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Chapter on group psych an accompaniment to dreadful election. Rural white Americans - are they homogeneous? I'm going to have a difficult time overcoming my prejudice after overexposure to my unabashedly racist rural relatives. Is their behavior dispositional or situational? Discuss.

Textbook is horribly biased toward extraverts; fails to mention positive aspects of conscientious neuroticism as health-protective (Turiano, 2012). Resolution to self: never accept a job with a company that uses personality tests in the hiring process.

Why am I not surprised that the authors used the cliché of an English student unable to do a physics problem to illustrate Piaget's overestimation of logical ability in adults? Let's use the bully pulpit to perpetuate the myth that liberal arts majors are incompetent! It's really sad that this text may be many students' sole exposure to the field of psychology.

Book mentions Terman's IQ study finding correlation between IQ and height, strength and health, but fails to mention anything about the socioeconomic status of the children or other reasons these factors are linked. Am also feeling annoyed at their insistence that musical ability is unnecessary for survival. Is intelligence merely the ability to survive, or does creativity and cultural influence count?

Sick of the harping about aggressive behavior and video games in the observational learning chapter. Why isn't there a box about the depictions of women, lgbt people and under-represented groups in media and how this affects viewers' attitudes and behaviors? Why isn't there a box about how many people play video games and DON'T go out and murder other people (or even zombies)? No mention of SCOTUS case.

I don't like any of these theories about dreaming. They don't account for the importance of dreams in human culture and history. My own dreams don't *feel* like random brain firings or reflections of mundane daily activity, any more than my waking thought processes, memories and experiences are random electric garbage. I think dreams are necessary to integrate memories, experiences and learning.

Reading abt strategies for pain relief right after having a panic attack about how much I need to get done by Thursday for my class, my lack of any of the prerequisites for getting into a graduate program, the woman who is still texting my husband, & dearth of essential dinner ingredients. Positive self-talk has always struck me as falsely cheery. It's probably NOT all going to be okay, but gotta keep going?

Hate the inspiring stories about overachievers that begin each chapter. Course content itself is fine. Online quizzes attempt to confuse with extraneous information or ask the same question several times. I don't understand why textbooks don't even have covers and cost well over $100.