Sunday, January 16, 2011

A Beautiful Mind

In the movie A Beautiful Mind, John Nash has the disorder of being a schizophrenic. There are four ways that help determining a psychological disorder.

Maladaptive: John didn't adapt well to the "fake friends" or the hospital

Unjustifiable: Its hard for John to excuse/ get ride of his fake friends.

Disturbing: John almost let his baby drown because he thought that Charles, one of his fake friends, was watching him.

Atypical: Johns obsession of  covering his "office" with magazines and solving of problems.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Little Albert

     Yes the experiment supported their hypothesis. They said that when getting Albert to have a fear of a rat and anything that is similar to it, it will start to create the same reaction as his first one to the rat. In this they proved that Albert was automatically scared of anything that was white and fury or looked to be a rat.
      Albert became generalized because he started to become scared of anything that was to look or feel white and fury.
      They were used because peter would become happy because of the experiences that would occur when he would see the rabbit. These experiences were good. After doing this experiment, peter started to like the rabbits because all he would think of was the good outcomes that would be coming.
     

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Dreams & Latent Content

Some reoccurring dreams that I have had is one that I am in a city that has 4 buildings in each of the corners. I have to live off of those four buildings to try and stay away from the people who are chasing me and trying to kill me.
  1. Running away
  • Refuse to admit accountability for something you have done.
  • Trying to get away from something restrictive
Another dream that has come up more than once is a dream were I am laying in my bed. At a certain time everyone in my house will here a bell. When that bell goes off you have a certain amount of time to get from your bed to the couch down in the living room. If you don't get there, these scary people that live in my parents closet will come and attack you. Every time i sleep over the bell and don't get down there fast enough. Ill be unable to move and wont be able to say anything. I sit in my bed and scream without anything coming out of my mouth. I always wake up right before they can hurt me.
  1. Attacked
  • someone is criticizing your integrity and you feel that you must stand up and preserve your good reputation.
  • ambushing someone close to you and are feeling guilty about it
One dream that I just had was that I was playing pool with these random people that I didn't even know. We decided to play on the sidewalk, and whenever we didn't get the pool ball into the hole, we would get a water balloon thrown at us from a building.
  1. Pool Table
  • putting off making a decision
  • need to be more cooperative. You have to learn how to work harmoniously with others.

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Bullying, Harassment, & the Need to Belong

Bullying has become a huge problem in the United States. Everyone doesn't realize that they are doing it because there not seeing what their affect has on the victim. A lot of the bullying isn't resolved and the victim doesn't want anyone to know what is happening to them, so they think the best thing to do is just to leave the world and commit suicide. I don't think that there is a line between acceptable and unacceptable. I don't even think that their is an acceptable way of bullying. Yes there is a fine line between a little joke, but you have to know how far of an extent you could be going. I as a KHS student could help bullying in our school by standing up for those that are getting bullied. When i see it happen i wont just walk by it and stare to see what happens next, ill stand in for that student and make sure that he doesn't leave there hurt.

Friday, November 12, 2010

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder- Twilight Zone reactions

       The Twilight Zone video was very surprising. When i looked at her face I figured that she was the one that was really ugly and the reason they didn't show the doctors faces was because they were the prettier ones. I was surprised to see that she was the prettier one and they looked disgusting and like a pig.
        To me beauty changes. You may be the cutest/ hottest teenager ever but as you grow up and start to get lazy you'll loose your body figure that you just had to keep when you were young. You'll grow up with wrinkles and saggy arms. Some people may think that botox is the way to go, but you can only go to some extent before over doing it and just getting worse than you intended. Your getting older your not going to want to stay up to date with all the tanning lotions or the beauty products that you previously used.
        Beauty in Kimberly for guys is for a girl to be skinny. Everyone likes a girl to be skinny with a big chest and big behind.They of course have to have a pretty face with not a ton of acne. As for girls they like there guys to have a nice buff muscular body. They also are the people that aren't interested with acne. They must be tall and a lot of girls go for the blue eyes.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Stanford Prison Study

During the period of time that we acted out our personality I realized that people started to feel bad for the way that they were acting towards each other. I felt better about myself because I didn't have to worry about hurting peoples feelings or hurting people.
The prisoner that I thought changed the most was prisoner #8612. Even though some of them did everything that they did and had small nervous breakdowns, 8612 had to leave early. He was getting so sick of people ordering him around, which he probably wasn't used to, that he came up with the idea to start lying about how he really felt. He was completely stubborn to all the mock guards and refused to do anything which lead to the other prisoners shunning him because they had to deal with a punishment because of his actions. He started giving out false information to the inmates about how there is no escape or way of getting out. With those actions he lost complete control of "leadership" to the prisoners, meaning he lost the way everyone looked up to him as. He literally then turned crazy because of his feelings and the situation he had been in. The point to were he didn't want to leave the place but later choose to because he was so mentally ill. He decided to come back and even release his "friends" from the prison because he didn't think that what was happening to them was fair.