_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
MEMORY
BIASES
Our memory has many kinds of biases. Here are three
of them:
ROSY
RETROSPECTIVE: Remembering the past as having been better than it really was.
In my life I have been to camps away from home. It's always hard for me to be
away from home, and for that period of time I experience a lot of anxiety. When
I would return home, I would suddenly forget about all the anxiety and only
remember the fun parts.
REMINISENCE BUMP: The recalling of more personal
events from adolescence and early adulthood that personal events from other
lifetime periods. My mother had the best memory. She remembered her friend's house
phone numbers from 35 years ago, and all of their birthdays, but she cannot
remember what she ate for lunch the day before.
LEVEL-OF-PROCESSING EFFECT: The different methods
of encoding information into memory have different levels of effectiveness.
When I would study in high school, I would use different methods of studying
like memorizing, making songs, or just reading the information over a dew
times. Depending on the information I would use the appropriate method.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
NATURE
versus NURTURE
The Catt family was a family of four Ronald, Bett,
and their two children, Hayden, and Abigail. They had a good life, Ronald had a
good job, and overall the Catts were considered an average American family.
After Bett dies, Ronald turned to alcohol and drugs for comfort. After the
addiction started, Ronald has a hard time holding onto jobs, and his addictions
didn't come cheap so he started running into financial problems and thus, the
robberies began. It first started out as a solo career, but later on involved
his two children.
Nature played a big role in the start of Ronald's
robberies. What I think started it all was Ronald's addictions. Yes, we all
need money to live and we sometimes run low and we wonder where our next
paycheck will come from, and maybe it will sweep our minds and we'll say,
"I wish I could just rob a bank." We don't actually act on those
thoughts, but Ronald did act on those sweeping thoughts. The fact that Robert
did act on those thoughts leads me to believe that he was not in a right state
of mind. Being a addict allowed him to do it the first time and didn't allow
him to stop after doing it that one time.
Whenever I need advice, the first people I turn to
are my parents. I believe that whatever they say or do is right and any other
way isn't. After years of bank robberies Ronald turned to his children for
assistance. The only way I can see the children being convinced that what their
father was doing was okay was if they see their parents in the same light I do.
If their father is robbing a bank, it must not be as bad as they think.
No one wakes up in the morning saying," today,
I want to rob a bank," and it's definitely not in your genes so there must
be something else at play here. For Ronald I think it was his addictions that
started it all, and for his children, I think it was the fact that their own
father was doing it.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _Assignment V
Operant Conditioning
Operant conditioning
(sometimes referred to as instrumental
conditioning)
is a method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for
behavior. Through operant conditioning, an association is made between a
behavior and a consequence for that behavior.
Through my many years of
school I have received many, many school assignments. I always used to leave
all my assignments for the night before even though I received it weeks before
the due date. Each time I would notice the closer the assignment came, the more
anxious I would become and have dreams of coming to school and forgetting about
the assignment. I never thought much of it until the anxiety became very bad
and I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night. So around 10th grade I
started finishing my assignments a little bit earlier each time, and noticed
that the earlier I gave it in the more faint my anxiety would be.
So from then on all my assignments were done a week before the due date.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
CONSCIOUSNESS: Analyzing Dreams
I
never really remember my dreams vividly when I wake up, but I sometimes
remember the story line and some of the people that were in it. Usually my
dreams always have something to do what was on my mind that day. When I'm not
having a scary dream I usually like dreaming because I sort through everything
that is on my mind but in just a bizarre way.
My
only dreams that I can remember that is recurring, is me trying to run from
someone chasing me and no matter how much I run I don't get any closer to the
place I'm running to. I think that dream happens when I have something to be
done that I'm avoiding. I guess you really can't run from your problems.
My
other recurring dream is when I'm trying to get up and walk, but I'm not able
to stand up straight because my bones are to heavy and too tired to stand up. I
feel like I weigh six hundred pounds. That dreams usually happens when I have
either had a very hard few days and I'm physically exhausted or when I've had
emotionally trying days and I'm just emotionally exhausted.
The
cognitive perspective, I know many psychologist believe that dreams have deeper
meanings and give you insight into your life, but I have never learned anything
from my dreams that I didn't already know. Like I said, whatever I think about
during the day or stressed about it will most likely be in my dreams just a bit
distorted.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Sensing and Perceiving
Sensing: as human beings, we
all have five senses, touch, smell, sound, taste, and sight. In our everyday
life we are always using at least one of our senses, sometimes more. When we
are using our senses they are sent to our brains, which tell us how to perceive
it.
Perceiving: after it is sent to
the brain, the brain tells us how to react, and here is why when two people
see, smell, or hear the same thing they have different reactions: no two
people’s brain are the same, so therefore no two reaction are the exact same.
For example, when someone you love passes away, every person mourns in his or
her own special way, and you might find it weird because that’s not how you
would react to someone you love dying.
On
many occasions I would go to movies with friends and I would enjoy it and can’t
imagine anyone else not liking it. When we would leave the movie and discuss
it, I later find that she did not enjoy the movie at all. That is our
perception coming to play. What she saw went to her brain and her brain perceived
it differently than mine.
Free Will or Determinism?
The big question, do we have free will or is everything predetermined for us? Our everyday life may seem like a routine and never changing and you might feel that everything is predetermined for us and that free will doesn't play a part in it, but that is not the case. Every day you wake up ready to start your everyday routine, one morning you can wake up and decide to push the snooze button that is your free will. It might feel like you don't have a choice to hit that snooze button, but that is you saying, "I don't want to face the consequences."
In my life there are so many things I don't and want to do. Like I want to take
off a week of school, or I don't want to study sten every night, I have my free
will to do or not to do those things, but I do or don't do them because I'm
afraid of the consequences. Just as I have the free will to go left or right, I
have free will to do and go as I choose, but I do so carefully because living
in society our actions could have consequences and repercussions.
Experiment Proposal
QUESTION OF INTEREST: Does wheat have any effect on the body?
HYPOTHESIS: Wheat has many negative affects on the body.
POPULATION: All people of all ages.
EXPERIMENTAL GROUP: People who don't eat wheat.
CONTROL GROUP: People who eat wheat.
RESEARCH:
RESEARCH:
