Thursday, August 17, 2006

Big issues in Psychology
In completing this survey, I discovered that many things. At first I thought that would be get all the answer that I though was correct. However I noticed that the graph I made is biased. It showed that I'm subconsciously trying to that I was correct. For example I thought that human behaviors are heavily based on nurturing. However, I scored and 8 on it. Eight is closer to the middle than to the extreme of nurturing. However the graph I drew showed the opposite. The result also told me something interesting. If people subconscious biased, how do psychologists know that the result they got is not biased to their own idea. Also I have seen these type of questions before. It is very easy to put answers that will fit with my beliefs. Even though I was trying to be truthful, I might have biasedly answered. I think these test are best if we are not aware of what we are examining. In the end I still think that people are irrational, always changing, and their behavior is based on nurturing.

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