Who am I

So we are going to do a "Who am I" personality project.  Take the following tests below and follow the instructions for the report.  Print your results and include a cover page.  Do the test included on this blog in addition to the other ones.



http://tr008.k12.sd.us/New%20Folder/Psychology/Personality%20and%20Individuality/Personality%20tests.htm  #6 and #10 wont work so substitute the 2 below

The Big Five Personality test-http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/

Jung typology test- http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
      and find your celebrity ideology here:  http://teachinghighschoolpsychology.blogspot.com/search?q=personality+#sthash.coDtRymP.q9nZY1QT.dpbs

Sensation and Perception Experiments

Go to the following links and do the following.  Answer any questions and write a brief description of what the experiment is trying to teach you.

http://tr008.k12.sd.us/New%20Folder/Psychology/Sensation%20and%20Perception/sensation%20and%20perception%20experiments.htm

you do not have to do the quiz

Game Theory Reflection blog

So what started out as "Watching a Beautiful Mind" in relation to John Nash and our psychology unit on Intelligence has turned into one of the more interesting units I have put together this year.  My experience with Game Theory, Prisoner Dilemma, Nash equilibrium, and John Nash himself had been very limited.  Realizing just how often and important the above play in our current lives politically, socially, economically, and historically has gave me a whole new perspective that I hadn't considered before.  I am interested to learn if you can apply the above theories to your lives and the world around you.  I am hoping you learned and now can consider how history and your daily life has been and will continue to be shaped by what we have learned in the last few weeks.  It would be great if at sometime in your life you can use the information and lessons learned to help you out in your quest for greatness-whatever the definition of that is.  On a separate blog answer/write the following:

Please describe the following in your own words in two sentences.(look them up if you don't know)

Nash equilibrium-


Game theory-


Prisoner dilemma-


Go to the following link Serendip online interactive prisoner's dilemma

Describe your experience and thoughts after you have played the game a few times.(50 words)




Read the following blog on Game Theory and answer the questions below:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/sfeature/sf_dixit.html

Give an example of Game Theory/prisoner dilemma:

In history:

In Government:

In economics:

related to sociology:

related to psychology:

In your everyday life:


Tell me your thoughts on the oil pricing activity and the other group activities we did in class. 





On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great rate the activities we have done in class with the unit.  What are some things that can be done to improve the overall unit?

HEX: A Beautiful Mind Game

So we have recently watched "A Beautiful Mind."  In the movie John Nash is challenged to a board game called HEX.  In real life he will reinvent the game and people will refer to it sometimes as "Nash."  After somewhat studying the game I have decided as a class we will create our own "HEX" game boards and learn how to play this game.  Maybe we will even have a tournament.

Deleted scene from the movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8tD9eJBn7k

The following website shows how to create a board game.

http://www.wikihow.com/Construct-a-Hex-Board

Or even cooler would be to create an 11x11 game out of pvc pipe as shown in the you tube video below:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2YT6ZIg3is  go to about minute 2:40

Rorschach Inkblot test

So we have been studying Intelligence and Intelligence testing recently in Psychology.  I thought it would be fun to end the unit with another test.  It is called the Rorschach Inkblot test.  We will take a look at the plates that are used with the test.  We will then self diagnose ourselves using the criteria on the corresponding blog.  After you self evaluate your answers you will write a reflection blog on test and what you learned about the history of the test.  Is it valid or invalid and how should the results be used.  I think 200 words is enough to do this in.  You can even compare it to Wikipedia.

Also the one time I will use Wikipedia-you can scroll down and see some common answers

A Beautiful Mind and a Prisoner's Dilemma

So in class we have been studying Intelligence. 

John Nash:  A Brilliant Madness documentary

Four patients with schizophrenia

 

A Beautiful Mind movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8tD9eJBn7k-Deleted scene about the game HEX

A Beautiful Mind and Prisoner's Dilemma blog

Go to the below link and under the "Exercise your Mind" tab do the four activities and record your results.  A Beautiful Mind webpage
Extra credit if you can crack the code on the website-so far I haven't had time to crack it either so it might be worth quite a bit of extra credit.

