Insomnia
Frustration and drowsiness consumes you, the moments of realization that tonight is going to be a sleepless night. Upset and grouchy the next day, a real bummer! Now imagine facing that multiple nights at a time. Seems like a menace, doesn’t it? Now on top of it put going over all the negative events of the day and dreading the morning to come but wanting it to happen soon so the night can be done with. That would be insomnia. Insomnia is one of the most commonly diagnosed sleeping disorder, one out of three Americans face this and 10-15% face it chronically. More commonly found in women, people with chronic medical problems, people with psychiatric disorders, older people, and 9 of 10 have it along side with another disorder. This disorder leads to disqualify of life, feeling depressed, fatigue, negative moods, mood disturbance, and irritability. They also have a bigger lost of productivity. It has a tendency to start due to over stress and can continue even after the initial stress is resolved. It’s the case of hyper-arousal. It’s a brain system malfunction and psychiatric conditions. Perhaps even starting in childhood. Poor sleeping habits leading to bad days. Treatment consists of medications that cause you to go to sleep and therapy to get you into the better habits of sleep. Sleep is an important part of our lives, health, and sanity. The lack of sleep can also lead to violence, which is why people with insomnia are more likely to be violent than a person who gets an appropriate amount of sleep. It’s a vital thing, so try and keep stress free so you don’t get to the initial point of sleepless nights and then don’t get into the bad habit that leads to the disorder.
Resources: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sleepless-in-america/200807/insomnia
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Friday, November 18, 2011
Relationships
Relationships
I think we all have a part of us that wants to be needed, whether we want to admit it or not. Quoted of Pablo Neruda “Love is a question” and it’s a question we must ask ourselves. What is the ideal concept of things we love and can we find them in another? Sometimes people become to self-centered to love another person and personally, to me, life without a concept of love is meaningless. To those who wish to find someone to have for a lifetime or to call our own, love is our strength. In it we find happiness and a push to go above and beyond ourselves. Love makes us want to try and be the best at something or to be ‘amazing’ because we want a bond with someone, a bond we can always turn to. I like to call that bond a relationship. A good, healthy, happy relationship is beneficial to both parties, much like friendship. Only it can go on to a more intimate level. The closer we become to someone, the more we need them. Being in the right type of relationship with the right person can lead you to a healthier you. I think this is because it makes you want to appear better-so the other is appreciative, become more intelligent-to broaden you conversation options: so you can converse with them longer, be better- so they’ll want to be around you like you want to be around them. It gives you something to always find a way to look forward to it. As well as you’ll have someone to be there for you to brighten your day if things aren’t going right. So you won’t have to fake a smile and you can smile because they’ve given you a reason to. A relationship will leave you wanting more and you will want to grow. Growth is excellent for the mind and the body, psychologically the growth will help you be more well rounded. Showing everyone should want to have someone and to eventually be in a relationship because you can help yourself and be brighter, and you can help them and give them something to look forward to. Personally, when I make someone else happy, I’m happier. That happens a lot in a relationship, so as long as they’re right and beneficial to both parties, it will have a good psychological outcome.
Resources: Prior knowledge from my environment, what I know, what I've read, and my psychological perspective on it.
I think we all have a part of us that wants to be needed, whether we want to admit it or not. Quoted of Pablo Neruda “Love is a question” and it’s a question we must ask ourselves. What is the ideal concept of things we love and can we find them in another? Sometimes people become to self-centered to love another person and personally, to me, life without a concept of love is meaningless. To those who wish to find someone to have for a lifetime or to call our own, love is our strength. In it we find happiness and a push to go above and beyond ourselves. Love makes us want to try and be the best at something or to be ‘amazing’ because we want a bond with someone, a bond we can always turn to. I like to call that bond a relationship. A good, healthy, happy relationship is beneficial to both parties, much like friendship. Only it can go on to a more intimate level. The closer we become to someone, the more we need them. Being in the right type of relationship with the right person can lead you to a healthier you. I think this is because it makes you want to appear better-so the other is appreciative, become more intelligent-to broaden you conversation options: so you can converse with them longer, be better- so they’ll want to be around you like you want to be around them. It gives you something to always find a way to look forward to it. As well as you’ll have someone to be there for you to brighten your day if things aren’t going right. So you won’t have to fake a smile and you can smile because they’ve given you a reason to. A relationship will leave you wanting more and you will want to grow. Growth is excellent for the mind and the body, psychologically the growth will help you be more well rounded. Showing everyone should want to have someone and to eventually be in a relationship because you can help yourself and be brighter, and you can help them and give them something to look forward to. Personally, when I make someone else happy, I’m happier. That happens a lot in a relationship, so as long as they’re right and beneficial to both parties, it will have a good psychological outcome.
Resources: Prior knowledge from my environment, what I know, what I've read, and my psychological perspective on it.
Friendship
Friendship
Friendship, it just seems to happen. I mean for me, I’ve always been super terrible at making friends that aren’t of the opposite sex. I don’t know what it was, I just could not make friends with another girl. However, I have made a few friends that are girls. I have many acquaintances, I hate no one, but I enjoy very much my tight notch of friends. I am not sure what has drawn me to them or even made me want to stick around, but it happened. Honestly, I do have more guy friends, but the friendships that place the most value with me are the few friends I made that are girls. Perhaps because they’ve been able to relate more to me and we have a lot of common problems. Do not get me wrong, I value all my friendships and appreciate them, I just have more trouble thinking of how to live with out my friends that are girls. I have two best girl friends that have gotten me through more than I could even begin to thank them for. So, what is it that causes a friendship? People like to commonly say “it just happens”, that was my initial thoughts. Well, it’s more complex than we tend to believe. Obviously interaction is key, the more regular it is, the more likely you are to enter the friendship zone, but it’s more than that. There’s also the need to have things in common, that’s a key that gets us talking to one person we see regularly than another we see regularly. The switch from the train of acquaintances to the train of friendship happens at the Self-Disclosure station. The ability to share personal stuff with one another is when you first decide if you want to switch those trains, the more deep it gets, the closer you get to the train of friendship. Reciprocity is the true train jump, can the confide in you as you can them? That’s what distinguished friends from acquaintances. Now that you’ve reached the friendship train, what keeps them on board? Closeness and benefits for both sides of the friendship. Friendship keeps people happy and allows them to vent when they’re not. If we didn’t have someone to confide in, we’d build up everything, and eventually breakdown. Once you’re close enough to be considered ’besties’, the friendship becomes not on a physical interaction level but on a communication level. Friendship does not see distance as a problem but an obstacle. If it’s good enough, it will find ways, because no one wants to lose the person they trust and can find confinement in. We want to keep the things that benefit us and make us happy. It makes us better psychologically and healthier because of our positive psychology found in it. <3
Resources: http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200611/friendship-the-laws-attraction?page=3
Friendship, it just seems to happen. I mean for me, I’ve always been super terrible at making friends that aren’t of the opposite sex. I don’t know what it was, I just could not make friends with another girl. However, I have made a few friends that are girls. I have many acquaintances, I hate no one, but I enjoy very much my tight notch of friends. I am not sure what has drawn me to them or even made me want to stick around, but it happened. Honestly, I do have more guy friends, but the friendships that place the most value with me are the few friends I made that are girls. Perhaps because they’ve been able to relate more to me and we have a lot of common problems. Do not get me wrong, I value all my friendships and appreciate them, I just have more trouble thinking of how to live with out my friends that are girls. I have two best girl friends that have gotten me through more than I could even begin to thank them for. So, what is it that causes a friendship? People like to commonly say “it just happens”, that was my initial thoughts. Well, it’s more complex than we tend to believe. Obviously interaction is key, the more regular it is, the more likely you are to enter the friendship zone, but it’s more than that. There’s also the need to have things in common, that’s a key that gets us talking to one person we see regularly than another we see regularly. The switch from the train of acquaintances to the train of friendship happens at the Self-Disclosure station. The ability to share personal stuff with one another is when you first decide if you want to switch those trains, the more deep it gets, the closer you get to the train of friendship. Reciprocity is the true train jump, can the confide in you as you can them? That’s what distinguished friends from acquaintances. Now that you’ve reached the friendship train, what keeps them on board? Closeness and benefits for both sides of the friendship. Friendship keeps people happy and allows them to vent when they’re not. If we didn’t have someone to confide in, we’d build up everything, and eventually breakdown. Once you’re close enough to be considered ’besties’, the friendship becomes not on a physical interaction level but on a communication level. Friendship does not see distance as a problem but an obstacle. If it’s good enough, it will find ways, because no one wants to lose the person they trust and can find confinement in. We want to keep the things that benefit us and make us happy. It makes us better psychologically and healthier because of our positive psychology found in it. <3
Resources: http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200611/friendship-the-laws-attraction?page=3
Underage Drinking
Drinking Underage
People think drugs are just pills you can pop, something you can inject, or something you can smoke, well it’s alcohol too. Alcohol is the top choice for the youth to make a problem out of in our country. It is a public health problem: people are experiencing the consequences of drinking at way too young of an age! The age of when to start has even gotten lower! Just the other month I was babysitting and I met one of their friends in the sixth grade and he had already been exposed and done drugs of all kinds, including alcohol. Our age range and the amount we do it has increased and this is not okay! Younger people are starting in on the use of alcohol and when they do studies show that they do it intensely. Starting off young seems to lead to the use of other dangerous drugs at a young age or in general, risky behaviors, sex with more than six partners, and bad grades. That is not a lifestyle anyone should want to get into or fall into. Alcoholism had killed one of my uncles, a grandmother, and tends to take over my family and is even more dangerous for me to be around, but I have the strength to never want to do it because I have seen what it can do and have seen all the harm growing up at first hand. So listen up, those of you who don’t know, there are some known reasons on why adolescents drink. It’s risk taking, gives you the rush that you want- when I think of that risk taking and the rush people who drink want, I think: drink and you have the RISK of dying. Expectancies, what they expect to get from alcohol, those who drink expect to get the brighter and positive sides of drinking, it calms you and makes everything more at ease- wrong, I think of how it can hook you and make you addicted or how it can lead you to feel drowsy, unstable, and put you in stupid dangerous situations. The fact that younger drinkers have more tolerance and can consume more, I guess it may seem cool because younger drinkers can drink more and have a stronger take on the positive stuff- I think what about the chance of being affected in the negative sense. It’s an escape, self explanatory-still, I think what if it becomes the permanent escape/departure. Some can’t help it, it runs in the family, it‘s hereditary- I warn you to be careful. They were raised around it and only saw the good- they all lead me to think please open your eyes and see all the negative impact it can have. It kills, it isn’t fun, and not only can you take your own life but you could take another. Absolutely no one ever has the right to danger another person. Stay smart and don’t start.
Resources: http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/AA67/AA67.htm
People think drugs are just pills you can pop, something you can inject, or something you can smoke, well it’s alcohol too. Alcohol is the top choice for the youth to make a problem out of in our country. It is a public health problem: people are experiencing the consequences of drinking at way too young of an age! The age of when to start has even gotten lower! Just the other month I was babysitting and I met one of their friends in the sixth grade and he had already been exposed and done drugs of all kinds, including alcohol. Our age range and the amount we do it has increased and this is not okay! Younger people are starting in on the use of alcohol and when they do studies show that they do it intensely. Starting off young seems to lead to the use of other dangerous drugs at a young age or in general, risky behaviors, sex with more than six partners, and bad grades. That is not a lifestyle anyone should want to get into or fall into. Alcoholism had killed one of my uncles, a grandmother, and tends to take over my family and is even more dangerous for me to be around, but I have the strength to never want to do it because I have seen what it can do and have seen all the harm growing up at first hand. So listen up, those of you who don’t know, there are some known reasons on why adolescents drink. It’s risk taking, gives you the rush that you want- when I think of that risk taking and the rush people who drink want, I think: drink and you have the RISK of dying. Expectancies, what they expect to get from alcohol, those who drink expect to get the brighter and positive sides of drinking, it calms you and makes everything more at ease- wrong, I think of how it can hook you and make you addicted or how it can lead you to feel drowsy, unstable, and put you in stupid dangerous situations. The fact that younger drinkers have more tolerance and can consume more, I guess it may seem cool because younger drinkers can drink more and have a stronger take on the positive stuff- I think what about the chance of being affected in the negative sense. It’s an escape, self explanatory-still, I think what if it becomes the permanent escape/departure. Some can’t help it, it runs in the family, it‘s hereditary- I warn you to be careful. They were raised around it and only saw the good- they all lead me to think please open your eyes and see all the negative impact it can have. It kills, it isn’t fun, and not only can you take your own life but you could take another. Absolutely no one ever has the right to danger another person. Stay smart and don’t start.
Resources: http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/AA67/AA67.htm
Pyros
Pyros
Pyromaniacs have developed a nickname of pyros, however, pyromaniacs was developed from Greek’s word pyr: meaning fire. So, obviously a pyromaniac has to do with fire. Yay, fire!(: Pyromaniacs use fire to induce euphoria or happiness often on institutions of fire control. This disorder goes beyond the love of fire and turns into impulsive control disorders, that’s what pyromaniacs have, an impulsive control disorder. It usually occurs and starts between the ages of 7 and 15. However, it is rare to come across someone who has a strong passion to start fires, less than one percent around the world is what studies seem to find. Even a more rare form of the disorder are children who develop it as early as the age of three! Adolescents arrest for arrson, you’d assume pyromaniacs would be the case, wrong! Only a small portion of them actually have it, they just have a love for fire(not to the extremes, like me, I mean I love fire, but I don’t have a super strong obsession for it, it’s just cool) or trouble. The pyromaniacs are 90% male and only 10% female (easy math that I know you could have done in your head, but your getting it anyways :D ). Common causes of pyromania can be broken down to two groups: individual and environmental. Individual as in: personal problems like feeling they need to be drastic to get attention or have past charges of crimes, revenge, or just because of social issues. Now what is meant by environmental is: neglect, physical or sexual abuse in earlier parts of their lives, and seeing adults light fires and be around fires as a relief of stress when they were developing. Something to separate the pyros from those who have no special relation to fire and just happen to do it for a criminal purpose or an emotional motif, symptoms. The first symptom would be they purposely set fires on more than one occasion, and before they do they face an emotional build up. When the spark goes off and a fire ignites a person suffering from pyromania will suddenly grow interest and fascination and may also experience pleasure, gratification, or relief. A build up of stress and emotion is often evident and seen in teens towards family and friends, would also be a symptom. So, if someone’s lifestyle consists of sudden interest in something where fire is found, experience pleasure, and tend to be overall happy except with stress and emotion build up towards family and friends, they may be a pyro themselves. Therapy is usually the treatment for pyromaniacs, but remember, fire is not a toy- it’s just really cool!
Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyromania
Pyromaniacs have developed a nickname of pyros, however, pyromaniacs was developed from Greek’s word pyr: meaning fire. So, obviously a pyromaniac has to do with fire. Yay, fire!(: Pyromaniacs use fire to induce euphoria or happiness often on institutions of fire control. This disorder goes beyond the love of fire and turns into impulsive control disorders, that’s what pyromaniacs have, an impulsive control disorder. It usually occurs and starts between the ages of 7 and 15. However, it is rare to come across someone who has a strong passion to start fires, less than one percent around the world is what studies seem to find. Even a more rare form of the disorder are children who develop it as early as the age of three! Adolescents arrest for arrson, you’d assume pyromaniacs would be the case, wrong! Only a small portion of them actually have it, they just have a love for fire(not to the extremes, like me, I mean I love fire, but I don’t have a super strong obsession for it, it’s just cool) or trouble. The pyromaniacs are 90% male and only 10% female (easy math that I know you could have done in your head, but your getting it anyways :D ). Common causes of pyromania can be broken down to two groups: individual and environmental. Individual as in: personal problems like feeling they need to be drastic to get attention or have past charges of crimes, revenge, or just because of social issues. Now what is meant by environmental is: neglect, physical or sexual abuse in earlier parts of their lives, and seeing adults light fires and be around fires as a relief of stress when they were developing. Something to separate the pyros from those who have no special relation to fire and just happen to do it for a criminal purpose or an emotional motif, symptoms. The first symptom would be they purposely set fires on more than one occasion, and before they do they face an emotional build up. When the spark goes off and a fire ignites a person suffering from pyromania will suddenly grow interest and fascination and may also experience pleasure, gratification, or relief. A build up of stress and emotion is often evident and seen in teens towards family and friends, would also be a symptom. So, if someone’s lifestyle consists of sudden interest in something where fire is found, experience pleasure, and tend to be overall happy except with stress and emotion build up towards family and friends, they may be a pyro themselves. Therapy is usually the treatment for pyromaniacs, but remember, fire is not a toy- it’s just really cool!
Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyromania
Positive Psychology
Positive Psychology
Thriving as a human when studied is classified as positive psychology. Unlike plain psychology that seems to wander the roads of disorder and illness, this is the road we seem to sometimes miss: happiness and fulfillment. In a time where things are starting to appear rough, we should really look into some positive psychology. We could all use a little cheering up. I know though, that too much of a good thing-isn’t a good thing. So don’t over do it, people. The glass is still only half with water, not full, but think of it as half full instead of half empty. A seemingly perfect thought of process, in my opinion anyways. Sure, I’m sometimes a tad bit more positive then the next guy, but hear me out on my take of what studies of positive psychology say makes life most worth living. (: The past decade is when positive psychology caught the eye beyond just academic purposes, everyday general people have become hooked, as well. I’m one of them and why shouldn’t you be, too? No, don’t blind your perspective on the more problem-focused psychology that has had its superiority for so long, because yes reality has it’s problems, but don’t ignore the good in it as well. The good life takes work and effort, don’t get discouraged. Sit back and take a look at your life, think of the bad, get all the negative out in the air. Now, go through all your good memories, a happy one to knock out the bad, no matter how significant it may be. It leads us to happiness, happiness classified as a part of life with a good spin. When we are happy we are satisfied, and as we go on with that we become even more satisfied, which will help us more easily find things to be happy about. This can lead us to trying harder, doing well in our environments, obtaining good social behaviors, and a good health and a longer life. All these things help design us a buffer to make our wall harder and stronger, better protection against the negative. Sure, we’ll see it, but we won’t let it knock us down!(:
Resources:http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-good-life/200805/what-is-positive-psychology-and-what-is-it-not
Thriving as a human when studied is classified as positive psychology. Unlike plain psychology that seems to wander the roads of disorder and illness, this is the road we seem to sometimes miss: happiness and fulfillment. In a time where things are starting to appear rough, we should really look into some positive psychology. We could all use a little cheering up. I know though, that too much of a good thing-isn’t a good thing. So don’t over do it, people. The glass is still only half with water, not full, but think of it as half full instead of half empty. A seemingly perfect thought of process, in my opinion anyways. Sure, I’m sometimes a tad bit more positive then the next guy, but hear me out on my take of what studies of positive psychology say makes life most worth living. (: The past decade is when positive psychology caught the eye beyond just academic purposes, everyday general people have become hooked, as well. I’m one of them and why shouldn’t you be, too? No, don’t blind your perspective on the more problem-focused psychology that has had its superiority for so long, because yes reality has it’s problems, but don’t ignore the good in it as well. The good life takes work and effort, don’t get discouraged. Sit back and take a look at your life, think of the bad, get all the negative out in the air. Now, go through all your good memories, a happy one to knock out the bad, no matter how significant it may be. It leads us to happiness, happiness classified as a part of life with a good spin. When we are happy we are satisfied, and as we go on with that we become even more satisfied, which will help us more easily find things to be happy about. This can lead us to trying harder, doing well in our environments, obtaining good social behaviors, and a good health and a longer life. All these things help design us a buffer to make our wall harder and stronger, better protection against the negative. Sure, we’ll see it, but we won’t let it knock us down!(:
Resources:http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-good-life/200805/what-is-positive-psychology-and-what-is-it-not
Colors
Colors
Colors, yes colors, are more than just something to see. They are quite powerful in a psychological manner. There truly is more than meets the eyes. By using color psychology you can create a positive or negative feel. The psychology of color can change by each shade and who’s view you’re going from. Well I’m going by “http://www.precisionintermedia.com/color.html” view on the psychology of colors on what they think is the basis for it in the western hemisphere.
♥ Black: Quite the serious color with a range of psychological beliefs. To us, the western hemisphere, we use it as a color of grief, you’ll see many in black at a funeral. It’s a powerful and authoritive, stable and strong color. Also, it’s associated with intelligence and sometimes evil.
♥White: Purity, cleanlieness, and safety (less likely to bump into something in the brightness of this color)! As well as to show absence of color or neutrality.
♥Gray: Solid things in life, a helping hand, strong character, everything the offset gray (silver) seems to show. Grey in plain can also represent old age, death, depression, or a loss in direction.
♥Red: Energy, movement, exciting, an eye catcher. Don’t use it too much because it seems to raise heart beats, but is a good way to get excitement flowing if used in just the right manner. Sometimes linked to love, but that’s mainly pink.
♥Blue: Seeing the color blue causes the body to produce chemicals that are calming; but that isn't true of all shades of blue, sometimes it can become overwhelming. However it also shows dependability, wisdom and loyalty, perhaps why most uniforms consist of blue.
♥Green: The color of peace, harmony, comfortable nurturing, support, growth, money and well paced energy.
♥Yellow: “Cheerful yellow the color of the sun, associated with laughter, happiness and good times. A person surrounded by yellow feels optimistic because the brain actually releases more seratonin (feel good chemical in the brain) when around this color. It is the color associated with optimism but be careful with yellow, when intense, it is the color of flames and studies show babies cry more in (bright) yellow rooms and tempers flare more around that color too.” So, don’t overuse this color!
♥Orange: Happy and energet, fun times, and warmth, as well as ambition, is what this color is and it’s certainly not calm! A new attitude is what this is all about.
♥Purple: A royal color, indeed. Carefully used to lend an air of mystery, wisdom, and respect. Girls are most likely to select nearly all shades of purple as their favorite color, I know I have(:
♥Brown: Reliable, stable, and friendship, it's the color of the earth itself "terra firma" and what could show stability better than the planet that‘s kept us alive as a species (and many others) for so long. Also, associated with things being natural or organic.
So choose your colors wisely. It is no accident on why colors of labels tend to not change. Think of your favorite product, did the label come to mind? Mine would be Dr. Pepper and every time I envision it I can see it’s perfect red with white lettering. See it too? I bet. So, when color scheming think of what message your trying to convey when putting colors together. (:
Resources: http://www.precisionintermedia.com/color.html
Colors, yes colors, are more than just something to see. They are quite powerful in a psychological manner. There truly is more than meets the eyes. By using color psychology you can create a positive or negative feel. The psychology of color can change by each shade and who’s view you’re going from. Well I’m going by “http://www.precisionintermedia.com/color.html” view on the psychology of colors on what they think is the basis for it in the western hemisphere.
♥ Black: Quite the serious color with a range of psychological beliefs. To us, the western hemisphere, we use it as a color of grief, you’ll see many in black at a funeral. It’s a powerful and authoritive, stable and strong color. Also, it’s associated with intelligence and sometimes evil.
♥White: Purity, cleanlieness, and safety (less likely to bump into something in the brightness of this color)! As well as to show absence of color or neutrality.
♥Gray: Solid things in life, a helping hand, strong character, everything the offset gray (silver) seems to show. Grey in plain can also represent old age, death, depression, or a loss in direction.
♥Red: Energy, movement, exciting, an eye catcher. Don’t use it too much because it seems to raise heart beats, but is a good way to get excitement flowing if used in just the right manner. Sometimes linked to love, but that’s mainly pink.
♥Blue: Seeing the color blue causes the body to produce chemicals that are calming; but that isn't true of all shades of blue, sometimes it can become overwhelming. However it also shows dependability, wisdom and loyalty, perhaps why most uniforms consist of blue.
♥Green: The color of peace, harmony, comfortable nurturing, support, growth, money and well paced energy.
♥Yellow: “Cheerful yellow the color of the sun, associated with laughter, happiness and good times. A person surrounded by yellow feels optimistic because the brain actually releases more seratonin (feel good chemical in the brain) when around this color. It is the color associated with optimism but be careful with yellow, when intense, it is the color of flames and studies show babies cry more in (bright) yellow rooms and tempers flare more around that color too.” So, don’t overuse this color!
♥Orange: Happy and energet, fun times, and warmth, as well as ambition, is what this color is and it’s certainly not calm! A new attitude is what this is all about.
♥Purple: A royal color, indeed. Carefully used to lend an air of mystery, wisdom, and respect. Girls are most likely to select nearly all shades of purple as their favorite color, I know I have(:
♥Brown: Reliable, stable, and friendship, it's the color of the earth itself "terra firma" and what could show stability better than the planet that‘s kept us alive as a species (and many others) for so long. Also, associated with things being natural or organic.
So choose your colors wisely. It is no accident on why colors of labels tend to not change. Think of your favorite product, did the label come to mind? Mine would be Dr. Pepper and every time I envision it I can see it’s perfect red with white lettering. See it too? I bet. So, when color scheming think of what message your trying to convey when putting colors together. (:
Resources: http://www.precisionintermedia.com/color.html
NPD
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Everyone loves, whether it’s themselves or if it is another. It is good to have confidence and faith in yourself, to love yourself, but taken to far it can become self-centeredness to take over your life. Some people, however, can’t even control it. They are diagnosed with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Narcissistic Personality Disorder described to a tee would be: a personality disorder in which the individual is described as being excessively preoccupied with issues of personal adequacy, power, prestige and vanity. According to Groopman and Cooper the cause of NPD is unknown but based off of various researchers there is a possibility that it is related to:
♥An oversensitive temperament at birth is the main symptomatic chronic form
♥Being praised for perceived exceptional looks or abilities by adults
♥Excessive admiration that is never balanced with realistic feedback
♥Excessive praise for good behaviors or excessive criticism for poor behaviors in childhood
♥Overindulgence and overvaluation by parents
♥Severe emotional abuse in childhood
♥Unpredictable or unreliable caregiving from parents
♥Valued by parents as a means to regulate their own self-esteem
Some of these traits are a normal part of development, only becoming a part of NPD when it continues into adulthood and becomes basically their only priority and they don’t partake in interpersonal environments. Perhaps a defense against shame, that is what some research studies have shown NPD to be a part of. There are many subtypes of NPD but there is a common treatment, psychotherapy. It’s hard to get fond of another when you only care about yourself. Grow your range of caring and do such by having psychotherapy.
Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder
Everyone loves, whether it’s themselves or if it is another. It is good to have confidence and faith in yourself, to love yourself, but taken to far it can become self-centeredness to take over your life. Some people, however, can’t even control it. They are diagnosed with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Narcissistic Personality Disorder described to a tee would be: a personality disorder in which the individual is described as being excessively preoccupied with issues of personal adequacy, power, prestige and vanity. According to Groopman and Cooper the cause of NPD is unknown but based off of various researchers there is a possibility that it is related to:
♥An oversensitive temperament at birth is the main symptomatic chronic form
♥Being praised for perceived exceptional looks or abilities by adults
♥Excessive admiration that is never balanced with realistic feedback
♥Excessive praise for good behaviors or excessive criticism for poor behaviors in childhood
♥Overindulgence and overvaluation by parents
♥Severe emotional abuse in childhood
♥Unpredictable or unreliable caregiving from parents
♥Valued by parents as a means to regulate their own self-esteem
Some of these traits are a normal part of development, only becoming a part of NPD when it continues into adulthood and becomes basically their only priority and they don’t partake in interpersonal environments. Perhaps a defense against shame, that is what some research studies have shown NPD to be a part of. There are many subtypes of NPD but there is a common treatment, psychotherapy. It’s hard to get fond of another when you only care about yourself. Grow your range of caring and do such by having psychotherapy.
Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder
OCD
OCD
A disorder with no prevention, a disorder we face known as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). The anxiety disorder of compulsions. A more detailed note on what OCD is would be: an anxiety disorder in which people have unwanted and repeated thoughts, feelings, ideas, sensations (obsessions), or behaviors that make them feel driven to do something (the compulsion)- a well put definition by the A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia. Most times the people who have those obsessions and compulsions, the commit them. They commit them just for the temporary relief of committing what they were driven to do. Only, if the ritual of the compulsion is not performed, it can lead to intense anxiety. It is more common than it was originally thought and more people are showing symptoms as well as developing it by the age of thirty. There is an unclear link that this disorder may be linked to the Tourette syndrome due to that about 20% of people with OCD have tics. Several theories have risen on what is the cause of OCD, but much more studies would to be taken to make it clear on which is true. The first is thought to be from head injury and infections, whereas the other is thought to be related to brain abnormalities. Obsessions and compulsions that aren’t from medical illness or drugs and that cause major distress or interfere with everyday life are symptoms for OCD. Obsessions and compulsions that the person usually recognizes as excessive or unreasonable. Ie: an excessive fear of germs and the compulsion to repeatedly wash your hands to rid the germs. Usually OCD does not progress into another disease or disorder but still if you show signs, go get them tested and checked out. So you can be treated and perhaps feel less obligated to do the unreasonable things that could possibly even ‘backfire’ on you. Some treatments consist of different types of medication or just psychotherapy to help get you more along the lines of what we call ‘normal’.
Resources: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001926/
A disorder with no prevention, a disorder we face known as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). The anxiety disorder of compulsions. A more detailed note on what OCD is would be: an anxiety disorder in which people have unwanted and repeated thoughts, feelings, ideas, sensations (obsessions), or behaviors that make them feel driven to do something (the compulsion)- a well put definition by the A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia. Most times the people who have those obsessions and compulsions, the commit them. They commit them just for the temporary relief of committing what they were driven to do. Only, if the ritual of the compulsion is not performed, it can lead to intense anxiety. It is more common than it was originally thought and more people are showing symptoms as well as developing it by the age of thirty. There is an unclear link that this disorder may be linked to the Tourette syndrome due to that about 20% of people with OCD have tics. Several theories have risen on what is the cause of OCD, but much more studies would to be taken to make it clear on which is true. The first is thought to be from head injury and infections, whereas the other is thought to be related to brain abnormalities. Obsessions and compulsions that aren’t from medical illness or drugs and that cause major distress or interfere with everyday life are symptoms for OCD. Obsessions and compulsions that the person usually recognizes as excessive or unreasonable. Ie: an excessive fear of germs and the compulsion to repeatedly wash your hands to rid the germs. Usually OCD does not progress into another disease or disorder but still if you show signs, go get them tested and checked out. So you can be treated and perhaps feel less obligated to do the unreasonable things that could possibly even ‘backfire’ on you. Some treatments consist of different types of medication or just psychotherapy to help get you more along the lines of what we call ‘normal’.
Resources: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001926/
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia
A chronic and severe disease that disables the brain, Schizophrenia. This isn’t something that you can run away from because it is global. Schizophrenia has different severities and levels but one thing people should be clear of is: It is not “Split Personality”. We all see the world differently in some way than the persons around us, but those with schizophrenia they see it with a striking amount of difference. They act in a more strange sense or even bizarre at times than those who do not have this disease. Schizophrenia can lead you to need a managing assistance to do the most basic functions of independent living. Voices are heard, conversations take place with oneself and responses occur to imaginary fears, all of which can sometimes happen to those with Schizophrenia. We all have that moment when we seem abnormal and just can’t collect our thoughts, perhaps while presenting in front of group; that doesn’t mean you have Schizophrenia. Then there is the exact opposite where someone can seem well put together and responsible but be facing hallucinations and delusions, those who have subsided and are working to overcome their Schizophrenia, perhaps with medications and therapy. The conditions affects between one-half and one percent of the world’s population. The exact cause of Schizophrenia is unknown, however it is thought to be caused by a combination of psychological and environmental factors. Studies have also shown that there is clearly a hereditary component relating to the disorder. The years around WWII, scientist thought this disorder was an outcome of just flat-out bad parenting; today’s studies show that this isn’t true and in Schizophrenics there is a common psychological basis. That consists of smaller volume, reduced blood flow to certain areas, and enlargement of the ventricles. Over the past decade we have put much attention on Schizophrenia being linked to neurotransmitters.
Resources: http://www.psychologyinfo.com/schizophrenia/
and http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0006/ai_2699000609/
A chronic and severe disease that disables the brain, Schizophrenia. This isn’t something that you can run away from because it is global. Schizophrenia has different severities and levels but one thing people should be clear of is: It is not “Split Personality”. We all see the world differently in some way than the persons around us, but those with schizophrenia they see it with a striking amount of difference. They act in a more strange sense or even bizarre at times than those who do not have this disease. Schizophrenia can lead you to need a managing assistance to do the most basic functions of independent living. Voices are heard, conversations take place with oneself and responses occur to imaginary fears, all of which can sometimes happen to those with Schizophrenia. We all have that moment when we seem abnormal and just can’t collect our thoughts, perhaps while presenting in front of group; that doesn’t mean you have Schizophrenia. Then there is the exact opposite where someone can seem well put together and responsible but be facing hallucinations and delusions, those who have subsided and are working to overcome their Schizophrenia, perhaps with medications and therapy. The conditions affects between one-half and one percent of the world’s population. The exact cause of Schizophrenia is unknown, however it is thought to be caused by a combination of psychological and environmental factors. Studies have also shown that there is clearly a hereditary component relating to the disorder. The years around WWII, scientist thought this disorder was an outcome of just flat-out bad parenting; today’s studies show that this isn’t true and in Schizophrenics there is a common psychological basis. That consists of smaller volume, reduced blood flow to certain areas, and enlargement of the ventricles. Over the past decade we have put much attention on Schizophrenia being linked to neurotransmitters.
Resources: http://www.psychologyinfo.com/schizophrenia/
and http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0006/ai_2699000609/
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Psychology Behind Dreams
Resource: Understanding Psychology text book Copyrighted in 1995, 1992 by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
We dream over a thousand dreams a night! Yet, once we awaken we can barely recall the last fifteen minutes of dreaming that had just occurred. Dreaming is the mental activity that takes place during sleep; everybody dreams and it’s basically ever night, although most people are only able to recall a few-if any. Dreaming is a necessity. At first it begins as left over thoughts from the day and then becomes more vivid and dramatic. Dreams are a world of it’s own in one’s subconscious state of mind.
We are all different and unique, yet the content of our dreams are common. Normally dreams take place in commonplaces such as streets, living rooms, cars, parks, and well-known areas. They also mainly consist of negative or unpleasant emotions-anxiety, anger, sadness, and so on; yet only a few percent is so negative to be considered a nightmare. Phew, what a relief, but dreams can still be frightening. Nightmares have us waking in the middle to spare ourselves the fright. Most dreams are forgotten because they aren’t coherent, ‘sexy’, or interesting enough. Despite the fact that we have so many dreams, our dreams are normally to scale of real time and not every second like most tend to believe.
