The class discussion and textbook reading highlight some very important topics, such as Sigmund Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis, John B. Watson’s theory of behavior taught and learned, that are applicable to our daily lives. The interesting role and function of corpus callosum is also going to be explored in this writing. A descriptive research method called survey will also be discussed as it relevant in generating information from participants.
Chapter one discussed Sigmund Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis, which means that individual thoughts, feelings, and behavior are determined by our unconscious or unaware mind. Sigmund 's Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis can relate to a friend I had in the past who was really unaware of his urges …show more content…
Watson’s theory, also discussed in the first chapter, indicates that all behaviors were to be learned like what he did towards “little Albert” and the white mouse. My personal experience is one very good example of this theory. Ever since I was a kid, my parents would always tell me that to not walk away from them especially at night. They would always scare me and say “there’s a monster there!!” or “there’s a ghost” and as a kid, I believed them and I would always run back and cry for them. That went on for years and even when it is not as bad as it was before, I would still get chills while walking alone in the dark. I remember that I used to hate throwing the garbage bags outside because it looked scary, and when I dropped the garbage bag outside, I would run as fast as I can to the house telling myself that the monster would not catch up to me. I believe that like the mouse in Watson’s experiment, my irrational fear of the dark was due to conditioning from my parents that the dark meant monsters and ghosts. Another example of how certain behaviors are learned was when I was around 8 years old, my family would bring me to places in Manhattan or Brooklyn, but they would tell me to stay away from African American people because they can hurt you. Again as a kid, I believed that, but as I grew up most of my friends were actually African Americans, which scared my parents even more. Being born and raised in a country where there were hardly any African Americans, I …show more content…
The right hemisphere is the artistic and creative side of the brain, the left hemisphere is the academic and logical side of the brain. Corpus callosum functions as a bridge between these hemispheres, providing communication between the two. If the hemispheres separate, the link between the two sides of the brain is lost. This may lead to failure to send messages between hemispheres and may cause a person to become confused and become unstable mentally. In cases like seizure, corpus callosum also allows seizure activity from one side of brain to the other. I had a classmate back in high school who had multiple epileptic attacks and reading the function of corpus callosum made me remember what had happened to my classmate and provided me thoughts about what was going on in his brain at the
Chapter one discussed Sigmund Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis, which means that individual thoughts, feelings, and behavior are determined by our unconscious or unaware mind. Sigmund 's Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis can relate to a friend I had in the past who was really unaware of his urges …show more content…
Watson’s theory, also discussed in the first chapter, indicates that all behaviors were to be learned like what he did towards “little Albert” and the white mouse. My personal experience is one very good example of this theory. Ever since I was a kid, my parents would always tell me that to not walk away from them especially at night. They would always scare me and say “there’s a monster there!!” or “there’s a ghost” and as a kid, I believed them and I would always run back and cry for them. That went on for years and even when it is not as bad as it was before, I would still get chills while walking alone in the dark. I remember that I used to hate throwing the garbage bags outside because it looked scary, and when I dropped the garbage bag outside, I would run as fast as I can to the house telling myself that the monster would not catch up to me. I believe that like the mouse in Watson’s experiment, my irrational fear of the dark was due to conditioning from my parents that the dark meant monsters and ghosts. Another example of how certain behaviors are learned was when I was around 8 years old, my family would bring me to places in Manhattan or Brooklyn, but they would tell me to stay away from African American people because they can hurt you. Again as a kid, I believed that, but as I grew up most of my friends were actually African Americans, which scared my parents even more. Being born and raised in a country where there were hardly any African Americans, I …show more content…
The right hemisphere is the artistic and creative side of the brain, the left hemisphere is the academic and logical side of the brain. Corpus callosum functions as a bridge between these hemispheres, providing communication between the two. If the hemispheres separate, the link between the two sides of the brain is lost. This may lead to failure to send messages between hemispheres and may cause a person to become confused and become unstable mentally. In cases like seizure, corpus callosum also allows seizure activity from one side of brain to the other. I had a classmate back in high school who had multiple epileptic attacks and reading the function of corpus callosum made me remember what had happened to my classmate and provided me thoughts about what was going on in his brain at the