The sense of familiarity.
Just recently I purchased contacts because I have really bad vision and I was just tired of seeing through a set of frames, but even now, when nothing is on my face, I still have a tendency to make the motion of pushing up my glasses. It just makes me smile, because even if no one was there to see my blunder, I cant help but laugh at the idea of familiarity. During the day I wear contacts for quite a few hours and I am completely adjusted but it is still puzzling to notice how unconsciously I still find the need to make sure that everything is set in it's place. It just makes you wonder how your body processes the habits you've adopted and even if circumstances have changed, your body still does what it's familiar with, even if it has your mental say so or not.
It just interests me how the two connect, your mental self and your physical one. How everything just works without manually turning on a battery or having the set initiative to breathe or even have to control when your heart pumps blood through your veins. How our bodies just go is truly remarkable and it's so sad seeing how we all mistreat the lovely things we have been given to use. I mean there are so many reasons why we have adjusted our bodies to intake everything and suffer rather than truly do our part and nurture them; we just all need to reread the manual. We truly do, I feel, in order for us all to make peace with our bodies, we need to treat them as if they are machines practically. Put good in, in order to get good out, I mean we do not put diesel fuel into an automatic, I mean do you want your car to blow up in flames? Do we want to have that sudden break down of our bodies because we aren't taking the necessary time to have them grow properly? Tell me what you think, I'd love to know whether or not you share my opinion, or if you need me to elaborate more because I could talk for days on this subject. Take care, and good luck with all your midterms everyone!
Monday, September 26, 2011
one of my posts as discussion leader for my online psych class
What is the proper extent for which an individual would go to in order to prove his or her point?
That was the exact question that came to mind when I had read the first couple of pages in chapter 5 of the Stanovich text. When I read that Goldberger and his fellow partners ingested sick victims' excretions in order to prove his theory, I nearly fell out of my chair. Okay, maybe not, but it really was quite disgusting. It made me question how dedicated one could be and how rational certain things are to others once they have created an idea in their head. The fact that he thought of that as a way to control an experiment was just beyond me; for I would of never of thought of voluntarily consuming one's feces unless it was a life or death situation, and even then I'd highly consider. It just goes to show you how rational one may seem once they have a set opinion on a topic, the exact definition of the term spurious correlation that was discussed in this chapter. But now that I think about this, the littlest of things have this same basis. Earlier this week I was watching the movie He's Just Not That Into You and realized that men and women act the same exact way when they are exposed to one another in the lover pool. Both turn into psycho-analytic observers when they become slightly involved with another individual, creating “signs” and “meanings” in their minds that would of originally not of been there if they were introduced as “just friends” and the possibility of a relationship was never in question. But maybe these two examples are completely distinct and I myself am making a connection out of nothing, who really knows? Maybe I am just stuck looking at this with a biased point of view? Either way, tell me what you think of the chapter itself, or even your review of the movie.
That was the exact question that came to mind when I had read the first couple of pages in chapter 5 of the Stanovich text. When I read that Goldberger and his fellow partners ingested sick victims' excretions in order to prove his theory, I nearly fell out of my chair. Okay, maybe not, but it really was quite disgusting. It made me question how dedicated one could be and how rational certain things are to others once they have created an idea in their head. The fact that he thought of that as a way to control an experiment was just beyond me; for I would of never of thought of voluntarily consuming one's feces unless it was a life or death situation, and even then I'd highly consider. It just goes to show you how rational one may seem once they have a set opinion on a topic, the exact definition of the term spurious correlation that was discussed in this chapter. But now that I think about this, the littlest of things have this same basis. Earlier this week I was watching the movie He's Just Not That Into You and realized that men and women act the same exact way when they are exposed to one another in the lover pool. Both turn into psycho-analytic observers when they become slightly involved with another individual, creating “signs” and “meanings” in their minds that would of originally not of been there if they were introduced as “just friends” and the possibility of a relationship was never in question. But maybe these two examples are completely distinct and I myself am making a connection out of nothing, who really knows? Maybe I am just stuck looking at this with a biased point of view? Either way, tell me what you think of the chapter itself, or even your review of the movie.
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