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by amanda.zhang Posted on November 21, 2011

A. First,take note of the moods you’ve experienced.

Recently, I felt tired and anxiety about school. The midterm just past and the finals are coming up. I am worried about my grade because I am not doing so great in one of class. Each day I don’t have enough sleep I also have to work after school. It’s so stressed out for me to managing both school work and work.

B. Assess your overall level of anxiety on a scale of 1 to 10.

My overall level of anxiety is 7.

C. Assess the level of physical tension in your body- where do you notice the tension? Try rating your overall tension on a scale of 1 to 10.

Due to lack of sleeps, I am tired all the time. My level of physical tension will be 6.

III. After you have finished your meditation, re-asses your state of mind and body.

A. Reassess your mood on the chart.

After the meditation, I felt more relax and calm than before.

B. Reassess your level of anxiety from 1 to 10.

My level of anxiety is 4.

C. Reassess your level of physical tension and rate it from 1 to 10.

My level of physical tension is 5.

IV. Describe the experience– What type of meditation did you choose? Describe what was going on in your mind and your body, what kind of thoughts and sensations did you experience during the meditation? Were there any challenging or frustrating aspects of the experience, and if so, what were they? Would you try this again in the future? Why or why not?

I choose the Guided Meditation by Fronsdal. At the beginning of the meditation I felt so weird because I have never done anything like meditation before. At first, it was hard to block thoughts. My mind just keeps thinking about something else. However, after a few minute, I started to follow the instruction that Fronsdal told me to do. He asks the listener to focus on their body and to follow their breathe .As I followed the instruction, some times during the meditation I felt more relaxed and I started to fell less tension in my body. As the meditation continued, I felt more and more relax and at the end I fall asleep. Overall, this meditation is a great experience. In the further, if I have time, I will definitely try this again.

 

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Hello Class~!!!!!! =)

by amanda.zhang Posted on September 23, 2011

Hi everyone~!

My name is Amanda. I am a transfer student from Hunter College.This is my first semester here at Baruch. My intened major is Accounting. I choose Baruch College because it has better business program. I was born in China . My hobbies are baking ,shopping and slepping!!!!!!!!!Even though psychology is not my intened major ,but by far this is my favorite class in Baruch college because  I learn some many interesting thing.

Aside from school , I work part- time in a dessert house.I love my job because making dessert is my favorite thing to do. My dream is to open up a dessert house in the futher!!

Here is a picture of the cake that I made~ =)

I wish everyone the best of luck this semester! Get A’s!!!

 

 

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"1.What is your reaction to the choices made by the author of this Reflection in terms of which memories they chose to keep and which memories they are discarding. I would want to remember both the good memories and bad memories because without experiences the bad thing, you would never know w how precious are those good things that had happen in your life. However, if I really have to choose which memories that I would like to keep the most. I would choose to keep same memories as the author do, which are the ones related to childhood and teenage years. Memories in childhood is the most valuable and happy time in my life. Everything is simple and happy. You don’t have to worry about anything. 2.How would you feel if this friend did not remember you (imagining that you are their longtime friend)? I would felt really sad and hurt if this friend doesn’t remember me because all those precious moments that we shared before are not important to her anymore. I am just a stranger to her now. 3.What role might you play in helping them reconstruct their memory? I would try my best to help my friend recover her memories. I would take her to memorable place that we used to go together. I would show her pictures that we took before. I would try anything that I can do to hope it will be a trigger to reconstruct her memory. 4.Based on what you’ve learned in class and through your readings, what memory encoding, consolidation, and retrieval techniques might you use or teach to help this person recover and reintegrate their memories? I would start with encoding. I would show my friends all the pictures and thing that would help her recovers the memories. I would also tell her everything that had happened to her in the past."
posted on Nov 3, 2011, on the post Oh memory where are you?

"What would be your hypothesis of the study’s outcome? I agree with you that the students attention span in class will increase with breakfast and decrease without breakfast. What suggestions do you have for the researcher on how to improve or adjust the proposed study? I think you should also mention the amount of breakfast the one eats. Eating too much or too less breakfast at one time might affect the outcome of this experiment. You should also mention about the type of breakfast that one eats, because that might also affect the result of this experiment. Are there any drawbacks or potential harmful impacts of this research design (or results?) No, I don’t think there are any drawbacks or potential harmful impacts of this research design .Many research has shown that breakfast do affect a person’s day. What would be the NEXT STEP after this hypothetical research study were conducted and presented to the public? Can you propose a replication with a good twist? That’s often how research works and how the field is able to advance. Maybe you can think up a great Follow Up study! The next study should study how breakfast affects a person’s life in long run. Skip breakfast might not just affect people in a short run but can also lead to different type of disease in long run. This is a very interesting topic because the result can help understand how important breakfast is."
posted on Oct 11, 2011, on the post Breakfast: The most important meal of the day? Lets find out.

"Hi Yan Ting! Nice to meet you. My name is Amanda. I am a transfer student. My intented major is Accounting. Which city of China you came from?? I came from Guang Dong. Have you been there before? I liked the Chinese Song that you post. Thanks."
posted on Sep 27, 2011, on the post Hello