a beautiful mind

this week we watched a movie called a beautiful mind. I thought this was an extremely movie just because it was based off of something that actually happend to someone in real life. The movie really touched me in the sence that there are people with mental problems that are able to admit they have mental problems, and it ultimately ruins their life. Someotimes these people arent able to totally function in society and it ruins their quality of life. This movie really showed me what it would be like to be someone with that condition, and I am very thankful for being as healthy as i possibly could be. feel free to comment your thoughts about this movie as well.

pavlov

This week we learned alot on how learning occurs. I thought that Ivan Pavlov was an extremely smart person. His classical conditioning and experiments that delt with classical conditioning were pretty amazing. I think that he was a psychologist that helped out a large amount in the area of psychology. Afterall we wouldnt be taught about him in school today if he wasnt a very important person would we? I found a video of one of pavlovs experiments online. This particular experiment was the one that pavlov did with the dogs and measuring the amount saliva they produce when presented food. Check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhqumfpxuzI