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Dream Log: July 24, 2003 (idea)

2003-07-24T17:46:39Z

July 24, 2003. 9:05 am

This is by far the most clear dream that I have had in a while. A bit weird though, but not at the same time.

A brother and sister and Saffron Burrows.

The brother and sister were jumping bridges, traveling. They had just gotten off a plane or a boat. They were jumping a long distance, the sister didn't do it as much as her brother and she kept foiling her brother sometimes, grabbing on to him, almost making him miss the bridge to hit the water instead. There were other people around farther behind doing the same thing. It was kind of a sport. Saffron Burrows was there she was only the one that kept up with him. The brother was annoyed at the sister she kept complaining about how she couldn't stay in the air long enough and how she sucked at it and how she needed help. The brother just said it was because she leaned too much to her left and that she had to lean more to her right. If she wanted to stay in the…

December 20, 2002 (thing)

2002-12-21T00:13:48Z

I think I'm ranting. Yes I get the grade back from the class I thought I was doing well in. Actually I know I'm doing well in. I need at least a 3.8 GPA to get into grad school. Yes. So I get back my mark from my exam for Abnormal Psychology. I have 78.788888%. NO!!!!!!!!!!!!! The class average was 85% on the exam and standard deviation was 6. According to the EVIL UBC Psychology Department rules, all classes must have a Mean of 68% and a Standard Deviation of 13. Yes I was scaled down to 78.88888%. I hate the stupid Scaling rules! I have been screwed over way too much!

Oh well I still have hope for next term but I already feel burned out. Hey but I also do feel set, as long as I stay above a 72% average I can continue to Directed Studies for next year since one of my profs already offered me a position in her lab for the summer and winter. It was the happiest day of my life when I got an email from her saying I got the highest grade in my class!…

schema (thing)

2002-12-09T22:08:01Z

In Psychology, in the domain of social cognition a schema is an organized knowledge structure about a concept or object. Schemas and categories (very simple schemas that group like things together) are our "working knowledge" about the world.

Schemas serve as an adaptive function and are involved in automatic processing, which allows us to efficiently assimilate new experiences into existing schemas. We would not be able to function if many or our perceptual/cognitive processes were not automatic. They allow and help us to resolve ambiguities by quickly applying one's working knowledge of the world. Schemas affect the information that we notice, think about, and remember. We usually remember and notice the information that is consistent with a schema. In addition schemas help us fill in missing information with defaults.

So on the one hand schemas can help us greatly, but they also…

Lena Olin (person)

2002-12-09T06:46:04Z

Born on March 22, 1956 in Stolkholm Sweden, Lena Olin is the daughter of actor Stig Olin who was in Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece The Seventh Seal. Her full name is Lena Maria Jonna Olin, and before she came to Hollywood she had was already a successful actress in Sweden.

Lena Olin was part of the Bergman "family" as a member of Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theater directed by Ingmar Bergman, she starred in many Shakespearean plays such as King Lear. She was also in two Ingmar Bergman films, Fanny and Alexander (1983) and After the Rehearsal (1984), which was her international debut as a movie actress. She got the attention of the U.S. audience when she starred as Sabine in Philip Kaufman's The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) opposite Daniel Day-Lewis. In 1989 she starred as Masha in Enemies, a Love Story which earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and she received the…

Kelley's Covariation Model (thing)

2002-12-09T05:29:59Z

Harold Kelley's Covariation Model (1967)

Kelley, like Heider before him, assumes that when we are forming an attribution we gather information or data that will help us come to a decision. Kelley's theory focuses on the first step in the process fo social perception - how people decide whether to make an internal or an external attribution. It is an attribution theory that focuses on observations of multiple instances of behaviour across time, place, different actors, and different targets of the behaviour (situations), and examines how the perceiver chooses either an internal or an external attribution. We make such choices by using consensus, distinctiveness, and consistency information. An attribution is the way in which we come to understand the causes of behaviour (our own and others).

1. Consensus refers to how other people behave toward the same stimulus.

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Paradise: As Seen in Yevgeny Zamyatin's We and Other Literary Works (idea)

2002-10-25T18:50:18Z

In Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, the author develops a structure of a totalitarian state that can be paralleled to the Garden of Eden and the price one pays to achieve utopia. Ironically, this utopian state is really a dystopia. The concept of the utopian ideal began in ancient Greece, where the structure of the city was fundamental to an organized society. This style can be seen as a template later on for books such as More's Utopia, Bellamy's Looking Backward, Campanella's City of the Sun, and Bacon's New Atlantis. However, these books will not be discussed in this paper, although examples from the Bible and George Orwell's 1984 will be used to illustrate the similarities between the paradises. The structure of the city also mirrors the type of people that inhabit it and the current weather conveys the mood.

The term paradise…