Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Dreams and Latent Content

1. One dream I had was alone in a forest and got attacked by a coyote, and then I beat it to death.  My left hand was ripped in the process, but I remember feeling very proud of the kill.

2. Another dream I had was in a haunted house owned by a inhuman monstrous old women, I was trying to walk across the floor and not make a noise and I was very scared.  Suddenly the floor creaked and the old women ran out of a room to attack me, instantly my dream was no longer filled with fear and was then full of rage.  I killed the monstrous old women very violently, right after she was dead I looked at my arms, maggots were crawling underneath my skin and some were escaping out of my bloody pores.

3. Another dream I had was I was in my house, but it somehow seemed darker and more ominous. Strange aliens would keep jumping out and scaring me.  Every time I killed the alien, but what frightened me the most was the screeching noise they made.  Every time the I saw a alien it let loose an ear popping screech that caused my eyes to water, my head to pound, and my body to convulse.

  1. A coyote symbolizes deception and weakness. Pain symbolizes being too hard on myself. Pride symbolizes that I will stand up and fight the challenges attacking my integrity.
  2. Fear symbolizes that I'm afraid to confront the unknown aspects of myself and I'm experiencing anxieties in my life. Rage symbolizes bad temper, negative outbursts, and suppressed anger. Maggots symbolize some issue or problem you have been rejecting and it is now eating away at you.
  3. Violence symbolizes unexpressed anger or rage, aggressive or sadomasochistic tendencies, and suggests you may be fighting or struggling against aspects of your own self. Loudness symbolizes hiding from something. Tears/Crying symbolize helplessness, difficulties and frustrations in trying to communicate with others, a way to regain emotional balance because the lack of emotion shown while conscious, and it also represents pain. Aliens symbolize you're having difficulties adapting and adjusting to your new surroundings, feeling disconnected, problems dealing with a person or situation, and an encounter with unfamiliar or neglected aspect of your own self. 

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Baby Albert

1.Their results supported their hypothesis.  Baby Albert initially had no response to the objects shown to him, after showing him these objects and instilling fear with loud noises, he began to associate these objects with fear.  Just like their hypothesis stated that most emotional reactions are built on conditioned or learned responses.
2. Albert's response became generalized because he associated the fear of a white rat to other white animals, who now also instilled fear in him.
3. The principles of classical conditioning were used to reduce Peter's fear of rabbits by use of an extinction procedure.  The extinction procedure was pairing the rabbits he normally feared with good things, such as ice cream or receiving special attention.  Now when he encountered rabbits instead of feeling fear he would be expecting ice cream or special attention, thus curing his fear of the rabbits.

Friday, November 12, 2010

Outrageous Celebrity

The celebrity I chose for this project is Ozzy Osbourne.  This information on Ozzy Osbourne is false and is just used for demonstration.

Psychological Perspectives
  • Biological Perspective
  • Psychodynamic Perspective
  • Behaviorist Perspective
  • Humanist Perspective
  • Cognitive Perspective
  • Sociocultural Perspective

- Does Ozzy Osbourne have a medical condition to cause him to be an alcoholic?
Biological Perspective
- What forces drove Ozzy Osbourne that he resulted to drinking alcohol?
Psychodynamic Perspective
- What does Ozzy Osbourne think as he is overdosing on alcohol?
Cognitive Perspective
- What have been the previous ways to deal with relationship problems for Ozzy Osbourne?
Behavioral Perspective
- Did Ozzy Osbourne only feel loved and good about himself when he was drinking alcohol?
Humanist Perspective
- What has American culture taught Ozzy on how to deal with stress?
Sociocultural Perspective

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

I wasn't surprised at the end of the video because they hid the doctor's and nurse's faces till they revealed the patient face.  Beauty is subjective, every one has a different opinion of beauty.  Beauty changes, you will age and your beauty will fade.  No one is always beautiful.  The current standard of beauty for a girl in Kimberly Wisconsin has a bright smile, a thin yet busty figure, and has a energetic atmosphere around them.  This is not realistic.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Role Playing

I was in a play when I was younger where I had to fill the role of a knight.  To fill this role I acted bravely, honor full, and just; something I usually wouldn't do in everyday life.  I acted the way I thought a knight would act, and changed my attitude to adjust to a situation.

