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Me myself had other problems going in to the class. I am a learning disabled student who was not getting as much helps as I need. The classes that were being taken by me were college level and were all time consuming. Dr. Kay was very reasonable and did what she could she also give us different ways the study for the test so that we could bring are grades up. In the next paragraphs to follow I will be telling you and just a few topics we covered in the course. In chapters one and two we went over the search for understanding and research methods and critical thinking. These topics were pretty general but were very helpful in the over all book. Every chapter lead into the next one. In chapter one we learned what does psychology mean. Well today there is a study for everything and well to me psychology is like the study of the body and how it works mentally not so much physically. All throws there are parts of psychology that do. To me its more backed on why people act the way they do what makes them think the things they think and how those throws came about. In the book psychology is defined as the scientific study of human and animal behavior. We also learn in chapter one about the five views or behavior. Forces within ones personality, which are often hidden, or unconscious direct one psychodynamic view, that is the view, which talks about that behavior. Two-behaviorist view that states behavior is shaped and controlled by ones environment. Maslow is a behaviorist. Three is Humanistic view this one was about behavior having to do with your self-image and by subjective perceptions of the world, and by needs for personal growth. Four is biopsychological view is that human and animal behavior is the result of internal physical, chemical, and biological processes. The cognitive view is the fifth view, which is human behavior, can be understood in term of the mental processing of information. That was not half of what we received out of chapter one but there is too much information to take down. In chapter two we learned about the scientific method. Which is broken up into groups. Observation is to which and take carefully recording and facts. Defining a problem is to basically find the meaning of where the problem is coming from. Proposing a hypothesis is, what do you think is going to happen. Gathering evidence/testing the hypothesis this part is mostly the experiment and finding out if it comes out the way you wanted it to. Publishing results is if the experiment is good then you make a hard copy by writing down what you did. And last the theory building these are the six elements of the scientific method. Chapter two also talks about of other different methods of research like variable grouping, field experiments, controlling placedo effects, clinical method and survey methods. The book mostly talked about those and how useful they were. The book told you which ones worked better then the other and which one was used for which. Chapter three and four when a little faster but the information was very hard to learn. “Why you ask”? It was about the brain, biology, and behavior in three and child development in four, which was much easier. The brain and biology are really not my things to lean about. I feel there to informing and boring but it was part of the class. So in three we talked about neurons and what they do.we learned which cells make up the brain and much; much more. Nerves are large bundles of axons and dendrites. Neurilemma is a thin layer of cells. The central nervous system consists of the brain and spinal cord. The whole chapter was just full of information about the different parts of the nervous system. Really very “boring” stuff. We talked about many things in that chapter but it to much information I believe. Child development was much more interesting. Dr Kay even offers to bring in her newborn baby. I’m sorry that never happened. I love babes I have two baby bothers at home. One 3 and one 1 half they are so cute. Chapter four as taught me a lot about them. It told you a lot about how to prevent your child growing up round or with problems. It told us how environment had a lot to do with the way your child grows up. We also learned about the development pores. Temperament is the physical core of personality in which plays a big part in children. There are three different temperaments, easy children, difficult children, and slow to warm up children. Easy children are about 40% observed they also tend to be relaxed and agreeable. Difficult children are about 10% observed they are moody, intense and easily angered. Slow-to-warm-up children are 15% observed they are restrained and unexpressive or shy. These three temperament start from when they are young and sometimes continue for a long time. Chapter four also talks about human growth sequence from prenatal period, which is conception to adulthood, and on. It talked about child birth and when there child hits the critical period. The critical period is a time of increased sensitivity to environmental influences. This is the time when the child learns who there parents are and everything around them will be come apart of their personality. Imprinting is the rapid and early learning of permanent behavior patterns. The book also talked about the social development of a child. Self-awareness is the consciousness of oneself. Social referencing is the observing others to obtain information