Pychology's Phsychology

In this semester of my Psy 1110 class, I am learning all sorts of new things. I took basic Psychology my sophomore year of high school so I have a little foundation of information to help me succeed in college psychology. I am so thankful I did take it in high school. Had I not taken it, I would be very lost now because the basic material is to be assumed. Translation: college psych assumes you know the basic things. Furthermore, I am learning about a very interesting subject: learning. Actually, we learned about it last week. We learned that there are different types of learning. For example, one can be conditioned to learn. Pavlov's dog experiment is very popular and well-known. Pavlov conditioned a dog to salivate to the sound of a bell. He did this by feeding the dog when a bell chimed, thus the dog began to salivate in preparing to eat his meal. Eventually, the dog associated the sound of a bell with eating so he salivated. Pavlov then removed the food as the stimulus to further prove he had conditioned the dog. This is an incredible discovery of man because you cannot tell animals how to act as easily as you can tell a human. The dog's response was involuntary which makes this experiment even more incredible. 

Another intriguing topic I've learned in my class is that of neural reception. It is indeed random but I think it related to the every day teens in society now days. In the first chapter of my book, there is a young lady that has multiple ear piercings. This is popular among young folks, I believe. I myself has a few extra ear piercings. They look really good in my opinion. However, this girl's piercings were excessive. The caption below her picture read that sensory adaptation allows one to ignore the constant, unchanging feeling in the ear from all the rings and metals. This concept just blew my mind. Who knew that our bodies automatically know what to do? I absolutely love learning these new things. It makes all the hard work and late nights worthwhile.