My Life through song

Power  is the ability that someone has to control or influence another person. People with this power usually have a more direct idea of what they want and are much more driven, which allows them to lead others to the same goal.  Someone who can get others to follow them has a lot of power and the movements for rights usually have strong leaders who have the power to influence others so that they follow and become part of the movement as well. While Bob Marley never mentions a specific movement, the rights movements have been controversial so having a strong leader is important. 

Racism  is prejudice against people because of their race. While people are much more against racism now, there is still a lot of it present, even in the United States. People deny it, but there is a high frequency of it, despite the common idea that it is wrong.  Kermit, being a different color than the rest of the Muppets, gets hurt because of the comment of one of the other Muppets. Many children's shows touch on topics like this and teach lessons like how prejudice is wrong. While it is presented in a less serious way, like how he is similar to leaves and things that people don't normally pay attention to, it shows how racism hurts because of how they are seen as less important. It makes people wish they were different than how they are, which would hurt, no matter who you are. 

Passionate love  is the idea of love where people are crazy about each other and they are always together. People usually think of younger couples for this, rather than ones who have been together for years because they are the ones who are still in this stage. They tend to do crazy things for each other and think about each other all the time.  There are relationships that stay in the passionate stage longer than others, where they are still just as crazy about each other as when they first started seeing each other. This song shows a sort of transition into the companionate stage where there is just as much of the passion, but there is more of a commitment, as well. You see each other as idealized versions of each other and you have an idea that they may leave you for someone who may be "better." The ideas of perfection and worrying so much about losing the other person suggests the stage of passionate love, but there isn't as much of the craziness that passionate ...

Matching hypothesis  is the idea that people tend to be friends with and end up in romantic relationships with people who are similar to them. Though now culture is turning more towards being compatible with the other person because of how much diversity there is, it is easier to get along with someone that you are similar with. The idea of opposites ending up together is not true because of how hard it can be to find common interests and ideas and not end up fighting because of those differences.  These girls end up close friends in the movie, and their friendship started because they looked so much alike. Growing up, many of my friends looked very similar to me, to the point that teachers would get us confused. I never looked much like my brother, but because we had similar interests and we were raised the same way, we have been close from when we were little, even if we fight a lot. When people are similar, they get along easier, especially when there are similar inter...

Culture of Honor  is a society that places a high value on individual respect, strength and virtue, so when someone breaks those ideals, there is an acceptance of cutting off or killing the person who breaks that culture and those promises. The movie "Mulan" features a culture of honor, so from the beginning, she is trying to follow that culture without breaking away from the things that she wants.  Her family expects her to respect the ideals that they hold and when she isn't following them exactly, they say that she is going to dishonor them which ultimately means that they would cut her off. She fights for the things that she wants which ultimately upsets her family. 

Empathy  is feeling someone else's feelings. I am a highly empathetic person and I tend to cry when just seeing other people crying. While watching the Oscars and seeing Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper perform "Shallow," and the emotions that they simply portrayed through their performance, I started crying. Their acting showed the emotions like they were feeling them and I ended up crying in response to seeing them portray those emotions. They show how people portray their emotions through music and how much that music can affect the audience. They don't have a romantic relationship, but the way that they acted made it seem like they did have a romantic relationship. 

Normative influence  is wanting to fit in with other people and wanting to be like them, letting them influence you. Throughout elementary and middle school, I wanted to be like other people around me. Because of that I signed up for band because it seemed like so many of my other friends were signing up for band and I wanted to be like them. But I always enjoyed singing a lot more. I hated band, and I ended up quitting. I joined choir in high school, and it was the best decision that I ever made.  I started taking voice lessons, where I grew the most as a signer and enjoyed my time singing the most. I managed to bring people to tears with the emotions that I was able to portray with my music and the days where I performed for my peers were my favorite days of the year.  Mi Mancherai This is one of the songs that I performed as a solo, and it was the song that helped me to realize that choir was ...

Classical Conditioning   is learning with repetition of how you learn by having a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to cause a conditioned response to the neutral stimulus. People, or animals, start to react to things in ways that they would never react to them in a normal situation. They might be giants is a band that tends to have stranger songs that covers different topics than other  ands and artists. Their song, "Dinner Bell" talks about one of the very popular experiments for Classical Conditioning. The dinner bell is what signaled hunger, no matter what the food would be, which alludes to the experiment with the dog and the beef powder that became so popular with the concept. 

Each emotion has so many songs written about them because that is the basis behind music. Music is entertaining because of the emotions behind it and how much music can make you feel.  Happiness  is a pleasant emotion that people try to achieve that can be characterized with a better life and having a more positive outlook.  Happiness can change your outlook on life, making everything seem more positive, looking more optimistically, like there is light shining in every situation. The song "Walking on Sunshine" shows how people become more positive and everything seems better because of a few things that may have caused that positive emotion. Anger  is a response to feeling like someone is threatening you in some way. People react to those emotions in different ways and it causes the different ranges of anger that we see in different people. Anger happening by feeling threatened, or anger in many cases, can lead people to want to be "even" with someone...

The fundamental attribution error  is the tendency blame any action so father people as internal and not think that there were external factors affecting those actions. People don't think of if they were in that person's situation if they would have just acted in that way and, unless they really know the other person, assume that they are acting in a way that reflects their own personality, usually leading to a negative view of that person. This song shows how the blame that he was given, he saw as unfit for him to be receiving and that the situation that he was in was the reason for those actions. He was attributed with the personality based on the actions that he did, and there was no thinking of other things that may have caused that.

Status Quo Bias  is the idea that people prefer things to stay the same rather than change them. Rather than taking a different action that may cause change, people choose to do nothing so that nothing will change because of a fear of change.  As soon as someone was thinking of changing what they did and how they fit into the cliques of the school, the status quo was threatened, and the students worried about how they would all fit together after that. They didn't want to have what they knew, the status quo, change. Although those changes happened and it brought many people closer, there was fear among the other students because of the changes in the status quo.

Self-presentation is the way that someone presents themselves to others, whether being the truth or what they want other people to believe. People tend to try to make themselves look like they are composed and happy rather than showing that they have any issues in their lives, wanting to keep their head up and seem relaxed even if they are everything but relaxed.  The idea of keeping your head up and letting your hair down as Andy Grammer says to do in his song, makes people seem more relaxed and makes them more approachable to other people, which can suggest the idea of how humans are social animals and why we want to change how we present ourselves to other people.

Culture is common beliefs among a group of people that leads to similar behaviors. This also includes songs.  Each  culture has different songs that they listen to and it doesn't include just the language differences in the songs.  While this song features some differences in the instrumentals, there really aren't that many differences overall. The culture in many Hispanic countries is much different though, especially in the way that they talk. They don't see swear words in the same way as us, for example, so there are children swearing from young ages and the parents don't think anything of it.  A different culture with a much larger difference when it comes to the songs is Indian culture. My choir sang one of their songs and it was much different from any that we would have sang in English, Latin, Spanish. Songs much like this one are performed on a regular basis and both the northern and southern ...

Cognitive psychology is the study of thought processes such as memory. People use different techniques to remember things but putting them to well-known songs can help some people remember them. One of my math teachers in middle school taught us the quadratic formula using a song that most of us already knew: "Pop Goes the Weasel" and I still use it to remember the formula even though I learned it 6 years ago.