Outside reasing and an awsomly corny video.

Okay so i read the dopamine blog wail generally interesting it was semi boring but anyway i learned that there are lots of monoamines in our brains. And these monoamines cut up into different groups. Our brains basically make them on their own without any help. Tyrosine is what the monoamies are made out of. Dopamine is being used to cure treat and prevent life altering illnesses like Parkinson's.


The video i watched was called Memorize the parts of the brain. And it was totally awesome The guy who was explaining the mnemonic devices was really funny and you could tell he was recording himself and pausing and stopping the tape any old time he messed up. So FUNNY! But anyway the mnemonic devices actually were very helpful like the example of hypothalamus where he said to think of llamas and a hypo, saying that the hypo would REGULATE the temperature of the llamas. Very good stuff and i will use this info on the next tazer quiz/test.

what chapter 18 has taught me

i now know that social situations offer a lot of opportunity to understand psychology within a single conversation you can be socially influenced by other members of the group.Most of these members are joining in on Groupthink. This is where members of the group desire harmony and agree with the other members. But you may choose in these situations not to Conform in order to keep your views sacred and to make a fundamental attribution error.

personal stories of attraction and conflict

attraction:for me there are lots of cases of attractions in my life and im not ashamed of that but 1 does stick out in my mind when i first started working at Macdonald's i saw this hot kid (who im not naming) and i am still to this day 2 months later all giggly and stupid around him. i hope it wont interfere with my work. lol

conflict: like attraction there are also a lot of cases of conflict in my life this i am not so proud of. i seem to have the most problems in like school project scenarios. Like when a teacher pairs you up with that dumb a** that does nothing. i don't ever just finish the whole project for the 2 of us i will make the other kid do his part. This happened to me last week (again no names) but it does make me really mad that he expected me to do the whole thing myself. So i blew up at him and have a new partner that did her half of the work.

Agression and attraction blog

Aggression: i believe that we are all aggressive in nature. No matter how young or old or our upbringing it is human nature to harm others in either psychological or physical ways. Aggression can be in the form of violence or in the form of words. Some of us make our aggression but with little success i don't think it is bad to be aggressive i only think that sometimes we don't try hard enough to do it in the right way.
Attraction: attraction comes in many different forms for animals the attraction is to who is best sited for breeding purposes. Looks do not matter. But for humans looks are everything it is an immediate thing to see someone you think looks good. We don't even realize that we are doing it. Sometimes personality can also draw you to like someone. Attraction is a common and necessary thing we all do meaning to or not.

Social norm Project

Okay so i want to start off by saying this project ruined my day!! so anyways the social norm i violated was blaming a baby for crying. I have always wanted to do this because crying babies in restaurants ALWAYS bother me, and now i had an excuse for being nasty to a new mother. (go me)! I was at Applebees with my mom for lunch Sunday at like 1, and this lady plops down next to me with her baby in a snugly and orders her food. Then halfway through my meal of Oriental chicken salad the baby like goes into a manic fit and cries for what i swear feels like an eternity. My mom looked at me and was like"try to ignore it hunny" because she knows how i am with children. But i ignored her request and turned to the tired and depressed mother and said (with a lot of attitude) "can you make it be quiet" my mother let out a gasp . But to my surprise the woman just turned around, i know if i were her i would have punched me in the face. I felt invigorated and alive during and before the verbal lashing i guess because i have always wanted to do this. (i should/will be sterilized). But the people around me sure didn't like it my mother grounded me for the rest of the day an i couldn't finish my salad which was punishment enough. So whatever i guess i cant go to Applebees anymore since I'm sure the waiters heard the whole thing.

Video (aggression,violence,and the brain) : Mark had a tumor that was located in the front of his brain. This tumor was pushing down on his hypothalamus. This caused him to be extremely violent and abnormal in his everyday life. After a surgery to remove this tumor he suddenly became a kind and controlled man.

War, Death, and Cognitive Dissonance: In the beginning the families of the thousands of soldiers in Iraq were proud and supportive of the meaning of the war. But after some time has passed they have now decided that they are not supporting the war anymore even though nothing much has changed in Iraq. This phenom in is due to cognitive dissonance. These people are now regreting their past decisions due to the influence of others.

Understanding prejudice study: i took the race and society interview. It was kind of strange it asked some dumb questions that i had no oppinion on. But overall it made me look at our society in a new way. The fact that we even have this survey is upsetting because it means there is STILL prejudice in our society. :(