Assignment 1
Psychology is the study of how and why humans behave the way they behave and their
patterns. It is because of the crucial steps taken by Wilhelm Wundt in 1879 which
established Psychology as a field of science.
My understanding of psychology is that the human brain can either be your best friend
or your worst enemy. It depends on various factors including the environment, nurture,
and genetics. These factors affect your habits,patterns and behaviour and their
perspective on the real-world. How you perceive the outside world matters a lot as you
have to adjust to the societal and cultural norms that have been set since mankind
began.
If there is even a slight difference between their ideas and the norms they will either be
prosecuted depending where they live or shunned publicly simply because they they
have a different perspective than the others who blindly follow. We can see this
happening all over the world.
Recent example, Dave Chapplle is a african-american stand up comedian and in his
final Netflix special he said some offensive jokes which targeted communities including
the LGBTQ community. But he has explained countless times that these are just jokes
and if they cannot grasp that then it's on them.In the special, he explained to the
audience that many of the struggles of the LGBTQ communinty and the
african-americans were similar. Which the trans community completely ignored and
started to cancel him. The same scenario has happened with another african-american
comedian Kevin Hart, he tweeted some offensive jokes years ago and just when he was
about to host the Oscars they found his old tweets and cancelled him. Dave Chappelle
simply cannot be cancelled because many people stand by him as his viewers
understand he is neither a bigot or heartless. He simply punches lines.
Additionally, I have studied that the human mind can adjust to any environment as long
as there's routine.We can adjust to stimuli of any kind,even pain, but if we take away
day,night and food then the human brain cannot function properly to its full potential and
start to break down.This is how prisoners are tortured in Guantanamo Bay. They first
disrupt their circadian rhythm and so on. This is done so their brains cannot function
properly and it disturbs the internal processes that usually used to happen. After not
being able to determine whether it's day or night they are starved and beaten till their
will to live is no more.
We can also look at the psychology of how supermarkets place common household
items far away from each other which makes the customer spend more time moving
around and they might see an item which they didn't plan on buying but now that they
have seen it they are compelled to purchase such item. They use the color spectrum to
manipulate customers into buying different items.