Mind and Body Articles

Marijuana associated with three-fold risk of death from hypertension.

1.      In one sentence, what was the research about?

The research is about how marijuana causes hypertension, which is abnormally high blood pressure.

2.      How many subjects were used in the experiment?

A group of people 20 years old and older

3.      Was there a control group?

Yes

4.      How were the subjects chosen?

Random

5.      What did the experimenters do to the subjects?

Took their blood pressure and asked if they smoked weed or cigarettes or both.

6.      How did the subjects react?

They answered the questions

7.      Did the subjects act the way the experimenters expected?

Yes

For white middle class, moderate drinking is linked to cognitive health in old age.

1.      In one sentence, what was the research about?

This research is about how people younger than 85, if they drink moderately they will live to 85 without dementia or other cognitive problems.

2.      How many subjects were used in the experiment?

1,344

3.      Was there a control group?

Yes

4.      How were the subjects chosen?

At random

5.      What did the experimenters do to the subjects?

Looked at their life styles

6.      How did the subjects react?

The way they wanted them to

7.      Did the subjects act the way the experimenters expected?

Yes

Methamphetamine use linked to heightened stroke risk in the young.

1.      In one sentence, what was the research about?

This research shows how high of a risk young people are at for getting a stroke from being on methamphetamine.

2.      How many subjects were used in the experiment?

98

3.      Was there a control group?

no

4.      How were the subjects chosen?

Anyone who had a stroke from meth under the age of 45

5.      What did the experimenters do to the subjects?

Got information from their stroke

6.      How did the subjects react?

They had a stroke

7.      Did the subjects act the way the experimenters expected?

Yes

Eye test could help diagnose autism.

1.      In one sentence, what was the research about?

This research shows how a new eye test measures rapid eye movement and will be able to tell if a person has autism or not.

2.     How many subjects were used in the experiment

They don’t give a number of subjects

3.      Was there a control group?

Yes

4.      How were the subjects chosen?

People with and without autism

5.      What did the experimenters do to the subjects?

Told them to keep track of a visual target that moved all over the screen

6.      How did the subjects react?

How they were supposed to

7.      Did the subjects act the way the experimenters expected?

yes

Journal 1

My personal reason for being in this class is because I have know idea what psychology is. The more I read about psychology on the internet the more I start to understand it and the more I get more interested in it. One reason I’m in this class is that the more I understand how people’s brain works and why they do things the way they do, the easier I will be able to understand people and that will make things easier for when or if I work with some one that I don’t get along with or someone that I don’t like. Hopefully by taking psychology I will better understand people’s emotion that will help a lot later on in life. I would like to own a business in life so the better I understand people the better I can do my job as the boss. What will be good about having you as the teacher is that when we bring up a real life event who will be able to teach us something about that event. The only thing that I don’t like is all the blogging. So I hope it will be fun learning about psychology in your class this year. 

Journal 1

1.       Free

2.       Expensive

3.       Being able to fix almost anything

4.       People not listening to me when I am right

5.       Boat mechanic

6.       Brain surgeon

7.       Handy, easygoing, average

8.       My personal reason for being in this class is learn how and why the brain works. It will be fun to study different groups of people and study why they do certain things. Another part of psychology is their behavior of different groups or people. The good thing about u being our teacher is that we talk more in to the subject that we r talking about.