Colin Turnbull

Colin Turnbull was born in London, England in 1924. Colin studied philosophy, polotics, and music in Magdalen college at oxford university. He also studied in India, he returned to Oxford and studied anthropology, specialized in American field. On his trip in 1951 was when he first visited the Pygmies. He became very intrestes in the African tribes, he studied native language, and music.He died of pneumonia at the age of 69. Turnbull was an unconventional scholar who rejected neutrality. He idealized the BaMbuti and reviled the Ik, and described the latter as lacking any sense of altruism, in that they force their children out of their homes at the age of three, and gorge on whatever occasional excesses of food they might find until they became sick, rather than save or share. Turnbull gained prominence after hi wrote the book The Forest People in 1962 it was a detailed study about the Mbuti Pygmies. The Pygmies were also known as the mountain people.  His partner in his study who  helped him persever  was called Dr. Joseph Towels they has an opened gay relationship. Turnbull retreated to a Buddist monastery he lived there after his partner died, because both had complications with AIDS.

What I like:

• Travel: it remembers me of good memories and my family.
• Rest: I feel peace and serenity.
• Sports: makes me feel adrenaline and I like it because it makes me stop being a fatty.
• Jean Pi: being with him makes me feel happy and secure. I love him so much that I will marry with him!
• Laughing: their is always good things in life and laughing is a healthy one.

What I Dislike:

• Last day of Vacations: coming back from vacations remembers me of coming back to reality, Honduras, which is not a safe place.
• The zoo: it reminds me of the day I puked in the middle of the street and how bad I was feeling that day.
• Sad Memories: they bring sadness to my life and really bad memories about things that happened. 
• Sleeping Alone: I am afraid to darkness.
• Going to School: There is always too much work and I end too tired.
• I feel useless and with no purpose when I can not do something well. 

What factors influence our perception?

There are many factors which influence our perception. One of the major factors that influence our perception is senses everyone senses things in different ways, as well as the view in which you have towards different objects is different. Our age and state of mind, or what we have been taught at home affect the perception we have towards the world. These factors would divide into two branches that would be the internal and external factors that affect our perception. Culture which would be external affects our perception since it consists of out practices, believes, value and the way we tell people about our experiences in life. It can also be the way we unwrap our self to the rest of the people. Internally would be the way I sense things and the way I act around people. Factors like my behavior toward the rest of the community and my physiology. Social roles people have can also affect perception since is the way they are viewed you can try to become someone you really are not.

Why is perception your reality?

Perception is the view each and everyone of us have towards life. Every person has a diffrent perception of life, the way they live, and their belivies. Perception is your reality because the way in which you view the world is the reality, or what you believe is true about life. That is the reason why every person has a diffrent perception on what happens in their every day life. An example would be the way I distinguish right from wrong probably what I think is completly wrong, somebody else believes its something normal. My perception for killing is that it is wrong, nobody has the right to take someones life away, for someone in a gang or a dilincuent it might be something normal that is why we have diffrent realities. Perception is they way you see things around you what you like or don't. It is you reality because its your way of thinking, the information you have gather of what you see. The information you gather from things around you might be diffrent for every person the way you view the world, is your perception and that its why its your reality.

What is Psychology?

Psychology for me is the study of peoples behavior and it gives us a better understaning in why people act the way they act. it gives us more ideas in why people have certain behaviors. It can also test us in synthoms of sicknesses we may have. Psychology is a very important study of the human behavior and gives of better reasoning on the facts. Psychology is important to me because it gives me a better undestanding on the way i act and the reason for the actions I take.