Attribution:
The process of attribution is where we simply attribute one's behavior to internal disposition or external situations. We may try to link someones behavior or why they do the things they do because of something in their personality or because of something that is taking place in their life. For example, we may think that our friend is being irritable towards us not because she is like that all the time, but because something is happening in her personal life to make her become that way. She may have had a fight with someone close to her, had a bad hair day, flat tire, or any of the above to make her that way. That is the process of attribution, just our ability to link why someone is being the way they are.
The fundamental attribution error is the overestimation of the influence of personality and underestimating their influence of situation.
Stereotyping:
Stereotypes are when we generalize a belief about a certain group of people. For example, blondes are dumb, skaters are burnouts, all those which a group is associated. Illusory correlations are when people tend to overestimate a link between 2 variables and the correlation is slight or not at all. examples of this is, the team won the game because they prayed beforehand, wearing his lucky socks made him run faster, all things like that where there is a link associated, but no actual proof made. This is how stereotypes are made. One time can lead to a stereotype and belief for down the road. In turn they both work slightly the same.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Personality
I think there is alot that has shaped my personality. When i was little we grew up in the suburbs of chicago so my parents werent as lenient as they are now. After moving up north here it has made a big difference. I guess you could say to my friends i grew up with back in illinois i am a country girl now. i dont enjoy the same things they do for fun and they dont enjoy the same things i do for fun. In that aspect my family and friends have made a huge impact. I have had my heart opened up and stomped on by a guy i was with for 4 years so i guess you could say i have major trust issues now. I grew up as a tom boy. My dad loves snowmobiling and so do i now. my friends back in illinois frown upon even the thought that i race snocross now. But that is who i am i guess. So several things all building up to make me who i am today. and from this whole chapter if i were to say there were one theory that i took from this it would be the one made from Rogers. It is basically letting you aknowledge who you are and who you would like to be, it allows you to view yourself in a possitive matter letting you surround yourself with positive and genuine people also. That is the way i think it should be. after all, you can generally judge someone based on the people they surround themselves with!
Chapter 13 movie
I enjoyed the human experience video and how it took his personality to help them find a future career. I think that at the stage of life we are all in...soon to be graduating seniors, i think it is very important for us to be finding where we want to go in life. If we know more about ourselves and our personality then it will be able to help us discover what we will want to do with it and turn it into a career someday! So that movie was very appealing to me. However, i disliked the movie on Morals. It seemed to me like it was only confusing the basic concept of values and morals and what we do with them. thats only my opinion though. But i didnt think it clearly got to the point of what they were maybe trying to get across. Oh well. None the less it was a very very interesting chapter.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Big Five Assignment
After completing the big five inventory and receiving my results i found them very interesting. Some things were very on and some i felt were off. It was on that i am very social and agreeable because i think i am! i love to meet new people and talk with others! i really don't like fighting so more often than not i like to agree with the person or people i am around and avoid confrontation. However, the thing that surprised me most was that i scored some what low on the area of closed or open mindedness. I know myself pretty good and i know that i like to go out and try new things, meet new people, however, my results showed me that i rarely like to try new things because i like to be down to earth. So that really surprised me there.
After reading through my results it's a little more clear to me why i love currently being a C.N.A. I am a very social person and really easy to get along with so it makes it easy for me to communicate with the residents and make them feel at home. I always find it interesting to talk to them and hear the interesting stories that they have to tell from "back in the day". So clearly with the results that i scored highly in it makes sence that i enjoy a job where i am around people and communicating with others.
When it comes to social groups i think everyones personality plays their part. Obviously i am loud, outgoing, and social so i am friends with people that share the same interests. I'm not in a group of people that tend to stay at home on a friday night and read books. Not saying there is anything wrong with that, but i like to go out and meet new people, experience new things, and push my limits along the way. I just enjoy experiencing life. My friends tend to do the same. They are just as crazy, if not crazier than i really am and when you have a group of friends like that we all get along reallly good and have a fun time. My mom always said that people can tell alot about you just from the people you hang out with. I see that very clearly now!
After reading through my results it's a little more clear to me why i love currently being a C.N.A. I am a very social person and really easy to get along with so it makes it easy for me to communicate with the residents and make them feel at home. I always find it interesting to talk to them and hear the interesting stories that they have to tell from "back in the day". So clearly with the results that i scored highly in it makes sence that i enjoy a job where i am around people and communicating with others.
When it comes to social groups i think everyones personality plays their part. Obviously i am loud, outgoing, and social so i am friends with people that share the same interests. I'm not in a group of people that tend to stay at home on a friday night and read books. Not saying there is anything wrong with that, but i like to go out and meet new people, experience new things, and push my limits along the way. I just enjoy experiencing life. My friends tend to do the same. They are just as crazy, if not crazier than i really am and when you have a group of friends like that we all get along reallly good and have a fun time. My mom always said that people can tell alot about you just from the people you hang out with. I see that very clearly now!
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Clive Wearing
Watching this movie was very interesting. Clive has a memory of the 10 second tom from the movie 50 first dates. He believes that every two minutes or so he has been away or fell asleep.
