Blog 10

My initial course expectations were that I would learn more about the inner workings of social psychology and what people go through on a daily basis, and all that I have really learned was that this class felt more like an English class with all of the different writings we had to turn in.

The course objectives were clear in the beginning, learn more about our peers and friends, and how to be a better person overall. I think I have learned some of that and inputted it into my daily life, in small doses.

My attitudes during Social Psychology changed dramatically with understanding where and how to input all the writings and data, and how it’s so overwhelming that I couldnt do it correctly each week. The only thing I would change if I took this class again is to find a different profoessor who wouldnt have 3 different spots to turn into work because it was so stressful that I couldn’t really focus on the actual content of the work.

I have grown academically by understand the importance of due dates and learning the content on my own, going through a pandemic while studying on the other side of the country as my school was extemtly difficult, and it tested me a lot at times.

One skill that i have gained in this course is understanding ( i think) how to use WordPress, even though I am probably missing something and won’t realize it until after the semester is over.

Blog 9

Blog 8

This article was very interesting to read because of how the mating battleground is fought between men and women. Men upset women by mansplaining something that the women knows, or something that would be deemed moreso a more masculine topic. Say you’re at the gym setting up a squat rack like you have done multiple times before, a man may come in and either do it themselves or stand there and tell the woman how to do it. Women anger men by giving the silent treatment when they are sad and not communicating their needs. Something else that women do is act crazy for no reason and yell at men for not texting them back or being late.

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Blog 7

Self Regulation and Emotional Intelligence are similar in the fact that they both have to do with how you act in certain situations. Self regulation is more so how you control and manage the emotions whereas Emotional Intelligence is having the capacity to be aware of your capacity to control and express emotions. Within Emotional Intelligence being able to express emotions you are feeling in a romantic relationship or even a friendship is so important to me. Being with a manipulative and abusive person for two years really made me understand that talking about emotions to someone you trust will be very beneficial to new and better relationships in the future.

Blog 6

I always knew that ads were always directed negatively to women in the media because we can never be “perfect” enough. but watching this Ted Talk, hearing the explanations and examples of what goes on in the media and how it’s always been that way is truly heartbreaking. with a society that we live in that is so centered around health and looking and being a perfect size, it really is no wonder that eating disorders are so prevalent with the early preteens. seeing how the ads treat women as a whole with all the photoshop and smoothing, and then having a man be in the ad and practically nothing is changed on his face or body, is just wrong. even with giving a man 8 abs, no one sees anything wrong with that, that there bashing those men who cannot have abs.

5 ads:

1. “feminine odor is everyone’s problem”. it’s no ones problem because we are all human and sweat, have our own body scent, and we do not need to smell good 24/7 to appease men, or society.
2. “I’d probably never been married now if i hadn’t lost 49 pounds”. again, the societal need to always look good for your husband because that is what we are taught at a young age, and that we need to be small and skinny for someone to love us.
3. older woman in ad about anti aging cream. the real picture of her shows her flaws, imperfections, and her as a human. not a smooth human who doesn’t have any creases or wrinkles, just making it another example of how society wants everyone young and pretty.
4. Brad Pitt (49) and Linda Evangelista (47). both in an ad, but Bradd looks like a human, flaws and misplaced hair, while Linda is smoothed down and looks like a drawn on cartoon character. women are not objects, they’re humans, not cartoons.
5. photoshop to remove the thigh gap of models or make them extremely skinny. shows an edited version of a woman that is broadcasted to preteesn that makes hem more self aware of their changing body because of puberty, and then the development of eating disorders are very present.

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Blog 4

For the first Exam, I didn’t have much of a studying process. This class is confusing as is, and I didn’t want to confuse myself more trying to find everything to study. I just hoped for the best and that’s what I did. I’m typically not one to study for long periods of time, and just flipping through the notes and book refreshed my memory enough where I would know what the question was asking. I think what I need to do for the next text to get a higher grade will be to study the review sheet a little, more, and spend more time on it. Taking 5 classes is stressful enough, and then having to plan study times for them is crazy.

Blog 3

• I believe that music and relationships have the greatest connection of all. You meet friends by the same love of genres, and that is how you connect. by hanging out with the ones that share the same love for an artist, a band, a whole genre, you are able to send song recommendations back and forth to one another. my partner and I listen to completely different genres (he’s rap, I’m rock), but we still have the connection with a handful of artists, so driving together is never boring, we have plenty of concerts in the car together.
  • Playlist
    • For my boyfriend Andrew: “Me n ur ghost” (Blackbear)
    • For my dad: “Back in Black” (AC/DC)
    • For myself: “Wasted Youth” (Actual Villains)
    • For my closest friends from ED Treatment: “Hate the Way” (G-Eazy)
    • For my love of father/daughter dances at weddings: “I Loved Her First” (The Heartland)
    • A reminder of a life event: “I Hope” (Gabby Barrett)

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• How will the course objectives help me in the future?
  • Understanding the behavior of others in groups or alone
  • How people perceive and/or attempt to understand others and why they do what they do.
  • How attitudes are formed and changed throughout the friendship or relationship.
  • How prejudices and discrimination shape us as people and what we can do about that.
• Expectations for this course?
  • I didn’t expect to have so many different areas of turning in homework and assignments, which was and still is very overwhelming and completely confusing.
  • Hopefully, I will soon get the hang of it and understand everything there is to know about this class in particular.
• What am I hoping to gain?
  • A better understanding of myself and how I got about my friendships and relationships.
  • What I can hopefully change or put in effect with what I am learning in this class about how people perceive each other.
• Strategies to implement that will ensure success?
  • Take the readings and assignments out of the classroom and start implementing those findings in my everyday life.
  • Take it day by day, slowly, changing everything that needs a little, help.