5-20-2010

This week we have had work time to pick a project and finish it by the end of the school year, which by the way is like two weeks away. I choose to create the 10 page paper on ADD and ADHD. This topic is very interesting to me not only because i have ADD but also because others around me have this. They are saying taht ADD now a days is being misdiagnosed.
Now we have to read a book and do lit circles. I am reading A man searching for Meaning. I hope this book is interesting otherwise i probably will get really bored and mad that i have to read this in the last two weeks of my senior year. We have to do a couple worksheets on this book, which i am not happy about.
Now again Dreier just told us that we have to write a movie review on top of all the other things we have to do in here, if you cant tell i am not happy about all this stuff we have to do! I can not wait till summer!!!!!

Blog Post for 5-14

This week was a very busy week. We had our AP psych test, the gamblers had the most important game of there season, and school is ending soon. This blog post I am going to focus on supersitions. My boyfriend before every game has a routine that he has to do other wise he thinks he wont play well. He has to sleep till 11 then go to noodles and eat the same dish every time. He then has to go home watch a little bit of hockey and then nap until 330. He will dress from left to right. he thinks if he does not do the same thing even if he did have a good game he will blame it on that. One day i went to his house to pick up tickets and i screwed up his routine. He still scored a goal that night but had 3 shots on goal so he thinks because i delayed his nap time that he did not get the 3 shots. This supersition is kinda taking up and consuming time in his life, that is unneeded.

Blog for the week

This week one of the topics we talked about in class was love and how relationships work and how people will conform to others. dreier made a comment on how long distance relationships do not work because the people do not see each other. I tried to prove him wrong becasue my parents went 5 years with out living together or near each other. that same day i went home and asked how often my parents would visit each other and they said at the most 3 times a year. This will prove that long distance relationships can work and not everyone should conform to the response that long distance do not work. Conforming to others will make you look like a follower and not a leader. I am more likely to be unique and not follow others. This topic was interesting and i loved seeing dreier try and explain "Love" ha.

Emotions

This week we have been talking about emotions. Yesterday we took two quizes on identifying smiles if they are fake or if they are genuine. the second one was identifing emotions. if the gesture was happy sad etc. on the first quiz i could identify 15 out of 20 of the smiles. after the quiz Dreier told us to not look at the smile or teeth he told us to look at the eyes. well as i was taking the quiz i was only looking that the teeth. on the second one i got confused easily by what emotion they were trying to show. Did anyone else? Maybe that means im just not that intouch with my emotions. haha not. But i think this topic on emotions is very interesting.

Weekly blog

This week we focused on therapy and disorders. I find disorders very interesting. I have experienced bi polar disorder first hand. My older cousin has bi polar and at family events this affect everyone. Last christmas we were at family dinner and my boyfriend came with me. We were talking about his hockey career and all of a sudden she just started freaking out at him and everyone else around us. Later i found out that her ex boyfriend played hockey at thier high school and he recently broke her heart. I never knew how bi polar worked until her mother explained more about it. When reading the therapies and trying to relate them to the disorders on how you should treat each individual was somewhat hard. I always thought just talking out problems and giving them medicine will help them in thier life style. I really find this subject entertaining and interesting.

Two article summaries

http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/a/adult_attention-deficit_disorder.htm

This article was about AADD. We talked about ADD (attention Deficit disorder). This AADD is Adult attention Deficit disorder. They classified this as adults who have trouble getting work done, procrastination, or disorganized. They gave the statistic that this exists in about 2-4% of adults. Differing from childern symptoms the adults could show inattentive toward their childern, restlessness, and learning/emotional problems. One of the most promonate signs of AADD is acting with out thought. I picked this article because I too have ADD and I always wondered if you could have it in adulthood or if you learn how to be attentive.


http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/a/aggression.htm

This article is about aggression. This refers to the behavior that is intended to cause him or herself pain. They talk about how aggression can either be physical or verbal. One thing I found interesting is that behavior that is a accident but causes pain is not called aggression. They ask why do people hurt themselves or attempt to hurt others. they mention that the hypothalumus can cause aggression when electrically stimulated. I thought this was interesting that because of a part in your body you can become aggressive. I picked this article because i find it interesting when something can just set someone off on a tangent.

Intelligence

This week we took test that would tell us our IQ and other things. The pie chart test actually told you what type of learning you are better at. My pie chart told me that i would learn better for visual/spatial. I learn by reading the text over and using diagrams to study. For each chapter i use flash cards to learn the vocabulary. I can also learn with hands on acivities. I love doing stations and using my brains to create things or solve problems. I am not a very logical thinker so solving math problems or puzzles is a challenge to me. I love interacting with people and working as a group to create something. I work very well with others and get along with other. After this pie chart i understand now the best way for me to learn information.

Finals week

So this whole week was pretty much a stressful week. Making up work from when i was gone and trying to remember all the stuff i learned before vacation. Having to recall my information that i forgot while i was basking in sun actually was pretty hard. On Monday i started to write out my notes in colorful pens and used flashcards for the vocabualry that i still had trouble learning. I started studying monday because i know from our reading that it is a bad idea to cram the night before. I took each chapter at a time and reviewed them so i could imprint the information into my brain. Thursday night came and i studied for hours, finally giving up at about 9 i remembered one thing, if i stop now then go to bed in a hour my brain will store that information. So after studing i went down stairs cooked myself a pizza and went to bed. When i got to the test i had to recall the information and recognize the answers to the questions. This was hard at times but i made it through the test.

Confusing puzzles that hurt my head...

