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1) Cognition. I use cognition in my everyday life every time I think, talk, or do something.
2)Concept. People use concepts everyday in their life to group similar objects. This is used especially in the high school social setting.
3)Heuristics. I use heuristics to make judgements about things and solve problems. I specific example would be tonight when I go home I could study or I could hang out with friends. I would use heuristics to solve this problem.
4)Insight. An example of when I use insight in my life is when there is a word on the tip of my tongue but I can't quite think of it. Then when I suddenly remember the word that is insight.
5)Conformational Bias. Everyone uses conformational bias all the time. People, including myself, use this the most when it comes to core beliefs such as religion and politics.
6)Fixation. An example of when I use fixation in my life is when I am fighting with my brother about something and I can't see his side of the story.... because he doesn't have one ;)

Conditioning

I think that conditioning really testifies to the fact that humans take in everything that they sense and "create" reality. For example a person comes home from work and has a cig. The person gets a great feeling from getting off of work and the cig may add to it a little bit. The person then needs a cig every time they come home to get that same "high".

I also think that conditioning reviles the basic motivation for every human action. In one way or another get high. I don't want anyone to limit this to getting high off of a drug; it can include this but it is not limited to. Whether it's the good feeling someone gets from donating money, the high that a cop gets from busting a drug house, or the high a terrorist gets out of blowing up a car full of soldiers. While I agree that they are all different highs everyone is just looking for their fix. I just depends on through your life what the highs have been associated to. Say there is a 8 year old that gets a special award for getting good grades. The bigger "high" the kid gets off of it the stronger the association is. This may result in the kid getting much better grades in the future if the trigger (of getting good grades) is strong enough.

Reality is fluid. And humans just learn and react to their reality.

ReAliTy

This week we learned a lot about how humans see reality. This relates to my life because the other day I ran out of contacts. My eyes eventually accommodated to not having the contacts in and my vision got better without my contacts in. I found this unit interesting because it questions a lot of the ways people see their reality around them.

Psa

My favorite PSAs were http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0qoY_5mOo and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR7-5enn7vY. I liked these the most because they were all really funny and they ran all over green bay to get all the videos they had.