For my first psychology 105 assignment, I had to read two chapters of my psychology book. In these chapters, I learned about how society sees psychology as a humanities, not a science. Some people relate psychology with ghosts, demons, and other parapsychology. Others relate psychology with self-help books to improve your own life. Essentially, psychology has a bad rep in that it is a part of the Liberal Arts college which implies it’s a super easy major along with a hopeless career in the future. Anyways, I learned about the term recipe knowledge while studying the text. The textbook informed that the psychology associated self-help books were full of recipe knowledge. If you do not know what this term means, it “is the knowledge of how to use something without knowledge of the fundamental principles that govern its functioning” (Pennsylvania State University). For example, I know how to use my iPhone, but I don’t understand all the mechanics behind how it works. Anyways after learning this term, I realized that there are many things in my daily life that I just do or say, but I do not know its origin/background or how it’s made. I am interested in learning how things work like computers or those sorts of things. Besides my interest in learning how things are made, I am also interested in how the idea was thought up, like if there was an interesting story to the creation of the item. For example, who made the first gummy bear? It was Hans Riegel of Bonn, Germany. He made the first gummy bear or “dancing bear” when his new business of hard candies were not selling as well as he had hoped. He is the founder of Haribo; the name is a compilation of his first two letters of his first name and last name and Bonn (Burt). As seen, I am going to dedicate my blog to finding the answers to different things I associate with in my daily life. [ I love gummy bears. I eat them probably every week.] Maybe one week I’ll learn and blog about how the word f**k was chosen to become a swear or how weddings rings became a symbol of love. This origin idea seems very interesting, so hopefully I’ll be able to find enough information for my topics and keep this blog idea.
Pennsylvania State University, comp. Thinking About Modern Psychology. 2nd ed. Boston: Pearson Learning Solutions, n.d. Print.
Burt, Jaqueline. “A Brief History of Gummy Bears – Bon Appetit.” Bon Appetit. N.p., 10 Oct. 2014. Web. 22 Jan. 2015.
I honestly think about this sort of stuff all the time. Like how did London get it’s name? Or Tokyo? Did some guy just randomly come up with a name and it became hip to call it that? I know some cities are named after people, but I picture in my head a bunch of English men sitting around a campfire, sipping tea, when all of a sudden someones like “This place should totally be called London”. Probably not how it happened, but I do definitely share your interest in the origin of strange things.
This sounds really cool. It’s fun how you’ll take things we use automatically everyday and explain their origins. You’ll never run out of topics either, which is a plus!
Interesting, I like that you are going into the thing which are often over looked. I think that you will learn a lot from doing so. And I will get to also because you’ll share it:)
I like the idea of your blog. It seems fun and something you’ll have a hard time getting bored of. I always like the idea of finding the background of things we interact with in everyday life. I’m excited to read more of it during the semester.
I think this sounds like an awesome idea! Personally I like watching How its made and those kind of shows to find out the way things work and their origins. I think that you can definitely make this a consistently interesting blog and I look forward to learning about something new next week.