Psych 101

I'm currently enrolled in school at Bunker Hill Community College, working towards my AD in Computer Information Techonology. I'm taking a psychology class (I'm actually in school right now), and we need to write silly little journal entries for every "Module" we complete. After studying the various parts of the human brain and taking a test on them, the last thing I really feel like doing is writing one of these journal entries. So this is what I came up with:

In Module 4, we talked about the various parts of the brain and the Nervous Systems. Through the reading, we learned about the differences of the male brain to that of the female brain. One thing that stands out about this research is the result of PET scans of the brain when both men and women were asked to find their way out of a virtual reality 3-dimensional maze. Men were found to be considerably faster than women at achieving this activity, and the findings suggested that men used both parts of their Hippocampus (the area used to store recent information learned), while women only used part of this area. With this information in mind, it seems unfair that men are often looked at negatively for being “too stubborn” when trying to find their way to an unfamiliar location in a new place and refusing to ask for directions. This trait in men is often satirically approached in almost every sitcom, movie, and sketch comedy skit I have ever seen. It is apparent in this Module, however, that men’s brains are preprogrammed to act in this specific manner. We should no longer be looked down upon for a behavior which we cannot control; we should instead be praised to have gone through millions of years of evolution to allow us to be at a point in humanity where was can almost certainly locate any Elks Hall, High School Gymnasium, public restroom, or Denny’s Restaurant even in the most unfamiliar of locations.
Now, if we could only remember the anniversary of our first kiss with our significant other, the song that was playing on the radio during that momentous occasion, and which night is trash night on a week coming off of a long weekend, we might truly be considered at the peak of our evolution.