Monday, February 9, 2009
havent had much time to blog recently.. cuz i realise if i wanna catch u with m readings i haveta do readings everyday!!! n tats damn shag man.. aniwaes just wanted to en down some stuff which i learnt from my psychology lectures..
learnt that personality traits that are similar between couples tend to be quite stable and might even be stronger in strength over time.. while individual traits that differ from one's partner is unstable and tends to change.. to me, that is a very good way of saying we can never truly find the perfect one but we compromise to make a relationship work..
learnt that centration or egocentrism can really happen beyond the age of 7 theorised by Piaget in some sense.. in that the thoughts in our mind always tend to be more salient (obvious) and that makes us overestimate how easy it is for others to understand our views and logic.. "I dun understand? why dun u geddit? isnt it very straightforward?" the start of many quarrels.. its realli not that easy, spend some effort to explain in a neutral tone and facial expression.. it ight just work =)
lastly, our view of the world is often subjective and differs with our personality and values.. my lecturer mentioned somethg abt religion.. he feels that religion in itself is never or rarely wrong.. it is always the intepretor of the religion that might be wrong.. Hence, to not process the words from these intepretors might be risky.. for example i have a friend who missed the deadline for application for a job and concluded that it was not meant to be.. could we intepret the failure to meet a deadline as a test of one's willpower and determination? perhaps god's test of human character? and by giving up, we might have failed the test?? Hence, our intepretation in some sense is realli a reflection of our personality and character too.. if patients struck wif cancer decide that they are destined to die early and not seek treatment at all, is that really just fate or a lack of character?
i think psyche lectures are realli interesting, haha
weilie *
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