Ear Diagram

Eye Diagram

Perception

Notes On Developmental Psychology

-Mary Ainsworth "Attachment" Experiment


-Harry Harlow's Monkey Experiment

-Jean Piaget's Cognitive Development

A Little Something About Social Psychology

-The Attribution Theory 


-The Cognitive Dissonance Theory 


-Social Facilitation

-Social Loafing



-Deindividuation




-Scapegoat Theory

A Researcher's Guide To Research

Descriptive Research: 

The different steps in Descriptive Research.

-Case Study 

-Survey

-Naturalistic Observation

Something strange, something new...Something educating?

It seems that everyone is in a flurry, updating their blogs with notes and facts about psychological disorders, showcasing just how much they've learned these past few weeks (or maybe just trying to get their blog done before the due date...who knows, eh?). In any case, I've decided to keep with the trend and actually update with a post that pertains to what we've been doing in class and not just what I myself find interesting (because what I find interesting might cause for deep psychological trauma to the rest of you innocents). As a result, I shall post one interesting (and hopefully unknown, although it really depends on your note-taking skills) fact about schizophrenia, since it is my PSA topic. After much (internet) searching and (web) probing, I happened to find my interesting fact, and it is quite...ah, interesting, for lack of a better term. What is that fact, you ask? I shall tell you: schizophrenic people apparently very much like to draw...cats. How do I know this? Well, if you are to search for "schizophrenic art", that is all you will see. Literally. Painted cats, drawn cats. An abundance of them. That is not to say that every single schizophrenic person does it, of course, but a there are those that do (or did, if they are deceased...rest in peace, fellow cat lovers), such as Louis Wain, an English artist, who was very well known for his drawing of cats before and after he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Did any of you find this as interesting as I did? No? Hmmm...maybe it's because I tend to look at my cats like some people look at their beds: with adoration and love in their eyes.
        Note: I don't think my post ended up talking much about schizophrenia at all, actually, despite how hard I worked to make it sound informing. Oh well...We'll always have the trusty Internet to answer any questions we might have about those numerous psychological disorders, no?

A New Type of Superhero

So I recently took a personality/superhero quiz...and the results surprised me a bit. Apparently, according to the personality quiz, I have been declared as a "Rational Mastermind". My superhero quiz has named my alter ego as Professor X (from X-Men, for those of you who are unaware), the uber-intelligent, bald-headed, stoic leader of the pro-mutant forces. In short, I am a (sometimes) cool-headed, (somewhat) cold-blooded, stone-hearted, steely-minded, total CEO-material type of girl. If you ask me, on the other hand, I sound like total assassin-going-to-kick-your-butt type of girl.....if I unleashed my inner id, maybe. Who knows, maybe Professor X will join the dark side in the next X-Men movie. After all, they do have those wonderful cookies. 

A Thought In Passing...

Jason Gideon from Criminal Minds (a wonderfully intriguing show) once said, "Oh, I don't think so. I mean nothing's just a picture. If viewed correctly--whatever that means--one can see world views, obsessions, manifestations of the subconscious." Does that mean that all the deepest, darkest secrets of our subconscious is being manifested in broad daylight for anybody who looks too closely? That's a truly disturbing thought....let's hope no one cares enough to look at all.