Week8 - Confirmation

My Confirmation:

 

Perhaps one of the challenges is to understand human minds, working in actual world. Let's first look at the human mind that controls human bodies(including behaviors). Because human minds are not rational rather those are subjective which means that they are vulnerable to justify human behaviors and beliefs. According to the Placebo effect, the experiment showed that patients were able to recover their sicknesses though when they ate counterfeited medicines from doctors. This proves that human are relying on personal thoughts and beliefs beneficial for themselves, because if they are accurate and rational, they would actually not get better from the sicknesses, rather they would maintain their sicknesses same as before the medicine taking as after the medicine taking. Also, there is a theory of cognitive dissonance. When conflicting ideas are existing in one human brain, one person would delete one idea to support what he wants to think. For example, when a person smokes, he already knows about the badness of cigarettes. The idea that 'Smoking in not good for my health' and another idea that 'Smoking makes me get out of so many stress' are conflicting. However, if he determined to smoke, he would ignore the first idea to justify his behaviors of smoking. In addition, according to Barnum, he made a theory of the Forer effect. The experiments to show this effect was set in psychological tests of personal characters, and respondents took psychological tests of their own. They were all got results from the psychology experts, and they recorded that their results are almost same with what really they are. However, unfortunately, all responders got same result papers. This shows that people tend to misjudge the situation occurred right to themselves, especially about their own psychological results or something like that. Furthermore, in the Stanford Prison experiment, SPE, done by Philip George Zimbardo, experimenters set applied attendants into prisoners and polices randomly. And both groups were promised to get money in the case of fulfilling certain days inside the prison. However prisoners began to be more frightful, and polices started to suppress prisoners cruelly and strangely. Those who played police role justified their bad behaviors toward other group of people because they thought that they are really polices. This shows that people are consciously or unconsciously subjectively fitting their positions to what they believe to be or should be which is corresponsive to the word 'justifying'.