Something that I learned this week is that the book that I had gotten for my group is REALLY interesting, it’s called The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life The author of this book is Joseph E. LeDoux, he is also a part of a band known as The Amygdaloids. In the Book Joseph LeDoux tells you about how the brain has a certain way of being able to process a certain emotion and the response that the body might give out in order to carry out that specific function/emotion. An example of this in the book is when you see a bear you’d normally think that you get scared then run away, but the author states that it’s the action of you doing the running away that causes you to feel the fear. This week I’ve come up with slogans for my class, some better than others but I still think that there are things that people could do in order to be able to change the stigma around the teen brain and mental illnesses. An example that I can think of that people use as a common misnomer is that people with mental illnesses are crazy, psychotic, lazy, different, unusual, etc. These words can often lead to making people with mental illnesses feel worse about themselves and that is something that my class is trying to change.
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Something that stood out about my week this week is that yesterday my class went to a hospital that was a part of UCSD. This was one of the most exciting trips that I have taken because I feel like I was able to learn more about what it means to be a psychologist and the difference between psychology and psychiatry. Some of the activities that the C.A.R.E researchers had use do was a STROOP test which was interesting for me since I was one of the volunteers. What they had me do was that they showed me a piece of paper with words like ‘red’, ‘green’, ‘blue’, and so on, and they had me read the color out loud but the ink print was in black. Next they handed me another paper similar to the previous one but this time the word would associate with the ink color, so ‘red’, ‘green’, ‘blue’, and so on. This part was a little quicker since the color matched the word but what they did next was really hard to do, for the last paper the color of the ink did not match the word, ‘red’, ‘green’, ‘blue’, and so on. This was more difficult because when I started doing this test my mind wanted to say the actual word but I had to say the color of the ink.
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