Salvador Gutierrez P7 Oct. 11-15

This week in AP Psychology: we learned about mere exposure.  Mere exposure means that the more direct exposure you have with something, the more you prefer it.  This is in almost every single romantic comedy.  The two characters have nothing in common, they are bad for each other in every way, and they are not attracted to each other in any way.  They would spend time with each other and the audience laughs their butts off because the characters hate each other and they keep fighting with each other in a funny way, and there is the comedy.  They begin to have certain feelings for each other after spending some time together, and there is the romance.  This tends to happen to me with music.  At first I don’t like the music, but after listening to it some more it would “grow on me.”  The first time I heard Joy Division I did not like their music, but then I saw the movie “Control” and now I really really like Joy Division.  That movie played their music a lot, enough to make me like it now.  I think the reason we tend to like something after being exposed to it so much is because after a while, you begin to see the good qualities of the music, person, etc.  The movie “Control” showed me the creation of the band, the struggles they faced, and how cool their music was.  For example, they used a spray can for one of their songs.  They recorded someone spraying the can and then they would play the recording during the song at the concerts.  That is genius.  Using a unique sound like a spray can.  Another reason we tend to like something after being exposed to it so much is because we tend to like things we are familiar with.  Someone may not like filing papers but they have to do it every day.  After a year, they are asked if they want to do something else and they would most likely stay with filing papers because it’s what they know best.