Through the guidance of Professor Muth, I think I’ve successfully met the course objectives. I can understand more about how people perceive things through things like heuristics for example. I didn’t know anything about that until this class. My attitude about social psychology is much more appreciative and I find myself even more fascinated than I was before with how people influence one another. If I could do one thing differently it would be assignments earlier on in the week and to take more time to study for exams. Academically, the consistent due dates helped me keep a good routine and the assignments challenged me to think more critically. In a professional setting, I think this class will help me get along better with coworkers and help better appeal to them.
I can’t think of a better way to show my academic growth than to show the evidence in my grades. That’s why for this, I chose to upload screenshots of my exam 1 and 2 grades. In the beginning I was still finding my footing and by the time I had to take exam 2, I was prepared. I knew what to study and how.
Blog 8: March 27, 2022
I was surprised in how many ways there can be sexual conflict in a relationship. It’s literally at every step of the way; before, during, and after. Common ways for men to make women upset are looking at other women, not showing affection or attention, treating them like their inferior, lying, and not committing. Ways women upset men are not having sex, complaining, being clingy, expecting too much, not saying what they mean, and being dramatic. For similarities, neither one other the parties want to be cheated on or be controlled. But overall, I feel like women get mad at men for things they AREN’T doing (like not being affectionate or not doing something they should have), while men get mad at women for things they ARE doing which is seen as dramatic. I think this is because of the our instinctive nature to let men provide and take care of us as women. Women want and expect more and men don’t think farther than when they first get them.
To me, emotional intelligence is the ability to be self aware, express feelings, control emotions, and the behavior you exhibit because of it. Self-Regulation is a part of being emotionally intelligent. It’s being able to control your thoughts and reactions when dealing with intense emotions and impulses. Instead of having a “fight or flight” response, taking a moment to create more time to gather yourself to better handle any situation. You can do this by taking deep breathes, doing body scans (breathing with your eyes closed and relaxing muscles), recognizing the specific emotion you are having and looking at it from a distant.
I feel like I have decent emotional intelligence when it comes to everyone but my boyfriend. Probably because he makes me the most emotional and I care way more about what he thinks and does because it affects us. When it comes to family and friends I swear I am the voice of reason trying to get everyone to cooperate. I don’t get riled up easily and I pride myself it seeing things from other people’s perspectives and explaining them to the other person.
I’m no stranger to the sexualization of younger woman especially in ads. Ads are designed to appeal to people to convince them to buy their product. Modeling has always been super glamorous to me. I always figured that they’d have plenty of problems that came with the field but it really is crazy how their livelihood comes from looking as young as possible and dehumanizing themselves for the sake of a product. The Channel ad comparison of Brad Pitt and Linda Evangelista really sums up the difference gender plays in advertisements. Men are seen as men, I’d have to disagree with a bit of what Jean Kilbourne was saying about male ads though. I think and know plenty of men who feel like they need to be very masculine, muscular, alpha to be a real man. They can go through similar eating disorders and depression. However, they are stereotypes pushed on by other men because most woman will agree that that’s not always their ideal guy. They will also never experience the fear and abuse woman can go through because of a man pushing them to be a certain way. Men learn to view woman as objects and woman learn that their value comes from how they look.
The test was honestly a lot easier than I anticipated it to be. The mistakes I made were careless so I know I could’ve done better. I did take notes as I read chapter but I didn’t really review until before I took the test. In the future, I’ll definitely take better and more notes based on the jeopardy review videos. As well as taking more time to read over questions.
Blog 3: February 13, 2022
The connection between music and relationships isn’t really surprising. What was interesting is that people with common musical presences do not share similar personality traits. But when I really considered this, the more true I realize it is. I’ve come on contact with people who have similar music tastes as me and found we have completely different personalities yet share similar views on the world and certain topics. The person I share the most similar musical preferences with is probably my sister. We grew up singing musicals together and I always found new music that she ended up adding to her own playlists. However I would actually say we have a more similar personalities than similar values. We’re both introverted and quiet but when it comes to values, she is more religious and conservative than I.
Blog 2: February 6, 2022
Ever since I can remember, I've never really studied or kept up with my grades. Somehow I always did above average despite being a veteran procrastinator. College became a different story. I've become more determined because college hold more weight for my future. Currently, I'm decently confident as a student. If anything, I'm comfortable with my current workload and scared of when it inevitably gets harder. I think things that would help my confidence is if I got harder tasks with positive results. To test me in a way. My self-efficiency results were a mean of 3.3. When analyzed, most answers were 3's and 4's. The common downfall was confidence in being prepared for an unexpected problem which I already know. I think the best thing I could do to improve is to just keep gaining experience.
Blog 1: January 30, 2022
I'm expecting social psychology to be challenging and interesting. It's very easy to see that Professor Muth and most of the students want to be more interactive and I'm excited to see what she has planned for us. I've never heard of an ePortfolio before and I want to put in a lot of effort into this website. I'm hoping to gain more knowledge about social influence, perception, and interactions. I want to earn this credit and be able to use what I'll learn in my future career. I always make a weekly agenda and I plan on taking plenty of colored notes. It's my favorite way to digest information.
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