Summary: Stress

Every person can experience stressful situations in lifetime and feel stress in various situations. For every person stress is different but coping with it is almost the same. People use some kind of techniques that can be helpful but as people are different the ways of coping with stress are varying.

Techniques of reducing stress are common and uncommon. Common techniques are going for a walk, listening to the music, laying in bed or on the beach and listening or watching waves, music listening. These ways do not require much energy or thinking. They are more relied on time. Uncommon techniques are cooking, domestic tasks, gardening, writing, various sports and yoga. These kinds of relaxing require more energy. Activities replace bad minds and a person thinks only about a current task.

All techniques are useful and help to cope with stress but the most important thing is a person. Individual choice and personality type can help to find the most relaxing activity and reduce stress by makeup pleasant activities.



According to handout.

Short talk: Psychology of Creativity

• Creativity  - process of generating novel ideas and is a basic force for all inventions.
• Creativity process involves seeing new relations between concepts and things and determine unique solutions to problems.
• Marked by traits of originality, nonconformity, high levels of knowledge.
• Psychologists have tried to explain creativity with many theories. They included behavioristic, psychoanalytical, social and personality theories of creativity.
• Creativity is related with mental disorders, some kinds of schizophrenia and other mental disorders.

Short talk: Multiple Intelligences [main points]

My test results :)

Points:

1. What is multiple intelligences test?
2. Scores
3. Agreee/ disagree
4. Conclusion

• Gardner's test in which are 8 different types of intelligence.

• I have highest scores in Musical smart and Nature smart. I can play guitar, piano, violin, sax quite good, my score in this type of intelligence is 25. Also I love nature, there I can relax, feel myself comfortable, here my score is 21.
• Lowest score I have in Linguistic (word smart). Here my score is only 11. It shows that I can't express myself in words very well.
• I have the same score in Logical, Intrapersonal, visual/spatial intelligences. It's 14. Logical intelligence means numbers art  in another words, intrapersonal  - myself smart, visual - picture smart.

• I agree with results about Music, Nature and Word smart and disagree about Interpersonal intelligence 'cause there score is 18,  and I  think that I  know myself better than others. Also I disagree with results about Body smart - I don't like sports and things like that, I don't think that I can express myself with my body as well. And Picture smart - I like to paint, my skills there are also good.

• It's really hard for me to express myself  in words, it's hard for me to explain something that I know or simply to say something what I am thinking about. 

Test: http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/index.htm

Short talk: Psychology of Internet

With the advance of computers and online networks, especially Internet, new dimension of human experience is rapidly opening up. The experience created by computers and computer networks in many ways can be understood as psychological “space” or “place”. Then users power up their computers, launch programs, write e-mails or doing something like that, they feel, consciously or unconsciously, that they are entering “place” or “space” filled with a wide array of meanings and purposes. Also browsing can be described as “traveling” or “going someplace”.

On the even deeper psychological level users often describe how their computer is an extension of their minds and personality, a space that reflects their tastes, attitudes and interests. When users read e-mails, newsgroup or chat messages some people feel as if their mind is merged or blended with that of the other.

Internet is wide open for all sorts of fantasies. People use this psychological space to simply went or act out their fantasies, frustrations, anxieties and desires that fuel those fantasies.

Summary: You Are How You Wait: Queue Psychology

Queuing began during World War I and passed all over the world. Since then common kinds of lines in Europe were called "multi - server" queues, but later lots of companies switched over to "snake - line" queues. In comparison between them, better is "multi - server" queue.

According to Jacob Horwik, thinking about how long one has to wait in queue makes time go more slower. It was timed and results showed that people thought that they were waiting up to 30 percent longer than it really was.

This experiment can also be used to mislead people. That's why some companies started doing treats like parking airplanes on the other side of terminal. This stopped complains.

One of things that people don't take kindly is queue jumping. In all sorts of lines people better will wait longer if there's no "queue jumpers".

My Future Profession

Hey, it's my first entery here. I was told to write this, and for real I'm not sure what would be the best to write about my future... And...  I'm not sure why exactly psychology. It was not something for what I was dreaming about or interested for a long time. It came itself from childhood I think. Like "Why parents are talking to me like that?", or that - "Why friends are doing things, which are not accepted for me?", "How does everything works in our heads?" and so on...

For now on I like my studies, but I'm still not sure what will be in future, which branch of Psychology I'll choose and so on. But if everything will be all right, I have plans to study abroad. And then maybe stay to live and work there.

So, as You can see, it's really hard to say something now, when everything is new for me...