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our challenges

2009-11-26T20:33:00.001-08:00

I think that the biggest challenge for psychology is to be able to say what the mind and the emotions are. There are different theories and they all postulate different and opposite things about this subject, that is why there is not one psychology. If someone asks to a psychologist what are the mind and the emotions, they will answer from the approach that they apply and believe in. For example, if I ask about the mind to a behavioral psychology, the answer will be that the “black box” can`t be studied, so is not considered in the theory, but if we ask to a cognitive psychology, the answer bill be extremely different, it will say that with the mind we significate and interpretate what we live as animals, creating the subjective experience. The necessity to be able to agree with all the approaches of psychology is the biggest challenge and the weakest aspect of my discipline, but is also the best part of it. For me, is fun and necessary that in a profession coexist different ways of seen the word and the human being, because it allows flexibility and freedom to choose which one makes more sense to you, the one you like the most, the one that will help you to accomplish what you want as a professional and as a person. I think that is no solution for this “problem”, which I think is good, but I also think that it can be improved. In the time that I have been part of the program I have observed that the people are not very respectful with the psychologist that do not agree with the way they think, that goes for everybody, even me.

I think that teaching respect for the “different thought” it will improve the relationship that exist between the many types of psychologist, which will help to create a better, solid and complete knowledge created with cooperation and respect.

I think that the other big challenge of psychology is the social role of this discipline. Some people say that the psychologist could be a generator of change or a reproducer of the power relations of our society. I think that we as an active social actor have to question our role in the society and discover what we want to do with it. We need to be aware of what we do, not only in our consult with our patients, but also as a person who participates and influences the social order, so we could know what our actions mean and what we have to do to accomplished our personal goal, as a discipline and as individuals.

The money

2009-11-12T09:30:00.001-08:00

I consider myself as a person that knows how to handle money. I have always helped in money issues in my house, I have always been responsible to pay the bills, deposited the checks, distributed the money on travels, control de expenses, etc. This means that I have a lot of experience handling money on a on a daily basis.
I usually don’t have to borrow money from other people, only to my mother that is the person that supports me while I´m not able to make money for myself. But if I ask someone else for money is because I need to by something immediately and I left the money at home, like lunch, copies, etc. And I´m not very good at returning the money, not because I don´t want to, but because I have a very bad memory for that, so If I ask for money I also ask that someone remind me to return it. When I don´t remember in a long time and the persons that borrow me the money ask me for it, I feel very embarrassed, that’s why I always prefer not to borrow money. The big problem with my bad memory for money issues is that I also don´t remember when I lend money to someone else, so If the other person doesn´t remembers, I never get my money back.
A long time ago, I used to pay my bills making very long lines, a few times a month, to pay them , It was a big waste of time and energy, and also very boring. Now, with the technology I pay my bills bay PAC, that is a system that discounts the money directly from your bank account, the company only lets you know how much you expend and why. The other method is paying the bill on the web side of Servipag, you ask for the bills that you owe and you pay them quickly and easy by internet with you bank pin.
I think that the responsibility of teaching us about the money, hoe to use it and the big responsibility that implies, is the responsibility of the family and the school, all the knowledge combined helps people to know better how to manage their finances.

my faculty

2009-11-05T09:38:00.001-08:00

I think that the faculty is now in an “upgrade”. Recently they have improved the computer laboratories and the structure of some of the departments. About the computers, I think that is positive that know we have more and better computers, but they are very often used for classes which means that they are not available for the students that needs to work in them. Also, I think that a big improvement would be to be able to print without limit, a 1000 pages a year is insufficient for us, that’s why at the end of every semester we are begging for extra pages or we end up paying to print some else. Also, I would open new study spaces, because we only have the library and is always clouded and noisy, and the study room/casino that t`s a really but joke pretend that a casino is a appropriated place to study just because it has internet and plugs for the computers, that’s why I always end up studying on the grass or in the faculty floor. For all of these reasons, I would like more benches, chair or sofas in the faculty so we could sit, rest, study, work somewhere comfortably. I think that some changes to the faculty it would be positive, because it wouldn’t be some place to come, take the classes and leave, It would be a place for us and ours, where we could develop ourselves as students with all the elements and spaces necessaries.

