Christina's PSYC 1310 Blog

For the last task, I decided to do the "awe walk" I chose this task for many different reasons. I did this mainly because recently my anxiety has been really bad, and i thought this would be a great time to be one with myself, and this assignment really helped me. I went for a walk 3 different times within the pas week at ACU. I decided to go when it was dark because im more of a night owl, and I thought this would be the best for me. Through this time, I was instructed to turn off my phone, and not woes about any outside things going on. I took this time to not worry about stupid things, and just relax. The first walk I went on I was slightly annoyed, because I didn't have my phone. It was the day after my first anxiety attack, so that was why I chose to do this, just to calm everything down. I walked the trail at ACU, which is 2 miles. The whole time I was thinking about how Im about to leave Abilene for 3 months to go back home, and I was thinking about how I needed ...

This task is over mental illness. I chose to interview people who have lived with mental illness and how it has effected their life. For this assignment I decided to talk about depression and substance abuse. I decided to interview two different people on depression. One of these people is my coach. Her testimony is amazing, but prior to Jesus she had it rough. She went through an event in her life that was terrible and she was in a very dark place because of that. Coach Naudin told me a little about what it was like to live with depression and how it effected her everyday life. Coach Naudin told me how one minute she would be fine, she would feel normal, but the next she would be so sad that she felt as if she couldn't even get out of bed. Coach Naudin and I I also interviewed one of my friends on the softball team. She is one of the kindest people you'll ever meet, however she has struggled with depression almost her whole life. She explained to me some issues she had g...

The first thing that comes to mind when I hear the word "multiculturalism" is one of my very best friends from back home, Regine. Regine and I Although Regine lives a blessed life, it has always been different for her, especially growing up in a town called "White Settlement" Rey comes from a family where her mothers side is Hispanic and her fathers side is African American. Rey has always had it a little different wether any of us realized it or not. Rey's father is a UPS driver and I knew that she was always worried about him while he was at work, not just for the normal reasons of driving around the US in a 18 wheeler, but because of everything that was happening in the world. Things like this have impacted me, and my relationship with Rey's family. Regine and her family are some of the most kind hearted, loving, funny and caring people i have ever met in my life. They are like a second family to my family and I. After all of the vacations a...

Learning is the process by which life experience causes change in the behavior or thinking of an organism. You adjust your behavior accordingly as consequences hap- pen to you, especially those that result from your own actions. Learning has a lot behind it, It goes  with  he nature-nurture debate on the nurture side it surrounds all human behavior, and on the nature side it is maturation, which is the cause of some behaviors to take place because the biological side of the person is telling it to. One thing that has been shown to me throughout this chapter is learning is not strictly for humans. Your dog is able to learn things, as well as many different species. Your body and mind is always open to  learning  new things, the saying "you learn something new everyday" is not wrong at all. You are constantly intaking new things everyday, wether you realize it or not. One thing that I have learned  throughout this chapter is that our brains really are alway...

For this weeks assignment, I chose to analyze my roommate Taylor. I asked Taylor, and her parents what she was like as a kid, and growing up until now. Her father said that she was happy, and wants her way, and forgiving. Her mother said that she was genially happy growing up, and spoiled. From what her parents said, I would 100 percent agree with this. I believe that Taylor is one of the most kind hearted people I've ever met and has a forgiving and loving personality and wouldn't even hurt a fly. I had taylor take a personality test that was offered, this required about 100 questions. One thing that stood out to me was taylor high score on openness, I agree with her high score because she is one of the most outgoing people I have ever met, and has never met a stranger. I believe that this test really was spot on with her personality and It was really cool to examine her personality this way. In addition to this, I believe that through the different theories and models, diff...

For the M4 Task, I chose to do task 1. Task 1 was based on Behavior Modification-Learning Chapter. Throughout this past week, for the task I had to monitor the amount of times i performed a task or behavior. I chose to monitor the amount of time spent on my phone in one day. This was hard because I would forget to mark how much time I spent on my phone, because its just habit to pick it up and use it, then to just set it down without thinking twice, however, I did my best. I chose to monitor this because I want to spend less time on my phone throughout the day, and enjoy being with people. I waited until after the first day to see how much time I spent on my phone to see what my positive reinforcement was, I decided after spending about 3 hours on my phone, I was going to let myself spend 30 minutes before bed on Pinterest, as long as i spent less then 2 hours on my phone. Most of the time when im on my phone, I am on Pinterest or on social media. Tuesday the 20th was my first day I...