Weekly Blog
Blog 1
In social psychology, our course objectives pertain to things such as outlining procedures that social psychologists use to test hypotheses, discuss the process of how to understand others and explain how others’ attitudes are formed or changed on a daily basis. These objectives will personally help me in the future due to my current major and all the things I will like to do with that. My expectations for this course is to really just fully understand the course and all of the material covered. I also would like to leave this course understanding more things such as why people do the things they do while also trying to relate to other people’s issues. For this course, I am hoping to gain more knowledge about psychology and also trying to understand people more than what I currently do right now. I personally intend to ensure my success in this class by making sure I take my notes and understand everything the way I need to. I also will try to take in all the information that I am taught to later on and use this in my own career.
My Notes
In the photo above is a picture I took of my own personal notes regarding Chapter 1 and 2. I chose this image because this is a way I tend to understand the material we are going over but also these are the main things that caught my attention to help me understand more about my assignments before completing them and to also make it easier on myself.
Blog 3
For this blog, we are asked to discuss our thoughts on the connection between music and relationships. In my opinion when you and another person listen to the same kind of music or both prefer the same kind of genre then that is a very small good connection you can make. Me and my female friends normally have the same taste in music which also plays a small part in our friendship and the bond we have created. All of my friends have different likes but I can say we all have the same type of goals and plans when it comes to our future. Certain music that I listen to does relate to the people I care about just because of the specific lyrics that are in it. I also have certain playlists on my phone that I use for certain situations such as when I am sad or upset over a guy. I have a certain playlist for that to express my emotions.
This song makes me feel more positive with life and makes me get up everyday to the things I need to be to succeed.
Blog 4
Last week we took our first test and before taking it I was very nervous about it and scared that I would not do well on it but I ended up getting a good score. When it comes to tests for me, I always get very anxious before actually taking it and also while I take the test my anxiety goes sky high because I am scared of failing. I did take a few notes on the chapters we went over but I did not take as many as I should’ve. I am more of a visual learner so instead of going over a review sheet I just looked at all of the jeopardy videos for each section and that really helped me out a lot. I think for me personally, to score a higher score on my next test I need to start studying earlier rather than waiting until the week of my test to look over the material.
This is my visual representation of how I feel when I take any tests for my classes just because I am always very overwhelmed but I have learned to just take deep breaths and go along with the flow.
Blog 5
For this blog, we were asked to talk about advertisements that show certain advertisements that show different kinds of sources. I will be showing 3 different ads while explaining how and why they are the sources that they are.
Picture A is an example of a credible source. Most of the time when advertisements show things dealing with weight loss they never really show the main person’s before pictures just there after. For this specific advertisement he shows how his body looked before and after working out consistently.
Picture B is an example of an attractive source. Most of the time when there is makeup being advertised they never really show the before picture of their skin. For this specific picture they show you how the model looks with and without makeup so that is the main reason why this is an attractive source.
Picture C is an example of a not credible source. If you pay close attention to this ad, you can see what they are advertising on it is just made up things. A dentist would never recommend for their patient to smoke cigarettes because they definitely know how bad they can be for your body and also the smell they can leave on your breath.
Blog 6
Personally, after watching this Ted talk it just made me realize how much the media can really stereotype women badly. Before this video I already knew that ads can really make women feel like they have to be perfect in order to be loved. Unfortunately, it is not only ads that make women question themselves. Social media has a very HUGE impact on women and their looks especially because they have made it seem like you have to have the perfect body and face shape to be beautiful. A lot of women tend to change their bodies and faces just to feel like they are just as perfect as society wants them to be. I definitely think ads manipulate women into buying their products especially when it comes to make up. Most of the time the seller will mention the women’s dark circles, her pimples or dark spots to make her cover them up just so she can buy those products.
These ads all discuss the things that was discussed in that Ted talk. These ads go for women not feeling their natural skin so they apply makeup to themselves, these also show a women with freckles so she covers them all up, shows women that would pay money just to lose weight and the list goes on and on. These ads will show you exactly what she meant when she started to describe the way women tend to feel about themselves and how harsh ads can truly be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmSCJ8eIB3c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2T-Rh838GA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=litXW91UauE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luLkfXixBpM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ05C1o9utg
Blog 7
The relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Self Regulation is that EI is mainly based on what a person is feeling inside. Even though these emotions are inside of us we can still decide how or what we wanna do about them to control how we feel with particular situations. Self Regulation is more like when you are trying to reduce your stress levels and manage your recovery. In my opinion, Emotional Intelligence is more so what a person is feeling inside that they do not really discuss with others. So in other words, keeping everything bottled up without expressing the emotions they are feeling. When I get upset or mad about something I automatically shut down without even thinking about how much of an effect it will take on me. I could improve this by just allowing myself to vent more and let out all of the things that are frustrating me in that particular moment.
Blog 8
We are human so this means we all get upset and we all may tend to take it out on other human beings. When it comes to directly pissing a woman off or pissing a man off there are some things that may cause this to escalate. I am a female so I know for me I will get upset when a male talks about my weight or body figure. I will also get upset if he mentions my hair and tries to tell me it is too nappy or that it needs to be done. Women normally will get upset about topics like these because in all reality it is never a man’s place to address a woman on her physical appearance no matter how close they may be. For a man, I know that they will most likely get upset at comments such as you need to hit the gym and get your muscle up. Also saying things like “ you remind me of my ex boyfriend” basically comparing him to someone in your past. Those are a few things that came into my mind but I am sure there are a lot more things that can and will upset both genders.
Blog 9
\We have done so many different assignments while also learning a lot of information but there are 3 specific things I have learned and also enjoyed doing this semester. For our blog 3 we had to discuss the connection between music and relationships. I learned a lot from this certain topic because it made me realize how much relating to certain music can really make people become closer and closer to one another. For an assignment takeaway, we had to take a love scale survey which was very opinionated but it really helped me see where I was truly standing when it comes to love. I also learned about Emotional Intelligence. I knew a little bit about this but after reading about it and taking my own EQ test made me really grasp more information on this topic. I have taken plenty of psychology classes but this class relates the most to child psychology in my opinion. I say this because in that class we mainly focused on why kids react to things in a certain way and for social psychology we also do that. It is obviously not completely like child psychology since that deals with kids but a main part of this class is really opinionated and speaks on how we feel about certain situations.
In this picture below, shows a girl reading her notes so I picked this as my visual representation because this is what I had to do to understand all of the material that had been taught to me.
Blog 10
When I went back and read the things I had put in my Blog 1 regarding what I was expecting from this class and what I wanted to take back with me, I feel like I did accomplish that goal for sure. I mentioned in the blog how this class will help me later on in the future with the career I want to do. I have definitely learned a lot of things that I did not have a clue about before starting this class. I feel like I have achieved the course objectives pretty well, of course there were some topics that I was stronger in than others but is definitely normal. My attitude towards this class has not really changed because I have always been interested in it and was also excited to take it. If I was to take this class again, the only thing that I would change up would be me taking more notes and staying on top of my eportfolio more than what I did this year. Over the last few months, I have grown with making sure I am staying organized and doing my assignment way before their due date. From this course, I have learned how to help others cope with their issues in a nice calm manner and I have also learned how to react to tough things that may come upon me.
In the picture below, I used this as my description because this shows a student being very organized with her items and that is exactly how I was treating all my homework and assignments I was given at the time.
