I used to do this a lot after I argued with someone. Eventually, I grew up and just stopped talking when people got aggressive. If someone is getting loud I normally just stop because at that point they are already mad, only going to be one-sided and not even comprehend what you are trying to say because they are angry.

I try explaining this to people in my life but they never fully comprehend what I'm trying to say. I believe if you learn basic life skills it will help you grow and make life a lot easier on yourself. Basic skills such as emotional intelligence, empathy, open-mindedness, and self-discipline. These are just a few of the basic skills that will make your relationships better and thrive in the future.

We are currently talking about Hispanics and why so many cultures fall under the same umbrella. It's because they share a similar language and culture. Most people in these cultures won't call themselves Hispanic because they feel it doesn't identify them.

I believe we get more than we expect from our day-to-day relationships. Family relationships are for support, comfort and love. Friends are for always having an ear to vent to. Animals are for loneliness.

I'm trying to better my listening for my classes because I have to write notes and listen to the lecture. I am a horrible multitasker. I have to choose between writing notes in class or later if I have time. Normally I listen to the lecture and then write notes after class but takes up extra time for other classes.

I am worse at this type of listening because I typically stay silent when I'm going through something so I never really knew what to do for others in empathetic conversations sadly.

I have bad ADHD and try to ask questions, stay engaged, or maybe say something to relate to it to show that I understand. To some people, this might be not polite but to me, I'm trying to show that I'm listening.

I think this is true because when battling with addictions it's more of a psychological problem than anything. I'm learning this in psychology, there's more trauma, and conditioning that goes into humans. That causes the decisions of their everyday choices.

We want strong warrants because the whole point of your speech is to build credibility and make your audience interested. My struggle is finding credible sources to use in my speech. Normally takes me a while to find articles I truly like and want to share with others.

I think every speech you give should be important. You would be in front of a crowd of people, that are taking time out of their day to hear you out. When giving a speech, it should be exciting to you because if it's not why would it be interesting to anyone else?

That's why I feel it's best to come up with a topic that you can talk about in an orderly fashion and just enough so that your audience will understand the information given.

I think this was one of the main things I was struggling with when coming up with a topic for my project. I wanted to do something that I was interested in, something the audience would be interested in, and of course a topic not too broad.

As I said in one of my last comments in avid class we were taught to sit in the front row because we take in more information, and nod. This shows the speaker you are interested and understand the information given. Avid was about leadership and using the tools and techniques given to better our learning. I've been using these techniques most in college and very happy I started thinking about my education earlier on.

My sister is so shy and she tends to aim her head to the ground to avoid eye contact. I think this makes her feel more comfortable but other people probably think she doesn't want to talk to them.

I was taught this in my avid class. The class was on how to be successful in college. My teacher taught us to sit in front, we take in more information that way, sit up straight, and nod to show that we understand to the speaker.

I believe everyone thinks this way because actions speak louder than words. If someone says they like you then goes and gossips about you. You're going to think they do not like you at all.

When people take lie detector tests, they often have body language analysis because their body is usually saying something they are not.

I feel that a lot of people get this confused because I've seen many people get flustered or have fluency hiccups mid-sentence because they are trying to find a card from their notes. I feel like this would happen to me because I get easily flustered and mess up my words, but I will stick to my sub-points and stay on track. Also not make it into a script.

First impressions are quickly formed, sometimes I don't even know that I am doing it because it causes little to no cognitive effort. My first impression of my boyfriend wasn't the best when I first met him so much that I didn't even recognize him when he seemed to actually care about himself. When I first saw him he was wearing sweats, a hoodie, and no haircut. This made me believe he didn't care how he presented himself. Then later on I eventually got around to his personality and ended up liking him in the end. I schedule his haircuts now and looks presentable most of the time. A girl can only do so much.

I normally use CWI library database. Honestly used to be so self-conscious about this because you could get kicked out of school for not citing your sources correctly. I even cried to one of my teachers about it because I was so afraid of doing something wrong as a first-generation college student, you are afraid of failing and letting down everyone. My teacher ended up giving me so many resources to make it easy.

I feel as if we do this already in writing. If I were writing to my teacher I would write formally of course and if it was my friend I would most likely use shorter terms such as slang. This class is similar to writing but on communication which is slowly breaking down how to communicate better and structure my speaking right.

