When I first learned about Pavlov's experiments...
• Commented on Are Identical Twins Identical?
  Very good post. I really liked this one because my closest friends are actually identical twins, and I also know a set of fraternal twins too. I've often thought about how similar the identical twins are to each other... Obviously...
• Commented on The Bystander Effect: Why Do We Stand By?
  Although I have seen hundreds of instances of the bystander effect this year on campus, most recently I saw the opposite effect. As I was walking to class a girl walking past me dropped a folder and papers came flying...
• Posted How Do Our Parents "Shape" Us? to Psy 1001 Section 04-05 Spring 2012
  After reading about parenting styles in the textbook, (starting on page 388) I started to think about how my own parents raised me. According to Diana Baumrind, there are 3 parenting styles: permissive, authoritarian, and authoritative. Permissive parents shower...
• Commented on How does Divorce Affect Children?
  Great post! I have also read up a lot on this topic because my parents divorced back when I was in 8th grade. Yeah, it was really hard in the short term, but after a while, I really feel like...
• Commented on Are you an outlier?
  This book seems very interesting to me. Nowadays people always say that they are an expert in a particular field, or that they know everything about something. I would say that more people view "expertise" as a means of acquiring...
• Posted The Secret You: What Drives Our Consciousness? to Psy 1001 Section 04-05 Spring 2012
  As human beings, we take for granted our sense of being, our personality, what makes us, well, us! We don't wake up every day asking ourselves, "How did I just wake up?" "What is guiding me?" "What drives me to...
• Posted The Secret You: What Drives Our Consciousness? to Psy 1001 Section 04-05 Spring 2012
  As human beings, we take for granted our sense of being, our personality, what makes us, well, us! We don't wake up every day asking ourselves, "How did I just wake up?" "What is guiding me?" "What drives me to...
• Posted The Mozart Effect to Psy 1001 Section 04-05 Spring 2012
  Chapter 10 primarily covers all areas of human development-whether this be physical and motor development, development of the mind, or social and moral development. We as humans go through many significant changes throughout our lifetime; we learn to embrace...