Thinking further into things.......

I was thinking about fridays lecture today ..... we discussed how some people think there lucky and some unlucky. People who think themselves unlucky are those who are so focussed on this thought that they miss the bigger picture.
For example, we were show an experiment where there was a black t-shirt team of people and a white t-shirt team of people.  We had to count how many times the white team ONLY passed the basketball. There was a man dressed in a monkey suit that came on the screen half way through the experiment. The experiment was nothing to do with the number of passes it was to show how some people are so focussed on the task that they miss other things.
In our lecture the majority of the people who said they were unlucky didn't notice the monkey.  So, is luck just a matter of random chance ?

Bibliography

This is some of the bibliography annotated, which i took from the section i looked into in detail 'the law of the few'.

Higie, R.A, Feick, L.F, Price, L.L (1987) Types and Amount of Word-of-Mouth Communications About Retailers, Journal of Retailer.

(the mavens are good at spreading new information)

Feick, L.F, Price, L.L (1987) The Market Maven: A Diffuser of Marketplace Information, Journal of Marketing.

Mullen,B (1986) Newscasters’ facial expressions and voting behaviour of viewers: Can a smile elect a President ?, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

(salesmen at too good at there social behaviour being able to persuade the customer)

Wells,G.L, Petty,R.E (1980) The effects of Overt Head Movements on Persuasion, Basic and Applied Social Psychology.

Milgram,S (1967) The Small World Problem, Psychology Today

(gives evidence of an experiment used to show us how ‘it’s a small world’)

Werner,C, Parmelee, P (1997) Similarity of Activity Preferences Among Friends: Those Who Play Together Stay Together, Social Psychology Quarterly.

Granovetter, M (1995) Getting a Job, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Friedman, H (1980) Understanding and Assessing Noverbal expressiveness: The Affective Communication Test, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Condon, W.S (1982) Cultural Microrhythms, New York Human Science Press.

The Tipping Point Assignment

Over the summer I was asked to read a book called the tipping point by Malcolm Gladwell as part of my preparation into starting a new subject called Design Studies in 2nd year. I enjoyed reading parts of the book and found in the end it was a very worthwhile read. 
After attending my first Seminar I was asked to complete 3 tasks and attend the 2nd seminar to complete the first module.


These were;

1. A mind map of the book 
2. A mind map of a specific section of the book including notes about the sources Gladwell used.
3. An ANNOTATED bibliography of those sources.

Below you will see tasks 1 and 2 completed, task 3 will be in my next post.

Mind map on The tipping Point

Mind Map on 'the law of the few'

“The Rivera”

This house was designed in an environmentally sustainable style in Santa Barbara (“The Rivera”). This house has everything a house needs and more. The environmentally sustainable design features passive solar electricity, solar water and floor heating, natural air flow and energy-efficient appliances. The house is designed by Shubin & Donaldson.

Read more: http://www.digsdigs.com/environmentally-sustainable-house-design-in-santa-barbara-by-shubin-donaldson/#ixzz11avB0dCo

Recycled or Reusable

What is sustainable material ???

-A material that is self generated.
-A material that is non toxic.
-A material that takes little or no energy to process.

first post .....

welcome to my blog! not sure what to write on this first post as i've never blogged before ..... i will be posting some responses to recent lectures very soon !