Friday, January 14, 2011

Multiple Personalities

When we watched the video about multiple personality disorders I found it hard to believe.  I don't understand how someone can have that many personalities and not understand how they are acting.  Although it's hard for me to believe I still find it interesting.  The thing that makes it so hard for me to believe is how she can act so mature one minute and then change to a 5 year old girl the next minute.  In the video it seemed like it is very dagerous if you have this disorder.  I dont see how her husband could stay with her when she has that many personalities and puts their family in danger.  I am also interested in learning about how to treat this disorder.  It did't cover how to do that in the video.

Friday, January 7, 2011

Conditioning

This week we have learned about classical and conditioning.  One thing that I have been conditioned to do is run.  You could consider it to be a classical conditioning. The UCS would be my brother and sister running in college. The UCR would be me deciding to go out for cross country my freshman year.  The NS could be considered myself doing well in the sport plus having my siblings do it which leads to the UCR of deciding to go out freshman year.  In the end the CS running everyday to do well at the sport and the CR of sticking with running and running almost every day.  This maybe a stretch for classical conditioning but it gives a real life example.  It explains how I have been conditioned to run mostly everyday year round.