So today in class not only did we have to do puzzles that hurt your head and were impossible to solve (even though others in the class solved them) but now we have to blog using vocabulary for this chapter, so well were do i begin. I guess i will begin with the nail puzzle since we almost go this one. Our group would have used insight, when i first saw the nails i remembered something from camp that we did with the GAPP students, when i saw the nails it triggered a memory, that i might have done but i didnt remember how to solve this puzzle. We got close but never finished.
Hmmm now the record problem, well that turned out to a problem haha. we could not figure out this, we didnt know what we needed to use what for and it was just totally confusing. We used fixation in the way that we would not try any other way besides using the pencil in the middle to turn the record and the needle to try and play the record. We were fixed on this way and didnt think their was any other way. We didnt have a mental set since you know many people dont know how to make a record player our of a piece of candy, band aid, pencil, and so on. Come on Dreier this is 2010 we use Ipod touches. haha.

Blog

So today in class at the end, after that awesome quiz we had, we watched a video and how the rat would find the food but then a week or so later be put in the same situation and they would remember where it was. Well i actually experienced this in a way. My grandma is staying the weekend here. She got here Wednesday and is staying till monday. Until tonight we switched were we were sleeping (we switched rooms). Since i took over three out of the five bedrooms in the house. Well my dogs absoulutly love my grandma and would run up and scratch the door so she would open it, but because she was not in their they were confused when i opened the door and ran away to look for my grandmother. I thought this was very interesting and funny how just today we watched a video on this.

Weekly blog #2

My post this week is going to be about Mrs. W. dad coming in and talking with us. Having him come in and discuss what he did and things that he knew about Harlow was very interesting. At first when i read this portion in the book I thought this was animal cruelty, I know it was research for good causes but still monkeys have a life too. Having him discuss how they could take baby monkeys away from their parents and then once they were ready to mate they would not know what to do. Upon having the child they would not know how to feed the child or even take care of this child. This in a sense can relate to human lives. Harlows research i do believe helped society. This researched showed that a child does need loving and caring not just food to grow up well.

PSA

This is my PSA I was in a group with Sara B. and Lauren G.
http://www.youtube.com/user/appsychology1023#p/a/u/0/6F09d5fzO44

The two PSA's that I really liked would be

Emily and logans video was very interesting
http://www.youtube.com/user/appsychology1023#p/u/7/_MI5J3FX-0E
I really liked this video because they not only used groups within the schools in ashwaubenon they also used great ways to relate these groups. They gave great facts about stages you go through and how they relate to each group. They used a variety of places and groups to relate to each stage.

Jarred and Alicias and Kate's PSA was great
http://www.youtube.com/user/appsychology1023#p/u/11/6I1L6LT_0NE
There PSA was by far the best, not only was it well edited and thought out it was very informational. Their PSA kept my attention the whole 3 mins. They related great programs to the stages and they even had great music to go with their video.

Friday blog 1

After reading the article "teens before their time" and discussing the article with a group of people, it got me thinking, why is this happening now? Technology is just starting to advance and is growing everyday. Having technology as a theory of teens growing and producing faster just doesnt seem like a great theory. When you look at all the chemicals put in products for the smell or taste, why could those not be a factor? Looking at my little cousin i can deffenitly see a difference in her life style then mine. She is watching MTV at age 10, i didnt even know what MTV was when i was 10. Looking at the clothes she is wearing compared to what i wore when i was 10 is very very different. I really do think that our brians are growing faster with information about adult life and that is what is speeding up our hormones to make us produce faster. You look at all the dieting commercials these days and the buy this and you will be awesome. Elementary kids these days are shopping at hollister for thongs, i didnt even know what that was until 8th grade. You walk through the mall and you see sex symbols selling products to young kids. The kids see these sex symbols and they want to look like that. I feel all those picture are being processed through their head and speed up everything, their physical and mental self. This artical was a real eye opener, expecially about the 2 year old developing! That was really shocking to me. I am really interested in pursuing child development in college so this unit is very very interesting to me.

Drug assignment

The drug Naltrexone is a drug that is used to help narcotic addicts stay drug free. It is also used to help alcoholics. This is a antagonist drug. This drug helps block the "high" feeling that you would normally get or the craving you get when you want to take the drug. In the case of an overdose this drug can cause hepatocellular injury. This drug will also increase your risk of Hepatitis and other liver disease.

Test 1

The first test was not that bad. Studying tips for me and maybe for others would have to be know the vocabulary really well. I found that if you knew the definitions of the words then you would most likely know if that answer was the best fit for the question or not. Reading and studying every night will help and I am going to do this. I will spend 30 mins every night reviewing all the previous information and new information.

YouTube assignment

The youtube assignment i feel was not worth it. I would much rather make a powerpoint or a poster to present my information. Or use microsoft media player and type the information and use pictures that go with the information. I know technology is advancing but that doesnt mean everyone has that advanced technology in thier household or close to them.

Technology

This technology is awesome. I hope there is no complications with these netbooks. Having your book at your hands being able to read highlight and take notes straight on the text on your screen is nice. I feel this is will be nice to be able to see your text book online. you wont always have to bring your book to class. This will be nice if you forget your book at home or your notebook you can always have your notes online.

Writing Assignment #1

My expectations of this course is to learn more about Psychology as a whole. I have taken Psychology 1 and 2 and Sociology. I want to learn information that will help me make my decision on how I want to major in Psychology. I am leaning toward Behavioral Psychology, but this class may change my mind.
After that first quiz I realize that this class will be one of my more challenging courses and I will need to work hard. This class will be good to prepare me for college. I am looking forward to working with technology, other people, and broadening my horizen in Psychology. The first reading interested me and I can't wait to see what the next readings are about. My goal not only is to pass this class but also take the information I learn to further my career in Psychology.

SOOOOO that quiz....one word HARD. I thought i was going to do well on this quiz because i understood the reading and took very well written notes but didnt do so hot on the quiz. I probably recommend studying the book and reading all the little side notes and taking them into consideration.