ATA 4:

For this assignment I took the Style of Love Questionnaire, and compared my results to the averages of females and males. I was quite surprised by how different my scores were from the averages! My results definitely go to show that I aim for a storybook romance. I was fascinated by how many categories the test separated love by. I scored high in Eros, Storge, Pragma, Mania, and Agape love, and low in Ludus love. Some of my scores stunned me a bit, but overall I think my scores were pretty accurate. Taking this assessment and analyzing my scores, and how they applied to my relationships was very enlightening. I now know that my relationships may benefit from me working on being more certain of myself and my significant other when in a relationship. I think this quiz is an excellent tool for figuring out what it is you are doing well in a relationship, and where you may need to make improvements. I also think this quiz would be useful to take with your partner to see if your love types match up. I truly enjoyed doing this assignment, and learning about my own love style.

ATA 3:

For this paper I was asked to view a video of Michael Richards going on a racist tirade and discuss what I thought was the true feeling behind the incident.  I was flabbergasted by the disrespectful things Richards said to his fans in the crowd.  Doing this assignment and viewing this video, made me realize how often people say hateful prejudice things to one another in order to inflict pain and win an argument.  There have been times in my own life when individuals I knew who were not actually prejudice against women, said some very sexist remarks towards me in order to win a disagreement.  When we are arguing with someone we tend to get caught up in our emotions and make cruel statements we do not mean.  The quickest way to end an argument in which you may be loosing or running out of logical things to say, is to deeply insult the other person so much so that they end up walking away from the argument crushed.  I am at fault here too sometimes, but doing this assignment encouraged me to self reflect, and realize that saying in the moment cruel statements may win me an argument, but may also cause serious harm to the other individual.  Even if these statements said are incidental feelings, and not the individuals true feelings, such as in Richards tirade, they are still being discriminating, sexist, or prejudice in that moment, and there is never a justified excuse for behavior such as that.

ATA 2:

For this assignment I took a look into my past through photographs.  I put together a collection of 7 photos that I felt best displayed my self-presentation throughout my life.  It was intriguing taking notice to how my self-concept was being shown in pictures.  I was able to also look at a few images in which I am imitating someone whom I saw as a role model, and realized how seeing them as a role model effected my self-concept.  The textbook readings on self-presentation, and then completeing this assignment guided me in comprehending how different my own self-concept/presentation may be than observer-perspectives.  After looking through my photo albums I was fascinated to see how candid photos presented me as outgoing and happy, while I was always worried that I came across as reserved and quite, but it appears it isn’t so.   This assignment helped me to fully understand the readings by applying them to myself.

ATA 1:

For this assignment I did research on different forms of heuristics including: representative heuristic, status que heuristic, availability heuristic, and anchoring and adjustment heuristic.  I conducted research for this paper by using the textbook as well as other sources on the topic.  I found it interesting how many different ways we make biased judgments.  As I did research for the paper and learned more about the heuristics I realized I exhibit some of the heuristics listed.  For example I exhibit status que heuristic when I refuse to try new shampoos, because I am use to and comfortable with the one I have been using for the past few years.  I enjoyed doing this assignment because it helped me further understand judgments made by others as well as myself.