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Optimistic. Sometimes can be negative but doesn't usually last very long. Tomorrow is always a new day.

Cognitive psych, I'll private pm you and help you.

That's weird here tax is already printed on the total book price. Hey don't worry about it, that's when you go back next week after getting paid and buy the book. If it's the same guy they'll probably be like 'oh......' If it's not, well you got ur book.

A lot of public, motivational and guest speakers use that approach, actually. Perhaps you might like to find out why that is? If you get stuck let me know.

My ex and I when I was younger had a really bad break up, we were both sharing the rent of the property. I asked him to just take me to my aunt's house and he could keep the furniture, i'd buy a plane ticket and just go home and we never had to speak to each other again. He wouldn't even drive me. He thought he would be clever to call the police and ask them to remove me from 'his' property. Myself being tired of all the yelling and just wanting to get the hell out of there. The police knocked on the door, and I came straight out and smiled and said howÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢s it going officer? When can we leave? He was really surprised! I said by the way officer; he has pills in the top cupboard and is planning to sell them. (I had no part in it, I found them and that's why we were arguing and broke up). The look on my ex's face was priceless. I got a free ride to my aunties house on the other side of the city and he busted his own [wagon] in the process. He had totally forgotten that side of the ring.

That's very Freudian, I guess these categories need to be named for diagnostic purposes, I suppose. What's up with all the "I'm doing a psychology course" posts lately? You're making the assumption that we can study psychology empirically and is quantifiable in diagnostic manuals. I find it rather odd that you can categorise the human mind so simply. Death, It's just something I'm passionate about and like to share with other people who may also be interested in it. It appears that you are interested in it or you would not have read it or clicked on my post, agree? I'm sure there has been times when you have clicked on a topic or contributed to it in some way because you have information you can share, yeah? I apologise, perhaps what I typed is not clear enough for you, yes? There is an indeed broader field and I'm not categorising the human mind at all. It is actually the APA that has limited the categories to a smaller field. You do have an interesting point, however not one I can answer for you. Perhaps you should write to them and ask them, yes? I'm sure we have all had times where we have questioned sources; however just learn it because that is what is acquired of us. In fact I respect your opinion and will go out of my way to ask the Dr who taught the Introduction, if you'd like? Do you have any recommendations to suggest in teaching defence mechanisms for the future?And how would you teach it to the class without limiting anything?

I say if you have it, flaunt it

Here's an interesting one an anthropologist discovered culturally: In the Kerala province of India, where cattle are considered sacred and cannot be killed, they observed that the mortality rate for male cattle was twice as high as for females (Harris, 1979). Although all the farmers espoused the Hindu prohibition against slaughtering cattle, they were essentially starving the males to death because males cannot give milk and were a drain on the scarce economic resources.

Because the above have been studied empirically, there is more but this is what it teaches in the American Psychological Association Introductory. Everything I learn is from the APA manual.

I'm guilty of a little of every category but mostly displacement. When something upsets me I conquer the hell out of something to make myself feel better. If I get angry, I go keep in shape, finish an assignment, study for an exam, write a poem, or compose a piano piece. In my first semester of Psych a lecturer actually put me down and made me feel stupid, so I studied extra hard and came out with a high distinction. He didn't have much to say to me after that or maybe that was his intention? Defense mechanisms can be a powerful tool.

