Responce

I was reading through blogs to see what else to blog about this week and Katie Emerson's blog in titled "Just a thought" made me think a lot. She asks some really thought provoking questions. For example, Why do we act in certain ways?  And why do we do what we do? I constantly catch myself thinking about these topics all the time. I am a psychology major so it is my goal to figure these out. I have come to a conclusion that we act the way we do depending on different situations. For example, if we are with our friends we will be a little bit more loud and talk quite a bit more than we would at a social with the governor. These are typically learned behaviors that our parents pound in to our heads at a very young age. It is called "learning to act in public". Or the one I am more familiar with, "there's a time and place for everything". Our parents try to teach us to do certain thing and act a specific way that way we don't get badly judged. Now, what our parents kind of set us up for are new situations like moving in to college. The only hint my family gave me was "to just be myself". As people get older their parents advice on social situations becomes more vague because they expect us to be able to make good judgments. I think we act the way we do because it is a learned behavior from when we are young. This entire blog just got me thinking.