Letter

I'm doing good in class. Psychology is super interesting and one of my favorite classes. I would say that I'm excelling in class and don't have many struggles. When I first entered the class, I was nervous for what it would entail, but have been surprised at how easily I've adapted and learned to love the lessons we've been doing. I thought psychology would be much more complicated than it has been so far. I find it interesting when learning the different parts that psychology can branch out to.
The discussions we have keep me interested even more. It's much easier to pay attention when you relate your own life or even our lives to different topics. Even about you watching little boys play at target in your lawn chair. I know you may be embarrassed you mentioned that, but its okay we do our best to understand. :). But anyway I have learned a lot in your class and am glad that I am apart of it. Outside of class I am struggling with college decisions along with the boring scholarships, but I'm finding a way to manage it all. Life is good. Nothing to exciting going on.
Oh, Criss Angel. In my honest opinion I could really careless about him or his tricks. Yes, I think it's neat that he can preform all his tricks and "walk on water" but I think he's spent a lot of time tricking people into believing that the tricks he does can happen. I don't believe what he does is truly real, I think it's more out of hope and faith that people believe those things can happen. He even puts up videos that reveal how he does some of his tricks.

Points of views

The significance of the candle represents light to me. Light to me represents warmth which can represent mant different things such as: love, happiness, laughter and so on. Responding to the blog Mr. Dreier posted isn't just about what the candle means to everyone, but is about what each individual sees. This focuses on different points of views and how every individual is unique. Not only is everyone unique in their own way, they think about things in a different way as well. I decided to focus on how everyone things in their own way and why they develop the way they do.
This week we learned about how small children develop and the ways they learn. The example from the movie clip that was shown was based on how children view things. In the clip the children that were younger didn't realize that the shape of the glass doesn't have an effect on how much liquid is there. The younger children said that the taller, skinny glass had more liquid than the smaller, rounder glass. When the older children were tested with the same experiment, they succeeded in believe that both glasses had the exact same. This whole processes is represented to show the development of children and the ability to judge number and volume.
When thinking about how to relate to this I came up with my own story out of experience. I thought back to when I was a little girl on that special christmas morning. When I was little I always believed that the biggest present was going to be the best. I would take the biggest present and open it first and believe nothing would compare to it. Little did I know, the smallest present under the tree was the best one. This is a prime example of how children judge volume and size.

Cerebral Palsy

This week was an interesting week. We spent most of our time learning and teaching many different types of brain disorders. There were a couple that caught my attention the most. Wanting to know more about disorders, I took the liberty to research one on my own.

Cerebral Palsy is a disorder thats dear to my heart. I've always had a dream to help child who are impaired but still have the spirit and hope. Cerebral Palsy is a disorder that is diagnosed as a small child. Cerebral Palsy involves the impairment of the both control in the body along with the brain. "The term cerebral means two halves, or hemispheres within the brain." Not only does this disorder effect young child, but there isn't any treatment to cure it. Most doctors diagnose children within a few years of childhood. These children have to go through many years of therapy to try and make it in the world, with the odds against them. To diagnose cerebral palsy is on a development

spectrum.

Although some scientists say it's mostly genetic, other causes are included such as:

Bleeding in the brain

Brain infections

Head injury

Infections in the mother during pregnancy

Severe jaundice

The point of this article is to show that there are many different brain disorders out there and many individuals suffer from them each day.

I myself found the presentations in class inspiring and intreging. I've learned alot about the different brain disorders that can occur and am interested in learning even more about others.

This week we learned about the right vs. left brain. When taking the quiz given in class I came up with a result of 5.2 meaning I tend to use my right brain more than my left. Other quizzes I have looked into state that I use my left. I became really interested in the way people think and even more interested in the way I think. Having a close number of 5.2 to me means that i tend to use both sides of my brain in different situations. After taking a couple quizzes it showed me how I think.

I found an article that talks about why the brain is the way it is. Most ask why we think with two different hemispheres but only have one brain. Because the cerebral cortex, is made up of two halves is why we think with different hemispheres.

