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.