ATA 5: The image above was chosen to represent one of the acts of kindness I did during this assignment. I left a “hope” rock while on my walk in the hopes of bringing hope and joy to the next person to find it. This assignment tasked me to do 5 random acts of kindness through the week and record how it made the other person and myself feel. I learned that it isn’t hard to do 5 random acts of kindness, but it is nice to reflect on the things you did to see the effect I had on others. I also learned that I will try to implement this behavior into my normal routine. This assignment applies to the concept of social norms because some of the acts are just expected and “normal” in society. I can reflect this assignment to my personal experience because I often try to do a random act of kindness through the week. For example, I usually try to pay for someones drink at Starbucks every now and then.

ATA 4: The picture above was chosen because I describes how I feel after the assignment and about love in general right now. I feel a bit all over the place about love, even though I know my love is good and plenty. The assignment tasked us to take a questionnaire and score myself in order to tell me if I score high or low in the several types of love. I learned that I am an intense, calculated, manipulative, and giving lover. I also learned that I do not build my relationships off of friendship.

I can apply this to my health psychology course in a way that the types of love and behaviors can influence health choices and behaviors. Obviously, I can apply this to my personal love life and reflect on the way I love and why my past relationships have not worked out in the past. I can look at myself and how I should try to approach my next relationship in way that would make it more successful. I will try to incorporate more of a friendship aspect into my relationship.

ATA 3: The image above was chosen to represent the prejudice Michael Richards shows during a rant on his audience during one of his shows. The assignment was to formulate my own opinion on whether or not Richards’ actions were racist or simply just out of rage. Through this assignment, I learned that any of your actions well enraged or not can bring light to deeper issues within.

I can apply this to my future career. I can learn to treat everyone equally no matter gender, race, sexuality, or beliefs. Michael Richard’s allowed his rage to bring out racial slurs, which taught me to never let my anger cloud my judgment or make me say things I do not mean. This relevant to my personal life because I have the tendency to say things I don’t mean when I am angry. Never anything racist, but I do tend to say things out of anger which I need to learn to hold back.

ATA 2: Through this assignment I learned what my camera roll says about me. I learned that your camera roll can pretty accurately represent you as a person. This includes how others see you as well as how you think you are portrayed visually. This assignment taught me that photos can tell a lot about a person’s habits and interests which is helpful in my health psychology course. I have included a photo of me at the the gym within this assignment which could also be applied to the exercise habits that we are currently studying in that course.

This assignment was personally relevant to me because I am a photo hoarder and I truly believe every photo I have tells something about myself and the person I am. For example, the photo I have inserted above is of me and my dog Leila. This photo represents my dog and nature loving side perfectly.

ATA 1: Assignment 1 involved the introduction of the types of heuristics and the restrictions involved with each of them backed up by giving real life examples. Heuristics are basically psychological ways in which we come to conclusions quickly. Representativeness, availability, anchoring and adjustment, and the status quo are the types of heuristics explained. In the image above, the respresentativeness heuristic is portrayed. With this heuristic we use characteristics and prototypes to group people.

Reflecting on this assignment has caused me to be cautious of how I come to making decisions. Ive learned that I should avoid grouping people due to a prototype, which I tend to do subconsciously a lot. This topic of heuristics also can be applied to my Health Psychology course because we recently discussed social engineering. We discussed how certain social venues can effect our health behaviors and I believe heuristics can also play a role in that as well.