Jhoana Hernandez
Fire Project AP Psychology
We define psychology as an academic field that studies the human mind behavior. Psychology seeks to understand and explain how we think, act and feel and to apply that understanding in the service of human welfare. Psychology is a commitment to empirical research and scientific methods, linked by interest and by legacy of psychology’s founder, but diverse in backgrounds, activities, and in the approaches it takes.
There are many perspectives in psychology since times changes and new ideas and understanding come. There are views that involve certain assumptions about human behavior, how they function, which research method to use and appropriate for understanding the study. There might be several different theories within an approach sharing a common assumption. The subject matter in psychology is so diverse; most psychologists work in particular sub-fields within the discipline. For example, biological psychologist, also called physiological psychologists, study topics such as the role played by the brain in regulating normal and disordered behavior.
It’s necessary to have psychologist help out and explain their behavior because the human behavior impacts the myriad of problems in our world. In other words the behavior that a person does could possible compose to numerous diverse facets of problems in the world and if we want to have a safe, healthy place where new generations of kids could grow up, we need to fix our problems. If we have numerous of people not knowing how to handle their emotions such as anger, people in the world are just going to be fighting and things are going to be a ciaos. Understanding our human’s actions is something beneficial for the fact that it makes it easier creates a better environment where the things they need could be available.
Understanding our actions will help us understand the consequences of them as well. My Social Justice education altered my state of mind from a "pres-conscious" to a "conscious" to realize how we just let things go by us. To be precociousness’ is to, have an ordinary memory, these memories are not conscious at the moment but if we try to remember them they could be recalled through conscious effort. Now, to have a conscious mind is to be aware of one’s environment and one’s own existence, sensations, and thoughts. With the right research done I have become more aware of what a subliminal message is and how it could possible and negatively affect kids. It open my eyes to see that kids now a days act the way they do partly caused by the messages they get from the media including the Internet, music, TV shows and movies.
Television could be a powerful tool to learn from because as we know many parents do not have the time to supervise what their kids are watching all the time and its easier for them let the TVs talk to their kids about uncomfortable topics like sex. If we think about it the media uses these excuses where parents feel shy to tell their kids surround stuff so they could come in and tell our kids what they consider its right. The media wants to make our kids their number one consumers for the same reason that they think primarily with their "pre-conscious" mind and subliminal messages work.
Psychology could be connected to politics since the field of politics is about people, and so is psychology. With the psychological view we could understand the workings of the human heart and mind, we could figure out how people make a society that will work with them. We can explain why a candidate running for president gets more votes based on their campaign. According to Sue Kerber, "a successful progressive campaigns-policy or political depend on the crafting of effective messages". (Kerber, 2013) We see the connection of how people in charge of a campaign have to think about words or phrases that will persuade the people in a society to vote for that candidate. They have to articulate the candidate’s value to the public and to policy by applying words that touch the people’s emotions.
We can see how subliminal messages can be put in to work on a campaign for adults technically and they work. We now picture the type of messages that the media uses to influence kids to believe something or act a surround way is greater. This is possible because children are not aware of what a subliminal message is. Based on an article by pediatrics, children do not understand the difference between a program designed to entertain and a commercial to sell. (Jones, Anthony and Brant, 2003). Because of psychology we can understand that a children s mind is not capable to understand or make sense of this type of stuff because their frontal lobe is not fully develop. A frontal lobe is a part of the brain where it involves the ability to recognize future consequences from a current action.
We could use the world of psychology to explain politicians that just like they use subliminal messages on their campaigns they should use campaigns to stop big corporations and TV networks from using kids and teens to buy material stuff they do not need, believe that been skinny is been perfect etc. We can use perception to explain the thresholds of individuals and how they could respond to stimuli without conscious perception of their existence. According to Kathryn Theus, from Rutgers University, kids and teens could discriminate among stimuli even when they are unable to consciously identify the stimulus. (Theus, 1994) By explaining to parents and kids the theories of selective perception, which cause information processing to be independent of any particular input and described perception as the conscious terminus of a sequence of unconscious process we can take kids from believing everything they see on TV as true.