Which category do you fall into? What about the people you know? What are defence mechanisms? They are unconscious mental processes aimed at protecting the person from unpleasant emotions (particularly, anxiety) or bolstering pleasurable emotions. Repression - The person keeps thought or memories that would be too threatening to acknowledge from awareness. Denial - The person refuses to acknowledge external realities or emotions (such as anxiety). This type of person is usually the type that says 'it's nothing', quite often it is nothing but there are chances its not, nothing a small check up couldn't fix. Projection - "People see their own strengths and insecurities in others". This is where the person attributes his own unacknowledged feelings or impulses to others. The hard-driving businessman who thinks his competitors, suppliers and customers are always trying to cheat him may in fact be the one with questionable ethics. To recognise his own greed and lack of concern for others would conflict with his conscience, so instead he sees these traits in others. Reaction formation - A person turns unacceptable feelings or impulses into their opposites. For example, take the case of Liberal Party politician Ross Cameron, who won the federal seat of Parramatta in Sydney in 1996. Cam was known as a religious person who campaigned strongly in support of Conservative family and moral values. Yet in 2004, admitted to having an affair with a Canberra woman at the same time his wife was pregnant in 2001. Sublimation - Converting sexual or aggressive impulses into socially acceptable activities. A young boy may turn his feelings of competition with his father or brother into a desire to excel in competitive sports or to succeed in business when he is older. If you teach your kids to aim high and to redirect their anger into activities you can help each of them obtain the desire to excel. Rationalisation - This is where the person explains away action sin a seemingly logical way to avoid uncomfortable feelings, especially guilt or shame. A student who plagiarizes her assignment and justifies her actions by saying that passing the course will help her earn her public policy degree and server the community is using rationalisation to justify her dishonesty. Often after arguments, people will feel the need to explain their actions or reasons for why they said what they have; in fact it is a natural way to release feelings of guilt from their own mind. Displacement - people directing their emotions, especially anger, away from the real target to a substitute. People may choose to vent their emotions on another object, animal or person instead of the real target of their feelings. For example, a man might take his frustrations out on the punching bag after a heated argument with his wife. An overweight male might find the motivation to lose 80 pounds after finding his girlfriend cheated on him. A university student may be a high distinction average because all their life they were told they were stupid or not good enough. This is the category people fall in when people tell them they can't do something and they go out of their way to prove them wrong and show results. For example: Passive aggression - is the indirect expression of anger towards others. One administrator frustrated everyone around him by 'sitting on' important documents that required a fast turnaround. To be actively aggressive would run afoul of his moral standards and potentially lead to a reprimand from his boss, so he accomplished the same goal - frustrating co-workers and thus satisfying his aggressive impulses - in a way that allowed him to disavow any intention or responsibility.

Yer making it sound like you came up with that :wink: If chain letters worked i'd have been killed so many times by now. I mean if you saw just one of those Myspace bulletins people put up :uhh: No, indeed margaret mead did, a 1901-1978 Anthropologist. What a wonderful lady, I just love her quotes. I'm sure people have heard of them anyway, if you havn't you're missing out! She encourages cultures to learn about other cultures with equality.

I can do that with my right shoulder, it also happens to both of my wrists sometimes.

Never doubt that a small group of determined people can change the world, indeed it is the only thing in the world that ever has. That difference starts with you.

I'll send you a private pm with the information, things like this you have to be aware that everyone has an opinion about it and wont shy from trying to get it across to you. Some things people have to say about it may hurt your feelings and wont be the same as yours. (You can already see people are saying their opinions without answering what you want to know, other than what they believe to be true). I will let you know what you want to know, without disclosing my thoughts. Check your in box.

I love how media plays to make things real when there's a lot more reasons behind it. They are truly and utterly pathetic sometimes.

mmmmmmm I have the perfect answer for that with another quote. I believe in it 110%

Blame the cows. Smelly cows.

I did better in literacy and verbal and my ring finger is about 3cm bigger than my index. However I finished college with a 97% average in both math and English, just didn't pull off the math side on the SAT exam. Kudos to the guy for attempting some interesting research. I missed out on the deans scholarship by 1 point on the SAT exam, you can only image how p*ssed off I was.

I understand indeed that you just want to protect your friend but sometimes the best protection we can give our friends is to let them get told off or get a swift kick in the arse to teach them a lesson. If your friend has done something wrong, whether he is your friend or not, he should be punished for it. Could you imagine what it would be like raising a child, coming to the rescue everytime dad went to give the kid a smack on the arse or a firm talking to and mum kept saving the day and sticking up for the kid? Eventually the child will come to think it's acceptable to misbehave. He will also use it to his advantage and behave as a very difficult child. A good friend will tell you when you've screwed up. A better friend will tell you how you screwed up and then give you ways to improve it for next time.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GO QLD~!~~~~!!

It's been going on for quite some generations lol I don't think it will ever stop either. Just remember to question everything and go with what you think is right. *points to avatar*

Be precise, and then I or others may be able to help you.

You could always walk around with the cat on your head :P

I got frustrated by watching 6 weeks of episodes just to find out what was in the bush and stopped watching it. I could of missed out on something good but who knows, I'm impatient.