Personality Week 8-focus

This is the week that the professor first showed us a video of errorless modeling in the the use with patients that may have some autism or aspergers. I found this very interesting because it gives someone a complete wholesome reality of what they are capable of, something they might not be able to envision on their own. I think that this errorless modeling could be very effective in every day life, for example I think it could be helpful for me in approaching strangers or people that I would like to get to know, this could be applied to anyone and probably have great success. All for now.

Personality Week 7

This week went by very quickly, seemed like a big blur. I don't really remeber a lot of what we talked about. Talked a bit about skinner and how he wanted to make psychology about observable behaviors. I think that if psychology was about only about observable behaviors then it wouldn't really be psychology. The definition of psychology accorrding to dictionary.com is, "The science that deals with mental processes and behavior"(dictionary.com). Well if this is the definition then only observing external things would not even be considered psychology because the whole mental process is completely internal and their are so many ideas and philosophies that are expressed internally that if we did that we would miss a big chunk of what was really going on with someone. Interesting to talk and think about though, as all these theories are.

Personality Week 6

Took first exam, feel good about it haven't gotten back my results yet. It was as good as I thought it would be, and I liked the teachers stlye for exams. He really wants everyone to suceed and will give us opportunitty's to do that. Lately we've been getting out pretty early which has been ok.Our class structure is very well set up. It seems as though we will talk about general stuff first 10-15 minutes then will have full on learning for about 30-45 minutes then some type of group avtivity or discussion at the end, its good. I aslo find it very how he labels everything, quite and loud side of the room, talkative people, earth-friendly people, etc. The class room environment is very open and friendly, fair amount of laughing.

Personality Week 5

Exam 1 was moved a bit, so that was ok with me. Started thinking about exam and what way would be best to study. Started to get into Eric Andersen. Seems to be a pretty interesting character, a lot of pretty sophisticated ideas and take offs/improvements on some of Freuds ideas. realized that exams are really good and I enjoy demonstrating my knowledge and leaping into the unknown. The first exam I think is the most interesting because I'm curious to see how my learning and studying style will match up with the teachers testing of our knowledge style.

Personality Week 4-In the groove

Well things are rolling now, choosing to feel school as being very normal. Established work patterens now and progressing, fluxing, and learning. Talked a lot about adler this week. We did a very interesting activity at the end of one of our classes. Based on Adler's idea of haver's Vs. Be'ers we wrote a little observation about what we thought we were. I feel that I am a person that like's to be and have, sort of 50/50. I identified myself a prepared be'er. That is I may identify a material object that I feel would aid me nicely in my activities and save money until I get it, then once I have it I would be using its resources and exploring life. There are also times where I am very much a be'er, choose to establish patterns and perameters for the way I do things and follow in those and live my life. I experience a lot of moments of instantaneous joy, and I like that. I feel that I am a very fortunate person and I am thankful for all the ideas, experiences, relationships, opportunitties, and beliefs that have culminated to create a space where I choose to be the person I am.

Personality week 3

Haven't chosen to set down and update this for quite some time. As I recall week 3 was a fun week because we really started to dive deeper into some of the theories and finished all the very topical type of introduction stuff. I began to see that I really liked the class, starting to understand the teachers methods and styles of teaching. I really enjoy how he involves the whole class and it feels like there's only 15 or 20 people in the class when there's more like 60 or 70. Started talking about Horney found a fair amount of her thoughts pretty interesting. I see a lot of truth in horney when she's talking about Ideal Vs. Real self. I do believe that I have sometimes in the past had a different view of myself than what was real. It's very cool to have the two alligned and be very aware of what is true with your environment and how you interact with it. Learning more will be fun.