Stanford Prison Study

The person that surprised me the most was prisoner 819. This prisoner rebelled against the rules, broke down crying when talking to a priest, and felt he was a bad prisoner. What surprised me even more was this prisoner was offered the option to leave the prison, but he denied to leave because he knew the other prisoners thought he was a bad prisoner. He was only able to accept leaving after he was told this was an experiment and who he actually is, or who he actually was before he became prisoner 819.

Everyone had a behavior change to fit their new role, either prisoner or guard.  The prisoners either conformed or rebelled, sometimes even acted crazy or emotionally unstable.  The guards acted cruelly to the prisoners to maintain order, some guards took it to the extreme and punished the prisoners for no reason just to humiliate them and break their will to resist.

Monday, October 18, 2010

Personality Traits

Openness to Experience/Intellect

High scorers tend to be original, creative, curious, complex; Low scorers tend to be conventional, down to earth, narrow interests, uncreative.
You typically don't seek out new experiences. (Your percentile: 41)

Conscientiousness

High scorers tend to be reliable, well-organized, self-disciplined, careful; Low scorers tend to be disorganized, undependable, negligent.
You are very well-organized, and can be relied upon. (Your percentile: 94)

Extraversion

High scorers tend to be sociable, friendly, fun loving, talkative; Low scorers tend to be introverted, reserved, inhibited, quiet.
You probably enjoy spending quiet time alone. (Your percentile: 4)

Agreeableness

High scorers tend to be good natured, sympathetic, forgiving, courteous; Low scorers tend to be critical, rude, harsh, callous.
You find it easy to criticize others. (Your percentile: 8)

Neuroticism

High scorers tend to be nervous, high-strung, insecure, worrying; Low scorers tend to be calm, relaxed, secure, hardy.
You are generally relaxed.


Your Type is
INTJ
Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging
Strength of the preferences %
89 75 100 56


INTJ type description by D.Keirsey
INTJ Identify Your Career with Jung Career Indicator™ INTJ Famous Personalities
INTJ type description by J. Butt and M.M. Heiss




Qualitative analysis of your type formula

You are:
very expressed introvert

distinctively expressed intuitive personality

very expressed thinking personality

moderately expressed judging personality

Friday, October 15, 2010

Rorschach Ink Blot

My interpretation of my ink blot is two angry or evil chickens/birds staring at each other.

Friday, September 24, 2010

The Lobotomist

The Lobotomist was about the history of lobotomy and Walter J Freeman.  It went over how Walter started with the topic of lobotomy and how he felt that it was a last resort, and in the end how his procedure of lobotomy changed and that he would use it often for any mental illness.

Is Walter J Freeman a good doctor or a mad man?  I think Walter is a mad man.  He is doing procedures that are unethical.  Whether or not the patient benefits from the procedure, it is never a good idea to jumble some one's brain so forcefully.  The physical approach should be taken very cautiously, with small incisions and accurate calculations, not with a ice pick and mixing up the front of the brain.  Walter is also a mad man because he knew that lobotomy had very serious risks and many negative effects but he ignored them with the drive that lobotomy was a good thing, and continued with his work.

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Introduction

Hello, my name is Ryan.  I'm a self-motivated individual who prefers to work alone or with others I can trust.  I'm usually organized and don't like to fool around when work needs to be done, ironically I often procrastinate.  My hobbies/interests are mainly playing video games, and drawing etc even though I haven't drawn anything in a long time.  I'm not a talkative person and usually will be seen with a blank expression, with brief smirks here and there.  Post-high school I may being enrolling in a technical college, or possibly some online classes for video game productions.  Making video games for a living has always been my dream.