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• Commented on Bias in Today's World
  Bias is a very important thing to consider and is definitely a good thing to take away from the class. When learning about them in Chapter one I definitely found myself thinking of some times in everyday life when I...
• Commented on Do you believe in love at first sight?
  This is an interesting blog! I like how you sort of compared the situational-love aspect that we learned in class to the relationship between you and your roommate. Outside factors are important to consider when evaluating our own emotions and...
• Commented on In Five Years...
  It was eye-opening to see how 'real psychology' works. Psychology does get kind of a bad rap from other sciences for being almost superstitious and silly. But after learning about psychology in this course it is easier to tell the...
• Commented on In 5 years..
  Optical illusions are so cool! And it is a good thing to keep in mind, that people perceive things differently. It is interesting when friends have a slightly different version of the story than you do and learning about memory...
• Commented on In One Ear and Out the Other...
  Truthfully I won't remember much either haha! But that's cool that you want to work at the Red Cross or something, you'd be great at that! It is interesting to look at how people connect with each other, and it's...
• Commented on Baby Development
  I don't really like babies, but it was still interesting to learn about their development. I've always been curious about when babies start actually figuring out what is going on around them, and this chapter was very interesting because of...
• Posted Personality to PSY 1001 section 06-07 Spring 2012
  I've always been hugely fascinated by personality, but had never really learned anything about it. It was a part of the class that I was looking forward to learning about and greatly enjoyed. It is probably the part of this...
• Commented on Sibling Structure: The Forever Unsolved Mystery
  I also am an older sibling with one younger sister. I think it does hold true that I am more achievement focused while my sister is more of a risk-taker. I think that this could partially be because I was...
• Commented on Political Persuasion:2012 edition
  It's sad that someone like Ron Paul who puts message before money is less likely to be nominated. It goes to show how in American politics today money is what matters. And because the funds are so necessary to get...
• Commented on Alzheimer's: Life Changing at Minimum
  It was interesting reading a more medical-type description of AD. My grandfather has it and so I have seen a lot of what you are saying (of the quick decline after around 50 years of age, etc) in him. It...
• Commented on Effects of Nontraditional Families
  I also thought that it was interesting that for single parents it didn't matter if it was the father or the mother. I would have thought that having the mother would be better because mothers tend to be more nurturing,...
• Commented on Gay Marriage
  WOO! QUEER HIGH FIVE! It is interesting how many different areas arguments come from. Though I am as biased as you are, I personally don't think that any of them have much grounding. And though there are arguments from religion...
• Commented on Who's that girl? It's Jess!
  I LOVE THIS SHOW!!! I think you got Jess's big 5 correct. Jess is definitely pretty extroverted and neurotic. I think Nick would probably score lower in agreeableness and higher in introversion. They complete each other....
• Posted Blog Post Problems to PSY 1001 section 06-07 Spring 2012
  So I've been staring at the prompts for this blog post for a solid 20 minutes and couldn't decide which one to do; they're all dumb. So I decided to do the problem-solving one, with this as my problem....
• Commented on his notebook, your notebook, my notebook
  I don't know if the movie was medically realistic, but I can speak from some personal knowledge. My grandfather has Alzheimer's Disease, and I've seen a lot of the things you criticize in him. He does not know who I...
• Commented on Eternal Sunshine of the "Splotchy" Mind
  I love this movie. I hadn't thought about this movie while thinking about memory, but now that you've brought it up I'm intrigued. Besides the ethical question you posed, it also brings up lots of interesting memory problem. For example...
• Commented on This Will Grab Your Attention!
  This ad also uses humor to make you associate positive feelings with the camera. It is amusing how all of the men are looking at the women out of the corner of their eyes. Their behavior makes you grin while...
• Commented on Not-so-much Subliminal Messaging
  Maybe the woman's hand is because we usually associate women with being mothers who are supposed to protect their children and be more of a positive role model? If it was a man's hand it might come off as more...
• Commented on Can you Hear What I Hear?
  It's interesting that you heard the reason younger people could hear that sound was because of brain development. I had always heard it was because we have more 'hair cells' in our ears, and more sensitive ones. We've just been...
• Commented on The Streetlight Interference--Are you a SLIder?
  That's so weird. I'm sure it is just coincidence, but I'm incline to believe you because of weird coincidences with me. For example, if at 11:11 I wish for them to serve a specific food in the dining hall they...
• Commented on Nature vs. Nurture: Homosexuality
  I don't really want to argue, but I just want to say that the studies haven't been replicated because no one has attempted to replicate them. Not because someone tried and had different results....
• Posted Nature vs. Nurture: Homosexuality to PSY 1001 section 06-07 Spring 2012
  For the most part, the nature vs. nurture debate is settled. Most people agree that it's a bit of both. However one area that this debate still rages on is under the topic of homosexuality. It has captured peoples'...
• Commented on Ch. 6 Learning
  Learned behavior is very interesting, especially in the case of animals. I would be curious to find out whether positive reinforcement or negative reinforcement is more effective. Or perhaps the use of both?...
• Commented on Memory.
  Nice post, it was interesting to read! Memory is a very interesting concept, and is something I personally have never really understood. I thought it was very interesting that this HM guy had lost his memory and seemed unable to...
• Posted Chapter 4: Sensation and Perception to PSY 1001 section 06-07 Spring 2012
  This chapter deals with the relationship between 'sensation' and 'perception'. Sensation refers to the physical detections made by our senses (light entering our eyes, or a sound wave reaching our ear). Perception is how our brain interprets these detections. While...