Blog #12

My test results for the three personality test are as fallows:

Big Five Test 1:

Extraversion-3-low

Agreeableness-5- High

Conscientiousness-5.2-High

Emotional stability-5.4-high

Openness-3.8-low

Big Five Test 2:

Extroversion-56%

Accommodation-84%

Orderliness-79%

Emotional stability-79%

Openness-39%

Myers Briggs Style Test

Extraverted-11-low

Sensing-12-low

Feeling-38-mod

Judging-33-mod

I think that these test are valid because majority of my results were about the same and fit be well. I feel that they were right on and were really good at judging my personality. I think that the test were well made and useful.

The letters that I got on the MMPI test were ESFJ. Standing for Extraverted, sensing, feeling and judging. I agree with most of these letters and think that they on right for me.

I think that I did great on the lie test because I read that question carefully and really thought about them. I did notice quite a few questions that would fit on the lie scale. Most of them were in the first big five test. There were only a few in the other two test.

Blog #11

This week in psychology we discussed the theories of motivation and I found them to be quiet interesting. We looked at the instinct theory which is behaviors that are rigid patterned and unlearned. The drive-reduction theory in which physiological needs create motivation, such as thirst and hunger. Another theory is the incentive theory that positive or negative environmental stimulus motivate a behavior. Lastly, the optimum arousal theory increases arousal. Another thing that we looked at this week was Maslow's pyramid of hierarchy of needs. His pyramid shows the basic human needs starting with physiological needs and once those needs are met you move up the pyramid to self-transcendence needs at the very top.

With all of these theories I wanted to find a way to look at them in an easier way so I went and found this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4flf6XHJUc which I feel does an excellence job at showing all of these theories and explaining them.

Intelligence In Men And Women Is A Gray And White Matter

Men and women have significantly differences in their intelligence. A study shows that women have more white matter and men have more gray matter linked to intellectual skills. A professor at psychology in Department of Pediatrics said “These findings suggest that human evolution has created two different types of brains designed for equally intelligent behavior,” Men have about 6.5 times the amount of gray matter and women have nearly 10 times the amount of white matter related to intelligence. Gray matter represents information processing and white matter represents the networking of connections between these processing centers. This can explain why men are better at local processing, like mathematics and women excel at participating and adjusting information from dispersed gray-matter regions in the brain.

Blog #10

This term in psychology I think that I worked hard, but that I can improve on some of the things that I did. Even though I did all of the readings, I feel that I could have done more to understand the material and spend more time on them. I think that this next term I am going to spend more time on the readings and go over them more, so I can improve my grade and scores. I also think that I might try to study more and spread out my study time for this next them. I am also going to take more of the on-line quizzes to help me. Next term, I want to work even harder and try to improve my grade and study more for quizzes and test.

Blog #9

This week in psychology we read articles on memory. I found the articles to be quite interesting and worth reading. I found out things that I never knew before and I enjoyed reading them. The articles I read were "Forgetting is the New Normal" and "The Many Flavors of Memories". Both of the articles were about ways that can help improve your memory and help you remember more. Some things that were big and they pointed out were exercise, diet, and emotions.

The first article talks about how when you exercise your body produces more neurons and they fired together better. Just walking two miles a day can help improve your memory. You don't need to work out hard core or anything like that; just a little bit of exercise each day can help. This article also brings up the point of your diet and that certain foods can help you remember. Some foods that help are blueberries and walnuts. I am not a fan of either one of these foods, but maybe I will eat them every once in a while.

The second article talked about using drugs to improve your memory and giving people these drugs to help them remember past events. I don't agree with this and I think that it is terrible that researchers are using drugs on people to help with memory. This article also touches on emotions. The more emotion linked to an event the more likely the person is to remember the event in later years. I find that to be very true, if there are high emotions in something whether good or bad the more likely you are the remember the details of what happen.

I found both of these articles to be very interesting and informative. After reading these articles I had a better understanding of memory and ways to help improve your memory and slow down the process of memory loss in the future. I learned some new information; that exercise helps improve your memory and that blueberries can help, also.

Blog #8

This week in psychology we learned about memory. Memory is a very interesting topic and really caught my attention. I found it to be very exciting. I decided to look at video on memory and I found this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TausqSK9p9k.

I think that this video was very interesting and did a great job at going through all of the steps of memory.

It did a great job at explaining the steps involved in encoding, storage, and retrieval. It was also really good at explain the different between long-term and short-term memory and how each one of these steps work. It also explain how much and how long information can be storied. It also went a little into chucking.

Blog #7

One topic of the reading that I found interesting was operational conditioning. I find it to be super entertaining and strange. I think that having children do something just because they see someone doing it is fascinating. In the reading it brings up the bobo doll experiment and I found that to be quite interesting and decided to watch a video on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr0OTCVtHbU. This video really shows how a behavior can be shaped just by watching a person do and say things. I found the part when the little girl is in the room with other toys and the bobo doll and starts beating up the doll instead of playing with the other toys. This really goes to show that adults and other person need to watch what they say and do with children around.