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Biopsychology is the most boring thing ever, but at least I got some revision done

🌷 17/04/19🌷

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Some colourful english revision coz my brain works weird

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🎧 - Dreaming of you - The Coral

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Comparrison Of Approaches

Determinism:what causes behaviours?

Biological Approach:

Deterministic: Biology, genetics, neurotransmitters, hormones.

Behaviourist Approach:

Deterministic: Reinforcement history, environments, conditioning

Social Learning Theory:

Deterministic: Vicarious reinforcement, observe actions and reactions

Free will: we choose whether or not to replicate behaviours (mediational processes)

Cognitive Approach:

Deterministic: Internal mental processes

Psychodynamic Approach:

Deterministic: childhood experiences and the unconscious, personality structure

Humanistic Approach:

Free will: We are personal agencies

Nature vs Nurture: innate or experiential?

Biological Approach:

Nature: genes and biological systems

Behaviourist Approach:

Nurture: how we interact with our environments

Social Learning Theory:

Nature: Likelihood of a behaviour

Nurture: what we observe

Cognitive Approach:

Nature: thought processing

Nurture: life experiences cause irrational thoughts

Psychodynamic Approach:

Nature: unconscious mind

Nurture: childhood experiences

Humanistic Approach:

Nature: Innate drive to self actualize

Nurture: conditions of worth impact self actualization, positive regard A scientific approach? How committed is it to science?

Biological Approach:

Positive: monitor neurotransmitters, use of experimental studies, manipulate neurotransmitters

Behaviourist Approach:

Positive: objective experiments, measurable behaviours

Social Learning Theory:

Positive: research investigations allow for cause and effect

Cognitive Approach:

Positive: We can test propositions, but, mental processes are unobservable, so we must infer

Psychodynamic Approach:

Mixed: come aspects can be scientifically investigated, but there is heavy reliance on case studies and interpretations

Humanistic Approach:

Negative: belief that scientific methods are inappropriate for studying human behaviours as they are too complex for simple cause and effect

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17/100 days of productivity   +   MON 6.13.16 // 7:25 pm

theme of the day: solid geometry feat. my plant bbs. almost done with DAT math!!

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Oui, j'aime le français

But ew its so hard

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Im thinking of doing it after a level and i really regret my decision

The rain today has been torrential literally

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Some notes for maths :)

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I’m currently watching a Netflix series called “Call My Agent” (in French it’s “Dix Pour Cent”)

I just want to recommend this show to everyone - it’s hilarious, really well written, and I’m already really invested in the plot.

For French learners/speakers, even though it’s a little fast, it’s great practice to hear casual French and match up the subtitles with the phrases (although not always accurate translations). For non-French learners/speakers, it’s just a great show! 

10/10 recommend.

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Welppp psychology is a bore

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Would it be wrong to say that I'm actually enjoying a level maths?

Sun 28/10 15:58

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09.27.18—Balancing my classes better than ever! However, I am very hungry and want bubble tea right now🥤

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141018 13:58

Actually felt not anxious or depressed today so did some maths 🍁🍂🌻 wooop!

I mean i DESpise coordinates but i have toooooo uugh

mais les yeux sont aveugles. Il faut chercher avec le cœur

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Lesser seen french tips

These are a few things that i think might be relevant to language learners that i don’t think I’ve seen on langblr! At the end of the day it’s whatever works for you, but i hope these might be helpful 💙

🗼pouvoir, vouloir and aller (to be able, to want and to go) are really useful verbs to learn confidently. If you want to use a verb you don’t know how to conjugate, you can often follow one of these verbs conjugated with the infinitive to express something similar. It’s always better that than guessing a conjugation!

🗼watch videos of french people speaking english! Most french people will still impose a little bit of french pronunciation even while speaking really good english, and this highlights french pronunciation that you wouldn’t notice in a person speaking fluent french. 

🗼for me, reading simple YA novels written originally in french is actually more beneficial than translated english books that I’m familiar with. This will prevent you from reading by assumption/context/memory. Also, french books tend to be more culturally relevant, and include phrasing and idioms that are more typically french.

🗼contradiction of my last point, but try watching shows originally in your native language with french audio and subtitles. For some reason, it’s far easier for me to understand and i know many people struggle with listening to french. Netflix often has the option of picking the  language of your show, i would highly recommend this if you struggle to understand french films/shows. 

🗼quizlet is the most effective method of learning vocab I’ve found! For me, writing out flashcards takes a long time, and typing in the answers solidifies spelling better than just repeating the words. 

🗼if you’re someone who struggles with pronunciation, some people find it helpful to have someone who doesn’t speak the language read aloud in it, as it highlights typical errors that a speaker of your language will make (and will probably make you feel good about yourself lbh) 

🗼practise just speaking aimlessly in the language, be it to yourself, your pet, or even just while thinking. It’ll help you practise coming up with things to say on the spot, and when you screech to a halt because you don’t know how to express something, you’ll know what vocab it’ll be useful for you to learn next. 

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10 fun ways to learn and improve in a language (that isn’t studying)

watch netflix in your target language - cartoons and disney films are always a good starting point

start a podcast about your favourite topic (tv shows, films, games etc.) 

start a video blog/diary - record yourself on how your day went (don’t worry - you don’t have to post it online!)

start a journal in your target language

set your favourite video game to your target language (e.g. animal crossing)

write tv and film reviews 

listen to free audiobooks on youtube in the background

fall asleep to whispered ASMR videos in your target language (search on youtube ASMR + the language you’re learning)

use apps like duolingo, memrise and quizlet (you could even create your own vocab course)

read lightweight (and trashy) fashion magazines - a lot of content will be available online for free

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Le Petit Prince - quotes 🌠

Le Petit Prince (1943) is a novel by Antoine de Saint Exupéry, translated into English as The Little Prince.

🌟 1. Les grandes personnes ne comprennent jamais rien toutes seules, et c’est fatigant, pour les enfants, de toujours et toujours leur donner des explications.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

🌟 2. Quand le mystère est trop impressionnant, on n’ose pas désobéir.

When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.

🌟 3. La preuve que le petit prince a existé c’est qu’il était ravissant, qu’il riait, et qu’il voulait un mouton. Quand on veut un mouton, c’est la preuve qu’on existe.

The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.

🌟 4. Mais les graines sont invisibles. Elles dorment dans le secret de la terre jusqu’à ce qu’il prenne fantaisie à l’une d’elles de se réveiller…

But seeds are invisible. They sleep deep in the heart of the earth’s darkness, until some one among them is seized with the desire to awaken.

🌟 5. Il ne faut jamais écouter les fleures. Il faut les regarder et les respirer. La mienne embaumait ma planète, mais je ne savais pas m’en réjouir.

One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace.

🌟 6. Tu as des cheveux couleur d’or. Alors ce sera merveilleux quand tu m’aura apprivoisé! Le blé, qui est doré, me fera souvenir de toi. Et j’aimerai le bruit du vent dans le blé…

You have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat…

🌟 7. On ne connaît que les choses que l’on apprivoise, dit le renard. Les hommes n’ont plus le temps de rien connaître. Il achètent des choses toutes faites chez les marchands. Mais comme il n’existe point de marchands d’amis, les hommes n’ont plus d’amis. Si tu veux un ami, apprivoise-moi!

“One only understands the things that one tames,” said the fox. “Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me…”

🌟 8. Le langage est source de malentendus.

Words are the source of misunderstandings.

🌟 9. Voici mon secret. Il est très simple : on ne voit bien qu’avec le coeur. L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

🌟 10. C’est le temps que tu as perdu pour ta rose qui fait ta rose si importante.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

🌟 11. Tu deviens responsable pour toujours de ce que tu as apprivoisé. Tu es responsable de ta rose…

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose…

🌟 12. - Les enfants seuls savent ce qu’ils cherchent, fit le petit prince. Ils perdent du temps pour une poupée de chiffons, et elle devient très importante, et si on la leur enlève, ils pleurent…

“Only the children know what they are looking for,” said the little prince. “They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry…”

🌟 13. Ce qui embellit le désert, dit le petit prince, c’est qu’il cache un puits quelque part…

“What makes the desert beautiful,” said the little prince, “is that somewhere it hides a well…”

🌟 14. Dessine-moi un mouton!

Draw me a sheep!

🌟 15. Quand on a terminé sa toilette du matin, il faut faire soigneusement la toilette de la planète.

When you’ve finished getting yourself ready in the morning, you must go get the planet ready.

🌟 16. J'aime bien les couchers de soleil. Allons voir un coucher de soleil…

I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset…

🌟 17. On ne sait jamais!

“One never knows!”

🌟 18. Il faut exiger de chacun ce que chacun peut donner, reprit le roi. L'autorité repose d'abord sur la raison. Si tu ordonnes à ton peuple d'aller se jeter à la mer, il fera la révolution. J'ai le droit d'exiger l'obéissance parce que mes ordres sont raisonnables. Alors mon coucher de soleil ? rappela le petit prince qui jamais n'oubliait une question une fois qu'il l'avait posée. Ton coucher de soleil, tu l'auras. Je l'exigerai. Mais j'attendrai, dans ma science du gouvernement, que les conditions soient favorables.

