What did you like about the class?
the concept of Psychology is very interesting. learning how our mind and body works is really intriguing. it helps explain a lot of why we do certain things. my favorite section would have to be social psychology because we just learned it and it's fresh in my head, also cause it explains how we interact with others.
What was your favorite activity or project?
creating brain models with Play-Doh.
What didn't you like about the class?
notetaking.
What do you think I should leave out next year?
a few powerpoints and the sensory perception project.
Do you have any suggestions or ideas for things I could do next year in AP Psych?
not spend so much time on disorders and vary teaching methods instead of just power point and lecture.
Do you have any suggestions or ideas for next semester in AP Econ?
hopefully make it just as fun. maybe a few short interactive projects where we can apply what we learn.
Friday, January 9, 2009
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Week 5 - Freestyle
So this week we're supposed to blog about any topic from the links on Mrs. Halfen's blog. I read through the Psych Center Mental Health Year in Review 2008 and I fell asleep about four, five times. I couldn't find any topic that was appealing. Then I asked Amanda how she found her topic and she referred me to the blogs at Psychology Today where I found my topic: "Are Dogs Worth More Than Humans?"
The article was a second edition and an address to the commmentary on the author's original topic of Michael Vick and his crime of dog fighting. In this article, the author claims that the relationship between dogs and humans and the way society views dogs is all man-made. We, humans, seek to benefit from this relationship and we therefore go ahead and domesticate dogs. However, an argument was presented that the mass population of dogs must sometimes be controlled and a canine massacre was supposedly suggested. In response, the author stated that scientists have discovered that dogs actually have an inborn sense of morality and emotion that is significantly higher than human children. Therefore, to support an annual canine massacre would be like to support a massacre of children or retarded adults, which if you think about it, that's just totally wrong. The author's reason for stating this is because humans also have a sense of right and wrong even though it's sometimes violated. But in the bigger picture, dogs don't go through scandals and greedy acts that cause harm. They give back to nature relatively more than humans. As a result, dogs aren't worth more than humans (we're still a superior species) but they do need to be better valued and treated than us humans give them credit for.
The article was a second edition and an address to the commmentary on the author's original topic of Michael Vick and his crime of dog fighting. In this article, the author claims that the relationship between dogs and humans and the way society views dogs is all man-made. We, humans, seek to benefit from this relationship and we therefore go ahead and domesticate dogs. However, an argument was presented that the mass population of dogs must sometimes be controlled and a canine massacre was supposedly suggested. In response, the author stated that scientists have discovered that dogs actually have an inborn sense of morality and emotion that is significantly higher than human children. Therefore, to support an annual canine massacre would be like to support a massacre of children or retarded adults, which if you think about it, that's just totally wrong. The author's reason for stating this is because humans also have a sense of right and wrong even though it's sometimes violated. But in the bigger picture, dogs don't go through scandals and greedy acts that cause harm. They give back to nature relatively more than humans. As a result, dogs aren't worth more than humans (we're still a superior species) but they do need to be better valued and treated than us humans give them credit for.
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