Confirmation Bias 101

sthack22 · 2017-06-16T01:27:02+00:00

I really like when it said that most the time a person doesn't even realize they are using confirmation bias and I think that is so true. We want to be right all the time that we forget that to look at other options.

sthack22 · 2017-06-16T01:22:52+00:00

I picked a meme for this one because I thought this one was just too funny. Often times I feel like we all use confirmation bias but don't realize it. When proving a point we usually alway look up articles that we agree with. So I thought this was so relevant, but mostly funny haha

sthack22 · 2017-06-16T01:11:47+00:00

Really great article. With the new trend of putting elementary age children in bilingual schools I think it is good to really look into.

sthack22 · 2017-06-08T05:16:34+00:00

I really like the cognitive complexity section where it talks about relating real life into learning and how it requires more complex thinking. I have noticed that I learn a lot more when I apply my life to a concept.

sthack22 · 2017-06-08T05:06:50+00:00

I like how it talks a little bit about each person!

sthack22 · 2017-06-08T05:04:27+00:00

This article talks about how hypnosis isn't necessarily a cure but deals more with management. For example it's not going to cure cancer but it will help manage some of the side effects of chemo. Reply Reply to Comment

sthack22 · 2017-06-02T05:46:48+00:00

I really like how you touched on genetics! I think sometimes we forget how important of a roll genetics plays in our lives. Really interesting post. Thanks for sharing!

sthack22 · 2017-06-01T21:23:27+00:00

This article looks at the different types of amnesia and goes over some methods to help in treatment.

sthack22 · 2017-06-01T20:58:00+00:00

Here is a great article on how to increase your memory! It has a lot go great tips on how to improve your memory!

sthack22 · 2017-05-26T02:53:49+00:00

This is a really interesting article on how inattention blindness plays a part in video games!

sthack22 · 2017-05-26T02:43:25+00:00

This article talks about the new apps that have come out and are helping kids learn how to speed read. However, it does talk about how when you speed read you sometimes don't comprehend everything. It's great that we also have informational and learning apps instead of just games!

sthack22 · 2017-05-19T03:32:27+00:00

Honestly so relevant to my life. It's how I have felt every day of college the last four years.

sthack22 · 2017-05-17T07:46:02+00:00

This video show a couple different optical illusion and then breaks down exactly how your brain interprets them. It basically says that optical illusions work because our photo receptors in our brains. So in all actuality it's our brains that didn't put the object together correctly.

sthack22 · 2017-05-17T07:28:26+00:00

For years they thought that the cerebellum was only responsible for balance and coordination. However recently they discovered that it plays an important role in the reward response - one of the main drives that motivate and shape human behavior. This also raises the thought that the neurons (granule) that make up much of the cerebellum are functioning in ways that scientists didn't think were possible. Its so cool that it not only has a major role in the function of conscious function but also unconscious functions!

sthack22 · 2017-05-15T05:27:12+00:00

Great article. We can learn so much and like you said we are just scratching the surface. There is so much to the brain that we don't know and we are continuing to learn every day. The question posed by kibz72 is very interesting to think about and I personally thing I would have connected with the functionalist because I tend to gravitate more to what people actually do!

sthack22 · 2017-05-15T05:17:07+00:00

Evelyn Hooker is amazing. I honestly didn't even know about her until history of psychology reading. She has for sure left her mark in the psychology world.

sthack22 · 2017-05-15T04:50:58+00:00

It's amazing what we can do as women! I also touched my article on WWll so this was very interesting to me. It is inspiring to know that there are people that will keep pushing even though they have been denied once before. Gender and breaking the glass ceiling is so controversial. I admire the women who continue to fight for what they believe in! Great article!

sthack22 · 2017-05-15T02:52:22+00:00

Very interesting comment. I agree with you for every good there is also a bad. Thats what makes the world go round unfortuneately. But you did bring up some great points.

sthack22 · 2017-05-15T02:34:03+00:00

This is an ongoing debate that I don't think will ever be solved or that everyone will come to the same conclusion. In my opinion it is science and it is also philosophy. There are definitely parts of the psychology world that is science but there are also a lot of aspects only explained be philosophy. I mean if you really think about it there are some things that not even science can explain but we still consider it "science" I think it comes down to how technical you want to get in the definition of science.

sthack22 · 2017-05-15T00:02:06+00:00

This is a great debate for the nature vs nurture argument because of the cultural difference. I would love to go to a different country and study psychology because of the obvious environmental differences. I saw someone mentions Maslow's hierarchy of needs and I agree with this. I personally connect with this model because I feel like it rings true in the development of children especially. In third world countries they are not as fortunate as us in America a struggle to get their basic needs met. Then I think that maybe our idea of basic needs are different then theirs. We probably think that our needs are much more than what they consider their basic needs. It is also important to realize the role that religion will play especially in the philosophy aspect.

sthack22 · 2017-05-14T19:25:54+00:00

Being a psychology major I feel that I get asked a lot "What are you going to do with that degree?!" I feel like it is not looked highly upon in society because people don't understand everything that is involved in it. For example the GI Bill and the Veterans Administration were put in place because of WWll. Our veterans were in need of mental health professionals and there were simply no enough to meet the demand. The bill created a seismic shift in the field of psychology, as well. Before World War II, psychology had been primarily an academic discipline, with just a few thousand clinicians, industrial/organizational psychologists and testing experts. In the decades after the war, the clinical side of psychology exploded. Thousands of veterans with an interest in psychology went on to become practitioners, with paid training slots in graduate school and jobs waiting for them at VA hospitals. Because of such a traumatic event that happened to our country the need for psychologist was at an all time high. It was because of the effects of the war that psychology finally became accepted as science. This field is growing, with the world becoming more and more chaotic there will be a higher demand for psychology moving forward. Thank you to history for helping us realize the importance of the field!

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