Landmark Events In Psychology

A landmark event that has occurred in my life was getting into college. For a Lifetime period there would be moments that I couldn’t fully remember. It consists of general knowledge of what has occurred during my time in college.In my classes that I have gone through in my 2 years of being a psychology major I have begun to see that some memories are accurate and some are schema. A schema is a concept that tells a person what to expect from certain situations. In different psychology classes which I have taken the professors have told the story of Pavlov's dog salivation experiment telling it either their way, leaving variables out or not telling the experiment the way that I recalled it in the first class I took which explained this. This would be a general event because it has been repeated a lot and is more specific than a lifetime period.
This could be a specific event to because I have gone this a lot and is a specific event. This is showing a schema because it’s showing you what to expect with stimuli and responses.
Psychology classes with the information which is given to you are basically schema's because they are designs which allow a person to develop a perspective on different situations. For example the different psychology classes which I took have been Biological, Language, Personality, Adolescent, and ect. All of of these classes have a different reason for why certain responses happen or why children grow up to be a certain way. The information which I have remembered is an accurate recollection. Even though I have taken different psychology classes I am able to remember what information goes which classes because psychology has different subsections which branch off even more. For example is Cognitive psychology you have the different subsections which help go into the field of cognitive psychology. Throughout my years at Salem State I have gone through experiences I have gone through different schemas. I have expected what happens in the university because I was prepared by RA’s so they have helped me understand
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Source Monitoring is the way that people determine if a memory is real or not instead of a movie or dream. One way that technology contributes to source monitoring are pictures or videos which may be home movies. These allow people to determine if their childhood is how they remember because they see that their memories being replayed, and see that it is real. They may see an article of clothing or a background in a picture which may confirm their reality. Some people’s realities may seem like a movies to others. For example people who are in gangs do things which may be showed in a movie. These people may see this as their reality but may hope it was just a movie. Source monitoring is confused at times and needed because of movies and the news. Movies are used to relate to others, show people's realities and most of the time just to entertain. Imagine someone who lives in a difficult home watches a movie where everything is happy and there is a family that he wishes he has. What if there was no source monitoring, and his memories consisted of this happy family. What would happen when he remembered this but has to go back to what is his reality. Is this good or bad? It may cause mental fatigue or it may make his reality a lot more bearable. The news, and the internet may have an affect on how someone feels with distinguishing reality with fiction. The internet has caused people to first hand see what's happening in the world. For example when people of darker skin color saw the video of when the police officers shot the black individuals. If younger people see this a lot their reality might be more based on hatred for police, and they will be scared to go out on the streets. While they might live in a good neighborhood having done nothing wrong. Source monitoring errors cause people to think certain ways or act a certain way. We need to be able to distinguish between reality, and what's not real.