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I read the article Sit up Straight! Be Confident! And I thought that it didn’t speak the whole truth. In the article it says if you don’t sit up straight in school you aren’t that confident. I disagree, I know many people who are confident in themselves who are just too lazy to sit up straight in class. Even I get really tired of sitting up straight. Just because we want to kick back and relax while we are in school shouldn’t put a person under the category of thinking negatively.

Thinking Critically

Research is important because if we study different areas and conduct research then we will know why some things are the way they are. Also by research we know what we as people should not change and things that we could change to make ourselves better people.
A research article that is relevant to my life is Essentials of Group Psychology. One thing I realized after reading this article how true it is that you start to have the same attitude toward some people or things as the other people you hang around with. In groups of friends there is always one person who does all of the ordering if you are in a restaurant or is the first to introduce themselves to a new person who is sitting next to the group. Being in a group gets you to try things you normally wouldn’t try on your own. That includes the good and the bad of course. This article was a really good one to read and there is a lot you can get from it.

Just some things I found interesting in this chapter.
There was an experiment conducted in earlier years that children who are fed breast mild as a baby have a higher intelligence score than those who were fed formula. I personally never thought of the effect it had on intelligence. The only other experiment with formula and milk that I have heard of was that children who are fed breast milk have a better digestive system.
On page forty-three in our text, there is a box about a survey taken by African American children. According to the survey most African American children would rather play with a White doll than a Black doll. It comes as a shock to know that they would rather play with a White doll. This survey makes me wonder if they just wanted to play with White dolls like the little White girls did.

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Before I read anything I said that psychology had to deal with the mind and the way people thing and after reading a little bit about psychology I think it is really the science or study of behavior and mental processes of the brain. Which I think is almost the same thing.

Psychology affects everything we do in our life from how we act to what we eat and wear. People learn how to act the way they do by watching other people around them and copy what they do and wear. We subconsciously think of what we can do to make ourselves fit in with the others around us.

Something I found interesting in this section was the study of playing peek-a-boo with babies. How babies think you actually disappear when you hide and think you reappear later on. The real concept is really quite interesting to me.

Another topic I found interesting was the nature-nurture issue, which goes into the debate of whether or not traits are developed through experience or if people are born with them. I think that people are both born with traits and learn traits from watching people. Mostly because if you take a child and put it with a different family I think that you would see traits in the child from both parents and the people that he or she lived with.

Hello Everyone!!!

Hi I'm Cassandra Drohman, I go to Flambeau High School, I am 17 and soon to be 18. My siblings did really well in school made my parents expect a lot of good work from me so it made me want to try hard to do well in school and be as good as them. Also my mother working in a library encouraged me to read a lot more than other teens, so if you couldn't guess I am a book worm. I think it's important to know what is psychological and what is not. I think that psychology has to do with your mind and the way people think. People go to psychologists is they have something going on in their head and they need help figuring it out or talk about it, so mostly i think psychology is the study of the mind.