I read the article written in the New York Times about Mr. Obama. I thought it was really interesting because I understood where the writer was coming from. Often Americans are bias about what a traditional American looks like. Even though Mr. Obama is American, people see him as another race just becuase of his skin color where as someone that is white and perhaps British, Americans would just assume that that person is American. I learned that so many times, people assum what they see to be true. I also learned that even myself sometimes are bias. This is relevant because Mr. Obama is the face of America and so often he is not even considered American, so how can he represent us. This article is interesting to me because I never realized how often I steriotype people. From this section I learned about unconscious thinking where you dont even realize you are think about a particular thing. What was most surprising to me was selective attention. This happenes everyday now that it is brought to my attention. If you are intested say in science, you will not even think about it before you remember every word your science teacher said. However say your next class is math. Your teacher starts to talk you will be off in day dreaming before you realize it. You are unconsciously blocking out what you dont want to hear. I agree with the sectiona bout why we dream. I think we dream to make since of what is going on in reality or maybe a way to worry. My evidence for this idea is that alot of my dreams are me worring about an upcoming event. I think my perspective is correct because usually you dont dream usually about nothing important and their usually is a purpose for everything.

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The activities that interested me the most and that I participated in was where the eye hides something the brain sees. The activity in this one was to stair at an x and while closing your left eye, move closer to the screen and as you did, the black dot to the right disappeared. This proved that everyone has blind spots in each of their eyes but when both eyes are opened they are very hard to detect. The other activity I did was the color activity. Your eye automatically sees a color and you don't have to think about it or so it seems. Reality there are different waves that bring the color to your eye and tell your brain what color it is. It was interesting I thought, to see how the lighting can play with your brain making you think about what color the color really is that you are seening. What suprised me the most was the dot one. I never realized that one eye to the other really just sees the others blind spot. I never noticed we had them or maybe our brains just tell us to asume what is there or in other words just guess. I learned that you can't always believe what you are seeing. Have you ever heard I can't believe what I am seeing. That sounds crazy because if you are seeing something, that it obviously is true. However, I think now after doing these activities, that maybe I souldn't automatically believe what I see because maybe my brain is just making up for what I'm not seeing. I don't think these eye activities really change the way I preceive anything besides that our mind can often times play tricks to make us think something false. I thought that phrenology was really interesting. I couldn't imagin anyone believing the idea that the bumps on your skull makes you and gives you your smarts and character. Although in the 1800s, they didn't have near as much gagets to figure out the human brain. Another thing this unit got me thinking about was reflexes. So many things we do during the day we do and don't even notice. Automatic responses happen so often such as breathing or moving a particular joint all because of the spinal cord which holds so many nerves. I thought that video was crazy interesting. I never knew how important it was for once side of your brain to communicate with the other. I knew that left controled the right and vis vera. I never knew what seeing something on the opposite side of your vision would make you not process through your mind. Each move i make I'm thinking, what side of my brain am I using?

There is alot of important reasons why someone would want to research something. One reason would be to gain knowlege about something they are very interested in or maybe you have a question so you would like to find out the reasoning behind that something. We research every day whether we notice or not. It's not all about looking up things on the internet it could be anything from looking at directions to make a box of mac n cheese or even people watching to see what they do or how someone reacts to a particular instance. Relative research that I looked up was nonverbal communication and behavior article. I think it is a very interesting subject and I understand why it recieves so much attention. I enjoy people watching which is a great way to see people's nonverbal behavior. I've learned alot in just chapter 1 alone. I've learned that hindsight bias happens more than I notice. This is important because it happpens alot of the time. People just believe information givin to them to be true. I alos learned what a case study is. This is important because I believe it's a great step forward as far as using a person's hole life informationt o figure out their characteristics rather than just the way they act. Also I thought that where it talked about how when something normal happens you can't remember near as well as something abnormal. I take this in considering the fact that it is mostly true. Alot of the time you can remember for example someone calling your phone stating it's the police and they are looking for a suspect named john doe rather than someone calling with the wrong number looking for what's his name.

I used to believe psychology was only about human behavior and the way people interact with each other. But it's not only that I have learned. It is also about what molds people to what they are and how they act. All people feel different feelings at different times. Psychology affects your life because in life you go through different experiences and psychology is the study of why you acted the way you did at that time, whether you were angry or excited. I learned that it is important to not only be skeptical but humility. I found that interesting because to get to the underlying idea of things you must be aware of our own vulnerability and know how we will act if certain things occur. The other thing i learned that i thought was really intriging is how important theories are when trying to research psychology. i thought this was interesting because I understand now that it's an important step because it summarizes everything that was found in the research and at an easier way to review it.

My name is Kali and im 17. I go to Stratford High school. I am who I am because of my mom. I spend alot of time with her and I suppose she just rubs off on me and we act alike. I think psychology is important for everyone to know because its how humans interact and how we live on a daily bases. why do we do this? why do we feel that? That is what psychology is.

Psychology should be fun!