A Beautiful Mind is the topic I'll be talking about today. This movie was one we've been watching in class for the last couple of days. Having just finished it today, it was a super interesting movie. Being able to get inside the mind of someone who suffers from a mental illness is an experience in itself. During class we discussed what normal is and what abnormal is. I new most thought those with a mental illness were considered abnormal, but I didn't know what it would be like to have one. While watching the movie, I was able to get the full insight of someone with a mental illness. This person happened to be John Nash. Nash allowed me to realize what people go through just to live a normal life. He also taught me to be more open minded when it comes to those with an illness or even people in general. You never know who suffers from an illness and who doesn't, they may hide it better than you think.
After realizing all of this, I decided to talk about one of the illness that was mentioned in class, but not focused on as much. Hypochondriasis is the disorder in which a person believes that signs (real or not) of certain matters are symptoms of a serious illness. Most patients have a hard time being social with others because they believe they're prone to getting a disease from others or from surroundings around them. These patients are preoccupied by their physical health.
Causes could be:
 Major trauma that was experienced in life
Not being able to express their feelings easily
Someone close to them has a disorder
Treatment for this disorder is unknown. It's more psychological than something they're able to fix with medication. Therapy is recommended.
The whole point of this isn't to list different things about the disorder but to realize how fortunate we are to be healthy. The easiest thing to do when dealing with someone who has a mental disorder is to judge that person and say they're unstable or not as normal as us. But the important thing is to know that everyone is different and why should we be able to judge who's normal or not? Watching this movie and looking further into a disorder makes me realize that people with mental illnesses suffer and struggle every day just to get through life. I have a better outlook on those who suffer because of this movie.

Conditioning...

There are two types of condition one being operant and one being classical. Classical conditioning sticks out more in my mind just because its something that you see everyday. Knowing I had to write this wonderful blog, I decided to look around today to see if I could find an example classical conditioning. I tried a mini experiment on alana today.In german class, we weren't doing anything fun so I thought of all the homework I had. When remembering again that I had this amazing blog to write, I pulled a little trick on her using classical conditioning.
I began by starting with a sound of boop. Every time I said boop, I would lightly poke her with a pencil. After about 4 times of this, I was able to condition her to the point that every time I said boop, she knew I would poke her. Her reaction when I said boop was able to revolve from doing nothing into her covering the area I poked.

poke ---> pain
noise + poke ---> pain
noise ---> pain

This chart explains how I conditioned her. This made me notice that classical conditioning can be used in many ways and in everyday life. I really liked this unit and it was fun being able to relate to it while being hands on in creating our own experiments.