"Friends" Personality Test

What "Friends" Character are You?

TBS has a quiz that determines which Friends character you are most like based on your personality. Follow the link above to take the quiz.

They questions asked in the quiz is as followed with my response:

1. What's your favorite food? Pizza
2. What is your favorite recreational activity? Watching TV
3.  How would you describe your job? Entertainment
4. What's your favorite type of music? New-Age
5. What's your dominate personality trait? Logical Nature
6. How would you describe your family? Close
7. What's your love life like? Frustrating
8. What's your favorite animal? Chick
9. What song best describes you? Express Yourself
10. How would your friends describe you? Funny
11. What's your favorite type of movie? Drama
12. What's your favorite sport? Basketball
13. If you were a mobster, what would your nickname be? Big Tony
14. What's your favorite era? The Nineties
15. Who would you most like to meet? A Famous Actor

My results:

You are most like: CHANDLER How sure are we? BARELY  Like Chandler, you consider yourself the only "normal" member of your social group. And considering how strange your parents were, that's quite an achievement. Always keeping a sense of humor, your intelligence shows in your quick retorts and use of sarcasm. Despite your hard shell, however, you have surprising depths of emotion and sympathy, proving to be an excellent friend. Not sure if it's all entirely true but close!

Gardner's Eight Intelligences

Howard Gardner views intelligence as multiple abilities that come in packages.

• Savant Syndrome- is a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation of drawing. 
• Gardner's Eight Intelligences- Logical/Mathematical, Verbal/Linguistics, Interpersonal Skills, Intrapersonal Skills, Musical, Bodily-Kinesthetic, Visual/ Spatial, Naturalistic, Existential.

If the Friends characters had savant syndrome they would fall into this category of the eight intelligences:

• Joey- Intrapersonal Skills, because he is an actor and they are supposed to excel in this intelligence.
• Phoebe- Musical, because she is a musician and they are supposed to excel in the level.
• Rachel- Visual/Spatial, because she is into fashion and this level contains artists and fashion is a type of art. 
• Ross- Existential, because he is into history and coming up with new philosophies and this level is dominated by philosophers.
• Chandler- Logical/Mathematical, because his first career was in data processing and this level is excelled by engineers and careers with math.
• Monica- Visual/Spatial, because cooking is a form of art. 

Joey Memorizing Lines

Memory is the persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information.

• Encoding is the processing of information into the memory system. For example, by extracting the meaning.

• Storage is the retention of encoded information over time. 

• Retrieval is the process of getting information out of memory storage.

In Friends, Joey is an actor and has to memorize lines for auditions and roles. In this clip (Joey Learning Bamboozle) Joey is auditioning for a job as a game show host for a new show called Bamboozle. In order to understand the game and to remember the rules for his audition he asks Ross and Chandler to to help him. The play the role of the contestant and Joey is the host, they are putting the script into a real life situation to help Joey.

While this is happen the information is being encoded into Joey's memory and placed into storage. When Joey gets to his audition he will have to retrieve the information from the memory storage.

There are three levels of comprehension:

• Behavioral- lower level processing, basic ABC's
• Cognitive- higher level processing, math and science
• Constructive- highest level of processing, abstract problem solving

I believe that Joey demonstrates a level of comprehension of behavioral at least when it comes to school related things and common sense things. He struggles with math and any concept of science. His common sense is also very shaking.

Examples:
Joey's Card Trick

Joey's 3D glasses

Joey's hiding place

Non-"Friends" Post about Positive Reinforcement

Part of Skinner's Operant Conditioning Theory includes reinforcement and punishment.

Positive Reinforcement is getting something good
Negative Reinforcement is taking away something bad
Positive Punishment is getting something bad
Negative Punishment taking away something good

I noticed with myself that I use positive reinforcement in order to get homework done. An example is that right now I can only make popcorn if I finish two more entries. Let's just say I'm very focused right now. I believe that Skinner's form on conditioning is very effective. I also know if I don't do this assignment I'll receive negative punishment which would be taking away my good grade and positive punishment which would be receiving a bad grade.

Senses "Friends" Characters Couldn't Live Without

Sensation is detecting stimulus from the environment, an example is feeling something or using our senses to understand.

The five senses that we use are touch, smell, taste, sound, and vision. Below I have listed the senses that I think each Friends character would struggle without having the able to use, more than their other senses.

1. Joey- Taste
• Joey would be taste because he loves to eat. His whole day revolves around when he is going to eat and when he goes on dates they always go to dinner because, well, he needs to eat. If Joey didn't have taste his daily routine would be completely different.
2. Monica- Taste
• Monica would also be taste because she is a chef. If Monica couldn't taste she would probably be in a different profession. Also, if Monica couldn't taste her childhood would have been completely different because Monica was very obese as a child. She wouldn't have had an over eating probably if she couldn't taste and wasn't addicted to food.
3. Phoebe- Sound
• Phoebe would be sound because she is a musician. She isn't a very good one put hearing herself sing and being able to share her music, makes her really happy. Not being able to hear she wouldn't have that satisfaction that she gets from playing music.
4. Rachel- Vision
• Rachel would be vision because she is a fashionista. She is so in to fashion that if she didn't have sight she would have a different job and hobby. Fashion is her life, it's the one thing she is good at that someone can make a career out of. 
5. Ross- Vision
• Ross would also be vision because he is a historian and wouldn't be able to read. He is also always writing thesis's and without sight he would struggle with that plus who knows how many more wives he would have had if he couldn't see what they looked like. 
6. Chandler- Sound
• Chandler would be sound because of his sense of humor. He lives to tell jokes and make fun of people. If you couldn't hear he wouldn't be able to comment on a situation and put his two cents in. Chandler says that jokes is the one thing he has to get women and if he couldn't tell jokes he wouldn't have any self esteem. 

Chandler and Automatic Negative Thought

Cognitive-behavior therapy is a popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior). In lame-mans terms, they can train you to think about things in a new way.

Automatic negative thought is when people think bad thoughts about themselves. With cognitive- behavior therapy they would try to retrain your thoughts.

Chandler's Technique to Quit Smoking

In the clip above Chandler uses an audio tape to help him stop smoking. He smokes because he gets stressed and doesn't think very highly of himself. The tape helps him think more positively and helps him to quit smoking. This is a form of cognitive- behavior therapy because it gets him to change his self defeating thinking and to change his behavior.

* Information from book and lecture notes