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.