Personality Week 14-Reaction to Podcast

Collaboration is key to gaining further knowledge about panick attacks and anxiety. The two major factors involved right now are Biology and psychology. These two treatments are represented by cognitive behavior treatment or drugs. It seems that both offer benefits and it is still ultimately up to the client to decide what works for them. I think that it is great that patients are given more of a choice and not immediatley prescribed with a medication. I feel that by undergoing cognitive treatment the patients feel that through their feelings and thoughts they are able to control their anxiety and panick attacks, I think that In the long run this method may proove to be more affective because it allows people to control their own domain. By people being given drugs to treat their anxiety/ panick attacks I think they may undergo some sense of attribution theory becasue they may feel that the actual ingestion of the drug is what is removing the panick attacks. Perhaps what is best is a combination of both becasue the person can maximize the pros and cons of each one.

Personality Week 13

Started talking about anxiety and the causes. We looked at an Australian feller by the name of Rapee that conducted experiments on anxiety and panick attacks by attaching masks to people so that they inhaled CO2, he then modified the experiment by telling the potential panickers of all the affects that they would experience and amazingly they did not have panick attacks. The fact that they did not panick was a little surprising to me and I don't quite understand why they didn't but it seems that I expected them to panick because I felt like if the person told them what they might experience, that in essence gave them permission to experience it and fulfill that panick need, but I was wrong. Why they didn't panick? Maybe because they were told they might experience those things which aren't neccesarily great things to experience, so knowing they might they choose not to.

Personality Week 12

I found Tolman to be very funny in this section. His experiments with rats seemed to be extremely innovative and original. I created a mental picture in my mind of little rats riding around on a train and looking at the maze and remembering it. It really does make a lot of sense though, because if were using rats to better understand humans and when you think about how humans work it's not really that different. We ride around with our parents in their cars and come to remember where we live and how to get there. Much of our learning is this latent learning or observational. Also another thing that I found very interesting that ties into this whole thing is Rotter's theory of external and internal locus of control. I found that I relate to this highly because I really like to take responsibility for my actions and also for the way I choose to feel. I think for people to place the power of the world into their hands and take responsibility for what is around them is extremely amazing and is often how major changes in our world take place.

Personality Week 11

Maslow real cool dude, I think. I really chose to start relating very personally to the reading when I started reading about characters such as Maslow. I like the whole self-actualized person thing that Maslow seems to be harping on, something that I find of particular interest is the thing about peak experiences in one's life. I feel personally peak experiences are the things that drive my life and I choose for them to help me understand what I most want in my life. Peak Experiences offer me opportunitties to see my world in a clearer light. I most often expereince my Peak-Experiences by adventurous sports such as White Water Kayaking. Their is some risk involved in this sport but it is all calculated and taken into account. Accompanied with this risk evaluation comes a strong feeling of sucess and completion while engaging in the activity. I think why I choose to have these experiences be so important in my life is because I feel that I can see myself as something while I am participating in them, I can see my whole interns stretched out before me and the linking of my internal and external, it truly is an amazing indescribable feeling and I quite enjoy it.

Personality week 10

This class is always very fun especially with the active in class participation that the professor helps facilitate. Good participation happened this week when the professor engaged a student in along conversation about blushing in front of groups of people and how to overcome it. The student claimed that often in large groups of people they will blush, but what I found most interesting was that they were able to talk about blushing without even blushing in front of a class of at least 50 students. Was it that they let go of their blushing or that because they were talking about the blushing, which is generally the thing that makes this person even more uncomfortable in front of large groups of people, that they were able to not blush, who knows.

Personality week 9

Time is a flyin through the semester. What I find most captivating lately is Erikson and his stages of development I feel like he does a lot of clean up work for freud as I found freud to be pretty stale and repetitive. I like that he accompanies an ego-strength and feeling with each stage as I feel for myself that is true and that we aquire different feelings that carry us through the stages of our lives. I feel that Erikson's final stage being represented through wisdom is very inciteful on his part, because regardless of how old we are, I think everyone wants wisdom in their final stage, because with wisdom comes the confidence to be ourselves and live as we best see fit. I also have really enjoyed learning about everyone thus far, they all seem to have a little something different to offer, and I feel lucky that I can choose to take with me what I want and really embrace what makes the most sense in my life, as that is what each one of these people were doing for their lives when they devised these theories.