chapter 16 blog

Stereotyping in Everyday Life
What are stereotypes?
How are illusory correlations related to stereotyping?

Attribution
-Process of Attribution: We observe an action, we ask why it happened, we make a judgment about the incident example would be what was the intention, we make a guess also referred to as dispositional attribution.
-Def. of Fundamental Attribution: The tendency to over estimate the internal attributes of another person's actions.

Stereotyping in Everyday Life
-Def. of Stereotypes: Generalizations, or assumptions, that people make about the characteristics fo all members of a group, based on an image about what people in that group are like.
-Illusory Correlations vs. Stereotyping: Illusory correlation is the phenomenon of seeing the relationship one expects in a set of data even when no such relationship exists. Illusory correlation is when people tend to overestimate a link between two variables. Stereotyping is very similar to the fact that you are making those same assumptions and associations among certain groups.

Blog Time Personality

--The one online activity I thought made the most sense was the big 5. It took all aspects of a person's life and made a survey. No wonder when it compiled all of my information it came up with such an accurate reading. I was amazed that is for sure.
With personality though I think it derives from your environment. Your social life, home life, and work life have all played a role in molding your personality.
I also noticed that I have used quite a few defense mechanisms in my life. Most of these would include: Rationalizing/Intellectualizing, Repression, Displacement, Projection, Reaction Formation, Denial, and Daydreaming. Of course I haven't done all of these a lot it is just that I know I have been through them before.
The traits video was kinda different. The beginning was intriguing and how it explained was pretty thorough. I thought that one would be the most helpful.

Blog Chpt 8

I had some difficulty with this chapter. Memory is so intensive and complex. I actually forgot a lot about this chapter after I went through. I personally think I have short term memory. But moving on, this was still a pretty interesting chapter. I never really thought that memory has that many parts to it. You wouldn't think it anyway. I thought before hand that it was kind of a one way street, you could say. Now knowing more about it I feel a little accomplished. Of course I didn' t do the greatest on the test because I honestly didn't absorb the information very well. I still attempted though so I suppose that counts. Anyway, as I said this was an alright chapter. I wish I could have learned it a little better but I am sure I could if I tried to another time.

60 Minutes

1) In Cl ass discuss how the show affected what you understood and believed about eye witness testimony
2) Does the information impact the way you may try to remember events as you explain them to others

When I was first reading this article I felt as though the victim of rape was pretty smart to focus her attention to her rapist. I would probably try and be in that same mind set so I could catch him and make him pay. What goes around comes around. Continuing, she seemed so sure of her eye witness testimony and it seemed so accurate in my opinion as well. However, later finding that another man resembled Cotton was kind of a toss up. Supposedly everyone has someone else that looks almost like a twin to you, but who would've thought. Cotton got smart and asked for DNA, which it is a shame he didn't think of that earlier in his sentence. Turning out he was innocent and that someone else actually did it was fascinating. The rape victim's testimony wasn't necessarily wrong it's just the fact the resemblence of her rapist and Cotton was similar. If I were in her position and later found out that my testimony was wrong and I chose the wrong guy, I probably would be very upset. Not only did you not find your rapist but you put an innocent man in prison for all that time. I don't think I'd be able to cope with that situation. It's so depressing.
The fact that our memory is suseptable to being manipulated makes me think about the times I have tried to explain what someone looks like to someone who doesn't know who I was speaking of. Sometimes the one I was trying to explain stuff to was asking questions that suggest and it would seem as though that was right. When really it wasn't all of the time. It definitely opens up another view of how simple our memory can be when you really break it down. It's simply complex but it's complexity isn't always in every view.

Applied Cognition

Short Term Memory, Recognition, Mnemonicizer, Human Memory, Interference
A lot of these experiments teach little things about us we definitely don't realize. The one I liked the most is the Recognition one. Mostly because it took me three tries and I swore I knew the correct one. However, I didn't. In this chapter it discussed quite a bit about these types of things and the experiments, I think, helped out more. Some ways I can apply what I have learned in my life is for instance being more observant. Our minds are pretty efficient at what they do however when we see things often we don't always pay attention to the little things. I could use that a lot in studying. Analyze the work more carefully and pay closer attention to the details that may have importance. Also some people are better at visual things than other sensational things. When I give directions for instance I try to include landscapes that stick out.
In a general overview I thought these online activities showed a good representation of all the parts dealing with memory.

The Case of Clive

This is really odd. I never really thought something that extreme could happen. Alzhtimers is similar I would assume. However, to remember for a bit but forget it in seconds is just weird. I can't imagine what it would be like. In his case he wrote stuff down every now and again, but he didn't remember doing it even though he knew it was his writing and he must have wrote it. I think I would probably be in worse condition than he is. You'd think that he would become somewhat insane knowing that you are pretty much reliving every moment, over and over again. That would seem unbearable.

Blog Chpt 7

I thought that this chapter was relatively interesting. Didn't find it any more interesting compared to others. The only thing I really thought had a great deal of thought was the behavior section. The behavior modification stuff. There are many different kinds of ways to manipulate what ever it is you want to manipulate.

With the conditioning and relating it to myself, I'd say it depends. I know we would use I believe it is called classical conditioning for training our animals.

However, I grew up using observational learning and my parents used operant conditioning to train me, more or less.