Clive lost his basic memory and only remembers things that occur rutinely or evryday such as getting up and getting dressed for the day and so on. He keeps a diary close by and writes his thoughts that he feels are important to him. At one point in the day he will write i am awake for the first time and underline first time because he believes that he wakes several times a day because he can not remember when he actually did. It is kind of sad in a way that his can not remember his wife. He knows he loves her and is very excited to see her everytime she visits, but the only reason he recognizes her as his wife and not any other woman is the fact that he has it written down in his diary. She tries to remind him who she is and sometimes he finds himself angry and frustrated. Who wouldnt when you can barely remember those that are truly close to you? however, clive can still direct and make beautiful music. As his wife noted it is much like riding a bike to him, once you learn you just cant forget. I thought that was very cool!
i could not imagine being in the possition he is in, or trying to live out that lifestyle, but he makes it work. It's very cool that his wife still loves him and supports him because it must be so frustrating for her, not to meantion heart breaking to see him in that state. i dont know if i could do what they do. Then again, people always do crazy things when their in love.
Clive lost his basic memory and only remembers things that occur rutinely or evryday such as getting up and getting dressed for the day and so on. He keeps a diary close by and writes his thoughts that he feels are important to him. At one point in the day he will write i am awake for the first time and underline first time because he believes that he wakes several times a day because he can not remember when he actually did. It is kind of sad in a way that his can not remember his wife. He knows he loves her and is very excited to see her everytime she visits, but the only reason he recognizes her as his wife and not any other woman is the fact that he has it written down in his diary. She tries to remind him who she is and sometimes he finds himself angry and frustrated. Who wouldnt when you can barely remember those that are truly close to you? however, clive can still direct and make beautiful music. As his wife noted it is much like riding a bike to him, once you learn you just cant forget. I thought that was very cool!
i could not imagine being in the possition he is in, or trying to live out that lifestyle, but he makes it work. It's very cool that his wife still loves him and supports him because it must be so frustrating for her, not to meantion heart breaking to see him in that state. i dont know if i could do what they do. Then again, people always do crazy things when their in love.
Chapter 8
The memory chapter really stood out to me. I considered myself to have really good memory, that is until we did that experiment in class. I found myself struggling big time. As the test went on it became harder for me to remember. It came to me that memory, much like personality, is what defines us as who we are. We store certain memories in our bank by how much they affected us or touched us. By taking down those things, we become who we are. A child who suffers abuse may remember that struggle as a child and as an individual, has a hard time connecting to others in a relationship. Someone may struggle with the death of a loved one and later on becomes unattached to those near to them for fear of hurt. By the memories those two individuals had it affected them later on in their life. That is why memory is so important to us because it has a greater effect on us than we are to realize.
The memory has different levels as far as long term and short term. after that activity i realized i was very good at the short term! as you are younger your memory is stronger than those who age because your memory begins to weaken with time. However, older people are still very good at select long term memory subjects compared to short term ones such as paying the bills, losing their keys, or where they put the paper. I think im a throw up in between because i find myself forgetting alot of those things quite often. i can only imagine what its going to be like for me when i really do get old!
I really liked the concept of forgetfullness in this chapter. I always find myself questioning myself why i forget things that i was told to remember jsut earlier that day, but yet we still forget. The memories fade after storage known as the forgetting curve. sometimes the past interferes with what we recently learned. Or something recently learned interferes with something learned in the past. These were called proactive interference and retroactive interdference. Both working in opposite ways explaining why we often go blank minded from time to time!
The memory has different levels as far as long term and short term. after that activity i realized i was very good at the short term! as you are younger your memory is stronger than those who age because your memory begins to weaken with time. However, older people are still very good at select long term memory subjects compared to short term ones such as paying the bills, losing their keys, or where they put the paper. I think im a throw up in between because i find myself forgetting alot of those things quite often. i can only imagine what its going to be like for me when i really do get old!
I really liked the concept of forgetfullness in this chapter. I always find myself questioning myself why i forget things that i was told to remember jsut earlier that day, but yet we still forget. The memories fade after storage known as the forgetting curve. sometimes the past interferes with what we recently learned. Or something recently learned interferes with something learned in the past. These were called proactive interference and retroactive interdference. Both working in opposite ways explaining why we often go blank minded from time to time!
Monday, November 9, 2009
Chapter 7
I found the part of observational learning very interesting because i believe everyone does it! We all want to be like someone weather its an athlete, rockstar, or someone smart. We take in what we see an apply it to our life. You constantly see little boys wrestling around like they see on t.v. or girls trying to dress up pretty like the ones they read about. Sometimes it has its negative effects such as with girls trying to model. They may suffer eating disorders because of what they see and are trying to become. so in all that i found that part of the chapter to be extra interesting because i can relay it to just about everyone.
I know for a fact i have been exposed to classical conditioning. I have been swimming since i was very little and being underwater if your coach has something to say he cant just stop you. Whenever he wants your attention he will whistle one loud whistle. He whistles when he wants you to start a set, get your attention, or go faster. Either way the whistle is my signal. The one time i was in the mall of america with my sister and we got seperated from my parents and so my dad whistled, instantly both my sisters head and mine turned to look for the whistle and we found my dad. Trained on that sound i know i am a victim of classical conditioning!
I know for a fact i have been exposed to classical conditioning. I have been swimming since i was very little and being underwater if your coach has something to say he cant just stop you. Whenever he wants your attention he will whistle one loud whistle. He whistles when he wants you to start a set, get your attention, or go faster. Either way the whistle is my signal. The one time i was in the mall of america with my sister and we got seperated from my parents and so my dad whistled, instantly both my sisters head and mine turned to look for the whistle and we found my dad. Trained on that sound i know i am a victim of classical conditioning!
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