“One must command from each what each can perform,” the king went on. “Authority is based first of all upon reason. If you command your subjects to jump into the ocean, there will be a revolution. I am entitled to command obedience because my orders are reasonable.” “Then my sunset?” insisted the little prince, who never let go of a question once he had asked it. “You shall have your sunset. I shall command it. But I shall wait, according to my science of government, until conditions are favorable.”

🌟 19. C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli.

It is truly useful since it is beautiful.

🌟 20. ‘Où sont les hommes ?’ reprit enfin le petit prince. 'On est un peu seul dans le désert.’ 'On est seul aussi chez les hommes’, dit le serpent.

“Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…" "It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.

🌟 21. Vous êtes belles, mais vous êtes vides…. On ne peut pas mourir pour vous.

You’re beautiful, but you’re empty…. No one could die for you.

🌟 22. Les hommes ont oublié cette vérité, dit le renard. Mais tu ne dois pas l’oublier. Tu deviens responsable pour toujours de ce que tu as apprivoisé.

“Men have forgotten this truth,” said the fox. “But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”

🌟 23. Mais les yeux sont aveugles. Il faut chercher avec le cœur.

But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart…

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french garden vocabulary 🌻🌷

🌿 Types of gardens

le jardin garden

le patio patio garden

le jardin sur le toit roof garden

la rocaille rock garden

le jardin floral a flower garden

le jardin d'agrément an ornamental garden

le jardin botanique a botanical garden

le jardin de fruit a fruit garden

un verger - orchard

le jardin potager a vegetable garden

le jardin paysan cottage garden

le jardin d’eau water garden

🍁 Some garden objects

un etang à poissons fish pond

le parterre flowerbed

le pavé paving

l’allée path

la pelouse lawn

la haie hedge

le potager vegetable garden

la serre greenhouse

le tas de compost compost heap

la fontaine fountain

le sol soil

la terre topsoil

le sable sand

la chaux chalk

l’argile clay

les outils de jardin garden tools

le balai à gazon lawn rake

la bêche spade

la fourche fork

le râteau rake

la tondeuse lawnmower

la brouette wheelbarrow

le terreau compost

le gravier gravel

les gants de jardinage gardening gloves

le pot à fleurs flower pot

l’arrosage watering

l’arrosoir watering can

le tuyau d’arrosage hose

la pelouse lawn

💐 Verbs

tondre to mow (the lawn)

ratisser to rake

tailler to trim

semer to sow

bêcher to trim

arroser to water

désherber to weed

pailler to mulch

cultiver to cultivate

récolter to harvest

cueillir to pick

🌱 Types of plants

les plantes à fleurs flowering plants

les plantes plants

les mauvaises herbes weeds

le bambou bamboo

la fougère fern

l’herbe herb

l’arbre tree

la plante aquatique water plant

le palmier palm

à feuilles persistantes evergreen

à feuilles caduques deciduous

la plante grasse succulent

le cactus cactus

la plante en pot potted plant

la plante d’ombre shade plant

la plante grimpante climber

l’herbe grass

la plante rampante creeper

l’arbuste à fleurs flowering shrub

les graines seeds

saplings les jeunes plants d'arbres

plant cuttings - les boutures de plantes

🌹 Types of flowers

rose la rose

marigold le souci

tulip la tulipe

crocus le crocus

lily le lys

iris l'iris

sweet pea le pois de senteur

geranium le géranium

gladiolus le glaïeul

chrysanthemum le chrysanthème

sunflower le tournesol

zinnia le zinnia

aster l'aster

dahlia le dahlia

daisy la pâquerette

carnation l'oeillet

primrose le primevère

peony la pivoine

bluebell la campanule

begonia le bégonia

daffodil la jonquille

jasmine le jasmin

lavender la lavande

azalea l'azalée

orchid l'orchidée

water lily le nénuphar

🌲 Types of trees

orange tree l'oranger

lemon tree le citronnier

plum tree le prunier

pear tree le poirier

olive tree l'olivier

cherry tree le cerisier

apple tree le pommier

apricot tree l'abricotier

fig tree le figuier

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In French we don’t say “love at first sight” we say “un coup de foudre” which literally translates to “a clap of thunder” and that’s the stuff people write novels about.

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