AkshayG2023's Psychology Blog

 1. Compliance: Accepting requests or following directions This image relates to compliance since one student is offering to help another with an assignment. The girl in the green complied (ooooh buzzword) with the boy's request for assistance. 2. Obedience: Following directions from a person of authority The children demonstrate obedience as they're standing in a single-file line at the request of a teacher. The difference between this and the previous image is that the children are requested by a figure of authority, the teacher. 3. Social Facilitation: Performing better  due to the presence of others watching you perform a task. The student at the front is completing a problem on the board in front of his class. He may be able to solve the problem with more "correctness" (I'm sure that's a word) due to social facilitation since everyone is watching him complete the problem. 4. Group Polarization: Moving farther away from individual ideas when in a group. In...

 Anything Blog! So, since we can discuss anything psychology-related, I chose to connect Psych with another subject that I've fallen in love with: chemistry! And no, this won't be a rant about the biochemical processes we learned about in Unit 2. The article I found, and would like to discuss, covers principles founded upon chemical processes that have since been affiliated with psychological sensory and perception. Le Chatelier's principle demonstrates how a chemical reaction, when disrupted, will return to equilibrium in various ways. For instance, if we have  A + B = C + D If additional B is added to the system, the reaction will proceed forward in order to "eliminate" the excess B. The reaction essentially automatically finds a way to restore its balance. The reaction BEFORE the excess was added was at equilibrium, then the extra reactant acts as a stressor on the system, and the reaction proceeding forward acts as a restoring influence, ultimately resulting i...