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  1. Apr 2019
    1. Everyday observation confirms that we often adopt the actions and attitudes of the peoplearound us. Trends in clothing, music, foods, and entertainment are obvious. But our views onpolitical issues, religious questions, and lifestyles also reflect to some degree the attitudes ofthe people we interact with. Similarly, decisions about behaviors such as smoking and drinkingare influenced by whether the people we spend time with engage in these activities.Psychologists refer to this widespread tendency to act and think like the people around us asconformity

      In my opinion, this could also be a form of peer pressure because this is basically saying that people are conforming to the people around us attitudes and trends it more as so we " have to " or we "should " mimic a certain trend or attitude. for me this happened to me when i was in middle school and high school. i remember buying certain clothes and shoes because either my friends had them or many people in school had them. .

  2. Mar 2019
    1. The psychological aspects of culture are often overlooked because they are often invisible

      I totally agree with this because some people just look at people with a certain culture or tradition and do not pay them any attention. I think in some point of everyones life they should atleast learn or get to fully know about another culture besides the one we have been taught. I could be important to understand someone else culture being that some traditions are similar within different cultures. i am interested in learning the morals, traditions and insights of many different cultures because my dream is to travel around the world.

    1. For example,someone high in SDO would likely be upsetif someone from an outgroup moved intohis or her neighborhood. It’s not that theperson high in SDO wants to “control” whatthis outgroup member does; it’s thatmoving into this “nice neighborhood” disrupts the social hierarchy the person high in SDObelieves in (i.e. living in a nice neighborhood denotes one’s place in the social hierarchy—aplace reserved for one’s in-group members)

      With this, i hate when people do this. Just because someone doesn't fit the "Demographics" of a ordinary person living in that neighborhood doesn't mean they shouldn't or can't live there. in my opinion, anyone can live anywhere they want if they want to. if they can pay for it, they can live there. people shouldn't discriminate.

    1. For example, males and females are treated differently before they are evenborn.

      i agree with this because our parents play a big role with how we are going to be treated before we are born. For example, our parents can decide whether or not we can choose what we like rather that picking it ourselves. Things like favorite color or favorite cartoon character. parents normally have the ability to chose party themes or room decorations. Americans have it in their head that boys like blue and girls like pink but what if it was the other way around. i think that males and females when they get of age they should be able to decide what they like

  3. Feb 2019
    1. Unpleasantevents such as frustrations, provocations,social rejections, hot temperatures, loudnoises, bad air (e.g., pollution, foul odors,secondhand smoke), and crowding canall cause aggression.

      I can relate to this because during things that was explained in the example does aggravate me but i would n't say that i or anyone else is necessarily "Aggressive" because we get angry at things we have no control over. i think it's all that stressed just built in that cause us to be aggressive. i found this video that explains aggression thoroughly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk8w3bzEJYU

    1. Trying to understand why people do not always help became the focusof bystander intervention research

      With this, I remember talking about this in Psych 101 and with the bystander effect i think it ties in with diffusion of responsibility. i do believe that people take a pause when there's a group of people around and someone is hurt. i think we do this because we go into a sudden shock where we dont know what to do. i also believe that if someone was alone and encounter someone being hurt they are obligated to help being that they are the only ones there.

    1. Since cooperationrequires people to enter a state of vulnerability and trust with partners, we are very sensitiveto the social cues and interactions of potential partners before deciding to cooperate withthem

      When it comes to this, this is the part that scares me when working in groups. Sometimes you have people that don't want to cooperate. I have been in a lot of groups where i trusted people to do there part and they never did it or only did part of it. Even though i experienced people in groups that didnt do their part, im still open to trusting people in groups. The most important part of dealing with and trusting others is communication.

    1. Autism is in the category of pervasive developmental disorders,

      As we know that autism is a developmental disorder that is characterized by difficulty in social interaction and communication and by restricted or repetitive patterns of thought and behavior. Many people didn't know that in the movie Forrest Gump, Forrest played as a character had autism as well. He literal interpretation of speech and was able to follow rigid patterns. He also was able to maintain focus to one things at a time. Even though he wasn't diagnosed with autism, everything he did projected as a person with autism.

  4. Jan 2019
    1. Do people perform more effectively when alone or when part of a group?

      With this question, for me i perform more effective when i work alone. i dislike group work because sometimes you have a person in the group that doesn't do their part, so now all the work they had to do falls back on to the rest of the group. I also think if you work in a group, don't always pick people that you know strongly. this can have a negative impact because what if the person who is slacking is your friend, then that messes up you'll friendship. i see this in a ton of tv shows and has also experienced this in one of my Psych classes. On the other hand group projects may help you perform more effective, just because if you have a idea that your stuck on there's others that can back you up. group work is more of a if one does good all does good or vise versa. There's this article that helped me understand what to look for when it comes to group work and it also helped me know the advantages and disadvantages of group work. https://uncw.edu/jet/articles/Vol11_2/Burke.pdf

    1. Although nearly all infants developemotional attachments to their caregivers--parents, relatives, nannies-- their sense ofsecurity in those attachments varies.Infants become securely attached whentheir parents respond sensitively to them,reinforcing the infants’ confidence thattheir parents will provide support whenneeded. Infants become insecurely attachedwhen care is inconsistent or neglectful;these infants tend to respond avoidantly,resistantly, or in a disorganized manner(Belsky & Pasco Fearon, 2008).

      I remember learning about this in Nix's Developmental class and i remember talking about how different parent skills have an affect on the child's attachment. I believe that this is true because i have an aunt who had a baby like a year ago, and now that child is securely attached to the parent. i noticed that the child would cry if the mother leave or would cry if someone was trying to hold her. I feel like all this attachment can later turn into separation anxiety with the child from the mother. i think a way to avoid putting a child through that would be not holding that much, or not always turning to picking them up to solve the problem. My Aunt;s child now expects people to hold her everywhere and even expects people to walk her around when she starts to cry. When it comes to a child being insecurely attached can come from a lot such as emotional, verbal, or physical abuse. some parents think that being verbal abusive to children is a good thing but in all actuality its a bad thing. Rather than doing that parents should follow through with doing positive reinforcement.