Tuesday, December 21, 2010

"Dreams & Latent Content"

My first dream is a reoccurring dream from when I was a child. In the dream I am running from a huge bolder. The bolder is rolling around in circles. We are in a race track type thing. Just before it is about to crush me I wake up. Another thing I noticed about this dream is in the stand watching me is a whole crowd of people telling me to run.  
   ~When I used the website, dream moods, it said that me running from some one in a dream indicates, I'm trying to avoid some kind of issue or that I am not taking responsibilities for my actions. On the other hand, in my case, it says if i am running from danger or harm, then I'm not facing or "confronting" my fears. So maybe I need to start getting over any fears I have and see if the dream goes away. In doing this, I will try to get over my stage fright at this up coming solo ensemble.~


Another dream I had, only once, took place in the summer time. I was about to leave to go to a friends house and my parents stopped me and said that I am grounded for lying to them. In the I was distraught. I cried all night, then woke up in the morning and had to make sure it wasn't real.
  ~To find my latent content of this dream I used dream moods again. The website said that if  I dream about punishment, I feel guilt or pain about my actions. It says I may need to try and forgive myself. I am not sure what I was feeling guilty about but i must have gotten over it because it never reoccurred.~

My third dream is recent. This dream started out at a house that I have never seen before, but it was mine in the dream. My mom was sitting in a recliner and she was telling me what to do, like make her stuff to eat and random chores. My boyfriend was there and then suddenly, there was a knock at the door and my boy friend got arrested very brutally. I watched the cop car drive off, then later on in the dream I went to the police station and asked why he was arrested and they never gave me a reason so, I talked to my boyfriend and was really mad at him. I told him he was lucky my mom didn't see any of that. Then I woke up.
  ~I used dream mood again for this dream. Dream mood said that if I see police men in my dream that it symbolizes structure, power and authority. It says that i need to put an end to my reckless behavior, or the law will catch up with me. So, if I am doing anything reckless in the future I will probably think about this and decide differently on my choice.~

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Reflection on Bullying

    http://bullyinglte.wordpress.com/

In this article a women tells her story about how long she was bullied about and how it affected her in the long run. She say that she has a drinking problem adn gains a lot of weight late on in life and she even has to go to a theropist! She obviously was long term affected by the bullying she recived when she was young. She says in the article that she was always clean and well dressed so i dont understand why she was bullied. i really think theses girls had nothing better to do in their time and i also think they may have been a little jealous of her. It is amazing how much this affected her. She wrote a book about it!! That really shows you how much it can affect someone, words that is.

Bullying at KHS is not seen much by me. I do belive it happens, propbably a lot more than i think it does. i guess i just kind of stay out of all that stuff. If i did see it going on, i dont really know what i would do. I would propbably talk to my mom about it and get her advice. KHS is so far good in my eyes. Mr. Verboomen does his very best with his job and trying to keep bullying not an issue at KHS. I really think the bullying happens online. That is where i see it most of the time. I never can really stand up for someone online though and im not sure why. You think it would be easier. KHS is a really great school and so far so good. :)

Saturday, December 4, 2010

"Little Albert" Study

1. Yes, the results of Watson and Rayner's experiment support their hypothesis. Watson predicted that an emotionally exciting object, or in this case sound, stimulates the subject simultaneously with an object (the bunny, rats, and mask) not emotionally exciting, the latter object may in time arouse or excite the same emotional reactions the former object, and in heir results Abert, a 9 month old baby, in deed did evantually connect the loud sound with the rabbit, dog, rats, and mask. Evantually Albert was scared of those objects alone without the sound. 2. Alberts response became generalized because he was not only scared of the rabbit, rat, and the dog but became excited and fearful of a fur coat. 3. The principles of classical copnditioning conditioning used to reduce Peter's fear of rabbits were, they connected the object he feared with somthing pleasurable, like a bowl of ice cream instead of the other way around. They called it. Counter-conditioning.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder

The Twilight Zone did have an affect on me because it showed me that everyone has there OWN definition of beauty. Some people think heavier set is beautiful and other people think skinny is beaty. It is different everywhere you go. I do think that in a lot of peoples eyes... they see what the media thinks is beautiful and goes by that. Twilight Zone did suprise me at the end because there idea of ugly was Merlin Manroe!! Which is beautiful to us... infact she was an icon for beauty and still is. I think beauty changes every where and all of the time. In some places like Jersey for example in tan, big hair, and a lot of make up according to the media. On the other hand in some places of Africa.. men find heavy women very beatiful because it represents wealthiness. I think beauty in Kimberly, Wisconsin 2010.. Is skinny, long hair, and make up. I see a lot of girls getting extentions, which is not a bad thing but we as women obviously do it to make oursleves look "better". That is just the image i have for beauty in Kimberly though. I think it changes a lot with the different likings of men and women. Some men find long hair on women to be disgusting. So it really depends on what that male or female is attracted to. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder becuase of the fact EVERYONE has different likings and ideas of what they think is beautiful.

