The cognitive dissonance theory was proposed by leon festinger. It says that we often bring our attitudes into line with our actions. The video i watched not only gave an experiment on cognitive dissonance it also refreshed my memory on a few other psychological terms. They created an experiment where some subjects played a very boring and tedious game. At the end of the experiment they spilt the people up in half and gave one group of the 20 dollars for telling the next patients that the game and experiment was fun and not boring. They gave the other half only one dollar for doing the same thing. The purpose of this was to see if the patient would lie and say the game was fun, not only if they would lie but if they would actually believe their lie and get into it by making up a story and justifying their reason why the game was fun. It is like cognitive dissonance because if we say something that we don't believe then we may actually start believing what we say (bringing our attitudes into line with our actions).
The results of the experiment were the opposite of what i thought. When the people were interviewed later, it said that the people that were paid less believed their lies more. They believed the game was more fun that it actually was to them at the time. They said this is true because people love things more when they have to suffer from them. I thought the people who were paid more would actually start to believe their lie because they had a bigger external motivation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=korGK0yGIDo
Friday, April 29, 2011
Friday, April 22, 2011
writing about the glog.
What is really scary with schizophrenia is that if someone in your family has it the chances increase by a lot. The normal statistics are about 1 in 100 people get this disorder, but if you brother, mother, or dad has it etc. the chances of you getting it increases to 1 in 10. Also schizophrenia doesn't usually become evident or you don't get it until you are about 20. So you could be a completely normal child and teen and then it could develop. There are also two types of schizophrenia. One that is called positive and another called negative. Positive is by far the worst one to have. Not only does it have severe symptoms but it is hard to cure or to lessen symptoms. Some of the symptoms that accompany positive schizophrenia are delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized speech and behavior. Symptoms that are with negative schizophrenia are lack of emotion, speech, and motivation. Lastly, i learned that some causes of schizophrenia would be brain abnormalities, dopamine overactivity, and a virus during mid pregnancy.
For schizophrenia the main treatment option would be antipsychotics not psychotherapy. However, group therapies can help a person with schizophrenia in many ways. Group therapy focuses on the problems and relationships of their clients. It is a social experience where people with similar problems meet to talk about their issues and receive feedback as they try out new ways of behaving. In one group therapy session they might talk about a problem they each have run into in the past week they would give each other advice and the person running the session will contribute as well. Group therapy can help decrease the social isolation of some of the people that attend. Also more importantly it is a relief to find that you are not alone if you have this disorder, many patients learn that others, despite their apparent composure, share the problem of schizophrenia.
Like i mentioned before the main treatment option for people with schizophrenia are antipsychotics. Antipsychotic drugs dampened responsiveness to irrelevant stimuli, and for people with schizophrenia they lessen the positive symptoms of schizophrenia, such as auditory hallucinations and paranoia. The molecules of antipsychotics are like those of the neurotransmitter dopamine, they occupy its receptor sites and block its activity. People with negative symptoms of schizophrenia respond less well to antispychotic drugs. However, there are newer atypical anitpsychotics, that target dopamine and serotonin receptors. This then helps alleviate their symptoms sometimes awakenings these individuals that are withdrawn. Some side effects of antipsychotics are sluggishness, tremors, and twitches, which may be because of too little dopamine in the body. Also if someone is on them for too long they may produce tardive dyskinesia which is involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs. Even with those side effects antipsychotics helps people with schizophrenia immensely. In combination with therapies a person in a mental hospital may return to live near-normal lives.
For schizophrenia the main treatment option would be antipsychotics not psychotherapy. However, group therapies can help a person with schizophrenia in many ways. Group therapy focuses on the problems and relationships of their clients. It is a social experience where people with similar problems meet to talk about their issues and receive feedback as they try out new ways of behaving. In one group therapy session they might talk about a problem they each have run into in the past week they would give each other advice and the person running the session will contribute as well. Group therapy can help decrease the social isolation of some of the people that attend. Also more importantly it is a relief to find that you are not alone if you have this disorder, many patients learn that others, despite their apparent composure, share the problem of schizophrenia.
