Five years from now, if I look back at that psychology class I will be so happy that I passed :). I will remember some things though, for example classical conditioning. We got that pushed into our heads again and again, I feel if you ever went to a psychology lecture, that is one you will remember. The concept of classical conditioning isn't too hard to grasp, there is an unconditioned response, conditioned response, unconditioned stimulus, and conditioned stimulus. The unconditioned response should be the exact same as the conditioned response if you do it right. The unconditioned stimulus is something that gives you pleasure, fear, or any other emotion. A conditioned stimulus could be a sound that is put before the unconditioned stimulus to create the same response as without the conditioned stimulus. Anyways this process is used to show learning, It is a deep concept, but I feel this concept is everywhere in the world, so you can't really forget something you see everyday.
Another thing I will remember is the biological psychology section, I am planning on majoring in biology, so this is a section that interested me the most. Especially the nervous system and how we broke it up into so many categories. I remember doing this same thing in biology class in high school, so I already had some background knowledge on the issue.
The last thing I will remember is the "6 Scientific Thinking Principles," I swear we use at least one of these everyday in psychology class. The six principles are, ruling out rival hypothesis, correlation isn't causation, falsifiability, replicability, extraordinary claims, and occam's razor. I feel the most used one is replicability, at least I use that one the most. There are always studies that try to duplicate what has been found before.
I feel I did learn a lot from psychology 1001, and my knowledge definitely grew bigger because of this class!
sire0037: April 2012 Archives
I am a middle child, and my dad used to always say the cause of my behavior was because I am a middle child. My little sister was always the one who got the most attention, so I was not happy with that, and I always got told why am I not like my older sister. That confused me and I always wondered why did I have to be the middle child.
The importance of birth order has been known and suspected for years now, but is it really true? Some people think its your genes that makes you either a chemist, brain surgeon, actress, or even a star athlete, but in case study after case study the simple fact that you were a middle child has a power all of its own. In studies that were done in Norway, the first born seemed to be more intelligent, and then followed second and third born. Frank Sulloway, a psychologist on birth order, states, "the first-born is going to get into Harvard, and the second-born isn't." That is a pretty powerful statement, and many people would believe this is true.
Another difference in the birth order is the size of the siblings, older siblings tend to weigh more and be taller than their younger siblings in the Philippines. This fact brings question to me because my little sister has passed me up on height and weight, and my older sister is about the same height and weight as me.
The fact that the first-born is the heir has been around for thousands of years. Also families believe that the first-born is more intelligent, keeps the younger siblings in line, and also when the parents get old, the first-born is usually the care-taker.
Birth order does not just occur in humans, but also in other mammals, have you ever heard that runts of the liter get left behind? The runts get the short end of the stick, and are pushed aside where food is not available.
Families in poverty are also affected by the birth order. When couples have their first child, money is not too tight and they can support it, but after the second and third child are born, food can become limited and everybody suffers.
The birth debate will probably never be settled, families are a complex thing, and birth order is not the only reason why behaviors occur.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1673284-3,00.html