Personality Test results

Big Five Personality Test - Free Results
What Kind of Person Are You?The Big Five Personality Test is based on the 'Big Five' theory of personality, pioneered in a popular 1963 study by psychologist Warren Norman. This theory classifies the main non-cognitive personality traits as:
  • Extroversion
  • Agreeableness
  • Conscientiousness
  • Emotional Stability
  • Intellect/Openness
Our test has rated you on the same characteristics professional psychological tests would use to classify the "Big Five."
Your Most Dominant Characteristic is:

Extroversion
Your Least Dominant Characteristic is:

Conscientiousness

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

The Standford Prison Study

I think roles have a HUGE affect on behavior, for example if a person had a role of the mean girl or direspectful student they must change all there behaviors to negative thing when they may actually be a good person. When i had to play my role as the know it all in class.. I didn't like it at all. I felt isolated and that no one liked me. Everyone got into there roles so it was weird treatin others differently then I would normally treat them. I just wanted everything to be done and go back to normal. So I guess that's how the students playing the role of the prisoners felt. They were allowed to leave whenever they want but they had there minds set in the role of a prisoner. So I think they took it too far with everything because some students were beginning to go crazy.

Friday, September 24, 2010

The Lobotomist

The lobotomist is a surgery that Walter Freeman preformed on a lot of patience, by cutting some nerves in the brain and after the surgery the patience were not depressed or angry anymore but they were not there selves. Many had to be re taught how to walk and use the bathroom and and all of them acted like children. All of them were institutionalized.

I think the Walter Freeman was trying to be a good doctor and help people and their problems but he ended up looking like a mad man to everyone else. My opinion on him is, he is not a mad man and that his intents were good but i do think he should have experimented on and animal first rather then just going for it, because if he would have ended up killing someone, he wouldn't be who he is now.I do think Freeman is a very smart doctor and could have solved much much more, but didn't have the right tools. Now a days there are a lot of doctors that do brain surgeries and don't get called mad men. Freeman wasn't in the right time period because if he has been in our time period he would've had the tools needed and technology needed. Freeman is not a mad man, but a good doctor. 

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Jenny from Jersey Shore

My crazy celebrity is, Jenny Farley a.k.a. J-Wow, because she does a lot of nude modeling, plastic surgery, and gets into a lot of fights. This to me is very wild behavior. She doesn't control her temper when she gets mad and i think she does nude modeling for her self. I also don't know where she gets the money for a boob job so there might be some over spending.

Neuro means brain, and there is a perspective of psychology we have been talking about called Neuroscience perspective. This focus' on how the body and brain creates our behaviors, emotions, memories, and sensory experiences. In Jenny's case her body and rage takes over her brain and she doesn't think through things when she's going to get into a fight or take that picture.

"Freudian" or psychoanalytic is another perspective of psychology. This is obviously called the psycho dynamic perspective, which comes from unconscious mental drives and conflicts. This relates to Jenny in her crazy behavior because she may have gotten picked on a lot as a child for being ugly or flat chested so now unconsciously she gets the plastic surgery to make herself feel better. The fights and short temper can also come from this perspective because in her child hood or just mentally in a dream she has to defend her self in that way. So therefor now Jenny does it all the time.

The "learning perspective" or behavioral perspective both mean the same thing and both focus on behaviors we can see. With Jenny we can see the behaviors very good. With this perspective the psychologists would try to find away for Jenny to stop the behaviors. The psychologist could put Jenny in an anger management class to help with her short temper. Then with the nude modeling could try to help her work on her self esteem and build that up on her own.

The thinking perspective or cognitive perspective just focus' on how we think or as other people would say encode information. Unlike the behavioral perspective this perspective would try to change the way you think and not the way you act. So instead of going to an anger management class, Jenny would go talk to someone every day about how she feels and start talking her problems out instead.

Social-cultural perspective, which looks at how culture around us effects our behavior. Where Jenny is right now has a huge effect on her behavior and i think that is the main reason why she is the way she is. She forst of all is a celebrity, which means she is pressuered in to being very attractive. She gets the plastic surgery done to make her slef be attractive and have hair extentions and fake nails. Jenny has also grown up in Jersey where things are always pressured there where as in Wisconsin there not that bad and certainly don't influence children when there very young. In Jenny's case it did.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Aalieyah about my self

I am Aalieyah and i love to hang out with my friends in free time and sing!!! i have two dogs and a snake.. i have 2 little sisters. One is 6 and one is 9. My rents are still together !!! mom is really cool andunderstanding but dad is a little protective!! i love spending money on  my self :) i am really actually sympathetic a but i stand up for my friends!!! i am not judgemental but i judge off the first impression. i like schoolo because im very social but i hate the homework and the time we have to get up in the morning. :)