During the car ride on the way home from psych class on Friday I was thinking about how historical facts are sugar-coated for children. Mike mentioned the Arawok (sp?) tribe that was annihilated by Columbus's crew by disease as well as violent killing. I mentioned that I specifically remember a teacher talking about this incident in class when I ( Read more... )

The first thing I remember hearing about how I learn was a test I took in elementary school that tells whether the student is an auditory, visual or kinetic learner. Generally students learn by all three, but one method is stronger than the other two. The student's strength in one particular learning method also told about what kinds of strengths ( Read more... )

Only one day left until spring break and I can't wait. My worries about my school work didn't magically go away over night, though I wished they would right before I went to sleep last night. My math test that I missed the entire chapter on is over and I feel ok about it. I probably got a mid to high B. I know some people think that is a pretty ( Read more... )

Classical conditioning is defined in our textbook as "the basic learning process that involves repeatedly pairing a neutral stimulus with a response-producing stimulus until the neutral stimulus elicits the same response". The most famous example of this is Ivan Pavlov's experiment on the behavior of dogs. He would ring a bell, them present them ( Read more... )

I don't think I have ever felt so overwhelmed as I have this past week. Turns out I didn't have strep throat like the doctor originally thought, but I have mono. Didn't find this out until I ended up in the emergency room in week 3 of being super sick. I would have rather had strep throat because at least that goes away in a reasonable amount of ( Read more... )

continuation of my bad day. Fever still going strong after a week so I decided maybe it would be a good idea to go to the doctor. After waiting in the walk in waiting room for 3 hours, the doctor informed me that I had one of the worst cases of strep throat he has ever seen. On top of this, the swelling in my throat has gotten so bad that it ( Read more... )

I'm not sure what it is, but for the last few days I have been having the worst luck. I've been sick with a 102 degree fever, slept through class, locked my keyes in the car, and had the pump at the gas station eat my credit card. And that is only the beginning. WWWWHHHYYYYY? So today my mom finally had enough of our new dog. We have a 6 year ( Read more... )

I am not writing this to discredit Freud. Some of his basic observations of human thought processes and internal power struggles are very interesting, and even today are applicable and visible in everybody's lives. I think that Freud has some interesting ideas, but it seems like his relation of everything to sexuality and the desire to procreate ( Read more... )

A little advice here to anybody new to using blogs: If you notice that the webpages are being unusually slow to load or if a message saying anything along the lines of "server busy" do not update your blog at this time. as soon as you hit update journal, and error will come up saying it did not process correctly and everything you have written ( Read more... )

Writing about yourself can be one of the most difficult things to do. I feel confident in my writings for classes where I have a specific topic and evidence to draw from, but this assignment kind of threw me for a loop because I don’t really know what to say about myself. I am 18 years old. I live at home with my parents and brother slightly ( Read more... )