Gears In Your Head
The mind works in mysterious ways. It is influenced by many things and works like nothing else you have seen. The gears in the photo below represent that the mind works like there’s gears in your head. What is a car without its gears and leavers? What is the mind without its own type of gears? Psychology is dealing with the way ones mind works, the gears work in ones head to produce a way of thinking. They are not really “gears”, but nonetheless they represent the mind at work, putting things together to make sense of them. As in cars, not every gear in every car is the same. If two different “cars” are put together for a comparison, there are going to be different ways of working. Just like in ones brain, the things that make people think are going to be different also, giving different points of view, or even why some people are better at English while some are better at math. It’s all in a person’s psychology.
The brain in this picture makes it seem as if this person were particularly good at math or physics, because of the E=mc^2 and all of the numbers and bar-codes in this head. As stated by Paul Valery ”The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.” (http://www.kgv.net/psychology/) Meaning that with psychology you learn about why people think the way they do. Some people could be amazing at mathematical arithmetic and some could be extremely good at English/composition. Some of the best poets in the world did poorly in school because of math.
”The mind is a system of organs of computation, designed by natural selection to solve the kinds of problems our ancestors faced in their foraging way of life, in particular, understanding and outmaneuvering objects, animals, plants, and other people” (How the Mind Works by Steven Pickner). Without psychology we cannot understand why people’s minds think the way they does, the way we react to things, the way that we have instincts and believe in certain things. Basic logic is specified by our genetic programing, the way they operate was shaped by life lessons from the person, or people around them that mean something to them. A person’s way of thinking can be influenced by many incidents, people, or even the media. However mostly from past experiences.
Like the picture shows the mind is like a machine that runs thoughts through a person’s head, it shows that some people are better at things than others, and the mind gathers and uses information from past experiences to shape future ways of thinking for itself and possibly even ones children.
