#PsychStory

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****The task is me... myself telling an inspirational story about someone else, other than myself.

I enjoyed telling Matt's story and I hope that I told it the way he would have wanted me to, like I said in the video that he could not do it due to scheduling conflicts. It was nice learning about his story.

I gained from this experience that you should keep pushing forward no matter what.

TELL YOUR STORY TO ENCOURAGE OTHERS... MMM'KAY?!

M4Task

I chose option 2 for the M4 Task project. I interviewed my caregivers parents.

Memory Week 8

There are several aspects of the chapter that stood out to me. One of the most prevalent ones was that there are different types of memory. We can somehow block out bad things that have happened to us, but depending on the mood that we are in the memories of the event/or events can come flooding back. We also have a tendency to make certain activities second nature such as, waking up and brushing out teeth. We do not have to think about brushing our teeth because once we do it enough, it becomes ingrained in our minds to do so.

Alzheimer's patients have trouble remembering names and faces, however if you tell them to take you to their house or to a place they frequented many years earlier, they can do so because they have travelled the path to those places so many times before. The reason for this phenomena is because their long term memories are not effected by the disease. The effects are felt in the part of the brain that controls short-term memory.

Science behind the phenomenon:

People were shown a crime but they all describe the same crime in different ways. This is why at times eye witness testimony can be shaky because people see things in different ways. They can be influenced by others takes on the same event. Other people can make you think you saw something. This was demonstrated by an experiment aired on the Discovery channel where people were placed into a room and shown a crime and asked to describe what they had seen. The test subjects were influenced by what the teacher said about the suspect's nose when she was describing the suspect. The teacher said he had a big nose, but turns out he didn't have a big nose at all, but she persuaded them to believe that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=9K7rbMBKb5Q&hl=en-GB

Learning Week 7

What stood out to me about the Chapter on Learning, was that there were so many different types of learning, and so many different ways in which our environment can effect our behavior. One example that really stood out to me was the portion on why we watch sports, because I watch a lot of sports and it was interesting to understand the mental approach of why we watch them. While I knew that we watch sports for it unpredictability, I did not realize it was the major part of why we watch them. If sports were regimented and we could tell what would happen, we probably would not have near as much interest in them. For example the text example of this would be the "home run theory" -  The theory is that if Mike Trout hits a home run, he will not hit another one for 17 more bats, the theory is that if we know this we would not be as inclined to watch, but since we do not know when his homerun will come it adds to the unpredictability and this is why we continue to watch.

The Science Behind "Learning":

• One of the best examples of the Science behind learning, is the dog experiment. Pavlov's Study was a experiment in which scientist placed dogs in an controlled environment with food. The first time they offered food to the dogs their mouths began to water. Doctor Pavlov then decided to include a sound with the offering of food. As the experiment drew on, he found that the dog's mouth began to water when they simply heard the sound. The food did not even have to be in the area for their mouths to start watering. The reason for this, is because they began to associate the sound with the food over time.

Real-World Application:

In conclusion I have found that most behaviors that we do are learned. While some are not easily unlearned, that does not mean that it is impossible. For instance, someone who is struggling with an addiction, can learn to not need the object or substance that they are addicted to with help and support. It does help to find ways to prevent themselves from indulging in it. An example of this would be like a certain smell that they learn to associate with the substance, if it is a bad smell they can be taught that whenever they are around the substance or object that the smell will come with it, in turn making them not want to have the substance or object anymore.

Sources: https://www.simplypsychology.org/pavlov.html