Sunday, October 7, 2012

Post 2 Oct 1-7


The fallacies discussed in the chapter are perfectionism, obsessions with shoulds, overgeneralization, taking responsibility for others, helplessness, and fear of catastrophic failure. Fear of catastrophic failure is what I struggle the most with. All my family lives in LA, so I am alone at San Jose State, when I think about my family I think about the worst happening to them. There was a recent tragedy in the family and that hasn’t made anything better. Using self-talk can help a lot with these fallacies. The fallacy of perfectionism is something that a lot of people struggle with. When I am going to make a decision I talk to myself a lot, pretty much talking myself out of it. We can use self-talk to reassure ourselves and bring back the confidence. Being more positive about situations will help me a lot with my intrapersonal communication, and not having fear of catastrophic failure. 

post 1 Oct 1-7


Organismic view of emotions is when we feel emotion because external stimuli cause physiological changes in us. An example would be if you get a bad grade on an exam and it causes you have a knot in your back. I have a lot of back pain in class, it could have something to do with a philosophical changes. When I am really stressed my back tends to start hurting, maybe if I didn't stress so much I wouldn’t have back pains. Perceptional view of emotions is when we give a meaning to something that doesn’t usually have a meaning. Everyone has his or her own meaning to different things. For example a fist, when someone raises a fist at me I think they want to "pound it", which means that we touch fists. It also can mean that someone is ready to fight. When it becomes significant people give it a meaning.