Narrative Essay On Thanksgiving Break

The anticipation for Thanksgiving break is over the top. The thought of home cooked meals, family, and no professors talking a student 's ear off for a week are heavenly. Of course all the classic thanksgiving things happen but there are also psychological things that go on. (Darn that psychology sneaking its way into everything, it obviously never goes on break.) Although psychology is used every minute of every day i 'm only going to talk about 5 concepts, persuasion, cognition, emotion, personality, and the self. So sit back and get ready to eat some turkey. The first concept i`m going to talk about is persuasion and the techniques that are used along with it. The foot-in-the-door technique is when someone asks a small favor and then after thats agreed to a bigger thing is asked of them and they feel obligated to agree. This happened over break when I asked my parents if we could get a new screen protector they of course agreed it 's an inexpensive piece of plastic they figured. Knowing that my screen was shattered i decided why not just ask if we could get the screen replaced too. I was in shock when my parents started …show more content…
The self includes things like theory of mind, self esteem, self perception, etc.. Over the lovely 5 days off of classes and 9 days at home it was a good self check all around. Am i happy at school, work, and with the friends or choices that i 've made. There were mixed answers as i thought about this the last night home. I needed to work harder on my schoolwork, get rid of the job the manager wasn 't willing to work with my schedule and education comes first for me. The friends that i 've made during this first semester of college are unbelievably supportive. The choices i 've made for the most part have been smart i haven 't done anything crazy yet i just need to focus more on paying attention in lectures and to due