Chapter 2

Gay Acceptance Survey!

1.) Can people deal with gay persons? My two variables are religion and nationality.

2.)Very religious people won´t accept gay people because it is against their beliefs and people from different nationalities will think different because some countries are more liberal than others.

3.)My target population was teenagers between 14-21 years.

4.)I chose to apply this survey to random people to see the point of view of different ages people.

5.)I tested my hypothesis by giving a survey to random people so I could see the differences in my results. My survey questions were very easy. I asked people their gender, age, if they accepted the legalization of gay marriage in their countries?, do they have gay people in their family?, if they know someone who is gay?, do the feel comfortable when they see or when they are with gay people?, do they think being gay is normal or right, and their relation and if they are very devoted to it because that can be a variable that can change a lot my results.

5.)In conclusion, religion does matter at the moment when we ask about gay acceptance, since I live in a Christian country and most of the people who did the survey is Christian, their teachings are very important and they do not accept this type of people because it is not what their religion has teaches them to believe. Also nationality affected a lot, because some people who did the survey are from another countries and many other countries are more liberal with their points of view focusing on gay people. For other countries it is very normal to see this persons and just deal with them in their daily lives. But since the majority of the people who did this survey are latins, our points of view are different. Here it is less normal to see this people.

6.)If I got to do this survey again I would take in consideration that if people knows that can cause a person to turn gay.

7.) Have you lived in more than one country?

8.) Generally gay people are not accepted, and if they are not accepted obviously the legalization of their marriage won´t be either. New generations care less about this types of people because we have grown with this ideas, and as time passes by there are more and more people who become that way. Since we are kids we are taught about them, since they are so much it is not possible not to see them. Also as time passes by religion loses it´s power and people pay less attention to it´s rules and just do whatever they want or think is right.

Chapter 1. Introduction To Psychology.

             Psychology is the study of the mind. Psychology started because people began to be interested in human behavior. Like why do we act a certain way or do things and our thoughts.

             Many roots of psychology come from Ancient Greece, more than 2,000 years ago. During this Socrates said that we could learn about ourselves by studying our thoughts and feelings. Psychologists named this way of thinking introspection which means looking within. Ancient greeks made various theories about psychological disorders such as confusion and bizarre behavior.

             Since psychology has began there have been many psychologist, each of them with their different idea. Functionalism is one of them; this psychologists were concerned with how mental processes help organisms adapt to their environment. Structuralism in which structuralists were concerned with discovering the basic elements of consciousness. Behaviorism is that we learn by  positive reinforcement. The Gestault psychology which means "shapre" or "form" in German. This is based on the idea that perceptions are more than the sums of their parts, instead they are wholes that give shape, or meaning to the parts. This rejects the idea that experience can be broken down. And the school of Psychoanalysis  that emphazises the importance of unconscious motives and internal conflicts in determining human behavior. Psychodynamic thinking assumed that most of what exists in an individual's mind is unconscious and consists of conflicting impulses, urges, and wishes.

            There are many perspectives in psycholgy. Biological Perspective is one of them; this perspective emphazises the influence of biology in our behavior. This perspective states that our thoughts, fantasies and dreams are controlled by our nervous system. Evolutionary Perspective focuses on the evolution of behavior and mental processes. The Cognitive Perspective emphasizes the role that thoughts play in a certain behavior. This perspective studies the mental processes to understand human nature. Cognitive psychologists investigate the ways in which people perceive information. Humanistic Perspective stresses the human capacity for self-fulftillment and the importance of consciousness, self-awareness and the capacity to make choices. The Psychoanalytic Perspective studies the influence of unconscious forces on human behavior. Social-learning theory suggests that people can change thei environment and create new ones. Sociocultural Perspective studies the influences of ethnicity,gender, culture and socioeconomic status on behavior and mental processes. And there are many other perspectives.

            Psychology is very intersting, it is the study of the mind. Cognitive Perspective is the best. If I got the opportunitiy of being a psychologist I would be a cognitive psychologist. I would choose this because it is very interesting and fun to see how our thoughts influence our behavior.