Assignment 8 - FALLACIES
Proof
by intimidation
Last
week I spoke with my general manager who told me to come in work on Sunday, and
I agreed. When I got to work Sunday, the assistant manager, who is actually in
control of my schedule, was pissed because she said I wasn't suppose to be
there. I then informed her that my general manager told me to come. She
contacted him and he then contacted me and said that he never told me that.
After going back and forth with him, feeling like I was in the twilight zone,
trying to tell him that he did, while he's telling me that he didn't. I
eventually just gave in and said, "Well maybe it was just a
miscommunication". I knew that he did but at the end of the day, I
had no proof.
False
dilemma
I
bought a waist trainer a couple of years ago, that guaranteed me to see
results, if I wore it for 8hours a day for 30 days straight. They
said it would correct my posture, compress my waistline by up to 3 sizes, and
flatten my stomach for a perfect hourglass silhouette. I had no idea that
within these 30 days I would still have to work out and eat healthy. It's safe
to say that I look exactly the same as before I purchased it.
Assignment 7 - MEMORY BIASES
Consistency
bias
I
remember when I was maybe 5years old, I heard yelling and screaming from
my parents room, and I remember my dad coming out crying. I remember me coming
out of the room and hugging him. As an adult I remembered my father beating on
my mother throughout my childhood until maybe about 2years ago when I
confronted him about it. He told me he never beat my mother, but I just knew he
was lying so I asked my mother. She said "your father NEVER beat me".
I was so confused, I thought maybe she was just trying to cover for him. When I
told her why I thought this she said "Oh yea"! She told me that ONE
night she told him that she was leaving him, and out of panic and shock he
choked her, but immediately stopped. As a child I played this over and over
again, in my head, something that never even happened.
Misattribution
of memory
I
will be the first to say that I LOVE to hear a little gossip every now and
again. I know most people say that they don't involve themselves in it, or
want any parts in it but... I feel its keeps things interesting. I often notice
that sometimes when I'm giving others the scoop (the low down, the juice,
whatever you want to call it) most times I remember where it came from but
other times I just don't. I just kind of sit and look into space in the
middle of my story trying to remember who told me, what I'm about to tell you.
But either way, it doesn't make the gossip any less exciting.
Self-serving
bias
This
is so me! I have this thing where when people come down on themselves, I'm
always there to tell them its not their fault... when OF COURSE it is! I guess
its more of me seeing someone beating themselves up enough already, who am I to
make matters worse and judge you. My technique is to never take
responsibilities for your actions, ALWAYS put blame on someone else. So
far its been working wonders for me, and at the same time I make people feel
just a little bit better, as well as myself.
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DEVELOPMENT: Nature VS Nurture
DEVELOPMENT: Nature VS Nurture
Nature
is what we think of as pre-wiring and is influenced by genetic inheritance and
other biological factors.
Nurture
is generally taken as the influence of external factors after conception, for example,
the product of exposure, experience and learning on an individual.
On January 13th
2010 twins by the name of Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah Whitehead killed their mother
Jarmecca “Nikki” Whitehead. Children often get upset when they don’t get their
way but to actually go through with killing their own mother shocked everyone.
How could they be this upset?Nikki had the twins at a fairly young age and felt like she couldn’t take care of them properly. She then asked her grandmother if she would be willing to take over responsibility of the children and her grandmother agreed. As the twins grew older they began to act out like most teens do and became too much for their great grandmother to handle. Their great grandmother reached out to her granddaughter and informed her of her issues so the mother then realized it was time to get her girls back. The twins didn’t want to go. They begged the judges and even went as far as to say if they had to move back in with her, that they would kill her. But being as though that was their mother, they gave Nikki back custody of her children… plus she wanted them. Nikki wanted to be a part of her daughter’s lives again.