5000 B.C.E is when the first dream interpretations are marked. Since then we have many who try to find the meaning to a dream. Dreams usually imply what our conscious in our awake hours is to afraid to acknowledge or express. Some have grown to think they are pointless and just brain cells stimulating while we are asleep. Where as some believe it is filled with underlying reasoning and meanings in every one of them. We all wonder what our dreams mean and we all seek to find out.
I think my dreams all have hidden meaning. I always have the same reoccurring dream and the same reoccurring nightmare. Eventually I will find out what the events mean along with why they reoccur. Until then I just have to rehave them over and over again. I do have to debate the commonplace idea. I have never had a dream that I’m aware of taking place in a common place. Also, I can recall all my dreams every day. Some for even an hour long. Dreams are my mind coming life during my sleep.
We dream over a thousand dreams a night! Yet, once we awaken we can barely recall the last fifteen minutes of dreaming that had just occurred. Dreaming is the mental activity that takes place during sleep; everybody dreams and it’s basically ever night, although most people are only able to recall a few-if any. Dreaming is a necessity. At first it begins as left over thoughts from the day and then becomes more vivid and dramatic. Dreams are a world of it’s own in one’s subconscious state of mind.
We are all different and unique, yet the content of our dreams are common. Normally dreams take place in commonplaces such as streets, living rooms, cars, parks, and well-known areas. They also mainly consist of negative or unpleasant emotions-anxiety, anger, sadness, and so on; yet only a few percent is so negative to be considered a nightmare. Phew, what a relief, but dreams can still be frightening. Nightmares have us waking in the middle to spare ourselves the fright. Most dreams are forgotten because they aren’t coherent, ‘sexy’, or interesting enough. Despite the fact that we have so many dreams, our dreams are normally to scale of real time and not every second like most tend to believe.
5000 B.C.E is when the first dream interpretations are marked. Since then we have many who try to find the meaning to a dream. Dreams usually imply what our conscious in our awake hours is to afraid to acknowledge or express. Some have grown to think they are pointless and just brain cells stimulating while we are asleep. Where as some believe it is filled with underlying reasoning and meanings in every one of them. We all wonder what our dreams mean and we all seek to find out.
I think my dreams all have hidden meaning. I always have the same reoccurring dream and the same reoccurring nightmare. Eventually I will find out what the events mean along with why they reoccur. Until then I just have to rehave them over and over again. I do have to debate the commonplace idea. I have never had a dream that I’m aware of taking place in a common place. Also, I can recall all my dreams every day. Some for even an hour long. Dreams are my mind coming life during my sleep.
The Relationship Between Humans and Animals
Resource: Understanding Psychology text book Copyrighted in 1995, 1992 by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Humans are a complex creature who, to some individuals, are unpredictable. It is believed that humans evolved from more primitive animal origins by scientists. People like to study the nature of the behavior of their fellow human-beings. However, due to medical issues and such we do not tend to do direct studies on humans. We do social studies on animals because it appears to be linked and similar to human studies, so it is quite helpful.
Evolution, some think it pertains to more than just anatomy and physiology. Some scientist and people have come to think evolution can apply to behavior, as well. Charles Darwin proposed that all animal species are related to one another. Implying that humans are in a sense animals and can be related to the less complex. Though qualities may be unique, it does not mean that there is a lack of similarities.
The study of natural behavior patterns of all species is known as ‘Ethology’. Natural behavior patterns are known as species-specific behaviors. More primitive animals [ie: insects, fish, and reptiles] are less flexible, or more stereotyped, with their patterns than the more complex animals. There is a thing called “Fixed action patterns” and what this is is almost like instinct, it is a behavior pattern that are inborn to the animal rather than learned. Special sensitivities can be born to an animal due to certain cues of their environment. Though fixed action patterns are less powerful and less noticed in humans and other complex animals they are still present.
Sociobiology studies the heredity basis of social behavior in animals and humans. We have learned many species have the maternal instincts and that it’s common for males to be more dominant than females. Sociobiology seeks to explain other social behaviors exerted in species. No hard evidence has been proven to show it can just come from genetics, so perhaps some is learned. We do see that men are more aggressive and dominant than females are. Evolution takes place slowly, some say, so we very well could still be inheriting social behaviors from times long ago such as the prehistoric times. A controversy lies on whether or not the patterns be followed and how natural selection takes place and the hunt just to survive.
Personally, I feel I have inherited social behaviors from my parents because I act so similar to my dad and it affects me because some of those behaviors lead me to clash with my mother. So, I do think social behaviors can be passed down through genetics. However, I also display behaviors that neither of my parents pertain. Leading me to believe that some can be learned. The relationship between humans and animals to me is high. I think we are closely related to how animals behave except our brains are more developed and we use different parts to help us better express ourselves and act out a bit differently.
Humans are a complex creature who, to some individuals, are unpredictable. It is believed that humans evolved from more primitive animal origins by scientists. People like to study the nature of the behavior of their fellow human-beings. However, due to medical issues and such we do not tend to do direct studies on humans. We do social studies on animals because it appears to be linked and similar to human studies, so it is quite helpful.
Evolution, some think it pertains to more than just anatomy and physiology. Some scientist and people have come to think evolution can apply to behavior, as well. Charles Darwin proposed that all animal species are related to one another. Implying that humans are in a sense animals and can be related to the less complex. Though qualities may be unique, it does not mean that there is a lack of similarities.
The study of natural behavior patterns of all species is known as ‘Ethology’. Natural behavior patterns are known as species-specific behaviors. More primitive animals [ie: insects, fish, and reptiles] are less flexible, or more stereotyped, with their patterns than the more complex animals. There is a thing called “Fixed action patterns” and what this is is almost like instinct, it is a behavior pattern that are inborn to the animal rather than learned. Special sensitivities can be born to an animal due to certain cues of their environment. Though fixed action patterns are less powerful and less noticed in humans and other complex animals they are still present.
Sociobiology studies the heredity basis of social behavior in animals and humans. We have learned many species have the maternal instincts and that it’s common for males to be more dominant than females. Sociobiology seeks to explain other social behaviors exerted in species. No hard evidence has been proven to show it can just come from genetics, so perhaps some is learned. We do see that men are more aggressive and dominant than females are. Evolution takes place slowly, some say, so we very well could still be inheriting social behaviors from times long ago such as the prehistoric times. A controversy lies on whether or not the patterns be followed and how natural selection takes place and the hunt just to survive.
Personally, I feel I have inherited social behaviors from my parents because I act so similar to my dad and it affects me because some of those behaviors lead me to clash with my mother. So, I do think social behaviors can be passed down through genetics. However, I also display behaviors that neither of my parents pertain. Leading me to believe that some can be learned. The relationship between humans and animals to me is high. I think we are closely related to how animals behave except our brains are more developed and we use different parts to help us better express ourselves and act out a bit differently.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
ADHD (Week 3)
ADHD
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, ADHD, is a developmental disorder. “The co-existent of attentional problems and hyperactivity, with each behavior occurring infrequently alone” and with symptoms being shown before the age of seven is how this disorder is usually classified. This is global and this does affect 3-5% of children everywhere, it is most commonly studied and diagnosed as a psychiatric disorder found in children, and diagnosed to about 2-16% of school aged children. Once you have it there is the chance that you’ll be one of 30-50% of children who carry it into adult hood. It is a chronic disorder. 4.7% is about the amount of adults living with ADHD, and a high percentile of them have learned ways to cope with it. Children who have ADHD are learning to cope and trying but still have difficulties, they tend to have a problem with their school work and find it difficult. It seems that ADHD is two to four more times diagnosed with boys than it is with girls, however it may just be due to a bias prefer by teachers. Managing this disorder usually contains counseling, changing the way of living, behavior modifications, and medication. It’s symptoms are hard to distinguish sometimes from other disorders, so there’s chances that you may miss the diagnosis until a later day in age, which makes even harder to manage. So pay close attention! It’s very diagnosis and treatment is controversy and has been since around the 1970s. Some symptoms would be :
“♥Predominantly inattentive type symptoms may include:
♥Be easily distracted, miss details, forget things, and frequently switch from one activity to another
♥Have difficulty maintaining focus on one task
♥Become bored with a task after only a few minutes, unless doing something enjoyable
♥Have difficulty focusing attention on organizing and completing a task or learning something new or trouble completing or turning in homework assignments, often losing things (e.g., pencils, toys, assignments) needed to complete tasks or activities
♥Not seem to listen when spoken to
♥Daydream, become easily confused, and move slowly
♥Have difficulty processing information as quickly and accurately as others
♥Struggle to follow instructions.
♥Predominantly hyperactive-impulsive type symptoms may include:
♥Fidget and squirm in their seats
♥Talk nonstop
♥Dash around, touching or playing with anything and everything in sight
♥Have trouble sitting still during dinner, school, and story time
♥Be constantly in motion
♥Have difficulty doing quiet tasks or activities.
and also these manifestations primarily of impulsivity:
♥Be very impatient
♥Blurt out inappropriate comments, show their emotions without restraint, and act without regard for consequences
♥Have difficulty waiting for things they want or waiting their turns in games”
The exactitude of their causes aren’t really known but studies and researches think it may have to do with : genetics, enviornment, diet, and social surroundings. There are several theories. Look into it and learn more if you’d like.
Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADHD
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, ADHD, is a developmental disorder. “The co-existent of attentional problems and hyperactivity, with each behavior occurring infrequently alone” and with symptoms being shown before the age of seven is how this disorder is usually classified. This is global and this does affect 3-5% of children everywhere, it is most commonly studied and diagnosed as a psychiatric disorder found in children, and diagnosed to about 2-16% of school aged children. Once you have it there is the chance that you’ll be one of 30-50% of children who carry it into adult hood. It is a chronic disorder. 4.7% is about the amount of adults living with ADHD, and a high percentile of them have learned ways to cope with it. Children who have ADHD are learning to cope and trying but still have difficulties, they tend to have a problem with their school work and find it difficult. It seems that ADHD is two to four more times diagnosed with boys than it is with girls, however it may just be due to a bias prefer by teachers. Managing this disorder usually contains counseling, changing the way of living, behavior modifications, and medication. It’s symptoms are hard to distinguish sometimes from other disorders, so there’s chances that you may miss the diagnosis until a later day in age, which makes even harder to manage. So pay close attention! It’s very diagnosis and treatment is controversy and has been since around the 1970s. Some symptoms would be :
“♥Predominantly inattentive type symptoms may include:
♥Be easily distracted, miss details, forget things, and frequently switch from one activity to another
♥Have difficulty maintaining focus on one task
♥Become bored with a task after only a few minutes, unless doing something enjoyable
♥Have difficulty focusing attention on organizing and completing a task or learning something new or trouble completing or turning in homework assignments, often losing things (e.g., pencils, toys, assignments) needed to complete tasks or activities
♥Not seem to listen when spoken to
♥Daydream, become easily confused, and move slowly
♥Have difficulty processing information as quickly and accurately as others
♥Struggle to follow instructions.
♥Predominantly hyperactive-impulsive type symptoms may include:
♥Fidget and squirm in their seats
♥Talk nonstop
♥Dash around, touching or playing with anything and everything in sight
♥Have trouble sitting still during dinner, school, and story time
♥Be constantly in motion
♥Have difficulty doing quiet tasks or activities.
and also these manifestations primarily of impulsivity:
♥Be very impatient
♥Blurt out inappropriate comments, show their emotions without restraint, and act without regard for consequences
♥Have difficulty waiting for things they want or waiting their turns in games”
The exactitude of their causes aren’t really known but studies and researches think it may have to do with : genetics, enviornment, diet, and social surroundings. There are several theories. Look into it and learn more if you’d like.
Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADHD
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Be A Better Communicator (Week2)
Communication is a part of our lives on the daily basis. Misinterpreted or understood, it lies there; verbally, written, or nonverbal. To understand ones communication and messages to yourself, is similar to understanding the other and their meaning of which they’re trying to get across. The better one is at communicating and listening, the better one could be at understanding another.
We communicate to get our ideas and thoughts across for another to see it our way. Some people are better at communicating than ourselves and some feel that communication can only be written or spoken verbally. They’d be wrong; we do have nonverbal communication as well. Though, verbally and written could sometimes be the easiest to spot to interpret, it does not make it the only way or even the most sufficient way. The nonverbal communication in-between the lines and done at the same time are just as important and should be taken into communication that we use everyday.
“Nonverbal signals make up a huge portion of our interpersonal communications” Kendra Cherry, about.com. She feels that it could help us communicate even more effectively if we could just learn how to signal properly our own nonverbal communication as well as how to read the signals of others nonverbally. As well as making good eye contact and using your tone of voice to reinforce your message.
I agree with nonverbal communication being just as important as verbal communication to help us all better understand the message being sent and how to better send our message. If we could all become a better communicator we could learn to be a better interpreter and to better understand those around us. Psychology is all about understanding the mind and understanding others, so I think learning to better effectively communicate is better understanding yourself and others. So, becoming a better communicator is using psychology in everyday lives.
We communicate to get our ideas and thoughts across for another to see it our way. Some people are better at communicating than ourselves and some feel that communication can only be written or spoken verbally. They’d be wrong; we do have nonverbal communication as well. Though, verbally and written could sometimes be the easiest to spot to interpret, it does not make it the only way or even the most sufficient way. The nonverbal communication in-between the lines and done at the same time are just as important and should be taken into communication that we use everyday.
“Nonverbal signals make up a huge portion of our interpersonal communications” Kendra Cherry, about.com. She feels that it could help us communicate even more effectively if we could just learn how to signal properly our own nonverbal communication as well as how to read the signals of others nonverbally. As well as making good eye contact and using your tone of voice to reinforce your message.
