ATA4
For assignment four we had to take a test to determine our different love types. There were six different types and based on our results would determine your style. You also had to write if you agreed with the results or not. What I did learned from this assignment was my style of love because sometimes we think we are one way when we are another. This assignment allowed me to see in black and white my style. Since I learned my style, I can see examples in my everyday life.
This reminded me on when I was taking another course and we had to take a personality quiz to determine what type of personality style we were. What I learned from the quiz is what I think of myself is different from what is presented to me.
For example, I didn’t agree with the manipulative style of love. However, when I looked back on an incident that just took place. I realized what I did was a manipulative behavior. Now I am more aware, and I can change it.
I picked this image because it represents different types of love styles(roots) and coming together for two people.
ATA3
For assignment three we were asked to watch a video of Richard’s rant and we had to determine if we felt his remarks were racist because the person, he was talking too was African American. Honestly, I did not learn anything because this topic is discussed every semester in school since I can remember. I feel the topic doesn’t change, just the examples. However, I do remember in one of my pervious classes I asked why we must discuss this topic and the teacher replied because the only way to get rid of it is to have an open dialogue. So, I guess I can say I learned people must talk to each other and get to know each other to get rid of racism.
I remember the first time I ever experience racism. It was my first year in college and I was working at the campus store. This white kid came into the store and he went to purchase his items, but he would not hand me his card in my hand, and he made a racist comment. I would never forget that day, but I knew not to engage with a small-minded person.
I picked this photo because this is how I feel when I must discuss prejudice or racism. Every day I must deal with racism either by watching the news or events that take place in my life and I am just over having to discuss it.
ATA2
For assignment two I had to pick pictures that represent who I am as a person. What I learned from assignment two is we all have different ways to represent ourselves. For example, when I first started dating this guy. I decided to have him meet my family. By doing this he gets to see another side of myself which is my family side because the only part he knows is the girlfriend side. When we got home, he stated he enjoyed seeing me interacting with my niece and nephew and all my cousins. By doing this assignment I remembered when I took a woman’s empowerment seminar. What I learned from the speaker is we must be many things to different people at the same time. This can be very draining but what I learned was we must also put our best foot forward.
I picked this picture because I feels it represents the many roles we play. We can go from being a mom, a teacher to a chef. We have many levels of ourselves depending on what we have to do and who is around.
ATA1
For the first assignment I had to write about the different heuristic and discuss how they apply to every day life. What I took away from the first assignment was learning about the heuristics. Which includes representative, anchoring and adjusting, status quo and availability. I learned anchoring and adjusting in my marketing class before however, it was nice to learned in on a psychology level.
I experience these things before without even knowing it is happening. From bargaining a price with someone who sells items on the street (anchoring and adjusting), or having people judge me based on my name (representative). They think because I have an African name and being black. I must be from Africa or Muslim. People think I cannot be American with an African name. I have been dealing with this judgement for as long as I can remember.
I have picked this picture because it represents the story of my name, which is Assata Shakur. The first thing people ask me is am I related to Tupac Shakur (the rapper) who is pictured. I picked this picture because it shows who people think I am related too and who I was named after.