Perceptions In Psychology

The scientific endeavor helps us become more educated citizens so that we are able to approach data presented by political candidates with a healthy dose of skepticism by providing them with the tools needed. Critical thinking skills are important to have when viewing any new data in order to really understand the date presented, instead of just trusting the biased opinion of the one presenting the data. In chapter 1 of Psychology: Core Concepts, it provides a list of six critical thinking skills that are based on six specific questions.

A person’s name is their most important characteristic and is often comprised of hidden significance and centurial “hand-me-downs”. When I was assigned to research my name, I had never thought of the importance of the name my parents had given me. As a child, I always found it annoying when my peers turned to snicker at me each time our church’s music minister asked for the congregation to stand and sing “Amazing Grace.” Each time I heard the song “Mary Had a Little Lamb”, there was always someone near to ask, “Hey, where is your lamb?” After conducting research, though, I began to find little things that made me more appreciative of my name.

Each of these texts all highlight the importance of identity and names, and how having a name that doesn’t fit European standards can make life in our society much harder. When your name doesn’t fit the European standards it can be harder to get a job, and you become more vulnerable for bullying. Some also allude to the idea that a name is something you must identify with as well, and that it’s a piece of you.

I have normally regarded my name as simply boring. Samuel is easily pronounced, easily shortened, and incredibly ordinary. I understand my name holds sentimental value to those closest to me and I do identify with some of the characteristics embedded within it. While I know that names do not define personality, I cannot help but to find annoyance within multiple aspects of my birth-given label.Weirdly enough, I know my name fits me because no matter how hard I have tried, I cannot imagine being referred to as anything other than “Sam”.

Most people will agree that a name is a very important identity for a person. Beautiful names are usually given to lovely babies. Unpleasant names, however, are often criticized as bad images for people having them. Many children with “ugly” names face discrimination at school and are isolated or beaten by other children. People may wonder why parents can give that kind of “ugly” names to their children while other parents give their children nice and wonderful names. In fact, there are many factors that affect how parents will name their children, and the three main factors are culture, convenience, and socioeconomic status.

3. The audience of this essay is the readers of the website Slate.com and followers of Freakonomics. Another, although not direct, audience of this essay is readers of the book Convergences. The purpose of this essay is to inform on how names trend and move through society, by analysing popular baby names amongst different groups of people. The context of this essay is the book, Freakonomics, written by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. They analyze data to understand how the world works. They probably wondered why baby names trend, so they analyzed data to find the answer.

The author makes a choice of giving questions at the beginning of the article. The questions ask if the readers have thought about other people who have the same name as themselves. And then, the author leads readers to the main thesis of the article – “names have their own extraordinary backstories that are

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for themselves, there are also names that others create for them, such as stereotypes that can in many instances

Daniel Kahneman’s aim in this book is to make psychology, perception easy for the people to grasp. This book is mainly discussing the issues related to the assumptions, we human’s make without thinking through carefully. Daniel really does a great job discussing the problems due to human irrationality.

Is there a “personality tag” for each child, depending on their birth order? Does the family size, or even the parents’ life styles, affect anything? Birth order is more than just an old wives’ tale about predicting the personalities of each child in every family. “Birth order, put in its proper context, is a key that can unlock personalities and give you a new perspective on human nature.” (First- born?,1). Every child of every family has a personality tag, just because of their spot on the immediate family tree. Family size and birth order are factors that make the “personality tag” for the first born, middle child, last born, and only child of each family.

Why do we use names? Why do all of us have our own names? Do we create names just because we want to identify ourselves conveniently? Names are one of the most common thing we use in our daily life. There is no doubt we need to use names to refer to someone. If we do not use names, it would be very difficult for us to know if we are talking about the same person. For teachers, they check every student’s attendance by calling his or her names. For writers, they use names to represent characters. For all of us, we use names to label someone’s contact information on our phones. Some people think that names are just tags. However, sometimes we can infer some information about a person from his name. In most cases, people don’t come up with names

In Psychology 101, our content had five psychological perceptive: biological, cognitive, developmental, social and scientist/PR actioner. By learning the content through different psychology perspectives, I acquired new knowledge and gained an unexpected way of thinking.

Gender role is created by our society. It is how we perceive a man and a woman should behave like, for example, if you are a woman, you should cook and clean and stay at home; whereas, if you are a man, you should go to work and be strong and 'protect' your wife and kids. Gender role is basically how we stereotype how an ideal man or woman should be like.

2. How did Nigerian military dictator Sani Abacha violate the property rights of the people of Nigeria? What were some of the results of this public action violation?