or guidance. These are all stages a child goes throw to find there self. Attachment is also different things that kids do. Emotional attachment is when a kid has a close emotional bond with someone. Separation anxiety is the crying and signs of fear when left alone or left with a stranger. Securely attached is stable and positive emotional bond. Insecure-avoidance is when your child turns away their parent after being left anxious emotional bond. Insecure ambivalent is also an anxious emotional bond when they both seek to be near the returning mother, and angrily reset contact. There was so much more that we talked about like daycare and how to fine a good one and so on. Chapters 8 and 9 were very little in subject but were also to chapters that were hard to learn. We learned about state of conditioning and conditioning learning. In chapter 8 it talked about state of consciousness which is an altered state of mind. The need for sleep is controlled but the innate biological rhythm, which is natural bodily cycle. Microscope is when you are so tired that your body turns off for a few seconds. Microscope is defined as a brief shift of Brian activity to pattern normally recorded during sleep. We also talked about the stages of sleep. There are four of them. Stage one is light sleep. This is when your heart slows down and the muscles in your body relax. Al so in stage 1 EEG is made up mainly of samall irregular waves with some alpha. In stage 2 as you go into a deeper sleep you temper goes down and sleep spindles, which are short bursts of distinctive brain-waves activity, start to show up in your dream pattern. In stage 3 new brain waves show up called delta, which are very large and slow. They make your sleep deeper. In the last stage of sleep called stage four you’re in the deepest sleep. After stage four you go back down to 3 then 2 and 1 you backandforth between the stages all night. We also talked about sleep wars. Sleep walking and sleep talking, nightmares and night terrors, narcolepsy, insomnia, and dreams. These are just a few of some of them. In chapter9 there was more information about operant conditioning which is learning based on the consequences. Many of these conducing is used on training pets and to even train your child.it also talked about how to ake a person act and do as you would want them to. More so it went in on learn fears like a phobia and how to stop the fear form being in control. We talked about punishment and the punished and how the to act and react to each other. It showed the effective way to punish and when you should punish. The whole chapter was open to a wide range and delt with a lot of information In 10 and 12 we learned about memory and inelegance. What is a memory and hoe do we save them. Well it’s and active system that receives, store, organizes, alters, and recovers information.there are two basic units to memory Short-term and long term. Short-term memory is broken in to selective attention, which is the focus on a selected portion of sensory input. Short-term memory holds small amounts of information for relatively brief periods. Long-term memory acts as a permanent storehouse for meaningful information. Chunking in the poress of is putting bits into larger groups. Recodes are modifies or reorganizes. Rehearsal is the best way to get something into short-term or even long-term. Sometimes memories dcay when you don’t recall them. Recall is to supply or reproduce facts or information. In 12 you talk more about genes and why and why not we are intelligence. There are tests that can test our intelligence called the IQ test. The test is your mental age over your chronological age times 100. There are many other tests out there like group testing and the whechsler testing too. WAIS-III and WISC-III they stand for Wechsler adult intelligence scale-third edition or children test for C. the chapter real went over rht e genes and how you can tell if your child has intelligence at a young age. Your heredity can give you intelligence by eugnics, which is selective breeding for desirable characteristics. We talked about twins and the frames of mind. Language, logic, visual and spatial thinking, music, bodily, interpersonal skills, interpersonal skills, these frames of mind can show what your in to and what would be the best job for you. Mostly the chapters went real into the means of why we are the way we are and how we can change over self’s. In chapters 13 14 16 and 17 they talked about motivation emotion, health stress and coping, personality and abnormal behaviors. All the chapters had their different meaning but these 4 were based on feels your personality is a lot of what you make of it along with what you inhered. Your personality can come with some disorders like eating disorders social disorders and more emotion has a lot to do with how you care your self. If you are a person who does not feel good about there self you. So your ovation and personally go a long with it one thing always deals with the other. That was what was mostly learned in the last chapters In chapter 19 and 20 we are taking a test on so I will conclude with this in the paragraphs above you learned how psychology is tired in with the expires we have has a child. I believe it’s all about your enverment. I leaned a lot and the class was very fun. Taking this class has made me think about becoming a psychologist. Bibliography: Word Count: 2000
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