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Blog Post #1

I feel like the course objectives will help me analyze how people act in social settings. Since I aim to be a psychiatrist, I feel like the skills I will learn in this course will be valuable information for my career.

I expect this course to help me gain insight into the way people interact with each other in social settings, along with training me to make connections from the information in this course to real-life scenarios.

I plan to keep up with all the information by making sure I’m on time with all assignments along with making sure I complete the assigned readings.

Blog Post #2

If I could describe myself as a student, I would say that I am a student with a great amount of potential, but also as one that doesn’t live up to his potential. I say this because whenever I am actually motivated to perform well, or if I put the time in, I always excel. My problem is that I struggle to find the motivation and drive to perform well. It’s been like this for as long as I can remember, and while I am working to change it, it’s very difficult for me to just sit down and do my work.

I am very confident in my abilities to perform as a student, but I’m not confident in my ability to actually complete assignments and stay up to date in my classes, because I just never have the drive to devote time to performing well. I’m trying to get better about completing my work, and so far, living on campus has helped a great deal.

My self efficacy results totaled up to a 28, or a 2.8 average, meaning I am 1 point below the average GSE score. This is solely because I just don’t believe myself to be able to adjust well to unforeseen circumstances and I just don’t believe in myself to complete all of my work on a regular basis.

Blog Post #3

After reading the article I can definitely say that I agree with the main points. I hadn’t really ever noticed, but after thinking about it, my friends and I all share very similar taste in music. Also, some people that I know that have different musical taste than me usually don’t think similarly when it comes to values.

I actually have seven songs that I thought of when thinking of my friends and family and who I associate them with. A lot of the songs that I have chosen were ones that the named person has shown to me, and some of them still remain some of my favorite songs to this day.

Blog Post #4

After looking back at my exam results, I discovered that I did much better on memorizing terms and what they meant, but I didn’t do as well on situational application questions. After realizing this I realize that I should probably start looking into the theories more and how they are used rather than just memorizing what they are.

I didn’t space the review out, I actually just reviewed the two days before the exam, but in the future I should probably space out my reviews. In the future I’m going to try to space out my review more and look into theories and their applications.

Here we have three examples of advertisement: an attractive advertisement, a credible advertisement, and a non-credible advertisement.

The first advertisement of Ryan Reynolds is an example of an attractive advertisement, as it uses an attractive celebrity to promote the product (which is his own) and it has a classy kind of vibe to it, which makes people think that if they buy this product they can be attractive and classy like Ryan Reynolds.

The second advertisement is Guy Fieri promoting a restaurant in a tweet. Guy Fieri doesn’t own this restaurant and has built his career on going to restaurant and trying their food, so if Guy Fieri specifically promotes a restaurant in a tweet for no financial gain of his own, then the restaurant is most likely good.

The last advertisement is a non-credible example. This smoking company makes a random claim that your dentist would recommend these cigarettes, which is definitely not the case, and is only used to make people think that these cigarettes are good for their teeth.

Blog Post #8

I feel like this article made some very good points about mating and relationships and how problems can occur. I also feel like the article’s comparison of mating to a battleground was pretty accurate, as sometimes it really can feel like a war, where both opponents have to make moves and watch for the reaction of the other.

For my visual representation, I have (with a little assistance) gathered a list of what men do that upsets women and what women do that upsets men. The lists are very similar, with only a few differences. The men list is slightly shorter, but every point from the, men list is a paraphrased version of the women list. Some things pertaining mainly to the way men interact with other members of society is the only real difference of the women list. Mainly, both parties want the other sex to take care of themselves and their partner, while also putting effort into the relationship.

Blog Post #9

The self-efficacy section towards the beginning of the semester lined up a little bit with my psychology of adolescence class from last semester, as self-efficacy is closely tied to self esteem while people go through adolescence.

Blog Post #10

I came into this class expecting to learn how to analyze how people act in social situations and I feel like I have learned that but mostly when it come to romantic relationships. I feel like I learned the most from the relationship and mating units. I feel like I somewhat did complete the course objectives in this aspect as I feel I have a better understanding on social psychology as a whole.

If I could take the class again I would try to complete more of the assignments as I feel I could’ve aced the class if I stayed on top of assignment completion. I feel like I’ve grown over the last few months by learning that I can succeed if I just finish my assignments.

I feel like the class has helped me learn why people could possibly act certain ways in social situations and I feel like I can utilize the information from this class in my professional life.