Blog Post #2

I believe that research is very important, not only to me, but everyone. Research helps us find answers to our question. It allows us to increase our knowledge so that we can better understand things. Research helps in all fields of work, especially Psychology. There are so many new and interesting discovers that are found during our lifetime about people that the research is needed to fully understand. Research has been around for many years and many great things have come because of it. Things like advances in technology and understanding to deeper depths of our minds.

Research that I found very relevant to my life on psyblog was an article called “How to Avoid Procrastination: Think Concrete.” Being a senior this year there is a lot of things that need to be done things like; college applications, school club/programs, scholarships, and school activities. On top of that I have my daily homework and working at my job after school and the weekends. There is so much to remember it’s easy to procrastinate and push things back until the last minute. The article mentioned the studies that they did; I found it very interesting that you’re more likely to get things done if you think more about the details. I figured that if you thought more about details it would cause more frustration and make it harder to concentrate and get the job done. I guess when you think more about the detail and set yourself a reasonable time to achieve your goal; you’re less likely to procrastinate. This really helped me; I think I may try this technique to procrastinate less.

There are many things I have learned in the past week that I didn’t know. I have learned a lot about human attitudes and how people can be pushed into believing false or untrue ideas or facts because they were told it was true. I found out overconfidence can affect how well you perceive things and how long it takes you to do problems. I have also discovered that the scientific method is very important in psychology with research and discovering how the mind works with behaviors. I’ve also learned a lot about the different experimental approaches like surveys or random assignments.