Self-assessment

WRITING SKILLS
Summaries were quite difficult because it was not easy to systematize all the information from the texts. I think that ESP vocabulary tasks were easy, but sometimes it was not enough time to study for them. I think that is a good way to practise your knowledge of English words.

SPEAKING SKILLS
I think that I was not enough active in class discussions. I need to encourage my speaking skills. I did not like doing presentations, because I think it is not needful and takes a lot of time.

LISTENING SKILLS
I think I am not good enough in listening activities. Though native speakers sometimes made some difficulties to understand exercises. I am not to go a bundle on this activity.

READING SKILLS
I think that home reading texts were too long, so it was difficult to concentrate in them. It was not hard to understand it. I loved doing computer tasks, because there you can check your news.

You are how you wait: Queue Psychology

Summary

People spend much time waiting in lines. All that started during World Wars I and II. At first in Britain, then soread in other countries: United States, Canada and parts of Europe.

In europe, people spend much time in banks and railroad stations lines. There each serving counter have several queue.  United States changed this way of service. They created new ‚snake‘ line, which constructed by one single line.

The differnce is not efficiency. Multi-server system is good because people could do they business faster than other clients.

Researcher Jacob Hornik proved that large influence compel people to believe. This analysis showed that the waiting period for people seem 30 percent longer than realy is. Another way to solve this problem is distraction. It was really effective, the waiting period become shorten.

Much discontent for customers give lines in airlines. It is very difficul žt wait in lines when people are tired after the flight.

That is not difficult to solve these problems. The luggage should be outfit on the other side of airplanes.

Dreams

All people dream. That improve experiments with people's sleep. And even 75 percent people, who are awakened from REM sleep, stated that then they are dreaming.

Mostly, people dreams compose of everyday events, such as going to supermarket, working at the office and other activities. For example, students dream about going to class or professors dream about lectures.

One of the famous researcher in this specific was Sigmund Freud. He proposed that dreams represent unconscious wishes that dreamers desire to see fulfilled. Also, he try to understand the meaning of dreams.

However, there is exclude one dream kind - daydreams. That is calling fantasies that people construct while awake. Their content is often more closely related to immediate events in the environment than is the content of the dreams that occur during sleep.

In conclusion, I would like to say that dreams permit information that is critical for our daily survival to be reconsidered and reprocessed during sleep.

Internet Psychology

Nowadays people use internet as a tool, to find information, communicate with their friends and family. Everybody use internet but not everyone knows that it has disadvantages.

To begin with, there are a lot of harmful information, which is very easy to find, for children. They can find a lot of inappropriate images which can harm their thinking and behaviour.

Secondly, people spend much time communicating in social networks which can harm their behaviour in real life.

What is more, there is always a risk to become a victim of bad people who want to take your money.

And finally, people can spend too much time on the internet this affects their social life.

All in all, despite all the bad things, internet has much more possitive things. And we can not imagine our lifes without internet, so use it carefully.

The mystery of memory

Summary

The memory process was analyze a lot of years. Before anything psychologists established that memory was form from two skills: short term and long term memories.

Objects, which fall into `working memory` from longer term memory was calling remembering. Second fact, the difference between procedural and declarative memories is that latter remember for people how concrete thing look like or other type helps to remember how use with various things.

Memory development was achieve with different games.Also,  children have a good photographic memory but often when they grow up this ability dissapear.

To improve memory people should have associate ideas with some ivents or person. Also, people could use various strategy, which help them to make better memory.

In conclusion, all researchers hope that in future people get to know more about memory speciality.

Richard Wiseman

Professor Richard Wiseman started his working as an award-winning professional magician. Then he obtained a first class honours degree in Psychology and a doctorate in psychology from the university of Edinburgh.

For the past fifteen years he has been based at the University of Hertfordshire.

Professor Wiseman has established an international reputation for his research into unusual areas of psychology, including deception, luck and the paranormal.

Also he has written three best selling books. The first is 'The Luck Factor', second - 'The Psychology Of Luck' and the last - '59 seconds'.

Professor Richard Wiseman is well known for this media appearances, high profile talks, live performances and large-scale studies.

Professor Richard Wiseman was the recipient of many awards in various competitions.

Applying psychology in the 21st century

Summary

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center occupy in experiments with dreams. Robert Stickgold is an investigator who is studying human consciousness while they are sleeping.

Researcher is interested in how daily routine and emotions are related to people's dreams. In order to comprehend how these things are operating, Stickgold asks participants to enjoy various activities such as playing Tetris. The result of this is quite exciting because almost all participants, even those who have some psychological problems, affirm of seeing some pieces of Tetris in their dreams. Moreover, another resercher Daniel Wegner declares that not only data that people are contemplating about reflect in person's dreams. According to her, even when participants are trying to forget certain facts, they have an ability to appear in our dreams.

Some explorers believe that dreams help to solve problems such as visual ones. Other researchers at the University of Chicago made an experiment with students and came to the conclusion that a good night's sleep strengthens the power of knowledge.

My future proffession

All people have a lot of desires about their future plans. And one of the most important thing in future is our job and proffession.

Now I am studying psychology and I think that this choise is good for me. I am very friendly person. Also I like to communicate with other people, so, I think, exactly pychology, would help me to improve myself in this sphere.

Finally, I hope that I will safely finish my study and my future job would be associate with psychology.