“Vodka eyeballing “is a game that involves pouring a measure of neat vodka onto the eyeball from the bottle. This game is extremely dangerous. Health experts warned that this game strip the protective covering the membrane the eye causing it to sting. The students that are popular with the game say it gets them drunker faster and gives them an instant high. I don’t know why anybody would do that; you can seriously damage your eye.  It is just the same as pouring bleach in their eyes.  Alcohol would damage the epithelium “the covering of the eye” by just pouring 40% alcohol in your eye. By doing so the eye is vulnerable to scarring, and infections which can become threatening to your sight.

The class Activity we did today was on Moral Judgments. Making us but ourselves in this scenario, the teacher read about it being wartime and we were all hiding in the basement. With the enemy soldiers out outside a baby starts to cry aloud. If the baby doesn’t be quite everybody in the basement would end up being killed including the baby. Now the only way to keep everybody safe is to cover the baby’s mouth, but when you do; the baby will smother to death. Then she asks us will we do it. It was a slip decision due to strong emotional responses such as “a baby should never be killed” and a strong cognitive response such as “if you don’t kill the baby we will all die”. I was never in this situation until today, so I went with I will kill my baby because I don’t want anybody else killing my child (no Andrea Yates).  With this activity I found that it’s difficult to make decisions when it comes to a moral dilemma.

You can't be Aware of Everything!

chapter 2, I found that selective inattention was very interesting. Selective inattention is a type of attention which involves focusing on a specific aspect of a scene while ignoring other aspects.Today in class my teacher had did this cool experiment with the class. She pulled up this video on YouTube; the video had everything to do with selective inattention. The video on YouTube was about intentional blindness. Inattentional blindness is when one fails to see visible objects when our attention is focused on something else. Even after my brother telling me about the YouTube video I still didn’t notice the big gorilla in the video.  On page 69 in the exploring psychology (eighth edition) it talks about change blindness. Change blindness is a phenomenon in visual perception where apparently large changes within a visual scene are undetected by the viewer. This typically happens if you are visually interrupted; something could disappear, pop up, change colors, or even change clothing without us noticing. Learning about this

Kim Peek was the real rain man. Peek was known as a mega savant. Born on November 11, 1951, Kim had damage to the cerebellum. The nerves that are post to connect the two hemispheres of the brain were missing. There was speculation that his neurons made an unusual connection due to the absence of a corpus callosum, which increased his memory capacity. Kim Peek’s father said that Kim was able to memorize things from the ages of 16-20 months. Researchers discovered that Peek’s eyes could read different pages at the same time, and would be able to understand it. What would take us ten minutes to read, would take him 3 seconds. He read over 9000 books and remembers every word. Most savants would be an expert in one or two subjects, while Kim Peek was an expert in at least 15 subjects. Although he was spectacular, this savant didn’t learn to walk until he was 4, and didn’t know how to dress himself the whole time he was living.

ANXIETY

Today was my turn to do my oral presentation, I was so nervous. I honestly can say I bombed it. I wrote it down, but when it came down to presenting, it came out all wrong. So this was how I wrote it down.

  Anxiety is both a feeling and cognition. Psychologists today say it is two kinds of contemporary perspectives and that’s learning and biological. In the learning perspective; anxiety usually develops when a bed event happens that’s uncontrolled or even unpredictable. In the exploring psychology book on page 466 it talks about two learning processes that contribute to anxiety which are stimulus generalization and reinforcement. The first part of this process is stimulus generalization Take me for example, I was shot in Chicago Illinois, when I’m in Chicago I feel uneasy riding down the street I was shot on. Reinforced is the second part of the learning process. This is when we maintain our compulsion and phobias when and after they arise. Like avoiding the fear reduces the feeling of anxiety. With me people say it may be PTSD but my fear only happens when I’m on the street I get shot on, it doesn’t happen when I’m riding  any other street in Chicago. The biological perspective can help understand why people develop lasting phobias after suffering tragic events, hwy we learn fear and why some people are more vulnerable. Say if your mother was afraid of spiders nine time out of ten you would be afraid of them too. We are biologically prepared to fear it's passed through our genes.  Phobias concentrate on our fears.       

This lady in the class did her oral presentation on astrology. The only thing I knew about this was the horoscopes. When she read about my sign and what it actually meant, I was kind of freaked out. The description of my horoscope got deep; she decried me to a tee. Everything was right on point; from my personality to my favorite number. I was taken back when I heard her reading about me and didn’t even know me. I feel if this woman can explain me to a class without knowing me I feel that I should look into this more.

                                                     Schizophrenia      

In today’s class somebody did their oral presentation on Schizophrenia. I heard of this disorder before but didn’t know that much about it. I learned that Schizophrenia is a disease of the brain that usually strikes late in the adolescence years or early adulthood. This disorder has many symptoms; these symptoms may vary from one individual to another but most of them share one or more of these symptoms: delusion, hallucination, bizarre behavior, lack of motivation or interest, diminished cognitive functioning, and decreased emotional expression. Usually a person with this disorder their speech would come out jumbled, that’s would make it hard for other people to understand what it is they are trying to say. This can terrify people with the illness and make them withdrawn or extremely agitated. I can imagine going through anything like that, and i really feel sorry for the people that does.

Andrea Yates

Today was my first day of class but for everybody else it was the second. I didn’t know what to expect coming into class, so I sat right in the front. The teacher was going through her lecture, and the thing that caught my attention was this lady named Andrea Yates. I never heard the story of this woman unlit today. She was a woman who drowned her five kids in a bathtub. The kids ranged from 6 months to 7 years old. They said the reason she done this was “post mortem depression ". What I don’t understand is why she was put in a mental hospital. For this reason it gives women an excuse to kill their children, and then cop the insane plea. Andrea is crazy but I hate the fact that she opened up door for this disorder. I was always told that’s there’s three sides to a story, and for some reason i don’t believe hers was interiorly true. I think she should have been sentenced to death.