 Each hemisphere (left and right) are used for different things. Although one may be gifted in a certain hemisphere versus the other, everyone uses both hemispheres. During class, we watched a video that showed us what it would be like when the cerebellum cortex was cut in half. Even though it was cut for a specific reason, it was unique to see the results. The man used his hemispheres in a different way than we do. Both hemispheres worked within his brain, but didn't combine as easily as a normal brain would. It took him longer to finish exercises than an average person. I found it really interesting to think about what it would be like to not be able to think the way you do now.

Think about having a deformed brain or even a different brain than you have now. Blog your ideas and reactions. (:

Jung, Adler and Horney

Carl Jung:

Came up with the idea or theory of having Collective Unconscious. Collective Unconscious in a short summary is the ideas from everyone in humanity mixed together. Meaning, different cultures go through experiences that most know about. This idea becomes apart of our unconscious thoughts because of things we hear or see in general. Collective Unconscious is the journey you take in life, but actually turned into repressed thoughts. It's the different memories, thoughts and ideas. You could even express the thoughts as urges from the past. Archetypes are models that were given in life. They're apart of collective unconscious. The models could be anything such as heroes in different cultures or even basic human behaviors. Archetypes is shaping and transforms your conscious from experiences you've been through in life or prehaps the ones you wish to seek.

Alfred Adler:
Alfred came up with the insight of the inferiority complex theory. The theory states that everyone is born being inferior. Not knowing what to do as a child or knowing the way to act makes children helpless. As the child starts realizing the feelings they have, they begin to strive to become like their parents or guardians. When surrounded by more powerful adults that are capable of being successful, the child begins to want the powers they have. Although Adler says every child has an inferior, not all children develop a inferiority complex.

Karen Horney:
Karen Horney had different views when it came to Sigmund Freud's theory. Within her theory, she denied that women married for the penis, but instead stated men had womb envy. Womb envy is where men need to have children to live on their legacy. Karen shows that men have womb envy in the matter of wanting to care and nurture for a descendant of their own.  She stated that Freud's views on penis envy was women's jealousy of men's power in the world.

Psychological Experiment

Psychology from our knowledge is the study of human behavior, but each of us have a different understand of what psychology includes. While researching I came about a story called The Stanford Prison Experiment. The experiment in a summary has to do with 24 college students (all male) who volunteered for a prisoner/ guard position. The volunteers were split up by a flip of a coin and seperated. One group were the guards, the other were the prisoners.

During the experiment, the prisoners were sent back to their homes where they would wait. Police officers were sent to retrieve the inmates and bring them to the jail. Seeking the full treatment, the inmates were told to sanitize by rinsing themselves with a spray in case of lice or other germs.

As the guards began the process, they were told to humilate the inmates by making them wear dresses such as these. Along with the dresses, they were given a chain to wear around their right ankle. They wore rubber shoes and nylon stockings over their hair. The chain represented the actually handcuffs they would wear. The stocking was to represent having a bald head and taking away their individuality. Not all of these things would happen in an actually prison, but the point was to show that real prisoners are humilated with the process they go through.

The quards were told to do what they thought guards did. When the prisoners began to rebel, the guards got more violent.Punishment could include: push-ups of any given number, solitary confindment (a small closet) humiliation from inmates, ext... 36 hours into the experiment, a prisoner was dignosed with acute emotional disturbance. He was removed from the experiment. By the sixth day, the experiment was ended. The prisoners were interviewed and all stated that they started losing their identies. In the end there were already 2 inmates who suffereed from emotional disturbances and guards that had a higher rate of temper.

The whole point of the experiement was to monitor the behavior changes within the inmates along with the guards. Each volunteer was given 15 dollars a day for however long he could last.


The reason I found an interest in this article was because it has to deal with everything we've been learning during both this and the past week. This experiment wouldn't be an ethical experiment because it can cause both physical and emotional harm. Even though the prisoners were on a volunteer notice the experiment isn't completely ethical. This experiement also deals with cognitive, behavioral and learning persepectives.