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• Posted Finding a job with my big five to Psychology 1001 Sections 10-11 Spring 2012
  Taking Psychology 1001 I have realized how important analyzing and observing people is for our society to work. But most of all I have realized how much analyzing myself can help me further myself and push myself to reach...
• Commented on Are First Born Kids The Best?
  I am also a older sibling and I do have a sense of wanting to protect be a role-model and be responsible to my siblings but I agree that this does not imply that I am the best. I think...
• Commented on Memorable Moments in Learning
  I agree that before this class I took learning and the whole process we go through for granted and never realized how intensive and impressive it is. I also never though about how much babies go through to learn and...
• Commented on Sherlock Holmes - A Man of Extremes
  Great connection to Sherlock Holmes! I think that you are absolutely correct in your statements and just like The Simpsons or all of the other shows and books out there characters with extreme personalities always make for the best and...
• Commented on Emergency? What emergency?
  I think that in immediate dangers where the person need is extremely obvious i.e. getting hit by a car, people will respond quickly. In cases like a man and women fighting or a little kid screaming or other situations people...
• Commented on Popular Culture on: Love and Marriage
  I agree that our views on love and marriage in society are greatly becoming less and less strict and monogamous I think that it is a lifestyle that people can choose or not choose. Some people may just be promiscuous...
• Commented on Relationships: how we meet our better half
  These shows are prime examples of how you can get two people to like each other by putting them in the best position to fall for one another. What I would be interested in would to look at the rate...
• Commented on Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
  I think this is a very valid point and we should look at other shows especially ones like Maury. They consistently use lie detectors like the polygraph to determine life changing decisions i.e. the decision if you cheated on your...
• Commented on Positive Attitude after A Big Deal
  Nice comparison with in this video! I always found it to be so interesting that so many cartoons and t.v. shows use extreme versions of psychological behaviors, just like the many personality types in the Simpsons....
• Commented on Do Ask, Do Tell: An encouragement for freedom of expression and sexual orientation in the military
  This blog places a really important point on the issue that sexual orientation plays no part in how a solider acts on carrying out orders. Your point of church and sate is also valid and shows me a point of...
• Commented on Asian Parents are STRICT!
  I have noticed this common occurrence among Asian parents as well. This could be because of the vast cultural differences between westernized cultures and Asian. Something that would be interesting to think of would be to see how the time...
• Commented on Contact Comfort
  I also did a post or Harlow's research and I find it very fascinating. Personally I can see the simple act of feel and touching as a very important and substantial act and through his research we can see that...
• Commented on Video Games and their impact
  The way video games effects kids has so many variables to check like parental supervision, the environment the child is how influential they are and more. I think that for the power rangers and barney it was a lot of...
• Commented on Eliciting Emotions Through Advertisement
  I have always been interested in the advertising and marketing strategies of companies like these. Even though their products kill people they still try so hard to get people to smoke and use them and through this they have created...
• Commented on Calculus Frustration
  This has happened especially with physics. Some of these classes require so much thinking out of the box and applying equations you have learned a few months ago sometimes it is absolutely important to be able to bounce ideas off...
• Commented on Knock knock. Who's there? BANANA.
  Good real life example it is always reassuring when you find terms and theories you learn in class that actually apply to your life. It goes to show that we have been learning psychology everyday whether we know it or...
• Commented on Cheers! I'll Drink to That: Alcohol in the Media
  It is true I have even noticed myself that there have been more references to drugs and alcohol through out our society (just take Madonna at Ultra). I think it is the combination of the peer pressures and the media...
• Posted Harry Harlow's loving monkeys to Psychology 1001 Sections 10-11 Spring 2012
          When I read through Chapter 10 one of the phenomena's that sparked interest in me was contact comfort. Most people, including myself, usually think that a baby will be attracted to the person who feeds it or gives it...
• Commented on Blog 2: On Dropping Out of School and Becoming a Gypsy
  Hah nice ending, I personally have fallen into this thought process before and coincidence bias is a very predominant value of most pseudosciences. Very good example of a real-life aspect....
• Commented on R.I.P. - My lifelong belief in "The Hot Hand"
  This study is very plausible; The "hot hand" concept seems to be a bit of pseudoscience. A interesting thing to think about would to be other things that we take for a hot streak for example maybe the state of...
• Commented on Injuries in Sports
  I agree with Devin that they should tell what really defines a sport, also what defines injury even. Also who collected the information and how many different people collected the information? Interesting article though....
• Commented on How Much is too Much? Caffeine's Effect on the body
  Something that I have seen from my many years of caffeine intake is a possible tolerance level. I think it would be a really interesting topic to see if caffeine was a tolerance factor to it that might coincide with...
• Posted MDMA - Worth it for Psychotherapy? to Psychology 1001 Sections 10-11 Spring 2012
  Will this still be the case in 20 years?          Two out of the three articles I viewed displayed the pros of using MDMA for psychotherapy by describing the positive effects for the use of MDMA as a medical...
• Posted Chapter Two: Research Methods (and how wrong they can be) to Psychology 1001 Sections 10-11 Spring 2012
  The way psychologists collect, analyze and present data is all through certain research methods; which can lead to completely outlandish conclusions or to an educated and precise conclusion. Many ways that psychologists record accurate data is to make sure...