ATA5

This assignment was one of my favorite assignments that we did in this course because I love being able to help others  and just being a nice person. This assignment reminded me of another assignment that I did in my parks recreation class where we had to show our teacher pictures of ten good deeds that we have done and why we proud of ourselves. This assignment reminds me of an assignment that I did in my parks and recreation class because we had to do an assignment where we had to show the teacher ten different pictures of ourselves doing good deeds or something that we are proud of. Some of the pictures that I added were photos of me helping the elderly and donating money to hospitals. A lot of the pictures that I had were about me helping others. This assignment that we did in this class was about helping others during the week. They were similar because they both involved good deeds but the difference was that it was used in pictures instead of writing. Throughout that week I realized why I loved helping others so much, I am such a happy person and I love to see others happy as well. I feel like the word is a happier place that way. I feel like this assignment was personally relevant to me because my whole life is based of just being a good person and helping others. I am a certified nursing assistant and I have been for five years of my life and I work with residents that have Alzheimer’s disease and Dementia disease, so my whole life I have been helping others. When I saw this assignment for the fifth assignment I knew I had to do it because I love being able to help others every day that I can. 

Do you show kindness?

I picked this photo because I wanted to show the importance of being kind to others. This photo shows others being kind to each other and I feel like it is a good representation of how I feel about this assignment and how I feel about people being kind to each other.

 

 

 

ATA3

     Assignment three was really hard to watch. The video that was presented with the assignment really had me so surprised and upset, while watching the video of the guy yelling at the African American man I was just getting so upset. This assignment was different that any other assignment I have had because other assignments that I have done there was not a video provided to express what to write about. This assignment is very similar to many of my assignments that I have in in my parks and recreation classes because we weekly get assignments with a scenario just like this one and we have to express how we feel about it. The last assignment that I had in my parks recreation class was a scenario where there was a white couple harassing’s an African American waitress because of her race and we had to speak on the situation. This assignment was similar because the white guy on stage was harassing the African American guy and we had to reflect on the situation the only difference is that there was a video attached. The video really helped me express my feelings. Usually when I read about a topic like this I get upset and speak my word but when I see a video I feel like there is so many other ways that I can express my thoughts and feelings it gives me such a different outlook on the situation. In my parks and recreation classes we have recently been learning about discrimination and learning about the different way to accept others and I can relate it to this assignment because of the discrimination and racism going on in this video. I feel like this video showed others how wrong it is to treat others differently and to put out to the world that this still happens everyday. I took a lot in from assignment three, it was one of my favorite assignments that we have done in this class so far, it was very informing. 

     This assignment was personally relevant to me because I have been dealing with discrimination a lot lately. For example, I work as a waitress and a lot of us are mixed or Hispanic but I look white so not a lot of people would know that about me or the other girls that I work with. I have had many customers complain and say that were all just little white girls working here and that we do not know anything about culture and it is super hurtful. Out of respect I do not say anything back but it is very offense to me and the other people that I work with of color. There has also been a lot of racism going on within sororities and other campus activities lately. 

 

I choose this image because through this assignment I have so many emotions and I did not know how to feel. While I was watching this video I kept thinking to myself why do things like this happen. I was mad, sad, confused, irritated, and just in such shock to how people could treat each other like this. I had so many emptions through this assignment but I enjoyed it because I feel like it is important to put this message out and for everyone to understand that this happens a lot and it is important to talk about it.      

 

 

ATA2

     After completing assignment two I learned a lot about how a just a single photo could describe what kind of person you are and how much one photos could have so much detail to express what kind of things you like, and who are the people in your life. This assignment required me to do a of thinking about past events in my life and current events in my life that could describe what kind of person I am.  While doing this assignment I thought a lot about a past assignment that I did in my Criminal Psychology class about a year ago. My teacher had us pick five major events in our life that has affected us strongly and we had to talk about how it affected the people around us and had to go into detail about our family, friends, and important people in our life. Although these assignments were very different I feel like they had a lot in common because I had to look in the past and think about how life changing events have affected me and for this assignment I had to look in the past but also in the present to find photos to describe what kind of person I am. The events that have taken place in the past have transformed me into the person that I am today, which is why I feel like these assignments were related so much because I am the person I am today because of events that have taken place in the past.