my practice

2009-11-05T08:46:00.000-08:00

Today the topic that I’m going to write is about my practice. I haven`t thought about it until last week, when I saw that the meeting with the teacher in charge of the practices was schedule for thin week. Unfortunately I couldn’t go.
I have always known that I wasn’t motivated to do a regular practice, like the ones that the students do just for obligation without enjoying them. I also know that for my thesis I want to do an investigation about an interesting subject, which means a lot of time and work. So I have decided that I want to do my practice outside Santiago, It doesn’t matter if it is in another city or in another country, the only thing that matters is that I`m not going to do it in my home city.
The main reason to do my practice somewhere else is because is the best option to do a lot of thing that I want to do all at once. First, it allows me to live a few months alone, outside my house, which means, without the protection of mom. It would be the first time that I would live alone, I have stayed in other places for a long time but on vacations; living and working, outside home is a whole different thing. Second, when someone does the practice far away from the university, they give you more options, for example, they could accept that you didn’t completed all the 700 hours of practice for the fact of been away. They also give you more freedom to invest the hours of work in other tope of activities. In my case I could be able to invest some of the time doing the investigation that I want to do and do activities that the people that I’m working with needs.

I suck as a tour guide in Santiago

2009-10-09T12:31:00.000-07:00

I have to admit that I don`t really know very much the tourist part of Santiago, so if some friend comes to visit me I think I would ask a friend of mine about what to do. She has been visited by a lot of friends from another country (Ecuador), so she has a lot of experience as a tourist guide. I think I would start de tour in Cerro San Cristobal in a very sunny day, and hopefully in a free smog day, so they could see the city. I would also take them to the best Chilean restaurants, for them to taste our typical food. If it is winter, depending on the budget, I would like to organize a trip to Farellones, Colorado so they could ski and enjoy the snow. If it is summer, I would prefer to go to Valparaiso, Viña del Mar to enjoy the beaches, or maybe take them to the south, to the country. It shows, but if someone came to Chile, I definitely wouldn’t stay in Santiago, is a city like any other, I think is a little bit boring as a place to stay having some many wonders just two hours from here.

2009-09-24T10:50:00.000-07:00

I`ve never enjoyed very much reading, I don`t know why, but it makes me sleepy. That has been a really big problem this last few years, because in psychology we have to read a lot, for that reason I had to invent methods to be able to read without falling sleep or lose concentration, reading standing up, listening music or with a strong light, etc. Once in a while I found something to read that keeps me awake and entertain, my resent discovery is Jodorowsky. I had to read his book of “Psicomagia” for a paper that I had to do (with my friend Carla) for a humanist curse last semester, and I really enjoyed the process of reading it. I found very interesting the content of his book, his proposal, the thing that he says and how he says them. I liked so mach, that now I`m reading his other book “La danza de la realidad” just for fun. So far, I have been even more fascinated with his experiences in life and his way of signify the reality. Now I’ve already in my hands, and waiting to be read, his book about the Tarot of Marsella, subject that I found very interesting, especially because I read the Egyptian Tarot, and it could be, not only important to my life, but also a significant way of been a better reader of the tarot .

Transantiago

2009-09-03T11:17:00.000-07:00

I think that Transantiago, in the beginning was a chaos. The system was not enough for all the people, everywhere and in every time everything was full and hot. But in time, fortunately it has been improved, slowly it has been getting better. The thing I hate the most about transantiago is that now we have to be changing busses all the time, which makes the travel to be longer than before. The positive thing about it, is that now the busses are more save, before they were very old, and broken, and the bus drivers were faster and fearless than now.Since Transantiago started, I fortunately haven’t used a lot, a few months after it started my mother gave me her old car, so that made things a lot easer to my to get round the city, especially to avoid all the chaos of the firs year. Before thansantiago, it was faster to get to places, but it was very difficult to be a student a that time, I didn`t had a student pass so I had to fight a lot with the buss driver to pay the student price, now is easer, because everything is more organized than before. And now I have a student pass, so I don’t have to be fighting any more.
I think, that I would invest more in the busses, they broke all the time, there is always a bus on the street waiting to be repaired. I would also invest more in security, to the buss drivers and to the people that uses thansantiago.

My next stop

2009-08-27T10:39:00.000-07:00

The country I would like to visit is Argentina, I’ve been always interesting to visit our country-neighbor, because I’m curious to know their culture, their way of thinking, we are neighbors but we are so different. I also, would like to visit Argentina because I’ve known a lot of people (including my mom) and tango dancers that have visit that country, and have told me a lot of wonders about Buenos Aires and how much I would like it. But this last year, my interest in Argentina is more related to my interest in tango, because that is the country of origin of this dance, so the place to learn whit the best is Buenos Aires. In fact, in September I`m visiting Buenos Aires whit my mother and my professor/dancer so we can take privet and group lessons whit one of the best tango dancers in the world and also to know the tango culture of that city, we are going out to dance every night of the week, by tango shoes, and know all the tango dancer that we can. Our priority in not to know all the historic places of that city (they both have know them already, I’m the only one that is visiting for the fist time) because we are focused in learning and enjoin as much as we can about de unique tango culture of that city, next time I will worry more about knowing about the city jaja.

