unconditional stimulus: cool guy
conditioned stimulus: camel cigarettes
Unconditioned response: you will look as fly as this guy
conditional response: you will want the smoky treat

 I’m going to use teaching Kourtney how to shoot a rifle for example. She had never shot a gun before so I decided to teach her how. First I showed her how the rifle functioned. It was a break action single shot 22. First I said point it in a safe direction. I told her to look down the sights and put the front sight level with the top of the rear sight.  I showed her how to open the breach, insert a shell, cock the hammer and put it on safety.  Then I said shoulder the gun with a firm grip and put your weight on your front foot. Then I said take it off safety and slowly pull the trigger but take your time. She hit the bottle and I was pretty proud.

Article 1. Nasal spray with insulin equivalent shows promise as treatment for adults with mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s dementia

1. A drug containing insulin was tested that helped improve memory.
2. 60 adults
3. 40 were given a higher does than the other 20
4. They had to have short term memory loss.
5.  Used a nasal spray containing insulin to improve the subjects memory
6. The forty that received higher doses reacted to the drug better.
7. Yes

Article 2.

1. Marijuana’s effect on children with epilepsy.
2. 58 kids around the age of seven
3. No
4. They had to experience severe seizures
5. Gave children cannabis to try to reduce seizures
6. Results vary between studies. Some saw elimination of seizures and for some seizures got worse
7. No

Article 3. Biological basis for magic mushroom 'mind expansion' discovered

1. How the affects of shrooms are similar to dreaming
2. 15
3. They were tested twice once with the drug and  once with a fake drug.
4. Volunteer
5. Gave them shrooms to see how their brains reacted
6. Showed that the brain displays similar patterns when on shrooms when dreaming.
7. Yes

intro to psychology

1. Pissed
2. Delicious
3. My free time
4. Stress
5. Some sort of technician
6. army recruiter
7. Understanding, open, nonconformist 

I believe psychology will be a very interesting subject to start studying. The human mind fascinates me. It’s very complex and what comes from it is almost endless. I’d also like to know the reasons behind people’s choices and actions.  It’s interesting to think that minuet things can affect a person’s personality. I want to learn how environments can affect the way they act. I believe this class will help me better understand the human mind and people in general. And honestly its going to be fun to learn how to mess with people’s minds a manipulate them. I think what I learn in this class will help me in life in and after highschool.

Ebola Blog

I have learned a lot from the project we have just completed on Ebola.  I have learned the diseases hosts, why it thrives in its current environment, and how it is transmitted. Some of the more shocking things that come to mind is that the Ebola has mutated over three hundred times since it has started infecting regions in Africa this year.  I personally am not going to worry about the virus until it mutates into an airborne virus. Another thing that is disheartening about the current situation is the sheer amount of funding that it would take to make a half decent plan to contain this if it were to become more contagious. Reports in the news claim that countries surrounding the infected regions are free of the virus. I think this is mainly because the transmission is not nearly fast enough to cross borders at a dangerous rate, so they have more time to prepare for the coming virus.

                Disease is yet another topic that can closely relate to globalization. Infectious diseases throughout history have affected people on an international scale and it will continue to do so in the future. Some infectious diseases that have had an international impact are the Spanish flu and aids. I think preventing these diseases and developing these vaccines for these diseases is extremely important. I think its also important for countries to work together to develop a cure. I think it would give our world a sense of unity. These are the kinds of things we need to work together on because it has the potential to affect us all.

1.  It shocks me how much this activity has risen in the past 15 years.
2. It’s hard to imagine that one industry can afford to give all this money.
3. Pharmaceutical companies spent over 120mil on this.
4. Most of the money they give is going to republicans
5. Mitch McConnell a senior republican basically opposes everything Obama does and he receives the most money from healthcare companies to campaign.
6. McConnell’s interests have also dramatically changed since he has become senator.
7.    His is strongly against Obamacare and openly speaks against it.
8. Cooperative of American physicians gives the most money but only spends 1.9% on GOP.
9. Health care companies spend a good chunk of money on democrats, who support the affordable care act and Obama care.
10. Ed Markey is the democrat that receives the most from healthcare companies actually votes in favor of the affordable care act

$icko

                I believe Michael Moore’s documentary sicko really sheds light on the down falls of our current health care and shows the good things about free healthcare, something our media doesn’t tell us very often. I personally have never heard anything positive about free or generalized healthcare before I watched this movie. I got my information from what I heard on the news. I heard people call it the first step to socialism and I believed that for a long time, but now I’m not so sure. I believe we should help our citizens not ignore their needs and wellbeing. This documentary made me angry I’m not going to lie. I was frustrated. I was thinking how we can let these things happen to our own citizens. But then I sat back and thought a second. It’s all about greed. Those insurance and pharmaceutical countries don’t care who they hurt they’re just in it for the money. And if anybody tries to stop there so cleverly devised plan they will just use all the money they saved by killing people instead providing them care and pay off some ridiculously corrupt congressmen to propose some law to make their greed justified.  So yeah it’s a greed thing. I do know that Moore’s documentary is one sided and it was his mission to make me upset about our current healthcare system so I would like to look into this more to establish a more concrete opinion.