Like i mentioned before the main treatment option for people with schizophrenia are antipsychotics. Antipsychotic drugs dampened responsiveness to irrelevant stimuli, and for people with schizophrenia they lessen the positive symptoms of schizophrenia, such as auditory hallucinations and paranoia. The molecules of antipsychotics are like those of the neurotransmitter dopamine, they occupy its receptor sites and block its activity. People with negative symptoms of schizophrenia respond less well to antispychotic drugs. However, there are newer atypical anitpsychotics, that target dopamine and serotonin receptors. This then helps alleviate their symptoms sometimes awakenings these individuals that are withdrawn. Some side effects of antipsychotics are sluggishness, tremors, and twitches, which may be because of too little dopamine in the body. Also if someone is on them for too long they may produce tardive dyskinesia which is involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs. Even with those side effects antipsychotics helps people with schizophrenia immensely. In combination with therapies a person in a mental hospital may return to live near-normal lives.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Living with Schizophrenia
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/politics/2011/01/16/sotu.01.16.frese.earley.cnn.html
I picked to do this blog on schizophrenia because it is the most interesting disorder to me. I don't understand how this happens to people, it just seems like a very peculiar disorder. I feel like i would be extremely scared if that ever happened to me and i don't know how i would handle it if someone in my family or one of my friends got this disorder.
The news report talked about how difficult it is to live with someone that has schizophrenia. How there are levels of how "difficult" the disorder is or how "normal" the people are. One of the mans child has schizophrenia and he said sometimes he has very good days and other times it is very difficult to live with. They also talked about how difficult it is to find funding for more research. The article was very new also so it is a recent problem. It is also hard to find a good doctor to help you if you have schizophrenia because many of them wait until it is at its worst and don't do anything if the person with the disorder isn't being a hazard to themselves or someone else. This seems very wrong but i guess when i think about it, it is a little typical because if the person didn't have a lot of money i could see how some doctors would be hesitant or less willing to help them deal with the disorder. I'm still just very curious on how someone gets this disorder, because genes and the environment, which they say may be the cause, seems like a weird cause to me.
The news report talked about how difficult it is to live with someone that has schizophrenia. How there are levels of how "difficult" the disorder is or how "normal" the people are. One of the mans child has schizophrenia and he said sometimes he has very good days and other times it is very difficult to live with. They also talked about how difficult it is to find funding for more research. The article was very new also so it is a recent problem. It is also hard to find a good doctor to help you if you have schizophrenia because many of them wait until it is at its worst and don't do anything if the person with the disorder isn't being a hazard to themselves or someone else. This seems very wrong but i guess when i think about it, it is a little typical because if the person didn't have a lot of money i could see how some doctors would be hesitant or less willing to help them deal with the disorder. I'm still just very curious on how someone gets this disorder, because genes and the environment, which they say may be the cause, seems like a weird cause to me.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Achievement
Without motivation nothing would get done and nobody would even care. For me i occasionally find myself unmotivated, especially in school and sports. Sometimes i am just tired and don't really want to try. Sometimes i have to force myself to become motivated. I usually do this by telling myself things like.. "the sooner i get this done the sooner its over" or "it will raise my grade if i do a good job on this". In sports it seems like sometimes i do better when my family or friends are watching me. That is probably because i want to impress them. It is pretty much like an extrinsic motivation because i am not doing it completely for myself. But other times i am motivated on my own because inside i really want to succede or i am having fun doing somthing. I think achievement motivation can change as you age. Because as a freshmen i had much less motivation than i do now. When faced with a tough assignement i would find myself doing the bare minimum just to get a B or C and be done with it. But now i always try and get an A because inside i want to do as best as i can. Also now when i get a bad grade i am much harder on myself, before i would just let it go and forget about it. I also find myself more motivated when i have really smart students in a class with me because i want to try and do as good as them. Now one of the my biggest n-Ach's is probably intrinsic motivation and feedback. My parents don't really force me to do anything because they know i will do it myself. I almost always perform better when i get positive feedback, because then that encourages me, negative feedback usually brings me down. When i get positive feedback i usually try harder and want to achieve more.
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