Yes indeed! I believe the respect we give out is what we will receive back. If someone doesn't have the respect to talk to me in a clear manner that I can understand in a workplace environment, I won't hold a conversation with them any longer

This kind of reminded me of elementary school when we would do mini-science experiments. This is where I first learned to write down my sensory information better known as an observation. although my conclusions were never on point I did try my best at 8 years old.

When I think of self-perception I think of self-esteem. I try to maintain my self-esteem because overall it makes me happier about myself and life. I'm currently taking psychology this semester and one of the things we are learning about is correlation. My psychology teacher told me a correlation that can be linked with depression is low self-esteem. So I try to do something for myself at least once a week to boost my self-esteem.

I believe this is true because most babies just want to be loved and have attention on them most of the time. I think babies are easy to understand I don't know if that's because I'm a woman, but most babies like to eat, sleep and poop. When they can't do one they tend to get fussy.

We've been taught this from a young age it's easy for us to process a 3-letter symbol. I believe if it were someone learning a new language it would be a little more difficult for them to process this word but they both know English and are organizing their thoughts about a dog using that Sybol dog because that's what they are most used to.

Yes, I do believe so but I also believe it is based on their conscience because if someone were to have done something wrong that they truly believe is wrong recently. That would weigh heavy on their sub-conscience and they would most likely feel bad about themselves.

I feel more important encounters as an interview or meeting someone's parents is physically and environmentally important because you will be spending a long period of time with these people. I believe they will want to reminisce about meeting you and what they thought of you. My boyfriend and I talk about how we first met all the time.

I believe first impressions are important for example meeting my boyfriend's parents for the first time. I wouldn't wear high heels, a short skirt and a tang top because they would probably think the worst. Most of the time first impressions are important but if you are casually meeting someone, I don't believe so. I would want someone I'm meeting casually to like me for me.

I do this a lot, when I'm in class or a place which has a lot of people. I shake my leg a lot when I'm nervous and I know a lot of other people do as well, so whenever I see someone body language doing the same. I like to ask them if their okay if they need something because nobody likes to feel anxious.

This kind of reminded me of English when they taught us how to take apart big books just so we can process it better and understand. The perception process is not too different I didn't quite understand why we are learning about perception but now I understand, to organize our thoughts and to process information more adequately.

I remember when I started going into first and second grade my love for writing and reading began to fade away once grammar came into action. I remember being so frustrated with myself because I couldn't remember all the "rules" and to this day I still get that frustration because I just suck at remembering things. So every time I write I naturally get anxious in fear of doing something wrong. Especially in college because you can get kicked out for not citing something correctly.

We do this process so much we don't even recognize when we do it. We are actively consistently on the go, our brain only shuts down/ goes to sleep because it's processing and working hard every day for us. I believe 8 hours is the least I can do for my body.

It's actually crazy how each word in our vocabulary systems has it's own story. I feel like they should have taught me that in pre-k as well. It might have made spelling even more fun. Their so much complex information on communication but yet I'm barley finding out about it in college.

When I was in pre-k I remember the first word I learned to spell was flower. I believe when we are all kids we all want to grow up and be adults already and when I learned to do more adult functions the more excited I got to especially learn. I feel like if we stayed with symbols describing actions we wouldn't have come so far in the "manuscript era".

This kinda corresponds to psychology creating new neurons in our brain everyday using them everyday to complete day-to-day tasks. Our brain is constantly decoding things everyday from smelling, seeing, to reacting, and speaking as well. The more we do it the easier it becomes.

I believe this is true because everyone is different and everyone talks differently. For example considering I'm Mexican I may have a higher accent than someone who is just from America.

As I said in one of my last comments I tend to have a lot of trouble communicating my feelings, I know now that stress and anxiety play a part in that. How would I be able to express myself when my body is in fight-or-flight mode?

As soon as I read this I immediately thought of whales. Their use of echolocation to communicate with each other using different vibrations and such. Also, the last chapter talks about cavemen using banging and swooshing noises to send an even clearer message to each other while telling a story.

I went to a baseball game with my boyfriend and they spoke on the intercome about what was going on in the game but I never watched a baseball game in my life so while my bf already decoded it in his head he decoded it for me out loud as well about who's winning.

I have never been well at communicating with others especially when my feelings are in the way. Sometimes I don't know how to accurately describe how I'm feeling and feel it comes off as rude because I just stay quiet.

This is so fascinating to me because we don't even realize on a day-to-day basis how far we have come. I never thought so hard about how people communicate after reading this. We went from gestures to making noises with gestures, then talking and writing. I've always wondered how babies learn to communicate besides crying.