Music videos have raised concerns about its effects on adolescents` expectations about conflict resolution, race, and male-female relationships. Based on a research, "up to 75% of videos contain sexually explicit material, and more than half contain violence that is often committed against women". (Jones, Anthony and Brant, 2003) We can see how music videos may have a significant behavioral impact by desensitizing viewers to violence and making teenagers more likely to approve or premarital sex. Music videos use subliminal messages in these types of videos that cause teenagers to believe that been violet is acceptable in society changing their beliefs and behavior.
The fact that kids watch TV more time than before also plays a big role on the way they understand a subliminal message. An average hours spend per month watching a video on TV for a teen age "12 to 17 is 98.5 and on average for a teen age 18 to 24 is of 111.25" (Pham, 2013). A subliminal message gets into the mind of a kid and teen since they repeat it and they become use to it and what they use to see as weird becomes normal to them. It’s like using an unconditioned stimulus that later on becomes a condition stimulus where kids learn to be violent because they have constantly seen it on TV. Now this causes teens to solve their problems with punching each other instead of talking it out. By this we see the power of a subliminal message on kids and their way learning that makes them change their behavior towards others.
Since the researchers link a cause and effect relationship between explicit lyrics and adverse behavioral effect on kids and teens, psychology could be use to explain to parents the different parenting styles that are based on the specific behavioral patterns that influence the mental development of children. The first type of parenting is called authoritarian where parents establish must to follow rules and regulations for children. The second one been authoritative, where there is a much lenient style compared to authoritarian parenting. The third style is of permissive parenting where parents allow kids to be them, they do not demand the kids to follow strict orders and punish them. Now last but not least is unsolved parenting, where parents do not communicate with their kids at all.
Knowing this types of parenting styles that psychology as establish for us, we could explain parents that the best way to maintain a control on the amount of media and the type of media that they kids obtain is by been a authoritarian parent. From what we have learn in class, authoritative parenting, parents holds the authority, but are tolerant enough to the doubts and questions of their kids. They do not just insist the children to obey blindly, but makes them understand why they obey the rules and regulations. When parents have control on what their kids are watching and the amount of it makes it less likely for them to be victims of subliminal messages. Also when parents spend time watching TV and explain to them what they are watching it makes things clear for kids.
The field of psychology could be used to positively change the world because with it we can change the thinking and the behavior of an individual for the better. We see many people depress or stress because of work that they have or even at school kids might get bully. With psychology there could be a change in the behavior of kids that like to bully around. Also with psychology we could help out people who might have a trauma or fear, for example of heights, with psychology there could be a cure for that and make that person understand what she or he has could be reverse in order for him or her to have a more enjoyable life.
With psychology we can create a better future for new generations because we can shape the way they think to eliminate negative thoughts and convince people for example to recycle and to be more conscious of the actions that are taken that potentially hurt the environment. Global warming, over population and pollution are caused by patterns of human behavior, urgent changes to human lifestyles and cultural practices are required for the world to escape ecological disaster, and psychologists should lead the way in helping people adopt sustainable patterns of living. We could use subliminal messages in the media avenue to be enlisted in the campaign to inform people, motivate them, and accomplish behavior change that will help save the environment. Yet at the same time, we need to reject the media’s constant appeals for consumption, and that is a difficult combination to achieve. Especially establish a good communication with adolescents and kids that are the future of the world.
The major take away that I have from have taken an AP psychology will be to understand myself and who I am as a person and a teenager. I have acquire enough knowledge that has help me rationalize my decisions and understand more clearly the consequences of my actions. Its more that I have become more conscious of the way that I think and how to improve them to get a better result letter on in life. Also it has help me understand more of who my peers are and the ways that they act because now I do not rush to judge them and make assumptions.Its now more clear to me that everyone acts not just because of it but more because they are influence by their environment and the way they have been race by the type of parents they have and their motivation to do stuff. Taking the course has also influence me to want to go to college and minor in the field of psychology because its something really interesting and it could help many people that have problems in their life from a stress to a more serious situation.
