in Unit 1.

As I finished reading the lengthy chapter 1, I now realize why so many people choose to be psychologist and study this field. How so many people tried to interpret the reasons as to why we do and how we learn to do, is so.... intriguing. I always thought that you could only do a handful of careers with a psychology, which is not the case at all. It makes sense to me, though. You must know how the brain works and what draws people to look and act on certain things in order to do advertising or how to react when dealing with unstable inmates as a correctional officer. I want to be a geriatric physician assistant and I feel like I would need to learn about demensia and how the cognitive mind deteriorates.

One aspect of this unit was hindsight bias, the tendency to think that we could have predicted something that has already occurred that we probably would have not been able to predict. This happened to me the other day, without realizing it. I was telling my friend how the relationship between her and a coworker were not going to work out and in fact it didn't. I felt like I predicted it and I knew it was going to happen, when in reality I had no control of it happening. I feel like if maybe I didn't instill in her mind the events that I thought we're going to happen, then maybe she would have saw it different and wouldn't have said "you knew it was gonna happen!" 

Some of the things in life that you think didn't happen to anyone else but you, actually happen to a lot of people. I can tell that the rest of the units are going to have the light bulb in my head shine bright at all times. How enlightening.