3 Blogs

Genetic Testing:
I read a blog about being tested for breast cancer genes so that you can eventually cure yourself and not have to deal with the negative consequences that come fro having cancer. There is a law against gene discrimination at work but i don't think that and jobs or insurance companies are going to be honest and non discriminatory.
Twin and family resarch
I read an article about two twins who were seperated at birth and they ended up doing everything the same in life and have similar personalities. This shows that adoptions do not always effect the children in a negative way.
Human genome project
this is a 13 year long project that wants to determne different genes and help those who have genetic mutations that could end up hurting those in their lives.

3 responses to my google reader blogs!

1.combating overdoses and addictions, i think that this is an interesting experiment they are using cocaine proteins to combat overdoses. I don't think that using any drug that involves cocaine is a good idea to help people.
2.pregnant moms who chew on fat pass on habit, this experiment is very interesting because it says that rats who eat the most fat have babies that also weigh more throughout life. This could be a lifechanging situation for all prenant human mothers, because this study states that a mother could prevent having an overweight unealthy child.
3.war developements make kids more agressic\ve, this study shows tat children even in gradeschool show agression when their parent is away at war. These children bite, scratch and lash out because of the lonleyness they feel.

What is the most important Psych. experiment that has never been done?

i think the most important experiment is the Truman show experiment because i think it would be interesting to see the how social norms and Cognitive dissonance would be affected throughout the experiment. I also think that after the experiment was revealed to the subject it would be important to see the reactions and to see if they would try to rebel and be a loner in their actual life.

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.