A fight started one morning when the twins woke up late for school. Nikki was upset and said that the girls had to obey her rules. The twins claimed the mother threatened them with a pot from the stove as if she was going to hit them so the twins started wrestling with her to get it out of her hands. After a bunch of yelling, and now the pot in one of the twin’s hands, they said their mother grabbed a knife. They said she never used the knife, but she kind of just threatened that she would and for them to back up. One of the twins then broke a vase over their mothers head. Nikki put up a fight, even began biting her daughters. So her daughters began punching and stabbing her with the knife and even choking her. After beating and stabbing their mother for a while they dragged their mother to the bathtub. They said she was still alive and even talked to them as she was dying. They said their mother said things like, she hated them and that they were going to jail. They said that they just responded back by apologizing, and then she died.
After she died they cried and argued amongst one another and thought it would be best that they go to school, so that’s what they did. They expected the cops to be everywhere when they got home but the crime scene was just how they left it, blood everywhere, and then they called the police.
It took 5 months to investigate but the twins stories never added up so eventually they charged them with their mother’s murder. They were 16 at the time but they were charged as adults and sentenced to 30years in prison.
The Whiteheads were actually my cousins, so my family still mourns. My family wondered, maybe if their mother tried to raise them, even though she didn’t think she was capable of doing it, if that would have helped. Even though it may have been a struggle, if they had the proper nurturing and learned to respect and love their mother like most children learn to, if things would have been different. I’m sure any child would have felt abandoned being forced to stay with their great grandmother. Every child wants to be with their mother. I’m sure they were free to run all over their great grandmother, and then were forced to move back in with the woman you feel pretty much gave you up. Though this is no excuse, I’m almost positive that the way they were nurtured affected them mentally. Not that their grandmother was a bad person or anything, but I think they just wanted their mother. With their mother’s absence, over time, a hate unfortunately grew towards her.
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Free
Will…
When I was 19years old, me and my cousin were so irresponsible! We just walked around all day and made some of the dumbest decisions possible! Exercising our free will, we would rather spend our money on food and snacks appose to more important things… Like transportation! Short on cash we ended up having to go through the turn style together on 42nd street. Just our luck the cops were waiting for us on the other side. They pulled us to the side and asked us for our ID’s and I didn’t have mines on me. I was told to call my mother and the cop would match up the information from her with the information my cousin would give for me. After getting my mother on the line and telling her that the cops had us, the cop told me to hang up the phone. I felt like there was no way in hell I could just call my mother, tell her I’m with the cops and then hang up, so exercising my free will once again!...I didn’t. Next thing I know, my phone was knocked out of my hand and I was being arrested. Being a typical rebellious teen landed me and my cousin a night in jail! But at least I had free will…smh
Determinism…
I do a lot of online shopping to avoid hassles, it just seems so much easier to me. I usually go online looking for a certain item and knowing about how much I’m going to spend. I might have about $40 worth of items in my cart but when I go to check out I’m told that if I spend $75 I will receive free shipping and handling. This pretty much gets me every time. Shipping and handling probably wouldn’t even charge me more than $10 tops but for some reason… I always want the deal!
When I was 19years old, me and my cousin were so irresponsible! We just walked around all day and made some of the dumbest decisions possible! Exercising our free will, we would rather spend our money on food and snacks appose to more important things… Like transportation! Short on cash we ended up having to go through the turn style together on 42nd street. Just our luck the cops were waiting for us on the other side. They pulled us to the side and asked us for our ID’s and I didn’t have mines on me. I was told to call my mother and the cop would match up the information from her with the information my cousin would give for me. After getting my mother on the line and telling her that the cops had us, the cop told me to hang up the phone. I felt like there was no way in hell I could just call my mother, tell her I’m with the cops and then hang up, so exercising my free will once again!...I didn’t. Next thing I know, my phone was knocked out of my hand and I was being arrested. Being a typical rebellious teen landed me and my cousin a night in jail! But at least I had free will…smh
Determinism…
I do a lot of online shopping to avoid hassles, it just seems so much easier to me. I usually go online looking for a certain item and knowing about how much I’m going to spend. I might have about $40 worth of items in my cart but when I go to check out I’m told that if I spend $75 I will receive free shipping and handling. This pretty much gets me every time. Shipping and handling probably wouldn’t even charge me more than $10 tops but for some reason… I always want the deal!