My last semester

2009-08-13T11:33:00.000-07:00

My experience during the last semester was very good. In the university I had really fun curses, they were optional so I choose those I liked the most, I learned interesting thing about clinical psychology in the area of humanism and systemic theories. Last semester I used my free time dancing tango, I`m taking private classes, two times a week, with my professor who is also my dancer, I sometimes help him by teaching thing in the group classes and once in a while we do presentations in events . The good thing is that with my professor we have got together a few young couples that want to learn to dance tango or know a bit, so we could form a dancing group to do presentations, create new things and have fun. A challenging thing that I had to live last semester was that my boyfriend went to USA for three months and a half for work, we were together for only two months when he left. It was hard, because we couldn’t communicate very much and I was without to many obligations, so I had a lot of free time to miss him, but when he came back we realize that distance brought us even closer.

Assignment 4

2008-07-30T21:57:00.000-07:00

The scientific library SciELO Chile, is an elelctronic library that includes a selected colection of chilean scientific magazines.Thougt the web page you can search what ever you whant in all the collections of Scielo. http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php/lng_es

The American Psychological Association (APA), is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States. Their web site includes scientific magazines, databases, journals, books, etc., all of them psychology related.
http://www.apa.org/topics/

Online Reserch Database, It's one of the most-used database, because contains premium online scientific information resources. It doesn’t have only psychological knowledge includes scientific information of every kind.
http://www.ebscohost.com/

Assignment 3

2008-07-01T12:37:00.000-07:00

My last week was very happy one. I spend a lot of time with my mom and friends. On Thursday, I went out with my dear friend Carla to eat sushi and to shear sometime together. On Friday, my mom and I went to a Tango class in a Tangueria called Buenos Aires. It was very good, I learned so much, and the professor and students were so nice to us. After the class, we stayed dancing and eating very good food. At midnight the Libertango Company gave a Milonga show, they were fantastic! After the show there was a raffle, and I won 8 free classes with them! I was so thrilled! So, you see, it was a very good week.

PD: Miss Vania! there is a problem, I don´t have pictures from last week!

Assignment 2

2008-07-01T12:06:00.000-07:00

Its, oh, so quiet - Bjork
Its, oh, so quiet
Its, oh, so still
Youre all alone
And so peaceful until...
You fall in love
Zing boom
The sky up above
Zing boom
Is caving in
Wow bam
Youve never been so nuts about a guy
You wanna laugh you wanna cry
You cross your heart and hope to die
til its over and then
Its nice and quiet
But soon again
Starts another big riot
You blow a fuse
Zing boom
The devil cuts loose
Zing boom
So whats the use
Wow bam
Of falling in love
Its, oh, so quiet
Its, oh, so still
Youre all alone
And so peaceful until...
You ring the bell
Bim bam
You shout and you yell
Hi ho ho
You broke the spell
Gee, this is swell you almost have a fit
This guy is gorge and I got hit
Theres no mistake this is it
til its over and then
Its nice and quiet
But soon again
Starts another big riot
You blow a fuse
Zing boom
The devil cuts loose
Zing boom
Whats the use
Wow bam
Of falling in love
The sky caves in
The devil cuts loose
You blow blow blow blow your fuse
When youve fallen in love
Ssshhhhh...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htobTBlCvUU

I chose this artist because I love her music, she is one of my favourites. I like this song in particular, because it is so positive and happy, and the video is so funny. And the lyrics are so funny too! because Bjork sings a story that every one of us has lived at least once in our life, but she tells it in a very happy and entertaining way.
When I’m blue, I listen to this song and it cheers me up, because I used to sing it with a dear friend, and every time I listen to this song, it reminds me of her.

Introducction

2008-04-15T13:31:00.000-07:00

Hello!, my name is Belén Martínez, I’m 21 years old and I’m from Santiago, Chile. I live in the area of Ñuñoa in a big and old house with my mom, dog and cat. I’m in 3rd year of psychology in the University of Chile. I like to listen to music, play with my dog and cat, eat Chinese food, go to the movies, go out with my friends and family and have a good time. I hope that with this blog I'll be able to complete my homework, improve my English, get good grades, and have fun doing it in class and not at home.

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