Not one person in the world is exactly like the other. How someone perceives the world around them is very different for every person. What they think, feel and how they act in certain situations is never the same. The question is, what influences people to be who they are? Some people believe that the greatest influence is nature, predetermined characteristics that make someone who they are even before they are born. Although, others think that nurture, the environment someone grows up in, has a tremendous impact on who they become. Personally, I believe that both nature and nurture greatly influenced who I am today!.
There are many reasons why I believe that nature greatly impacted what kind of person I am. One of those reasons is my brain hemispheres. I have a very dominant left brain and there are many characteristics that come along with that. Thinking in words, processing language, analyzing problems and ordering things sequentially are a few. I have all of those characteristics and I find that my strengths are in writing, speech and abstract thinking. This definitely impacts what type of person I am because my brain influences how I think, how I feel and my actions in everyday life. The fact that speech is a strength of mine would probably explain why I am extremely talkative and because I think in words may be why my highest marks in school are in English. Being left brain dominant may also influence my learning styles. I am mostly a visual learner but I am somewhat an auditory learner as well. Being a visual learner means that most of the time in order for me to process information and learn things I need to read them or see them down on paper. Although, sometimes I can also learn things by hearing them. By both visually seeing words and hearing them it helps me learn better because I think in words.
Another reason that nature affects the type of person that I am is because of my body type, which is endomorph.
During our first assigned chapter readings I found the reading to be very comprehendible and easy to interpret. The book does give many examples and tries to give scenarios of everyday life. One of the problems I sometimes have is relating the different topics together during class. I wr...
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The formal beginning of psychology has been set in the year 1879, when William Wundt established the first psych lab in Leipzig, Germany. ... Gestalt psych concentrated on how people considered individual elements together as units or wholes. ...
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A complicated piece by Greek Plato, Allegory of the Cave describes the psych of mankind. He describes how humans are like prisoners inside a cave. They are unable to turn their heads, and all they see is the shadow upon a wall. Plato correlates the human general process is to think and speak without...
From: the Cognitive Processes Classes, Fall, 1997 http://fates.cns.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/cognitiv.htm Ellison, Pat. (2000) http://www.maslow.com/ Boeree, George. (1989) http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/rogers.html Robbins, Brent. (1999) http://www.mythosandlogos. ...
An unconditioned response is the automatic behavior caused by the stimulus, which can be physiological or emotional (Ed Psych Modules, Bohlin). ... Instead of only being afraid of rats, Albert became afraid of mice, white rabbits, and other similar things that resembled the white rat (Ed Psych Modules, Bohlin). ...
Title of Work: One Flew Over the Cuckoo' Nest Author: Ken Kesey Date of Publication: 1962 Genre: Physcological, character, fictional Writing Style: Stream of consciousness, innovative, descriptive Point of View: Chief Bromden, observance is key, combine, foggy Setting/Atmosphere: Oregon, psych hospital, post-war era, 1950's Plot Development: Part 1- Chief Broom, combine, longest residing patient, new admission McMurphy, M brings trouble to ward, fields...