Functional psychology

I am taking four AP courses this year, along with others to supplement my high school career. Recently, I have found AP Psychology extremely rewarding. AP Psychology astounds me and allows me to rediscover what being human means. With this course, I can go deeper into the human mind and the ways that our minds function. The biological, or innate, aspects of the human mind and body are incredible, but studying about the functions and ideas beyond that aspect allow me to gain an extensive…

For the first few years in high school, Caroline had trouble speaking to her teachers for help, had issues expressing her thoughts and feelings to her friends, and didn’t like large crowds in the school’s hallway because of how much it affected her anxiety. During her senior year her school introduced a new class that promoted the need of learning about one’s mental health and, because of this, Caroline took that class in hopes it would help her recognize and learn how to deal with her mental…

Abraham Maslow created a diagram to represent a person’s needs. This diagram is used to show a person how “wealthy” they are in a sense of accomplishment and happiness. The first level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is psychological needs; which consist of food, shelter, and water. These are the needs, Maslow believes, that must be satisfied in order to reach any other sort of happiness (such as love and belonging, or self-actualization). In the article called, “The Singer Solution to World…

Oppression through Neglect and Ignorance Female oppression has been around since the dawn of time going all the way back to the hunter gatherer levels of our existence. While evolving into something more in today’s society of wages being lower and women shown less respect due to their gender. But in the times of the “The Yellow Wallpaper” female oppression is shown through an oppressed women’s perspective. And through this we are shown the levels are oppression in a timely fashion through the…

She is now enrolled in the Counseling Psychology program to become a licensed mental health counselor. In this article, she suggested “many of us have become very dependent on technology as it plays a very important role in our daily lives.” Technology enabled us to strengthen our relationships…

Former President John F. Kennedy once said, “leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” As a young business student who is still in the process of learning what it means to be an effective leader and making a positive impact in the world, I need to learn and get advice from as much people as possible. Specifically, I must gain knowledge from those who have the experience and are experts in the fields of business and leadership. After listening to Ms. Dara Ashlock, I noticed three…

Journal your thoughts on Fisher’s hypothesis and experiment: How do you want to write about this in your response paper? My thoughts about Fisher’s hypothesis and experiment are a little bit confuse to me. Who will think that love is not about feeling but that it is a human drive which makes you reproduce? Since I read Fisher’s paper, every time I think about love, I start to remember about those chemicals of the brain that Fisher mention; Norepinephrine, Dopamine, and Oxytocin. The experiment…

The Turning Test is not an effective way of determining, if a subject is either a machine or human because a machine does not have a mind. For example, a machine can pass the test if it has a large set of data that has been programed into it which allows it to process more information and be able to make programed combinations that would allow it to pass the test. A machine can have an instead a large set of data within them that can be programmed to perform certain combinations within a limited…

Murderers: Nature vs. Nurture The nature vs. nurture debate helps researchers explain ones actions based on either their genetic traits or based on how they were raised. The nature side offers an explanation for the persons inherited genetic traits to help explain their actions such as how they behavior especially at a younger age. The nurture part helps give one an explanation to how a person behaves or acts based on the environmental factors that person was raised in and how society could…

Before this experience I didn’t know how tiring it could be to actually be in the classroom. I noticed throughout the day that I would get really tired compared to most days. Managing a classroom takes a lot of effort and energy to produce an effective learning environment for the students. Before entering the classroom I thought it was going to be difficult to connect with the students, I was honestly very nervous on my first day. I was thinking “what if the kids don’t like me?” I was very…