     For example, at the age of sixteen my uncle was arrested and put in jail for selling drugs, this life changing event really affected me at such a young age. I looked up to my uncle so much he was my bestfriend, and when he told me I was in shock, he expressed to me that I should never do drugs, and how upset he was with himself for letting me down. I was so upset I could not believe that at the age of sixteen my uncle was going to jail and I was not going to see him until the age of twenty-two, throughout time I was so angry at him, I was so mad he was not going to be in my life for years, I refused to talk to him. It made it hard for me to want to connect with more people in my parents family because I felt like they were going to let me down. I refused to take any calls from him for a while, but as time passed my grandma would always talk to me and change my mind. My grandma taught me how important it is in life to put family first no matter what because family is the only people that will always be there for you no matter what. She taught me that caring for other and giving everyone a second chance is so important in life and not to hold grudges. I feel like without the lessons that she taught me I would not be such a caring person that I am today. This event actually taught me to grow closer to the people I love and that people do learn from their mistakes, it taught me how important it is to care for people because you never know what they are going through. This is a lesson that I carry with myself everyday, this is the reason I want to be able to help others as much as I can and care for other people.   

 

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I chose this image to represent this assignment because I felt like I was time traveling. With thinking so much about the past, the future, and my current life situation, I felt like throughout this assignment I was going back and fourth with all of it. I was able to think about the most important events that have happened in my life and everyone that has been in my life in the past and that still is in my life. This assignment also gave me the opportunity to see some insight into my future. I thought a lot about what I would like to see of myself in the future and if I re-did this assignment a couple years from now how much different would my views on life be. I really enjoyed doing this assignment it felt like I was just able to think about the most important things in my life and how I continue to grow and appreciate the things that I love. 

 

ATA1

      I learned a lot from assignment one, I learned about all of the four types of Heuristics that I was not fully aware what all of these meant before doing this assignment. I knew what heuristics were but I did not know the what was the meaning of each or the characteristics. Representative Heuristic is is when you judge someone by the way they look, Availability heuristic is getting used to a bad habit, anchoring and adjustment heuristic having a good outcome of a situation, and Status Quo Heuristic is when you label and object. I recently did an assignment and I learned about the reciprocal process theory which had three parts to it which was Biological, Cognitive, and Socioemotional. 

     The biological process is physical nature, the cognitive process is thoughts, intelligence, and language, and socioemotional is relationships, emotions, and personality. Learning about this process made made me think a lot about the heuristics because with the heuristic you judge people, you label things, and you want to think of good outcomes. With the reciprocal process it is a lot of thinking and it involves emotions and everything that you think in your head helps you make judgment about yourself and about others and about the things that you are constantly doing. I learned about this in Child Psychology and feel like I can compare and closed closely connect these. This helped me learn about the way people think and how I can connect to other things. This personally relates to me because these are things that I do everyday, like at work I always eat food there when I know I am not suppose to be eating the food there without paying. I am constantly worried about my appearance, what others think of me, and my relationships with my friends and family. I am constantly thinking everyday and I am constantly doing bad habits that I know are not good for me or judging people because of things that they have done in the past that I should not be thinking about constantly. 

 

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I chose this picture because this assignment caused me a lot of thinking and I felt like I had to use my mind to connect a lot of a lot of different examples from what I go through in my current life and include it in the definitions and examples of each heuristic. After I compared it to the heuristic then I began to compare things going on in my life to the theory, after that I was thinking al at the same time to compare all of it together and have different examples and perspectives for this assignment. I felt like throughout the whole assignment I was thinking at the same time and that my head was in so many different places and putting pieces together all at the same time. It was like all the pieces that were in my head at the same time were moving back and fourth and putting themselves into each category that I was looking to express about this assignment.