I’ve been meaning to write this for a while.

Today’s lecture : Where in your brain will you find your mind? Which is just a lead-in to OTHER NEAT STUFF, people

( cut for long & roundabout but hopefully interesting )

The author of my Psych of Personality text wrote that the purpose of education is not to teach new facts or concepts but to assemble new chunks.

( Well, my eloquent first reaction to this was, 'What??' )

One thing I thought was interesting in Psych of Personality was when Dr. Hall briefly described a lemon juice experiment, where a small amount of lemon juice is placed on the tongue of introverts and extroverts. And it turns out that introverts salivate more dramatically, show more of a physiological response. Man, this is such a cool, relatively ( Read more... )

Dr. Hall in Psych of Personality talked about the biological basis of personality. Have you ever seen Awakenings, with Robin Williams? It as based off of the book by the neuropsychologist Oliver Sacks, who also wrote The Man who Mistook his Wife for a HatAnyway, Dr. Hall mentioned a few striking cases where insult or damage to the brain produced ( Read more... )

I talked to Dr. Hall about making students who come late for tests sit outside until someone in the front row finishes.

She said that it was really so that students could get into ( The Zone )

I need to work on time-management. I went to Psych of Personality 10 mins late because it was a test day and I never take anywhere near the full time.

( I should have seen this coming )