Presetation---- Subliminal Advertising

 

Subliminal Advertising is a kind of advertising that give you information indirectly. Your brain would receive some information deeply.  There was an experiment that had done by the scientists in University College London.  The scientists used 7 household items let viewers see with kind special glasses. One of the lenses showed the items by faint pictures; another Len showed the items by flashing lights, which is canceled the awareness of the items.  Later, when the viewers looked at the household items that they had seen, parts of the subjects let viewers feel "lit up".  Therefore, their conclusion was "the more distracted the subject, the less likely their brain was to register subliminally flashed images". That means human's brain could be influenced by subliminal information, and then people's brain would remember it very deeply.

There was another research that showed sometimes subliminal advertising is not working.  Few years ago, Russian scientists developed a detector that could control an image to appear under another image called 25th frame.  They had an experiment that showed how this subliminal information affects people's brain.  They hid an advertisement of a popcorn company that says "Buy our popcorn" under the movie images for 2.5 hours as long as the movie running in the movie theater, it didn’t make any differences.  Most psychologists said this subliminal advertising was too complicated, although eyes could see, brain failed register.  Therefore, the subliminal advertising should be too faint; otherwise it won’t make any differences.

Lastly, youths are really easy to be influenced by some kinds of advertising, such as the link between drugs, alcohol and risky sexual behavior among young people. Youths always affected by the conflicting messages, for instance, it’s not allowed to pre- watershed the advertisements of condoms, but there will show a picture of condom out of the package.  Sometimes the massages make youths confused.  Young people, especially teenagers are still learning things from others, they like to copy from the celebrities, but some of the celebrities do not have good life habits, such as drinking, smoking and having risky sexual behaviors.   As result, youths would learn from them, because they are affected by this kind of bad subliminal advertising.  Consequently, subliminal advertising is not always makes good differences in the society.

To sum up, subliminal advertising is really good way to show how human behaviors, because subliminal advertising will not directly give people information, and people will save the information in human’s brain.  Subliminal advertising is not always useful and it’s not always telling people good things.

    

This Is Me!

Hello!  Welcome to my blog.

     My name is Ge Zhao, English name is Katherine. I'm 16 years old.  I come from Lanzhou, Gansu, China. 

          My hometown is called Lanzhou, that is a small city, but the Yellow River goes through my city, we always called the Yellow River "Mother River", because we are really pround of it.  In my hometown, one of the most famous things is beef noodles, which is very delicious.

     This is not my first year in America, because I was an exchange student in Kirkland, Lake Washington High School in 2009-2010.  That was really fun to be an American high school student.  There were lots of activities that I could go to, such as all kinds of clubs and sports. I also made lots of friends at school, and I ate lunch with them every week days. We went to Homecoming dance together. I had lots of fun with them.

     I joined to the International Club and Environmental Club at school.  Every Tuesday and Thursday, we would have some activities, or we would have parties that we could have fun.  Sometimes, we would go to hiking on the weekends.  I also took some interesting classes, for example the piano class and the druming class.  In the druming class, I learned how to play a kind of drum called Congo, which is fun that we could use it make any beats that sounds really great!

      I also joined the Girl Scouts since 2009, that is one of best things in the US.  We did lots of fun things, we went to beach to spent weekends and we went to the tent city to helped homeless people. And we also had lots of parties,such as Halloween Party, we dressed and played a game called "Mummies".  That was pretty cool.

    Last summer, I went  back to China, met my family and my friends, I was really miss them.  Before I leave, I took some art photoes with my parents.  The photoes were very pretty! By the way, my mother is a really beautiful woman!!!!

    

     However, I'm glad to study in Seattle Central Community College and be with you guys!  By the way, my email address for facebook is zhaoge09@gmail.com. Please add me if you want! You also can send an email to me.