Recently, I've been interested in becoming a military psychologist. I'm posting this blog to see what other

people think of the idea. Two nights ago, there was a

documentary on the television about the soldiers who have served in Iraq,

and are

now dealing with deep psychological trauma.

They were asked to recall their horrible experiences. These soldiers are eternally scared by their

memories.…

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In the past weeks, I felt that this class is a struggle to me. What I’ve learned in class, explained how I felt. I realized that self-handicapping is your self-esteem and you are

setting yourself up to failure. You make excuses and not reaching for your full

potential. This makes me very worried for my son. I don’t want him to learn

this way of thinking. I feel that what we do in life, kids are there to pick up

our habits.…

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During class, we talked about self handicapping. This is when a person doesn’t try their

hardest and does not work to their full potential. There are many reasons for this but mine was…

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In class we have talked about many interesting things. This last class we discussed cults. I can't imagine how and why people get mixed up in those things? As I continued thinking about it I thought you could use many of these same techniques to start your own chain of businesses. Create followers. If you want to invent a new product or fast food chain and use the same techniques we talked about in class to help you become big. Say if you started a Mexican food chain you can create your own… Continue

Aha Moment #2..well,really more than that but this is one of them. Learning about classical conditioning allows me to explain some of my behaviors.

Before learning of classical conditioning, which is an involuntary response to stimuli, I called myself a "social smoker". I crave for a cigarette when I’m socializing with friends. And that’s the only time that I think about smoking a cigarette. But the thing is I have different…

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When I first enrolled in the class I had this whole idea in my brain of what I thought psychology 100 would be like, and what information we would be learning. And let me tell you my expectations where incredibly

wrong. The amount of information that I feel I have learned already exceeds any

ideas that I previously had in my mind. I thought we would be learning about

thought process and that pretty…

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I started smoking cigarette when I was 15 years old I was still living in Thailand.

I just tried it because I saw my

friend smoke and I thought it was cool. After I turned 18, I came to Seattle.

From what I remember I smoked a pack/a day at that time and then I stopped

smoking for some reason, I can’t recall why I stopped but not even pass a year

yet I started to smoke again and continue smoking until summer of 2008,…

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I have been really interested in the things we have been learning in Psychology class. The biology of the mind and how we learn and remember things; it's all fascinating to me. I never did much science in High School so this is mostly all new to me.

My favorite part of the class is just starting, though. We are learning about both Negative and Positive reinforcement and punishment. Though we have just started learning about it, it has been really beneficial to me already. I have a 5…

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