Fire Project AP Psychology
We define psychology as an academic field that studies the human mind behavior. Psychology seeks to understand and explain how we think, act and feel and to apply that understanding in the service of human welfare. Psychology is a commitment to empirical research and scientific methods, linked by interest and by legacy of psychology’s founder, but diverse in backgrounds, activities, and in the approaches it takes.
There are many perspectives in psychology since times changes and new ideas and understanding come. There are views that involve certain assumptions about human behavior, how they function, which research method to use and appropriate for understanding the study. There might be several different theories within an approach sharing a common assumption. The subject matter in psychology is so diverse; most psychologists work in particular sub-fields within the discipline. For example, biological psychologist, also called physiological psychologists, study topics such as the role played by the brain in regulating normal and disordered behavior.
It’s necessary to have psychologist help out and explain their behavior because the human behavior impacts the myriad of problems in our world. In other words the behavior that a person does could possible compose to numerous diverse facets of problems in the world and if we want to have a safe, healthy place where new generations of kids could grow up, we need to fix our problems. If we have numerous of people not knowing how to handle their emotions such as anger, people in the world are just going to be fighting and things are going to be a ciaos. Understanding our human’s actions is something beneficial for the fact that it makes it easier creates a better environment where the things they need could be available.
Understanding our actions will help us understand the consequences of them as well. My Social Justice education altered my state of mind from a "pres-conscious" to a "conscious" to realize how we just let things go by us. To be precociousness’ is to, have an ordinary memory, these memories are not conscious at the moment but if we try to remember them they could be recalled through conscious effort. Now, to have a conscious mind is to be aware of one’s environment and one’s own existence, sensations, and thoughts. With the right research done I have become more aware of what a subliminal message is and how it could possible and negatively affect kids. It open my eyes to see that kids now a days act the way they do partly caused by the messages they get from the media including the Internet, music, TV shows and movies.
Television could be a powerful tool to learn from because as we know many parents do not have the time to supervise what their kids are watching all the time and its easier for them let the TVs talk to their kids about uncomfortable topics like sex. If we think about it the media uses these excuses where parents feel shy to tell their kids surround stuff so they could come in and tell our kids what they consider its right. The media wants to make our kids their number one consumers for the same reason that they think primarily with their "pre-conscious" mind and subliminal messages work.
Psychology could be connected to politics since the field of politics is about people, and so is psychology. With the psychological view we could understand the workings of the human heart and mind, we could figure out how people make a society that will work with them. We can explain why a candidate running for president gets more votes based on their campaign. According to Sue Kerber, "a successful progressive campaigns-policy or political depend on the crafting of effective messages". (Kerber, 2013) We see the connection of how people in charge of a campaign have to think about words or phrases that will persuade the people in a society to vote for that candidate. They have to articulate the candidate’s value to the public and to policy by applying words that touch the people’s emotions.
We can see how subliminal messages can be put in to work on a campaign for adults technically and they work. We now picture the type of messages that the media uses to influence kids to believe something or act a surround way is greater. This is possible because children are not aware of what a subliminal message is. Based on an article by pediatrics, children do not understand the difference between a program designed to entertain and a commercial to sell. (Jones, Anthony and Brant, 2003). Because of psychology we can understand that a children s mind is not capable to understand or make sense of this type of stuff because their frontal lobe is not fully develop. A frontal lobe is a part of the brain where it involves the ability to recognize future consequences from a current action.
We could use the world of psychology to explain politicians that just like they use subliminal messages on their campaigns they should use campaigns to stop big corporations and TV networks from using kids and teens to buy material stuff they do not need, believe that been skinny is been perfect etc. We can use perception to explain the thresholds of individuals and how they could respond to stimuli without conscious perception of their existence. According to Kathryn Theus, from Rutgers University, kids and teens could discriminate among stimuli even when they are unable to consciously identify the stimulus. (Theus, 1994) By explaining to parents and kids the theories of selective perception, which cause information processing to be independent of any particular input and described perception as the conscious terminus of a sequence of unconscious process we can take kids from believing everything they see on TV as true.
