Well, that’s a wrap!

Well, since this is my last blog for . Psychology, I just thought I would reflect on what I’ve learned since being in this class. Throughout this class I found some quotes that I have saved from the book that I love. My favorite is: It’s your brain, not your heart that falls in love. The quote really makes a person wonder if we chose to love because we want to or if it really is our hearts that we fall in love with. I still think about the neurotransmitters at random times too. Most of the time when I’m watching TV they use these neurotransmitters in dialogues and when I hear one I usually point at the TV and yell that I know what they’re talking about. Then my parents look at me funny and shake their heads. I like it though when I realize that I’m applying what I have learned in psychology during random moments.

How Other People’s Expectations Control Us

This article was pretty simple to understand. It discussed how people change or act a different way by other people’s expectations. Through one study, men talked to women through microphones and headsets and were unable to actually see the woman’s appearance. Beforehand though, the men were given pictures of beautiful and not so beautiful women. By talking with these women they were to decipher if the woman they were talking to was beautiful or not. Through this study they proved the point that people expect attractive people to be more social and intelligent.

I found it interesting to see that people really do expect a person to behave in a certain way based on their appearance.

~Chapter 16 Blog… Not My Type~

The process of attribution is how one explains a person’s behavior by crediting either the situation or the person’s disposition. Basically, how one explains a person’s behavior based on actual factors and with no opinion. The fundamental attribution error is the tendency for observers, when analyzing another’s behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition. So fundamental attribution error would be when one explains another’s behavior based on their opinions and jumping into conclusions about the person.

Stereotypes are the generalized belief about a group of people. Stereotypes are related to illusory correlations by both being a perceived belief of something nonexistent. For example, we are more likely to notice and recall only the instances that confirm what we believe.