Assignment 4 Takeaway
This week’s assignment was pretty fun. My husband and I decided to take the test together because we both wanted to see how we scored in the different love styles. We took it together, but we wrote our own answers down. Coincidentally our answers for every question was the same. We found out we view our love life and our relationship the exact same way. It was nice to know that my husband and myself have the same love styles. I believe after taking this test and doing the assignment it brought not only new information about love styles to my attention, but also more respect to my relationship. I have notice all the little things that I may have taken for granted before and now we are taking better notice to each other. This to me means more than anyone could ever know. This assignment made me find out more about myself and my marriage. I would do this assignment again if it meant learning more about marriage that I never realized by myself.
Assignment 3 Takeaway
Assignment 3 was very eye opening. I did not realize how prejudice a person could be without knowing it. I knew there was a way to be racist, undercover but did not realize that it could be a simple as just slightly moving over in your set to get an extra inch from someone. When doing this assignment and watching the video I had a few emotions going on all at the same time. I had sadness for the people that the racial slurs were aimed towards and also for Michael Richard’s himself. I had anger towards what his actions. I, also, had happiness because I also watched a video of him apologizing to everyone for his actions. Racist slurs should never happen, no matter how angry a person gets. Every single person on this earth is a human and deserves respect from everyone else. As long as they deserve it. I do not believe that racial slurs just happen nor do racist actions. I am glad I was able to do this assignment and learn more about prejudice.
Assignment 1 Takeaway
Assignment 1 was very interesting to me. I learned many new things about how people form their judgement and make decisions. There are four efficient rules that are called heuristics and these are considered mental shortcuts that help people focus on individual aspects of complex problems. I did not know anything about heuristics before doing this assignment and reading the chapter and so I was able to learn and takeaway a lot from this assignment. Such as the representativeness heuristic is almost like stereotyping because simply put if it resembles something it must be part of that group. Also I learned that the status quo heuristic is just like the saying of if it is not broke than it does not need to be fixed. Which I found quite interesting because looking around I can see people that have been in relationships so long that they do not want to leave because they are comfortable in that relationship.
The status quo heuristic is the on that relates to me the most because of my family. They believe that there is no use in fixing something unless the majority of the group believes it needs to be fixed which is never the case. The biggest thing that I have realized from this assignment is shortcuts, no matter how helpful they may seem or be, are never a good idea to always use. If you always use shortcuts than you may miss some amazing things in life.