Music videos have raised concerns about its effects on adolescents` expectations about conflict resolution, race, and male-female relationships. Based on a research, "up to 75% of videos contain sexually explicit material, and more than half contain violence that is often committed against women". (Jones, Anthony and Brant, 2003) We can see how music videos may have a significant behavioral impact by desensitizing viewers to violence and making teenagers more likely to approve or premarital sex. Music videos use subliminal messages in these types of videos that cause teenagers to believe that been violet is acceptable in society changing their beliefs and behavior.
The fact that kids watch TV more time than before also plays a big role on the way they understand a subliminal message. An average hours spend per month watching a video on TV for a teen age "12 to 17 is 98.5 and on average for a teen age 18 to 24 is of 111.25" (Pham, 2013). A subliminal message gets into the mind of a kid and teen since they repeat it and they become use to it and what they use to see as weird becomes normal to them. It’s like using an unconditioned stimulus that later on becomes a condition stimulus where kids learn to be violent because they have constantly seen it on TV. Now this causes teens to solve their problems with punching each other instead of talking it out. By this we see the power of a subliminal message on kids and their way learning that makes them change their behavior towards others.
Since the researchers link a cause and effect relationship between explicit lyrics and adverse behavioral effect on kids and teens, psychology could be use to explain to parents the different parenting styles that are based on the specific behavioral patterns that influence the mental development of children. The first type of parenting is called authoritarian where parents establish must to follow rules and regulations for children. The second one been authoritative, where there is a much lenient style compared to authoritarian parenting. The third style is of permissive parenting where parents allow kids to be them, they do not demand the kids to follow strict orders and punish them. Now last but not least is unsolved parenting, where parents do not communicate with their kids at all.
Knowing this types of parenting styles that psychology as establish for us, we could explain parents that the best way to maintain a control on the amount of media and the type of media that they kids obtain is by been a authoritarian parent. From what we have learn in class, authoritative parenting, parents holds the authority, but are tolerant enough to the doubts and questions of their kids. They do not just insist the children to obey blindly, but makes them understand why they obey the rules and regulations. When parents have control on what their kids are watching and the amount of it makes it less likely for them to be victims of subliminal messages. Also when parents spend time watching TV and explain to them what they are watching it makes things clear for kids.
The field of psychology could be used to positively change the world because with it we can change the thinking and the behavior of an individual for the better. We see many people depress or stress because of work that they have or even at school kids might get bully. With psychology there could be a change in the behavior of kids that like to bully around. Also with psychology we could help out people who might have a trauma or fear, for example of heights, with psychology there could be a cure for that and make that person understand what she or he has could be reverse in order for him or her to have a more enjoyable life.
With psychology we can create a better future for new generations because we can shape the way they think to eliminate negative thoughts and convince people for example to recycle and to be more conscious of the actions that are taken that potentially hurt the environment. Global warming, over population and pollution are caused by patterns of human behavior, urgent changes to human lifestyles and cultural practices are required for the world to escape ecological disaster, and psychologists should lead the way in helping people adopt sustainable patterns of living. We could use subliminal messages in the media avenue to be enlisted in the campaign to inform people, motivate them, and accomplish behavior change that will help save the environment. Yet at the same time, we need to reject the media’s constant appeals for consumption, and that is a difficult combination to achieve. Especially establish a good communication with adolescents and kids that are the future of the world.
The major take away that I have from have taken an AP psychology will be to understand myself and who I am as a person and a teenager. I have acquire enough knowledge that has help me rationalize my decisions and understand more clearly the consequences of my actions. Its more that I have become more conscious of the way that I think and how to improve them to get a better result letter on in life. Also it has help me understand more of who my peers are and the ways that they act because now I do not rush to judge them and make assumptions.Its now more clear to me that everyone acts not just because of it but more because they are influence by their environment and the way they have been race by the type of parents they have and their motivation to do stuff. Taking the course has also influence me to want to go to college and minor in the field of psychology because its something really interesting and it could help many people that have problems in their life from a stress to a more serious situation.