The Man With Two Brains Chapter 2 Blog

When i saw the video of the man with two brains i was pretty shocked because who would ever think a man would have to brains. Even though it was a little weird I found it pretty intersting. The tests that this man did were really cool because people with one brain wouldn't ever be able to do the tests he did. I tryed to draw a circle and a square at the same time and I couldn't do it. I probably wouldn't want two brains because I think one brain would always question the other and you would never know what to do or you would never be able to accomplish anything in life. I also really believe that this will not change how people will think in the world, in other words, were not going to go out and try to make everyone have two brains.

Three Door Dilemma Blog

I thought the Three Door Dilemma game was an ok game, it was defenitly not the greatest game but i did find some of it intersting. It told me to Play 20 time but i was pretty sure in the beginning i did't want to play that many times. The game wasn't very difficult but i had enough of it by the time i got to the 20th try. I think the reason why I found it more boring is because of the lack of technology in it because today we are very use to the Playstation's and Xbox's that all other games just seem nothing like it.

Chapter 1 Blog

Research is very important in our lives and if we didn't have it we would not be where we are today. The reason why we are so advanced in technology today is because of the research people in the past had discovered. If those people did not try to make this world more convenient we would be walking everywhere and i don't think any wants to be walking anywhere especially if the weather is very bad. As for our generation we need to keep finding new ways to find research so even more technology is created to make the world even more convenient that it is now.

Research that is relevant to me that i found very intersting on psyblog was "how you control who likes you?" The reson why I found this interesting was because everything that was brought up on this specific topic was very true about human beings. For example, when we know someone likes us we will act very warm towards that person and try to be nice to them and if we know that person does not like us we will act very cold towards that person and not care about them. I can say that this happens to a lot of us if not everyone in some way

One thing that i found interesting was naturalistic observation because it is describing behavior and not explaining it. Don't get me wrong explaining is a very important part but i think that when you describe something to someone by actually seeing it happen is a lot more effective then seeing it on paper.

The second thing that i found interesting was the correlation coefficient which is how one thing predicts the other. I thought this was a very unique way in finding how a person does in school. One way that it can tell you how well you are doing in school for example, is knowing how much aptitude test scores correlate with school success which then tells us how well the scores are predicting your school success.

The final thing that i found very interesting was the use of scatterplots. Scatterplots are used a lot in psychology which i never new. Psychology is very difficult to understand the way it is, well to me anyway, and the use of a scatterplot I thought mad it a lot easier to understand and see figures visually instead of trying to put it all together yourself in the reading and that helps me to understand a lot better.

Prologue Blog

The Prologue was pretty interesting to me. I leaned a lot about how your brain is used and how your brain thinks in everyday life. The neuroscience part of it really interested me the most. For example, how are messages transferred through the body and how is blood chemistry linked with moods and motives. I think psychology effects my like in many different ways. One way it effects my life is one minute I may be really mad at someone and then the next minute I won't be mad anymore. This kind of psychology is the cognitive perspective because this is the study of our anger and how our anger effects our thinking. Two things that I learned that I found interesting were all of psychologies perspectives and the nature-nurture issue. I found the perspectives interesting because I never would have thought their were that many of them, I always thought that psychology just had to do with the neuroscience part of it; I was very wrong. I also found the nature-nurture issue interesting because of how it is so argued over and how people think of this issue.

Who I am Blog

Hi...my name is Connor Olejniczak I am 16 years old and I am from Thorp High School. I love to play sports especially basketball but I also enjoy playing football and running track. I was an all conference player in basketball my freshmen year and i was also a all conference player in football my sophmore year. I really believe i turned out the way that I am becuase of who my parents are. If I didn't have them i defenietly wouldn't be the person who I am today. I think studying psychology is important because people should know how your own mind or brain works. I mean who doesn't want to know how your own body works or why you do the things you do. I think Psychology is the study of the human brain and why the brain decides to do the things it does. I also think Psychology is the characteristics that one individual person develops over their life time.