Alchohol on TV. article 4

TV Delivers Mixed Messages About Alcohol
The article I read was about how alcohol and how there are both positive and negative commercials on tv about it. On some channnels they show the commericials that show what bad stuff can happen, such as a friend dying or a car crash and on other channels they show positives about drinking such as partying and getting with the person you want.

The commericials are very contradicting to each other, while one wants you to be safe and gives you a very negative look on the outcomes of alchohol, and all the stuff that could happen. One commericial gives you the positives. So while watching tv a child could get very mixed signals about drinking.

Parents need to be aware and talk to their child about the consequences of drinking. They also need to make sure the child is not drinking at a young age or make sure they are safe while doing it. The commericials contradict each other in every way possible. The team that did the research are still working on how these messages are processed.

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My morning:

This morning my brother woke me up and I thought about my weekend, which was amazing. Then I got up and I walked downstairs in my house and got my clothes, and went and got in the shower. I went downstairs after the shower and fed my dog, and then ate a yogurt. I finished getting ready, doing my make-up and hair, and then I left to go to school.
When I got to school, I saw nasty people making out in the hall, which makes me sick. Then I got called a bitch by a nasty girl who needs a life. :P Then I put my stuff in my locker, and thought about how good it smelt because of the cherry air freshener I have in there. Then I went to my homeroom, and talked with my friends about Semi-Formal and some drama stuff at McDonalds, which was hilarious by the way. So then I had to go to JMG.
In JMG I sat by Karl and we laughed the whole time about how badly my cousin behaved when I was in New Hampshire. We also colored tape for a while and did some work about our lives when we were young. It was really boring, and then the whole group of boys in that class started playing hacky sack and we told them they needed lives. Then I learned that some girl was a lesbian and freaked out on someone, which what she said was rather amusing.
Then I went to spanish class and took a really long test and probably did pretty well. I then listened to the really annoying freshman talk about their really boring weekends, which involved all the drama you could imagine. Then I walked through the halls to my locker and this girl asked me to move very rudely. I walked away and came to this class, and then me and Brooke had some private conversations, and decided we need counseling. hahaha. :p
Then we went to lunch, Brooke called her MAN and we came back to this room to eat. Then we went to the bathroom and here we are. :P

Article Three

The third article I read was "Doped Up On Shopping" by Willow Dawson. The article was talking about how shopping has a direct effect on the brain's pleasure centers. It says that a trip to the mall can fill the brain with dopamine similar to a drug addict getting a fix.

"Dopamine is a neurotransmitter occurring in a wide variety of animals, including both vertebrates and invertebrates. In the brain, this phenethylamine functions as a neurotransmitter, activating the five types of dopamine receptors — D1, D2, D3, D4 and D5, and their variants. Dopamine is produced in several areas of the brain, including the substantia nigra and the ventral tegmental area.^[1] Dopamine is also a neurohormone released by the hypothalamus. Its main function as a hormone is to inhibit the release of prolactin from the anterior lobe of the pituitary."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine

Dopamine gets involved when someone sees something new. So when you go into a store, you are surrounded by new stuff, so when you go to the mall, you are getting a shopping high. So after you leave the store a few hours later you lose the happy feeling, such as a druggie coming down from a high.

I think this relates to psychology because it is giving you a high and the brain is actually causing it by you seeing all the new things. The high is caused by things such as clothes and shoes. I think this is a awesome thing to know, because next time I go to the mall I'll have a different outlook on it. Thinking back though, you are always happy when you go into a store and buy something but when you leave the store you are all kind of blah feeling.

Article Number 2

The article I read about was "A Sniff Of Your Sweetie." The article was about how people, women in general sniff their family members, or significant others items, such as clothing. It gives the person (s) a sense of comfort while the others are away. It also said that women even sleep with their partner's clothing. One man smells his father's clothing while he was away and a mother placed her pajamas in her daughters bed when the mom couldn't be there. This gives the person a sense of comfort while the person is away. A university of Pittsburgh study says that it is normal behavior for people to do this. Reasearchers who surveyed under-grads in long-term relationships found over 90% of women and over half of the men smelled their partners shirts or blouses. Women have more interest in their partner's smell then men may hark back to evolutioary forces, possibly reflecting greater female choosiness in mate selection says reasearchers Melanie L. Shoup and Sybil A. Streeter. Many parenting guides suggest leaving the mother's shirt with her baby during day care.

I think that this is really interesting to know, how smelling someones stuff gives you a comforting feeling. I have seen it, because girls wear their boyfriends clothes to school, or just have their boyfriends sweatshirt. I think this is good to know in psychology.