Thinking Critically

In my eyes research is very important. Every fact that you obtained somewhere or somehow had to come from someones hard work and research. If we were to just throw out facts into the world without having any work done behind it what a mess we would be in. For example, if the cars we drove, the houses we live in, the food we eat did not have any research done behind it we could be living in a very unfit and unsafe society. So therefor it is very important we take it upon us to test the things we use in life and do study on it so everything falls into place later on.
I just recently read an article that i found very fitting for me. It was "How Long To Form A Habit". In swimming every second is very crucial and it can come down to the hundreths of a second for a race. For me this year my goal was trying to gain the habit of not breathing in and out of my turns and i often wondered how long i would have to do it daily until it just came natural. According to the article the old myth of 21 days proves untrue. For certain habits to form it can take nearly 2 months or longer which i found shocking because thats nearly my whole season. However, it was very interesting and useful to come upon that.
This chapter was very interesting. However, most of it was common knowledge or stuff we had learned prior to this class about research and such. I did learn there are numerous ways for Psychologists to perform research and getting an insight on all of those were pretty cool. I liked to learn about all the factors they consider before their research such as gender, culture, and if it is right or wrong to perform tests on animals. Hearing all that takes a role in Psychology was pretty neat. I'm anticipating the next chapter!