Video, Outside Readings, Experiments

I did the face-making experiment and found out that most of the faces have some similarities among them. Therefore, when filing a police report, people can't describe the faces clearly and often leads to misinformation. Also, people are like 99.8% the same so there's no point for prejudicing our own species/races if we all are the same in some ways.

Video games link to violence? Gameplays are social activities for boys while girls socialize in real life. Although girls play less video games than boys on a weekly basis, a girl is more prone to physical fights than boys when exposed to M-rated games. This leads to anger and aggression in youth. Limit play time to 1-2 hrs a day.

Cults are groups that recruit weak-minded, depressed, or traumatized people to do strange actions for them. There are political cults, therapy cults, and business cults. Cults tend to realize things that are not real, and convince people to do so. Also, cults want people to get rid of their normal thinking. Example is the book 1984 by George Orwell whereas the leader took control over the citizens and make them think that they have freedom but they don't, and 2+2 =5. Therefore, we have to be careful when exposing to a cult and one asks us to join.

Cognitive Control: The ability to create subjective realities for oneself, or as directed by a leader.

Pygmalion Effect: Positive change of a person's performance or perception of a situation, based on expectation and encouragement by others.

Thought-Stopping: A behavior modification technique in which independent thinking is discouraged or disallowed