House

I love watching the tv show House. If you have ever watched a show then you know house is very intelligent and seems to know everything. His down fall is that everyone thinks he is a jerk and has no heart. He isn't married, doesn't have close friends or any intention of making any, has no emotion, very independent, selfish, and thinks highly upon himself because he doesn't give others any credit. Being a doctor he should show some emotion when dealing with the lives of others, yet House could care less if someone dies.


Our class talked a lot about antisocial personality disorder when we went over chapter twelve. On page 486 it says antisocial personality disorder is a long-term persistent pattern of impulsive, selfish, unscrupulous, and even criminal behavior. I believe House is an antisocial person. He takes advantage of the people who work for him and he lies to make himself look good at times and even after doing all this he keeps the same straight face, he shows no remorse. I would highly consider him as a person with an antisocial personality disorder.

Article on Chester family

The news paper article talks about a twenty0nine year old woman who died because a CT scan was misread. Their was an undetected twist in her intestine and if the doctors had not of missed it she could still be alive. The family sued Chester Regional Medical Center and the money will go to the woman's children. The family blames the doctors for Heather's death. They said that when she was in the hospital screaming in pain and found nothing on the CT scan they never should have sent her home. The family says they will never return to that hospital and they only wanted to share their story so people could be informed about it. Heather's mother says the doctors there don't care about their patients and this probably wasn't the first time and won't be the last time a situation like this happens.


In chapter 14 on page 545 it talks about attribution. Attribution is the process of explaining the causes of people's behavior. This means that because someone did something and it happened one time then that means that it is bound to happen again. The family blamed the doctors for their loss. The family thought the doctors were not considerate and they were too lazy to communicate to one another to find out what was wrong with Heather. The family made an internal attribute.

For Better or for Worse

This comic is hard to see because I took a picture of it and put it on my computer instead of scanning it. It talks about the lady who owns the dog sees a commercial on tv about whiffex 3. It helps get rid of pet odors. So the pet owner buys it and trys it out. She scrubs and scrubs and scrubs but the odor is still there. Then she decides the best way to get rid of the odor smell is to put the dog outside.

In chapter five on page 180 we talked about negative reinforces. Negative reinforces are the removal of unpleasant stimuli. i chose this comic because the pet owner had nasty pet odors and tried to get rid of them by using a cleaning product. When the product didn't work she kicked the dog outside, therefore she eliminated the cause of the odors. Meaning she removed the unpleasant stimuli.

Swimfan

Ben Cronin is a high-school jock who once had a drug problem and has a record in the juvenile justice system. Ben got his life back on track and seems to now have everything. Ben is training to impress a visiting athletic scout from Stanford University. Ben is dating a girl named Amy Miller and works with his mother at the local hospital. A new girl named Madison Bell transfers to Ben's school and immediately begins to seduce Ben, eventually convincing him to have sexual intercourse with her in a pool. Ben considers it to be a one night stand but Madison falls hard for Ben. Ben rejects her and tells Madison he doesn't want her he already has a girlfriend. Possessive Madison becomes obsessed with Ben and she stalks him. Madison comes by Ben's house, she manages to become friendly with Amy and Ben's mother, and she even sends naked pictures of herself to Ben. After Ben conclusively tells her that he wants nothing to do with her because he is with Amy, the "horror" truly begins as she has a violent streak and will never let him go, even in the face of death.

Swimfan was a great movie example for obsessive compulsive disorder. We talked about obsessive compulsive disorder in chapter twelve. OCD is where a person becomes obsessed with certain thoughts or feelings due to certain things. After Ben and Madison had their one night stand Madison's feelings for Ben became very strong. She didn't want to hurt Ben but because her feelings of wanting to be with him were so strong, her attempts to make him love her did hurt him. Therefore her obsession was Ben. The compulsive disorder is the actions she took to make Ben want to be with her.

Memento

Leonard is the main character. He is an insurance investigator whose memory has been damaged by a head injury he sustained during the murder of his wife. He has his old memories but is unable to make new memories. He tattoos notes on himself and takes pictures with a Polaroid camera to help remember important facts. Leonard wants revenge for his wife's murder, but there may be little points that he don't remember and its hard for him to have closure. The movie is in flashbacks to help the audience get inside Leonard's head a little. In flashbacks, each one earlier in time than what we've just seen, the two men's pasts unfold. We meet the characters Teddy and the seductive Natalie (a barmaid who promises to help) and we glimpse Leonard's wife through memories from before the assault. Leonard also talks about Sammy Jankis, a man he knew with a similar condition. He thinks he finds the killer but how can he be sure. If he shots a man will he remember and if he doesn't then will he hunt down another victim? You'll just have to watch Memento.

In chapter six we talked about short term memories and how to create and store new memories. Information is processed in three stages: sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory. The sensory memory holds information long enough for it to be processed further. If the person does nothing with the information than it is lost after a second. Then that memory would move to short-term memory and hold it there in the consciousness for a bout 18 seconds. If the memory is further processed it moves to the long-term memory and retains that information for a longer period of time. In Memento Leonard didn't have a working memory. Our working memory allows us to mentally work with the information being held in short-term memory.