February 2009 Archives
Below:
Jindal's response
Interview with Kenneth the Page
Article on why Jindal's approach was doomed to fail
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/25/kenneth-the-page-responds_n_170063.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/howard-fine/what-caused-bobby-jindals_b_170179.html
here you go--found it so you can listen and enjoy again!
I never really listen to the lyrics in songs. To me they are just another instrument of sorts. It is a good thing that I never tried to listen to these lyrics.
The person posting the video here states, "The quintessential misheard lyrics song! A true 90's classic, this may be one of those rare songs that NOBODY has ever really heard the true lyrics!!! It may even be a mystery to the band! "
There is ambiguity in what we hear, when we see the pictures and words, which are in a different modality, we resolve the auditory ambiguity with the visual information. This video is hysterical!
What do you think is going on here?
your comments?
as an aside: http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/23/foxx.the.soloist/index.html
have at it!
i've found the first and last part of the scene, but not the middle..so you'll need to use your memory!
Late night TV back in the "old" days....What's psychology got to say about this?
Provide your psychological analysis of the scene "Goodbye Old Friends"!
Provide your psychological analysis of the clip we watched in class (2 front yards + car near train tracks scene). I'm sorry, I couldn't find an online clip!
We spoke the other day about privacy issues and facebook. I stumbled across this page and thought I would share it with you all.
Foley is a motion picture term, named after Jack Foley, where sound effects are created by a foley artist as he or she watches the projected film. Foley sounds are primarily those created to accompany the noisemaking movement of actors in real time. Even if the item in question would or could make it's own sound during the filming, it is standard practice to replace the original sound with one created after the fact in a foley studio by a foley artist.
In Japan, Your Blood Type Says It All
An article by Mari Yamaguchi discusses how Japanese believe blood type determines personality. "As defined by the books, type As are sensitive perfectionists but overanxious; Type Bs are cheerful but eccentric and selfish; Os are curious, generous but stubborn; and ABs are arty but mysterious and unpredictable."
Many Japanese believe so strongly about the relationship between blood type and personality there are cases where blood type has lead to discrimination and to a type of harassment referred to as "Bura-hara."
While these claims are without scientific foundation and are what we refer to as pseudoscience, they are accepted by people who believe that certain facts, traits, or previous events basically determine who they are and define who they can be. This can be traced back to the "Nature-Nurture" debates in behavioral science. Are we born to be? Or de we learn to be? Watson and early behaviorist believed that we are shaped by our environment and that we can learn to be anything we want basically.
Behaviorists believe that under the proper conditions (contingencies) we can learn new behaviors and essentially be better at what we do and thus who we are. I have had students in my class with life long problem behaviors such as extreme nail biting. They felt since they have been that way all of their lives, that is how they will spend the remainder of their lives. In class after being taught the ABCs of behavior, they were able to quit the habit within the 4 month semester.
It is problematic when people buy into the misconception that we cannot change. This is probably why people cannot accept the fact that they too can reinvent themselves to be with in reason what they want to be. While I can't change my blood type (O = generous but stubborn) I refuse to believe I can't change : -)
Where's the psychology in this scene from American Beauty?
