SERIAL KILLER PROJECT: MARY ANN COTTON Mary Ann Cotton was born on October 31, 1832 and died/executed in March 24, 1873. Mary Ann didn’t have much of a stable childhood. When she was eight her family moved to the county of Durham Village of Murton. She had some difficulties making friend in the new place she was in.
David Eagleman’s Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain is a book about the depths of the brain and how one’s conscience affects him daily. Through this work, Eagleman discusses how the mind drives people to act on certain behaviors. Eagleman further proves through practical facts that there is a significant association with the conscious and subconscious mind. Eagleman shows with scientific credibility, metaphors, and rhetorical questions that people should be able to trust their senses.
Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken with “10 Cloverfield Lane” was a similar movie sci-fi hit movie “Cloverfield”. It all starts off with Michelle drive away from her ex-husband till she gets into a car accident and which she awakens to shackle and an IV into her arm while she’s held captive in a bunker by two men, who claims that the outside world is affected by a chemical mass attack. This apocalypse thriller movie about a possible attack was okay a plot and had its own nerve wrecking scenes. This movie was definitely exhilarating to watch. The title brought back memories about “Cloverfield” which seemed to be a sequel which it wasn’t.
Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking is a book detailing what happens in a person’s brain as they make split-second decisions and judgements, and how they are not nearly as simple as they seem. Gladwell’s second book contains stories of several researchers, psychologists, and businesses, including John Gottman, a psychologist who has learned to determine whether a marriage will fail or survive in the next fifteen years after a mere thirty minutes of observation, and researcher Paul Ekman, who has spent years of his life dedicated to the art of “mind reading,” which is actually called thin slicing. Using this method, he takes what are called micro expressions and then is able to predict what a person is thinking or feeling. Gladwell’s book offered a plethora of interesting information on psychology.
The psychologist I focused on was Dr. Martha Bernal who was the first Latina to ever receive a Ph.D. in Psychology in the United States of America. Her most significant contribution was to the uprising advance of ethnic minority psychology which is still used to this day in the psychology world. I am writing her biography to give an understanding of her impact in psychology. Martha Bernal was born in San Antonio, Texas on April 13th, 1931. Both of her parents migrated from Mexico to the United States.
Qualia are perceptual subjective experiences that vary widely in character, such as touching sandpaper or seeing the color blue. Jackson’s “The Knowledge Argument” about qualia challenges physicalism by arguing that these conscious and unique experiences have non-physical features. His example of Mary the Scientist refutes the statement that everything is just physical, nothing more. Prior to Mary’s release she knew everything physical about color, but when she was released she learned about other people’s color experience. She has important discoveries of seeing the flowers being red and grass being green, which she did not seem to know before.
Eventually the suppression of the inner self builds a desire to express the individual’s true feelings. The urge to express oneself is at its core, a right, and is not unlike one of the most
Mary Whiton Calkins was a famous psychologist who is well-known for her research in self-psychology. Calkins described the conscious self is fundamental to understand other forms of psychology. She also mentioned that self is the center of all types of relationships we make to ourselves and the physical world. Many psychologist have argued whether self has a body or it is different from the body. In addition, Calkins also considered self as an essential part of our body but she believed self does not consist in the body.
There is no place for introspection, only a wild and effervescent fascination with one’s
The computational representational theory of the mind (CRUM) is a theory devised to model the complexities of the human mind in cognitive science. Human thought processes have been simplified by thinking about abstract thought processes in terms of concrete computational procedures (Thagard, 11). CRUM theory surmises that thinking is the result of the application of operations to mental representations (Thagard, 11). Recent literature suggests our emotions are intrinsically tied to cognitive processes (Dalgleish and Power, 1999). Emotions are influential factors that affect mental representations such as concepts, analogies and imagery in cognitive science.
These emotions cannot develop prior to this point because a sense of self must first be cultivated for higher order social emotions to build upon. In his experiment, Lewis marked children’s noses with a touch of rouge and put them in front of a mirror. If the child has formed a self-construct, they will identify that something is odd about their appearance and will express embarrassment. If the child has not yet developed a self-construct, the altered appearance will go unnoticed. Lewis (as cited in Hakim-Larson, 2018), also states that meta-awareness of our own reflection is required to engage in emotional experiences with others.
There is only one approach in psychology that studies thoughts, feelings and behaviour. The biological approach believes that the way we are is due to our genetics and physiology. They believe that the activity going on our nervous system’s is what affects the way we think, feel and behave (Sammons, 2009). The physiology in the biological approach looks into how the brain functions. The brain is a very complicated machine as such, the brain is what controls our every move, every feeling and every action.
However, due to the limitation of skills, most of the researches done are not well designed. A main limitation of psychology as a field of study is that it never captures the nature of consciousness (Willig, 2013), as human mind is bound up with meanings and interpretations which differ from one individual to another
“An individual perception of self, of body image, of time, of space influences the way he or she responds to object and events in his/her life. As individuals grow and develop through the lifespan, experiences with changes in structure and function, of their bodies over time influence their perceptions of self” (King, 1981, p. 19). These concepts give us the basis for understanding how individuals are personal systems. Perception, is “A process of organizing, interpreting, and transforming information from sense data and memory” (King, 1981, p. 24).
The traditional Western approach to modern psychology draws a sharp distinction between the knowing subject and the object of his or her knowledge. The knowing subject is stripped of particularities such as culture, race, gender, position and his or her existence in time and space. • Assumes psychic unity and sees the self as an independent individual or self-contained. Psychic unity refers to the assumption that all human beings are the same. It signifies that there are universal and underlying psychological processes that are deep-rooted in all individuals.
