PSA videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Pw-D6AeX8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL9nuzWy5mo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/user/appsychology1023?feature=mhum#p/u/9/1JRxprSpJzI

All of the videos I watched were really good, and had different ways of making Ashwaubenon look very good. Katie, Kirby, and Alisa's video was really cool because they made up a story line, and put their characters into the story. They didn't make it obvious that they were trying to "sell" Ashwaubenon to the watcher, and made it interesting, and got their point across. I also really enjoyed Becky, Marin and Chloe's blog because they used different accents and acted out their story. Both of these videos were well put together, and made interesting so that people would really see how Ashwaubenon is. I believe that they could draw the watcher into wanting to move to our city.

Sensessssssssssssssssss!!

Today in class we went through stations that showed us different things about our 5 senses, and tied everything together with what we read in the book. One of the stations was a jelly bean station. What you had to do was eat a jelly bean, and guess what kind it was. But every other time you had to plug your nose. The experiment was showing us that your nose is connected with your sense of taste. When our nose was plugged we couldn't taste what flavor jelly bean we were eating.

I began to think about real life situations, and being sick came to mind. When you have a cold, and your nose is stuffy, it's really hard to taste the food your eating. The relationship between your nose being unplugged, and your sense of taste is so close together, that it causes you not to be able to taste your food. This had never occured to me before I started talking AP Psych.

Ice Cube Addiction

Nobody really asked me about why i was getting ice cubes for everything I was drinking, and the only person who asked me about my braclet was Dreier, and he already knew about the assignment. It was really hard getting ice cubes, and drinking it with everything though. Especially since when I drink bottled soda and water, so I had to get a cup from Quizno's next door and get ice from them. They never asked me questions about it though, so maybe it's normal that people just eat ice? I don't know. It became a habit getting putting ice in all of my drinks, and I usually don't use ice in anything. So, I can see how things can become addicting, I can't imagine how much worse it would be if it was a real drug. Like I said, nobody really asked me about the ice, or said anything about an attitude change. But I could definitely see, from my own point of view, how parents would be concerned for their kids who are doing real drugs, and how they wouldnt know how to handle it. I've seen people who do drugs, and all the lies that they have to tell, and how they become a totally different person, and it would be nerve racking as a parent having to deal with that.

DAILY LOG -
Wednesday: I work tonight. I usually drink bottled soda, but I'm sure they would give me a cup if i asked them for one. Amanda usually just gets ice in a cup, I don't know why, but I'm sure they won't question me.
Wednesday (bedtime): I got a glass of water, and put ice in it instead of taking up a bottle of water.
Wednesday (3AM): I cheated, I didn't get up and get more ice. :(
Thursday (wakeup): All my ice melted over the night, so I'll have to get a new glass of water and ice to take my medicine. Hopefully Jen doesn't notice, because she will think it's really weird.
Thursday (school): I didn't drink anything today, not even for lunch. I forgot my ice. I was going crazy because I was so thirsty.
Thursday (work): Good thing the Quizno's workers are used to me, otherwise they would think I'm weird. I got a cup today instead of getting a bottle of soda, this way I can get 89 cent refills too!
Thursday (bedtime): I got my glass of water and ice. I filled up the ice tray for in the morning. This is getting easier as the day goes on.
Thursday (around midnight): All my ice has melted, I'm dying of thirst. I have to run down and get some more, so I can drink my water. What a hassle.
Friday (morning): Good thing I filled up the ice. Jen is upstairs getting ready, and Billie is in the shower, so nobody will know that I'm getting ice again. We got chocolate milk last night, so I'm having a glass of chocolate milk and water. Hopefully it doesn't get too watery.
Friday (school): I brought enough ice for lunch. The guys looked at me weird, but never asked what I was doing. I just told them that I wanted it colder, and they believed me. I'm going to have to think of different lies if I'm going to keep this up.

Change Blindness!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAnKvo-fPs0

In this youtube video, people are signing this consent form and then getting a pamphlet. The guy behind the counter, who gives the person the consent form, then bends down, to put the signed consent form away. There is another guy waiting where nobody can see him behind the table, and as the first guy bends down, that guy stands up and hands them the pamphlet. The people being experimented on don't notice the change from one guy to the next. This is known as change blindness; failing to notice changes in the environment you are in.

We read about change blindness in our books, and watched two videos on the different blindness' people have. Some examples are change blindness, change deafness, choice blindness, and inattentional blindness. Each of these things happens everyday to people. Another example of change blindness is watching a movie, and only noticing the "important parts", but as you watch the movie over and over, you notice the littler things that you didn't notice before.