Blog 10
Between this Blog 1 and this blog I feel that my expectations were correct. I feel that I have learned more about social interaction and what makes certain groups act the way they do. I understand, not fully but mostly, how the influence of a group can socially influence different individuals. The one way I have grown academically is that I absolutely feel more confident in myself when it comes to using the ePortfolio. I also feel that my attitude towards Social Psychology has not changed, I enjoy it. The class objectives were at first confusing, but I feel I have a better understanding for them. The one thing I would change if I took this course over is that I would give myself a little extra time for studying for the tests. The one way that I use this course in my life is towards my kids and co workers. I try to watch how I word things and try to get my point across in a manner that is relatable to the group setting that I am in.
Blog 9
Top 3 things that I learned throughout this course:
- This course has everything to do with social behavior.
- I learned new things about my husband.
- Top artifacts page is very confusing.
Obviously this course has everything to do with social behavior, however I thought it would be more about social status than with social behavior. When doing this blog I did not realize that I would have such a hard time with thinking of 3 things to come up with. On another note I learned more about my husband and his way of social behavior than I thought I would. Last week was an eye opener to me about my husband. When I asked him to name 2 things that upset him that I do, he had a really hard time thinking of the second thing. I did not realize that I treated him like a child sometimes and now due to him telling me that I have started to catch myself when I speak to him about certain things. Lastly, I did not realize how hard the top artifacts page really was going to be. I have tried starting it many times, but it has still been very confusing to me. I will be working hard on it this week to hopefully catch up to what needs to be done.
I wish that the top artifacts page had a better explanation to them than what I am reading. It might just be me, but I feel like I could use better direction to complete that assignment.
Blog 8
Men tend to upset women in many different ways and the same goes for women upsetting men. I chose to do this blog on the things that upset me and my husband about each other.
My husband can upset me with a few different things. The biggest thing he does that upsets me is when he treats our children differently at times. I know he does not mean to, but sometimes he treats our oldest son like a step child and the other 4 can do no wrong. I know he does not mean to, but sometimes it really irritates me. The other thing he does that upsets me is fall asleep after promising he would watch a movie with me. I understand he works, but I work a full time job, go to school full time, and deal with the kids full time. My thing is if I can stay up for him, why can he not stay up for me.
I asked my husband what upsets him that I do, one big thing and one small thing. The big thing that I do that upsets him is that sometimes I treat him like a child. I do not do this intentionally however because I am so used to dealing with kids all the time that sometimes I forget I am speaking to my husband and not one of our kids. The small thing that upsets him that I do is that I do not let him sleep in. He said that is all he could really think of.
No matter what men and women will irritate each other. It is getting past those irritations and communicating that can make those things seem almost unnoticeable.
Blog 7
Emotional Intelligence means to me that I am in control and that I should be aware of my emotions. This means that when it comes to my relationships, either personal or professional, that I should be able to handle my emotions no matter if they are good or bad. An example of how I could improve my EQ is when I am mad at someone I should be able to control that anger and not let it control the situation. Like the other day when someone I was extremely upset with because of their own actions showed up at my house. Instead of listening to them and being in control of my emotions, I decided to let my emotions control me. I believe that I need to really work on this.
Blog 5
This week we were asked to find three advertisements. One to show a credible source, one to show a not credible source, and one to show an attractive source. I decided to go with Jack Daniels because it has been around for many years and there are all different types of advertisements.
Credible Source:
I chose this advertisement for the credible source because it has many different facts about Jack Daniels. Facts such as where it was distilled, what distiller, and what year the distiller was started. I believe the more facts on an advertisement the more of a credible source it is.
Non Credible Source:
I chose this advertisement as the non credible source because this seems to be more of an opinion than fact. In my opinion it took more than one person to create the Jack Daniels brand. Also, saying that the Declaration of Independence is in a bottle of liquor is far fetch.
Attractive Source:
I chose this as an attractive source because to the eye it is very pleasing. I like how it is on a dark background and there is just enough light for your eye to catch the bottle and glasses of the liquor. Then there are the white words that pop out to a person for them to read it. This is very artistic in my opinion and that is very attractive to the eye.
Blog 4
This week we were asked to look at our exam and see how we did or if we would change the way we studied for the exam. I went to check my grade and what questions I got wrong. I learned that I received a 90 percent on my exam and that I only missed a total of 5 questions. I believe the only thing I would change about my study habits is maybe add an extra day to go over all my notes and my study guide. I was able to take my time to really learn the material and that is what might have really helped me receive the grade that I am happy I got.
Blog 3
Music is how I describe many things to people when I cannot find the words to express how I feel. However, my husband’s music taste and my music tastes are different for the most part. I have more of a love for Old School Rock and my husband likes Rap better. The only music genre that we seem to have in common in Country. I believe that Country is the reason we started to connect because I do not believe I would have given him a chance if all he ever listens to was Rap. I believe that because we share a similar music taste and are open to other genres of music, depending on the band or the song, it started the other conversations about life values and ideas. We compromise with a lot of different issues and ideas, the same way we do with music when we are both in the car.
My Song List
My Husband: God Gave Me You- Blake Shelton
My Parents: Don’t Stop Believing- Journey
My Daughters- My Little Girl- Tim Mcgraw
My Sons- Along the Broken Road- Rascal Flatts
My Best Friend- Count On Me- Bruno Mars
My Theme Song on Life- It’s My Life- Bon Jovi
Blog 1
After re-reading the course objectives, I have a better understanding about this class. I believe these objectives will help me in the future with many different things such as when I am in a group setting and I look around at the different type of people there I can understand more of how their attitudes change or form and then go from there on how to approach them as a person. I also believe that knowing the different factors that influence my liking for others could possibly help me making new friends. I often wonder about some of my “friends” and how our friendship came to be and I believe after taking this course I can figure out what exactly helped form our friendship. Another thing that this course will help me with can possibly be when my friends ask me for relationship help. Instead of saying things like “It will be okay” and “They do not know what they gave up”, I can give more of an insight to what might have gone wrong and look at both perspectives instead of just my friend’s side.
My expectations in this course are very simple. I want to be able to understand how different groups affect the behavior of different individuals. I want to be able to learn about how prejudice and attitude changes happen and why. The biggest thing I am hoping to gain is knowledge about social psychology and the many different needs for it in our everyday society. The biggest thing I plan on implementing while taking this course is to make sure while reading the chapters to take better notes. I believe that I can succeed in this course if I put a little extra time while reading and taking notes. I also plan on studying a little harder than usual because it seems there is a lot more information in this course than I first intended.
