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Summarization of My Introduction to Psychology.

Below is the paper I turned in this semester for my introduction to psychology. Please feel free to comment! I know my formatting and grammar aren't perfect and it only helps to have people nit pick it! I have the Drive link up so people can comment on specifics if they like. Thanks! Summarization of My Introduction to Psychology. Nicholas S.J. Southern Maine Community College - Department of Psychology Abstract During my semester of Intro to Psychology I have learned a lot to positively affect my life as a student, husband, and person. Some of these things have been more profound than others. Of all the information we went over this semester the things that have stuck with me most are memory, health psychology, and motivation.      “the scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behaviour in a given context”. (psychology, 2013) is the definition of psychology according to Oxford Dictionary. Psycho...

creativity has a half-life.

Remember when you were one? Me nether... i do remember being seven and climbing mt. everest with my five year old sister. just as we got to the top an avalanche started! out of nowhere mum showed up in a helicopter and told us to get off the top of the couch and put the pillows and blankets back on the couch... whatever she ment by that... when I was ten I created the first completely self aware machine out of my Lego robotics set, I won the Nobel prize for being a genius and engineering and robot making. It was a good year... until my robot couldn't take all the fame and jumped off the table, I couldn't save him. At fourteen three major event started, puberty, I started raiding tombs... and her... Lara croft... the only other person as good looking and gifted in all things awesome as myself... it was made to be... then some big hole showed up and tricked her into running away him, now they traffic children into the United States. Today I was on blackboard working o...

Psych 101 and the art of making numbers into letters.

Thus begins my senior year in high school. First off I'm starting with psychology and algebra. Nether of which I'm excited for, but like everything else in life I'll give it 100%. I'm more concerned for psychology then algebra, from last semester I heard it's more writing intensive. I'm not a bad writer, just a slow one. Even this small post has taken me almost ten minutes... now imagine having to produce ten full pages of academic grade material about how peoples minds work.... it's a daunting task for for me, algebra is simply trial and error, I get it wrong, learn from the mistakes and then I move on to the next objective. But now it's time for coffee, reading, thinking, more coffee, analizing, contemplating, even more coffee, letters with identity problems, and then finally caffeine jitters before bed.