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• Posted Biology of Sleeping, Eating and Exercising to Psychology 1001 Sections 10-11 Spring 2012
  One of the main things I will take away from psychology class is the effect sleeping, eating, and exercising can have on our health. As it is commonly known, it is recommended that us college students average almost 9 hours...
• Commented on Food In Perspective
  I think that that is an interesting way to propose putting it into perspective. On one hand it sounds really weird but it could actually really make a difference to someone who has a problem with either eating too much...
• Commented on Parenting Styles
  I think a parenting style has to match both the personality of the child and the culture that they grew up in. For example, someone who is a risk-taker growing up in a very harsh environment might need a very...
• Commented on Falsifiability of Morality
  Interesting that you have found a section of the textbook and looked deeper into it to find out more about whether everything about it was "moral" and correct. Studying morality is going to be a much debated topic because it...
• Commented on How is intelligence portrayed in the media?
  Great observation. I would say that television is going in the same trend as the actual world. The argument could definitely be made that it is something that is actually trying to reverse the trend and make up for the...
• Commented on Love and Marraige according to You, Me, and Dupree
  Its interesting how physical attractiveness usually seems to be the thing that first brings two people together in our world and then after that they see if they are actually similar or not. I wonder if there are any studies...
• Commented on Beauty and Body Piercings
  I think piercings are a method of expressing your personality in western cultures but can be very different in other cultures of the world. For example, in cultures with "unique" traditions many people can have piercings and gauges that are...
• Commented on Do Ask, Do Tell: An encouragement for freedom of expression and sexual orientation in the military
  I guess one of the arguments people can make against this would be the fact that maybe some soldiers feel distracted by having homosexual people in their teams. I don't know what my opinion on this subject is because there...
• Posted Are violent video games making our generation more violent? to Psychology 1001 Sections 10-11 Spring 2012
  After doing the homework I decided to learn more about the effect of video games on violence. Over the lasts 40 plus years many different types of experiments have been done to try and figure out whether video games induce...
• Commented on The Mystery of Alzheimer's Disease
  Alzheimer's disease is very hard on the families in which it affects. They say that it comes from plaques in the brain and other things. My Grandmother had it and it was very hard on our family. The doctors thought...
• Commented on Do you know what is Alzheimer Disease?
  Alzheimer's is a very interesting, awful, and sad disease. Watching my grandma go through it was one of the worst things I have ever experienced. After she was diagnosed she lived another 8 years in which she deteriorated to the...
• Commented on Alzheimer's: The Dementia Enigma
  Many doctors also recommend staying mentally active through board games and game that make you think. This is said to fight off the disease. My grandma had Alzheimer's but she wasn't diagnosed until she was about 70 and the doctors...
• Commented on Alzheimer's and Love
  My grandmother had alzheimer's and it is definitely one of the hardest things to watch someone go through. Her husband started out not admitting that it was happening but there would be days where she would wander off while they...
• Commented on Do You Really Know Mary Jane?
  I find it very interesting that this debate is constantly going on. It is interesting to hear one person say how it is absolutely harmless is ten times safer than alcohol while another person cautions against it. Although I do...
• Commented on The Truth About Autism
  What is slowing the process of finding a treatment? Obviously there are probably many problems as there are with any other disease but it would be interesting to know how close researchers think they are to finding a cure for...
• Commented on I didn't choose to eat that, I swear
  This is a very interesting concept. I would say that our decisions in terms of eating food or becoming obese are at least partially our fault. People can obviously change those decisions because you can see people do that when...
• Commented on Could a Strict Diet Ease (or possibly cure) Autism?
  This is very interesting but what makes them think it works at all? What have researchers found that made them come up with this hypothesis? It must be very difficult to find foods that match this diet while also trying...
• Commented on Out-of-Body Experiences and The Ghost Behind You
  Very interesting post. Have they proven that the angular gyrus is the only part of the brain responsible for perceiving objects that are not actually there? Also, why does shocking that part of the brain produce a response? Does the...
• Commented on Two Twins Different Families
  I would have to agree that both nature and nurture probably affect this situation. Its too bad that there currently seems to be no way to prove either way. Obviously this study can give us a lot of clues by...
• Commented on Sport's Psychology
  Im sure this research was very applicable to your life. Although I do not know whether it has been proven or not, it seems if you believe you will do well in an athletic competition you usually do. I would...
• Commented on Grand Theft Childhood?
  I think that this basically displays what we have been learning about correlation vs. causation. The video games do not cause people to be angry or violent. However, angry and violent people probably tend to buy a lot of video...
• Commented on How long should the average adult exercise each day?
  I definitely agree with you on the first part. I think the reason that they don't give a maximum is because as long as your body is getting all of the nutrients it need it can probably handle a large...
• Posted How long should the average adult exercise each day? to Psychology 1001 Sections 10-11 Spring 2012
  Many people in America need to spend more time exercising. But can anyone be exercising too much? The Department of Health and Human Services recommends that you lift weights twice a week and have either 150 minutes of moderate...
• Posted Chapter 3: The Most Complicated Structure in the Known Universe to Psychology 1001 Sections 10-11 Spring 2012
  Chapter 3 (Biological Psychology) is an extremely complex chapter. It brigdes the levels of analysis between all of the different function of your brain and body. The introduction of stem cells, nerve cells, the central nervous system, the endocrine system...