Asch's Conformity was interesting because it really made you think about when answering a question, do you answer what you think is correct? Or do you answer whatever the rest of the group has answered? According to this one-third of the time these participants went along with the group. This tells us that as humans, we feel more comfortable agreeing on an answer with everybody else, even if it is indeed the obvious wrong answer. Milgram's Obedience experiment was interesting because it showed how people acted when a figure of higher authority asked them to do it. It surprised me how obedient they are. This shows that Human Nature has a way of doing something when a person older than them tells them too. The Standford Prison Experiment was interesting because they chose real people to act as prison guards would. These fake prison guards acted as real guards and really go into their roles. This goes to show just how well humans can act like somebody else if they really want to.
Social Influence is when we change our normal behaviors just because we are around a certain group of friends. One example of this is when I am around a big group of friends i have a tendency to act happy and hyper. However, when i am not around my normal group of friends i am very quite and have a bigger tendency to keep to myself. Another example is when sometimes I just go with the flow of others instead of really speaking my mind. I sometimes just sit back and watch other people do what they do instead of speaking up and saying what really needs to be done.
The most interesting thing I learned about in this class was about sleep and sleep disorders. This was interesting especially because it pertains to every one's lives. We all sleep everyday, so it is important that we learn about it.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Blog Post #12
Psychological disorders are viewed as an ongoing pattern of thoughts, feelings, and actions that are deviant (different), distressful, and/or dysfunctional. Something becomes a disorder when it fully interrupts the thoughts and actions or everyday life. Just because you are different doesn't mean you have a psychological disorder. People have disorders when you can no longer function as a person without a disorder would.'
I have never personally known someone with a psychological disorder. However, I find bipolar disorder to be interesting. Bipolar disorder happens when you have to distinct moods that swing back and forth between the two. These two moods are a mania mood, where you are wildly optimistic, and the depression mood, where you tend to live in slow motion. The mania state of bipolar disorder causes one to have racing thoughts and extra excitedness. In the depressive state of bipolar disorder, a person may need to use all his or her strength just to get out of bed in the morning. Bipolar disorder would be very tough to live with. You would never know when your mood will be mania or depression. It would be tough to keep a steady job along with good, real friends because when you are depressed you just don't have any ambition to do anything or care.
The most interesting thing I learned in this section is about the depressed brain. When a person is suffering depression, their brand activity slows down and there is less activity present. The left frontal lobe creates positive emotions, and this part of the brain is likely do be inactive during depression. In people with severe depression MRI scans have found that their frontal lobes are seven percent smaller than normal.
I have never personally known someone with a psychological disorder. However, I find bipolar disorder to be interesting. Bipolar disorder happens when you have to distinct moods that swing back and forth between the two. These two moods are a mania mood, where you are wildly optimistic, and the depression mood, where you tend to live in slow motion. The mania state of bipolar disorder causes one to have racing thoughts and extra excitedness. In the depressive state of bipolar disorder, a person may need to use all his or her strength just to get out of bed in the morning. Bipolar disorder would be very tough to live with. You would never know when your mood will be mania or depression. It would be tough to keep a steady job along with good, real friends because when you are depressed you just don't have any ambition to do anything or care.
The most interesting thing I learned in this section is about the depressed brain. When a person is suffering depression, their brand activity slows down and there is less activity present. The left frontal lobe creates positive emotions, and this part of the brain is likely do be inactive during depression. In people with severe depression MRI scans have found that their frontal lobes are seven percent smaller than normal.
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