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Answer the following questions.
- What are 3 facts you learned about the brain that you didn't know before through these activity? Please be sure to provide examples.
- Why do you personally think that learning more about the brain is helpful in studying psychology? Please be sure to provide examples.
- Choose a famous individual with a nervous system disorder and explain his/her condition and how the brain has been affected. Please be sure to share specific details to aid in your discussion.
After viewing Bandura's original video from his 1963 study above, answer the following questions:
- Explain the basic concepts demonstrated in this study in regard to observational learning.
- Based on the video and your reading, do you believe that violence in television, media, or video games likely promote violent behaviors according to the principles of observational learning? Please share your thoughts and examples.
- Additionally, discuss your own real-life example of the concept of observational learning by sharing an incident either witnessed personally or through the media.
Choose one of the following topics and address the corresponding questions.
A. Intelligence Test
Base your answers on your observations about the intelligence test you took in the Unit Readings and Activities.
- Were the concepts of fluid and/or crystallized intelligence demonstrated through the test you took? Why or why not? Provide examples from the test itself in support of your response.
- Did the test measure practical and/or emotional intelligence? If so, how? If not, how did it not measure practical and/or emotional intelligence? Provide examples from the test in support of your response.
- Was the test accurate in measuring intelligence, according to Binet? If so, how? If not, how was it not accurate? Provide examples from the test to support your answer.
- How might this test have been culturally biased? Conversely, do you feel that it was culture fair? Provide examples from the test that support your perspective.
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B. Multiple Intelligences
- What is meant by Multiple Intelligences?
- Take the Multiple Intelligence Inventory and determine which intelligences you score “high” on and which you score “low” on. Are the results consistent with your perception of yourself? Why or why not?
- Do you feel the test was culturally fair?
- What applications do the theory of Multiple Intelligences have in educational settings?
In thinking about the nature versus nurture debate, explain why you think nature, nurture, or both has/have the strongest impact on development. Include information from the video and scholarly resources to support your viewpoint.
Please give specific examples from your own development or the development of someone you know.
Unit 5.2
2. Locate a scholarly article from one of the following APA style journals: http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/browse.aspx?query=Title:*&type=journal
Read the “Introduction” section, looking for placement of in-text citations.
Include (copy and paste) a few sentences from your article (Introduction section) that include the in-text citations you will post about (see below).
After reviewing these sentences from the Introduction section, what do you notice about the placement of the in-text citation relative to its related content? For example, does the citation appear at the end of the paragraph, or immediately after the related content is first mentioned? Please discuss and provide examples and details.
What features do you notice about the format of the in-text citations in terms of author and date (ex. Streck (2016) or (Streck, 2016)? Please discuss and provide examples and details.
Based on the results of taking the Big File Inventory above, answer the following questions:
- Do you think that the results of the personality test were accurate in reflecting your personality? Please explain with examples from the concepts of the Big Five Theory.
- Do you think that tests such as this, that demonstrate the Big Five Factors, are a good way to examine personality differences? Please share details on your thoughts.
Choose a psychological disorder from the DSM-V.
- Summarize the symptoms of the disorder.
- What type of therapy do you believe would be the most successful in treating this type of disorder? Support your opinion with research evidence.
- Locate a current events or recent journal article on the disorder and share the key points (findings) with your classmates.
In Asch's study referenced above, answer the following questions:
How is the principle of conformity examined?
- When and why do you think the subject in the experiment began to "second guess" himself?
- What are some of the circumstances in the experiment which contribute to “conformity”?
- Why do you think some participants would be more likely to conform than others?
- There are many reasons why people conform. Were you ever in a situation where you had to conform? Why did you feel the need to conform?
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