Blog post #13

I thought the experiments really showed how people react in different situations. It is interesting that all of the experiments show how people follow others. For example: if someone is given a job they will do that job even if they know that they will eventually hurt someone else. Human nature only needs to think that they are doing something important in order to follow someone without any thought to themselves about what they are doing is wrong.



Social influence is the way people act when even a job or the way they are treated. When someone is given a job that they don’t normally have then they act completely different then any other time. When I am partnered up with someone on a project, I tend to follow them unless I feel that something has to be different. I show my ideas and I do as much as I can to help out or do most of the work I can without problems. I procrastinate a lot. Also when I have to speak to people that I don’t know I can do it but when someone doesn’t tell me to or if I am by myself it is very hard for me to come up with the courage to talk to the stranger.


The most interesting thing I learned in this class is the mind is a very powerful thing. The mind controls the actions you take in situations that you normally would not think of. Your unconscious mind is where your disorders come from and you wonder about all the things that happen to yourself. There are different reactions that people you normally thought wouldn’t do, actually will do in order to obey what someone has told them to do. I also enjoyed learning about Psychological Disorders. There was a lot of thing that I learned about many of them, that I had no clue existed in parts of certain disorders. I have problems with OCD and knowing more about it helped me, it also helped me prove to my parents that I wasn't just going crazy thinking I had OCD.