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  Hello, today I’m going to talk about my favorite food of all the times. In first place, I have to say that I’m not so good at making decisions. So, I’m going to pick three of the mouth-watering foods that exist to me: porotos granados, humitas y pastel de choclo. In my grandma’ house there is a vegetable garden where she grows beans, corn, basil, pumpkins, etc.   All these products are the basic substrates to make the marvelous home-cooked food. In this sense, I have to recognize that I eat my fist favorite food (porotos Granados) every weekend in summer. Also, in that season I enjoy the humitas frequently in despite of the difficulty of cooking this (and many flies fly around them).    When I changed my diet to the vegetarian one, I was afraid because that decision would generate that, for example, I couldn’t eat my third favorite food. But my grandma showed up like a super heroin and made a Pastel de choclo with a base of soy.   Unbelievably, the...

  First of all, i would like to say that I’d prefer to stay at University forever. Perhaps like a student I don’t have much time to get out or to have hobbies. But, we have THREE MONTHS OF VACATIONS! And it would be more if we include winter holidays. I detest thinking in the responsibilitiesand implications of the adulthood.           Psychology is a science that gathers many application fields, some of them are: clinical psychology, Forensic psychology and legal psychology, Industrial and organizational psychology, social and communitarian psychology, educational psychology, etc. Each one has particularities that make it attractive to the transformative labor of the psychologist. On this matter, is very complicated to make a virtual decision today. But I can do an effort! :D   In first place, I’m interested in two areas in particular:   clinical and educational psychology. In despite of the stereotype or common feeling that considers the ...

  Hello partners! How are you? In this enter I’m going to write about the most incredible concert that I’ve had in my life (and the second and last): I’m talking about Belle and Sebastian live performance.   One day, I was navigating in Belle and Sebastian’ Facebook page and I found an advertisement that promoted their around the world’ tour. When I saw it, the only thing that I hoped it was that Chile was considered in their list. Fortunately for Chilean fans, the band wanted to come back to the country in two years.           First of all, I remember the precise date of the live performance: It was on 22th October, 2015. The entry to the concert was really great. When I arrived to Teatro Caupolicán, I received a photograph of me with some of the belongings of the members of the band (I was very excited for that!).   Then, I noticed that the gallery was almost empty, which allowed me to get a privileged position. In the middle of the co...

  I would like to visit Glasgow, Scotland. Why I choose this far-off destination? First of all, I would like to comment that my favorite bands are Belle and Sebastian and Camera Obscura. Amazingly both come from the largest and populous city of Scotland: the beautiful and colorful Glasgow. Therefore, the greatest reason to choose Glasgow like…is to know how the environment (people, typical food, buildings, etc.) of the city influences the music style and lyrics creations of the members of the bands. I  It seems strange to think that my favorite style of music comes from to the same place and my purpose would be to discover this mystery going across the avenues of the third most populous city in the United Kingdom. Obviously, I will do my best to reach a meeting with them (I would not lose anything trying it). If my efforts don’t work, Glasgow has many other attractions (unfortunately none of them is better than knowing my idols) like biggest castles, modern buildings, pr...

What is your opinion on the social networks and the effect they have on society?  I think that the social networks have a colossal influence in the society because the people generally talk about what they see on their screens. The social networks are able to create new perspectives in the individuals, which mosly of times is dangerous; especially now with the scandal of the Facebook.  What is your opinion on animal testing?  I am completely against of the animal testing. All the animal testing practices come from the "speciesist" principles that have been inherited of the Cartesian era, where the animals were judged like things; i mean, without soul and feelings. Today, I would like to make something clear: the animals are like one of them.   Actually, i value the "fighting animal testing" initiatives of some comestics brands, and i hope that all the ways of mistratment (even the hidden forms like this).   What is your opinion on ...

  During this semester, my favorite subject has been Basic principles of learning . The subject is famous because it has a high percentage of disapproval. Also, it is a polemic subject because it works with non-humans animals, especially with rats. In fact, you can find some graffiti’s in relation to the Speciesism and animal ethics in leaning laboratory. The teachers in charge of the subject investigate the bond between the principles of learning and behavior and psychotherapeutic advances, that is, the dialog between basic and applicate investigation.   The content of the subject consist in two main points: Pavlovian conditioning and instrumental conditioning. The first of them is referred to the learning of signals and the second one to the learning of consequences (the reinforcements increases the frequency of the response, however, the punishments decreases it). Besides, the different leaning processes are put to the test in the laboratory: we can choose humans or r...

  Humberto Maturana is a biologist dedicated to the study of relations between life systems. He was born on September 14, 1928 (like my mother, except for the year) and he made all his theoretical and experimental work in Universidad de Chile. The most relevant work of Humberto Maturana is contained in his works The tree of knowledge and Autopoiesis and cognition . Nowadays, Maturana and his collaborators represent the idiosyncratic area known as biology of knowing .   With the collaboration of his student Francisco Varela, Maturana created and described the concept of “autopoiesis”, the one that basically consists in the feature of a system to maintain and reproduce itself. Maturana y Varela (1973, p. 69) defined autopoiesis:   “An autopoietic machine is a machine organized (defined as a unity) as a network of processes of production (transformation and destruction) of components which: (i) through their interactions and transformations continuously regenerate an...