I agree with nonverbal communication being just as important as verbal communication to help us all better understand the message being sent and how to better send our message. If we could all become a better communicator we could learn to be a better interpreter and to better understand those around us. Psychology is all about understanding the mind and understanding others, so I think learning to better effectively communicate is better understanding yourself and others. So, becoming a better communicator is using psychology in everyday lives.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Getting Better Grades
Understanding one’s mind, is a way to describe the word psychology. Understanding is something most people search for whether it be of themselves or of another. The mind, not to be confused with the brain, is used to understand something and similar to such. Therefore, getting better grades would come from better understanding the knowledge your mind is trying to absorb and being able to act on it, would be apart of psychology.
One can get better grades simply by studying that can help you recall forty percent of the information or a method found even more sufficient with sixty-one percent recall on the information, known as self-testing frequently. We all know how to study, we just don’t take the time to do so! Go ahead, push yourself to take the time to do some studying. Some people know, but not many, that self-quizzing can lead to better memory of the information and can lead you to have a better memory and get a better grade on that test! Testing takes, normally, a good portion of percent or our overall percentile grade. Expand your mind, prepare yourself, push yourself, and try your best to get better grades; which helps your mind and the knowledge helps you better understand what you’re capable of, meaning the ability to use psychology on yourself everyday.
I reference all my ideas and way of thinking back to an all about psychology website. I do, indeed, believe in their ideas and they have so much to share. Learning of the self-quizzing thing to improve your memory and ability to recall does give me a new idea of how to do good on tests. It helps me get better grades, and I do love to push myself to succeed. So, I was quite happy to learn a new psychological way to do better in school and enhance my mind.
One can get better grades simply by studying that can help you recall forty percent of the information or a method found even more sufficient with sixty-one percent recall on the information, known as self-testing frequently. We all know how to study, we just don’t take the time to do so! Go ahead, push yourself to take the time to do some studying. Some people know, but not many, that self-quizzing can lead to better memory of the information and can lead you to have a better memory and get a better grade on that test! Testing takes, normally, a good portion of percent or our overall percentile grade. Expand your mind, prepare yourself, push yourself, and try your best to get better grades; which helps your mind and the knowledge helps you better understand what you’re capable of, meaning the ability to use psychology on yourself everyday.
I reference all my ideas and way of thinking back to an all about psychology website. I do, indeed, believe in their ideas and they have so much to share. Learning of the self-quizzing thing to improve your memory and ability to recall does give me a new idea of how to do good on tests. It helps me get better grades, and I do love to push myself to succeed. So, I was quite happy to learn a new psychological way to do better in school and enhance my mind.
Isolated Tribe of New Guinea: Reactions with the Outside World
The second largest island - the first going to Greenland, New Guinea is home to an estimated 44 uncontacted tribal groups. The world is closing in on them, though. Those who live in such remote isolation, is like they don’t live in the same world as we do, though they do. Today’s society is closing in on them and slowly deforesting their homes and places they live.
They live in forest depths in huts and up in the trees. Surviving by hunting, fishing, gathering plants, and berries, is how they live. So isolated from our world today, knowing nothing of television, Internet, and all our technological we have today, that have even become almost accustomed into our everyday lives. They know of airplanes but only because of the fact that there are airplanes that fly close and low to their settlements from time to time. Since they are so distanced from the world we have today, some wonder whether we should leave them to their course of fate or help them and push them to our way of living.
The isolated tribe of New Guinea try to stay isolated but as we search for oil and log, we destroy their homes, making it that much harder for them to stay as they are. They aren’t really sure on who we are, how we exist in such manners, or know much of how we live. Yet, we study them and watch them as we slowly face them to what fate has decided or we can push them into our society and hope they can survive the diseases they never have had to make contact with and if they survive, slowly they’d lose their grip on their old culture as they adjust to our world. Only few will maintain their spiritual beliefs, languages, and culture.
Though, the isolated tribes that live within New Guinea have one of the highest numbers on our planet, they still face such problems. Maybe because of their lack of mixing with people from outside their tribes, or maybe from not adapting as life has. Whichever way it is, we have studied and come to learn that they do not like to react with the outside world. They know little of what we know so much of. As we grow and they continue to not react with the changing outside world that is around them, it makes it difficult for either we or them to learn anything about one another. Leaving us with a blind spot in our knowledge, whether it be for good or bad, no one can know.
I reference my writing to several articles, readings, and wikipedia. That is how I have come to the conclusion that they do not seem to be a group who would like to mix with the outsiders, in this case being us. They have survived so long by hunting, fishing, and gathering, living huts and tree houses. They are so high on their own spiritual beliefs, enriched with their cultures and languages, it’s no wonder they don’t want to change what it is they know and how they live. They try to stay hidden and away from our world.
I find it quite disheartening to read that because they don’t mix with our world that we are slowly destroying their homes and their way of life. We make it almost impossible for them to survive more than a little longer. I do personally think that they are stuck in their own ways because we do not try hard enough to mix with them, rather than they mix with us. We’re the ones who have changed and become different, while they have stayed the same. They have stayed the same for so long and have maintained their lives just by not reacting with us. They probably won’t react with us, the outside world, any time soon either.
They live in forest depths in huts and up in the trees. Surviving by hunting, fishing, gathering plants, and berries, is how they live. So isolated from our world today, knowing nothing of television, Internet, and all our technological we have today, that have even become almost accustomed into our everyday lives. They know of airplanes but only because of the fact that there are airplanes that fly close and low to their settlements from time to time. Since they are so distanced from the world we have today, some wonder whether we should leave them to their course of fate or help them and push them to our way of living.
The isolated tribe of New Guinea try to stay isolated but as we search for oil and log, we destroy their homes, making it that much harder for them to stay as they are. They aren’t really sure on who we are, how we exist in such manners, or know much of how we live. Yet, we study them and watch them as we slowly face them to what fate has decided or we can push them into our society and hope they can survive the diseases they never have had to make contact with and if they survive, slowly they’d lose their grip on their old culture as they adjust to our world. Only few will maintain their spiritual beliefs, languages, and culture.
Though, the isolated tribes that live within New Guinea have one of the highest numbers on our planet, they still face such problems. Maybe because of their lack of mixing with people from outside their tribes, or maybe from not adapting as life has. Whichever way it is, we have studied and come to learn that they do not like to react with the outside world. They know little of what we know so much of. As we grow and they continue to not react with the changing outside world that is around them, it makes it difficult for either we or them to learn anything about one another. Leaving us with a blind spot in our knowledge, whether it be for good or bad, no one can know.
I reference my writing to several articles, readings, and wikipedia. That is how I have come to the conclusion that they do not seem to be a group who would like to mix with the outsiders, in this case being us. They have survived so long by hunting, fishing, and gathering, living huts and tree houses. They are so high on their own spiritual beliefs, enriched with their cultures and languages, it’s no wonder they don’t want to change what it is they know and how they live. They try to stay hidden and away from our world.
I find it quite disheartening to read that because they don’t mix with our world that we are slowly destroying their homes and their way of life. We make it almost impossible for them to survive more than a little longer. I do personally think that they are stuck in their own ways because we do not try hard enough to mix with them, rather than they mix with us. We’re the ones who have changed and become different, while they have stayed the same. They have stayed the same for so long and have maintained their lives just by not reacting with us. They probably won’t react with us, the outside world, any time soon either.
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