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Blink Summer Project

The document is a student's reaction to reading the book "Blink" and includes three journal entries summarizing key points from the book. In the reaction, the student discusses how the book made them re-evaluate how they think and consider past experiences that led them to want to study psychology. The book also showed how the brain operates in ways we don't consciously direct. The journal entries discuss examples from the book about how appearances can be deceiving, how micro-expressions unconsciously reveal emotions and thoughts, and how people can unconsciously recognize and avoid patterns without realizing it.

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Blink Summer Project

The document is a student's reaction to reading the book "Blink" and includes three journal entries summarizing key points from the book. In the reaction, the student discusses how the book made them re-evaluate how they think and consider past experiences that led them to want to study psychology. The book also showed how the brain operates in ways we don't consciously direct. The journal entries discuss examples from the book about how appearances can be deceiving, how micro-expressions unconsciously reveal emotions and thoughts, and how people can unconsciously recognize and avoid patterns without realizing it.

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Ashley Bocanegra

1st period
MY REACTION TO BLINK

The book blink not only made me view the world differently in my opinion but
made me re-evaluate I saw my thinking process. I began to think about how I
am thinking about the things Im thinking about, I know that a mouthful but
us as humans we think about the whys and the hows in our society but do
we really take the time to think why and how were thinking in general. Me
that Im considering studying psychology at the university level I never
stopped and asked myself this question until I came across this book. What I
find so interesting about this is that our brain is operating in a way that we
never taught it to, it adapted itself to do so on its own as our minds expand
with age. The crazy thing is in our society multitasking is a word meaning
the act of doing multiple tasks at once, such as reading a book and cycling at
once, but in another point of view arent we always multitasking? Our brains
are always jumping from one section of cerebrum to another connecting
them to form our thoughts in that very moment; merging the section of
emotion with another if memories while we recollect on a moment in the
past. Blink made me really think about what I want to do in my future, Ive
wanted to be a psychologist as long as I can remember but I never really
evaluated the underlining reason as to why. So I want to help people and
make a difference in the world but how did I know that at such a young age?
I realized in reading this book that my mind had already established that I
had already seen so much hurt and misery in the world at such a young age
that I already wanted it to come to a halt, I already wanted it to end. This
book opened my eyes to my past, present, and future; the best review I can
give this book is that its not a deep book with quotes that will make you cry,
but it will make you think about things in your own life that may give you
that effect.

Journal Entries
#1
In the book it states how Warren G Harding was elected for president
because he appeared to have the capability of presidential material,
because he was handsome, young and lean. But it turns out that he was one
of the lousiest presidents ever (maybe even THE lousiest), he was a massive
poker player and prone to having various affairs. This was mention to provide
an example a thing most kids are grown up being told is, never judge a book
by its cover. During my summer I experience something along these lines. I
am what is known as an eccentric dresser, I like to express my personality by
what I wear, therefore I dress kind of weird that being said everything I go
somewhere theres always people that look at me funny thinking what is
this child wearing?, but people never get to know me before they decide
that Im just a rebellious kid that never obeys because I present myself. Ive
had religious people some to me and tell me that I need Jesus in my life, but
does the way I look really indicate that I am not able to make right decision
or be a good person for that matter?
#2
The book tells of a study of facial expressions by ekman and friesen. Facial
expressions can give away your emotions and thoughts. Sometimes those
facial expressions come naturally and you cant control them. They use an
example of a conference where theyre questioning a guy to see if hes a
traitor, otherwise known as s a third man. When they watched the
interview they saw in the milliseconds before he responds to the question
are you the third man? he smirks. The action was so quick anybody would
miss it. In other words, he was enjoying the smugness of fooling people. This
caused them to lead to the conclusion that he is guilty. During the summer
my cousin came over my house and she stole my naked palette and when I
asked her if she had seen it she open her eyes really wide and thats when I
knew she was lying to me.
#3

The book told a situation in which people were presented a card game and
were dealt a stack of bad cards (red) and good cards (blue) unknowingly, as
the game progressed they began to recognize a pattern of the bad cards
dealt to them And began avoiding them unconsciously and stopped grabbing
them all together after a period of time. In short term we stop even before
we realize that its bad/ doesnt benefit us. In the summer I was eating these
cookies that mi abuela made and they looks amazing so I just continued to
eat them and all the sudden I stopped eating them for no reason and then I
came to realize that the cookies were undercooked.

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