changes

Before you know it, you’re a junior. You have that first glimpse of your future, and everything becomes much more real. You worry more about grades, ACT scores, and college admissions than you do about social status. You stress over what you’re going to do with the rest of your life because it seems so close. You start to form real relationships with your teachers because you start to connect with them on a different level. You finally realize that there’s a bigger world out there, than just high school.

Senior year comes, and you realize how much time has flown by. Things have changed since freshman year; cliques aren’t the same, and although there still might be a little drama, everyone seems to get along better with each other. Everyone’s matured. By the end of the year, you know where you’re going to college, and realize the rest of your life is finally beginning. At the very end, you reflect on all the memories with the people who most influenced your four years. On graduation day, you look around at your entire class, your enemies, acquaintances, and close friends, and it hits you that you’ll never see most of them again. You have changed; you have a greater sense of who you are, and who you want to be, and you’ve figure out the impact, and importance those four years have had on your life.

high school

“The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.”

You see freshman year as an exciting new step in life. You walk into high school with a set of expectations. Whether it’s a chance to reinvent yourself, get good grades, or make new friends, you look at it as an opportunity. No matter who you are, there’s a small amount of intimidation when you first walk through the doors. You’re not quite sure what will be waiting for you in the classrooms, hallways, or even around the corner. You worry about what others will think of you. You feel like you have to be surrounded by other people to seem important. It’s one of the most insecure times of your life, and things that may seem important at the time, like the number of friends you have, what clothes you wear, and the latest gossip, will continue to mean less and less important each year. 

Sophomore year, you become more confident. You know how the system works, you’ve made new friends, or kept the old ones, and you feel more secure. You get a better sense of what high school really means, but realize that you have another three years to decide what you want to do. You feel a bit better knowing that you’re not a part of that “annoying” freshman class that everyone hates. You get the feeling that teachers give you more responsibility, and have higher expectations, now that you’re maturing. 

I forgot

Experiment 4: This experiment was performed in order to demonstrate reconstruction memory and false memories. Three groups watched a ten minute video from the perspective of in the car. The groups were asked 3 types of questions, one was a filler group, another was asked about a barn, and the last about a car parked in front of the barn. The percentages for false presuppositions were as follows: 8.4%, 15.6%, and 29.2% respectively; showing that the questions did affect their memories.

1.       Loftus believes that after the integration of experience into long term memory, there is the integration of new information into memory of original experience. Also after question asked regarding original experience, should be the recall of reconstructed memory with new information. I think his view is accurate, maybe even more so than the original view, because he has studies that back up his view. They prove that people add unnecessary memories into their original memories.

2.       I got the word quiz correct, I think it was due to the fact that I created a story with the words, rather than just trying to remember them. I can understand why people would get them right though, because intersection is the picture that was created in your mind while thinking about all the words, it is a false presupposition.

3.       Investigators often offer false details to fill in the gaps. For the person getting interrogated this is often confusing, and the beginning point for them to create false memories given the situation. Sometimes people admit just because they don’t want to get killed for a crime they didn’t commit, but at the same time, they never committed the crime in the first place. It’s honestly so sad that people can lose so much of their lives in jail, for a crime that has nothing to do with them, and everything to do with the man that questioned them. In the second article a man says: "It went on and on and on throughout the night, with them calling me a liar, telling me I needed to tell the truth. And I kept telling them: 'I am telling you the truth. I didn't do it.' I kept telling them over and over. ... I should have stood my ground." Proving that the conditions created by the interrogation situation caused an untruthful confession, and an unruly conviction. I’m one hundred percent positive this happens more frequently than is released to the public; I know people would be furious we are persecuting the innocent. We are creating false presuppositions and messing with people’s brains morals and thoughts.

remember?

1.       When asking people about a broken headlight, she asked two questions. One being “Did you see the broken headlight?” and the second “Did you see a broken headlight?” The question with the word the produced more positive responses, because it presupposed the presence of a broken headlight.

2.       Using words that “presuppose” things to trick people into saying the wrong answer. Since there is already so much pressure and stress on a person being interrogated by the police, they are already more likely to trip up. Also if you told them they did something enough times they might start to go crazy and believe they really did.

3.       Experiment 1: Subjects watched a video of a car accident, where car A ran through a stop sign.  Group one was asked about the speed when the car ran the stop sign, and group two was asked about the same cars speed turning right. They were both asked the same question at the end “Did you see a stop sign for car A? “ group one had 53% of people see it, probably due to the earlier mention of the stop sign. While group two only had 35% of people say they saw the stop sign with no previous mention.

Experiment 2:  A group of subjects watched a movie where 8 demonstrators interrupted. On that day two groups filled out the same questionnaire with one difference, one group mentioned 12 demonstrators, the other four. When they both came back the next week they were asked how many demonstrators there were, some recalled the correct numbers; although, the average for the group mentioning twelve was significantly higher than the group mentioning four.

Experiment 3: Participants were asked to watch a ten second clip of a white sports car. Following two groups were given the same questions, except one group had a question using the phrase passing the barn, while the other group used a question saying along the country road. A week later both groups were called back, and asked if they saw a white barn. 17.3% who had been asked about passing the barn said yes, compared to the 2.7% that said yes with no mention of the barn. This was testing false presuppositions.

With two AP Tests down I can honestly say the stress level has dropped quite a bit. Yesterday I spent 7 hours at the KTOS center, with AP Chemistry starting at the early hour of 7:45, followed by ten minutes to jog to my car and literally scarf down my lunch. Upon reentering this crazy mess of a building I was immediately sent into the testing room for my AP Psychology exam. I sat down, brain completely fried from my previous test, and looked at the next test I had to face. It was mocking me sitting there in its shrink wrap. The same set up, it gets redundant, and daunting, but I feel that is the motto of AP. Mock the students and their efforts. Oh what fun they must have doing this. Well after the AP Chem test I can assure you everything else I would do that day would seem like cake. It was. The Psychology test flew by for me, and walking out of that building with half of my AP Tests done was a great feeling to consume after the horrors of that test. Well it felt good to make it to school this morning and know that two of my classes no longer have purpose for me. Finals done, AP Exams finished, I couldn't be more excited. Although the next exam will face me far too soon. US History is this friday and I am afraid this is the exam that I am the least prepared for. Although you win some you lose some, last year I got a two on my AP World exam, though I don't regret it. I got an awesome nap out of it. Anyways I look forward to the challenge of another history AP Exam, and this time I hope to conquer it and rid myself of that awful 2 experience. Well I don't have time to dilly dally on my blog, time to start all over and study once again.

part 2

Two judges Nixon wanted but got rejected?

Clement Haynsworth & Harrold Carswell

What caused carter to lose reelection?

The people in US were not satisfied with Carter's performance as the President of US. They were of the idea that if the government had taken precautionary measures, the US citizens would have been made hostages. The American Embassy was seized by some Iranian students and 52 hostages were held.

What areas did countries want to emmulate our youth culture?

kaaaay

Women like 70’s economy why?

job opportunities

Book to movie Woodward and Bernstein?

All the Presidents Men

Controversial ’73 supreme court case?

Roe vs. Wade

Economic condition of late 1970’s?

stagflation

Who defended Nixon against critics?

no one

1970 vietnam massacre?

My Lai

Who arranged Nixons trip to china and helped end war?

William Rogers

What supreme justice was too liberal by right wingers?

John Paul Stevens

Philadelphia plan?

effort to help eradicate employment discrimination by executive orders.

Terms of 1973 seis fire?

return our prisoners of war

Cadidates for prez 72, 76, 80?

Nixon & Mcgovern, Carter & Ford, Reagan & Carter

Why did Nixons VP resign?

he was accused of shit

What is the 25th ammendment?

Vice President becaomes President

Saturday night massacre?

The Watergate scandal led to the "Saturday Night Massacre". It was the term given by political commentators to U.S. President Richard Nixon's executive dismissal of independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox, and the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus on October 20, 1973 during the Watergate scandal.

What caused the “73 energy crisis?

petroleum shortage

studying

What caused inflation in the 70’s?

rising unemployment, rising interest rates, central bank

What is the Nixon doctrine?

shield of nuclear power, provide defense, military aid

What is Vietnamization?

During the Vietnam War, the U.S. program of turning over to the South Vietnamese government responsibility for waging the conflict, in order to implement withdrawal of U.S. military personnel.

2 parts of Nixon’s vietnam policy?

vietnamization, triangular diplomacy

Grizwald vs. Connecticut?

landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Constitution protected a right to privacy. The case involved a Connecticut law that prohibited the use of contraceptives.

Pentagon papers?

The Papers revealed that the U.S. had deliberately expanded its war with bombing of Cambodia and Laos, coastal raids on North Vietnam, and Marine Corps attacks, none of which had been reported by media in the US.[8] The most damaging revelations in the papers revealed that four administrations, from Truman to Johnson, had misled the public regarding their intentions.

Watergate? Main figures

Ziegler, Haldeman, Ehrlichman. The affair began with the arrest of five men for breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972.

Spiro Agneau?

Vice President, resigned.

What dem. group didn’t support George Mcgovern?

the military

Popular music of the late 70’s?

disco

Why did Ford pardon Nixon?

to heal the nation

3 mile island?

partial nuclear meltdown, radiation.

Carters Presidency?

peanut farmer before, non political. lots of foreign policy

Main principle carters foreign policy?

Carter believed that the nation’s foreign policy should reflect its highest moral principles a definite break with the policy and practices of the Nixon Administration. In 1977, Carter said, “For too many years, we’ve been willing to adopt the flawed and erroneous principles and tactics of our adversaries, sometimes abandoning our own values for theirs. We’ve fought fire with fire, never thinking that fire is sometimes best quenched with water. This approach failed

Economic conditions ford that plagued carter?

high inflation, economic depression.

nuclear nonproliferation treaty?

international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament.

salt 2?

replace the Interim Agreement with a long-term comprehensive Treaty providing broad limits on strategic offensive weapons systems.

Why did we boycott 1980 olympics?

Russia invaded Afganistan

The SS Mayaguez 1973?

Khmer Rouge and the United States from May 12–15, 1975, was the last official battle of the Vietnam War.