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• Commented on 5 Years Down the Road..
  I think I mentioned this in another post but it's interesting nonetheless... Children, when learning language, recognize words spoken close to their own names in a sentence more so than other words. This is because children become attentive to their...
• Commented on Sense of Smell
  Infants' ability to smell more than adults is an adaptive quality. It allows them to develop strong connections with their mother and other primary caregivers. Newborns can smell and taste the difference between their own mother's breast milk and that...
• Commented on Autism: Paranoid or Prepared?
  I think that this is a case that requires us to step back and look at the facts - like you said, the more research that is done, the more we know about autism and the more likely/successful we are...
• Commented on Nature Versus Nurture: Genetic Predisposition and Parenting Styles
  I think it would be interesting to investigate if/how parenting styles differ between parents and their male or female children. You might find that a mother in the family is permissive with her daughter but authoritarian with her son... Even...
• Commented on Emotional Expressions
  My fiance and I have two cats - they each have their very own distinct personalities and they are able to convey what they are feeling quite clearly to us. They will let us know when they are hungry, content...
• Commented on Memorable Nugget from Psy1001: On not getting scammed, among other things
  Or you could turn that door-in-the-face technique around and ask your parents to fund the 6-week Argentina trip FIRST and then, once they get used to the idea of that much money, bump it up to the 10-day Galapagos trip...
• Commented on Kids Say the Darnedest Things
  Fun fact about children's early language development: children learn words that are said close to their name in a sentence faster than other words. Because one of the first things children learn is their own name, they pay attention when...
• Commented on Biology of Sleeping, Eating and Exercising
  Great post! I definitely think you've got it right: sleep, eat right and exercise! I exercise regularly and eat rather well but until we took the quiz in discussion about sleep habits and the effects of too little sleep I...
• Commented on Millenials: The Most Stressed Generation
  Higher levels of stress, trouble dealing with that stress and less developed problem-solving skills could possibly be linked to technological advances? Millennials have grown up in a world where technology is everywhere, it connects you to your peers through email,...
• Commented on Body Language
  I find it interesting to compare the rate of using hand gestures between people that I know - some people gesticulate much more than some of my other friends regardless of how excited or serious they are when they are...
• Posted Seeing the world... through language to Psychology 1001 Sections 10-11 Spring 2012
  I have long been interested in language - how language develops, where it comes from, how we learn it, what potential we have for learning new languages, and how speaking a certain language might actually change the way we...
• Commented on Hunger Games
  Fantastic post! I have only one thing to add (and many people have already mentioned it) - EXERCISE! I just do not understand how people continue to think that they can put themselves on ridiculous detox diets and many of...
• Commented on Popular Culture on: Love and Marriage
  I have a comment on the rise in divorce rates; while, yes, divorce rates have seen an increase over the last few decades it may have more to do with women's rights and society's changing view of single women. As...
• Commented on Say YES to the Dress
  What I think is most interesting about how similarity plays into relationships is that it increases the longer you are with your partner. It makes sense of course - the longer you are with someone, the more you experience together,...
• Commented on coping strategies for stress
  Sometimes it is too hard for me to turn off my thoughts or to redirect them to view a situation in a more positive light. My way of minimizing stress is exercise - the best way for me to release...
• Commented on Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
  There is an episode of Seinfeld in which Jerry is dating this policewoman/detective who subjects Jerry to a lie detector test to find out if he watches Melrose Place. Jerry denies ever having watched the show (even though he has)...
• Posted Emergency? What emergency? to Psychology 1001 Sections 10-11 Spring 2012
  The Bystander Effect. When asked if you would respond to an emergency if it happened in front of you most people would say that they would without hesitation. But is this true? Studies by Darley, Latané et al showed that...
• Commented on The Vaccine-Autism Scare
  While I can understand Jenny McCarthy's desire to place the blame for her child's autism on something tangible (it's natural for a parent to want to act out against something that threatens their child), her belief perseverance regarding this issue...
• Commented on Cat Speak: Beyond the Lolcat
  I'm pretty positive that one of my cats is speaking directly to me when he purposely knocks items off of various surfaces. It's not that it just 'happens' to fall off while he's playing with whatever is on the table...
• Posted Apprennez uma neue lingua σήμερα ! to Apprennez uma neue lingua σήμερα !
  Have you ever wondered how some people can learn to speak multiple languages when you are struggling to get through Spanish 1001? Well, while learning a new language isn't impossible for adults, the younger you are the more successful you...
• Posted Apprennez uma neue lingua σήμερα ! to Psychology 1001 Sections 10-11 Spring 2012
  Have you ever wondered how some people can learn to speak multiple languages when you are struggling to get through Spanish 1001? Well, while learning a new language isn't impossible for adults, the younger you are the more successful you...
• Commented on How Much is too Much? Caffeine's Effect on the body
  An important thing to remember when discussing caffeine and weight loss is to think about how you are getting that caffeine. If you are getting it through a medium vanilla latte every day you need to take into account the...
• Commented on Wait I can get away with only 15 minutes a day??
  I have conflicting feelings about the idea that 15 minutes of exercise a day is all you need. On one hand, that might actually be true but we are so used to taking shortcuts within our lives that I think...
• Commented on Benefits of Bilingualism
  An especially interesting note about our ability to learn language is that we are born with the ability to hear and replicate all sounds and it is as we grow and experience our own language that the ability to hear/recognize/replicate...
• Commented on Learning (Ch. 6)
  Similar to the concept of sleep assisted learning, I found that when I was learning French and was studying in France, listening to French music while I studied or as I went to sleep seemed to improve my ability to...
• Posted Who Can Benefit From Treatment and What Are Your Options? to Psychology 1001 Sections 10-11 Spring 2012
  Once you have identified the problem, or are seeking to further examine a psychological issue, who do you go to and what can you do? Chapter 16 of our textbook details many of the possibilities for treatment of various emotional,...