青春感恩记(大学英语作文)What is psychology

What is psycholo

gy? You may ask. Psycholo

gy is an academic and applied

discipline

which uses scientific

method to learn mental functions and behavio

rs, which means psycholo

gy is a scientific

di

scipline

which

aims at the

study

of human’s tho

ught and

behavior.

Ho

wever, tho

ugh

Psychology

is

burgeoning

and

profound

, it

doesn’t mean it is far away fro

m our daily

life. Psychology can be adapted into anywhere of

our life. Like what we study in university

such as mathematical analyze and liner

algebra

, Psycholo

gy

has

its

o

wn

set

of

theories

and

effects.

And

in

the

fo

llo

wing

parts

I

will

introduce

three

practical

psychological effects to y

o

u, that is catfish effect, watch effect and broken windows effect.

Catfish effect

The catfish

effect

stem

from

an interesting

story in Norway.

I

n

No

rway live

sardines

are a

few times

mo

re expensive than frozen ones. It was said that o

nly o

ne ship co

uld bring live Sardine ho

me, and the

ship master kept his method a secret. When he lat

er died, people found that there was one catfish in the

container. The catfish keeps swimming and the sardine beco

mes very

active to avoid direct co

ntact with

this Catfish.

For what reaso

n

can the

sardines live longer?

Contention

!

It

is

same

in human

society.

When

so

meo

ne

co

mpetes

with

yo

u,

y

o

u

will

be

force

to

be

stronger.

So

when

yo

u

take

part

in

a

contentio

n next time, don’t be afraid, remember it is the danger around y

o

u that makes yo

u better.

Watch effect

Have yo

u ever had an experience like this: When

y

o

u have only o

ne watch with y

o

u. It doesn’t matter if

the time o

n the watch is co

rrect, y

o

u will believe witho

ut a shado

w of do

ubt y

o

u get the right. Ho

wever,

when y

o

u have two at the same time and the times o

n which are not exactly the same, yo

u will fa

ll into

deep do

ubt. So

metimes the watch in the story can be a metapho

r of yo

ur personal goal. Fro

m the sto

ry

we can kno

w that when we have o

ne clear aim and stick to it, it will be easy to achieve. But when yo

u

have a lot of aims, they will bewilder yo

u an

d may be none of them will be achieved ultimately. Like the

famo

us Chinese saying

, “

You'd better make a long resolve rather than aspire often.

”

Windows effect

This sto

ry

co

mes fro

m New York, 1969. A psycholo

gist parked two go

rgeo

us cars in two different bl

ocks

with door unlocked, the first one is a poo

r block and the second one is a bo

urgeois block. A day passed,

the

first

car

is

lost

and

the

seco

nd

still

remain

there.

However,

when

he

broken

the

second

car’s

windshield and leaved. Only one hour later, the

second car is lost too. Why does the seco

nd car lost in

the end? Because when something seems

perfect, people will tend to keep it as perfect as before. But

when so

meone broke it and it

doesn’t

seem as perfect as before, people will think it

doesn’t

matter to