Article on Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia on 20/20

A Brilliant Madness-website on John Nash
-Game Theory/Prisoner Dilemma/Catch 22

Some activities we may use

Game Theory/Nash equilibrium/prisoner dilemma explained in video

Game Theory explained in Dark Night/pirate story

Game Theory when buying a car

everyday life
Game Show Theory in "Golden Balls

A prisoner's dilemma explained on youtube


Soccer shootout
Christian Laetner game winner
Russell Wilson interception in superbowl

Prisoner Dilemma activity
Prisoner theory-game simulation class activity

Serendip online interactive prisoner's dilemma

Intelligence activities

Intelligence activities

I hope you will enjoy these activities and experiments.
 

BRAIN STORIES-20pts

Please summarize one story about the brain in 150 words.  I prefer you deal with mind, brain, intelligence or find an article dealing with autism and it's link to intelligence.  You will present your summary in class orally also.
       

  Complete the various intelligence tests located below.         Present a written summary of the following for each test:

1. Your score on the test.  Does this score have any meaning?
2. Your impression of the validity and reliability of the test. Is the score an accurate measurement of intelligence?  Use the psychological definition of validity and reliability found in your textbook.  Be specific.

After you have summarized each test, answer the following questions:

A.  What is intelligence?
B.  Which is more important:  emotional intelligence or intellectual intelligence?  Present reasons to support your answer.  Choose one side.
C.  Is intelligence learned or inherited?
D.  What did you learn about yourself after completing these tests?

THE INTELLIGENCE TESTS

Please note that these are informal tests - do not take them too seriously.  We are using these tests as a learning experience and to help guide you with discovering the meaning of intelligence.

1. Emotional Intelligence Test 
2. Intelligence Testing:  Mensa Workout
3. The Online IQ Test-note you must finish before you close the browser

Nature vs. Nurture

So in psychology we are studying "Intelligent testing."  And one of the key debates for psychologists and sociologists both is nature vs. nurture.  Last year in Sociology we debated the issue of homosexuality and whether nature or nurture is the deciding factor.  This year in psychology we want to turn the nature vs. nurture debate and it's effect on intelligence.  Far below you will see a reminder of a blog we did in sociology.  Above are some videos that shed some light on the nature vs. nurture debate in psychology and the area of intelligence.  We will look at some articles highlighted in your online book and I will give you an opportunity to decide for yourself:  is intelligence influenced by nature or by nurture?

Homosexuality A Choice?

 

 

Summary: Sociologists almost always find strong evidence of nurture over nature in our studies, but there is one research area where the environment and socialization has little influence: sexual orientation. The cartoon at left highlights that while social scientists cannot find links between being gay and socialization factors like parenting styles, biological believers find strong evidence for their nature arguments that claim sexual orientation depends largely on genes, hormones, and birth order. The video also highlights how the research reflects focus almost exclusively on gay men and not lesbians.  The core message of this video is still very sociological because it outlines that since sexual orientation is neither an outcome of socialization or a lifestyle choice,  “conversion” therapy is not only ineffective, but can actually become a damaging socialization experience itself-which we have already discussed.

Another way to look at nature vs. nurture is through the Olympics.  Watch the following clip from the 2012 London Games.  (click here)

Memory activites

Below you find a link to my webpage with some Memory activities.  Please click the link below and answer the questions for each activity.

http://tr008.k12.sd.us/New%20Folder/Psychology/Memory%20and%20Thought/Memory%20and%20thoughts%20experiments.htm

When you get to the memory exhibit please do the following activities and record your results

Under the Playing Games with memory link do the following 2 games
     Memory Solitaire
     Tell yourself a story

Then read the following 3 and record what you learned.
     Droodles
     Common Cents
     If your going to rob a bank.

When you are done with these go to the link below and do the experiments.  You should have a handout to record your answers in your packet.

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chmemory.html

Memory, Eyewitness Testimony and the Bystander Effect

So the last class period we had a little fun.  I dressed up as a robber and proceeded to steal a couple of cell phones.  The goal was to see if students could remember details of the incident and along with details about the robber (me).  As we learned, our memory is not as good or as accurate as we would like to believe.  There were different descriptions, different details, and highly inaccurate drawings.

But the point I was trying to make was proven.  So let's take a look at some clips below about memory, eyewitness testimony and I'll even throw in a couple of fun clips for us to end with.

Elizabeth Loftus-as profiled in your book:

Ferguson shooting and relating to unreliability of eyewitness testimony

 

 

Also, in socio-psychology there is a well-known effect called the bystander effect.  For short, the bystander effect implies that the larger the group of people in a setting, the less likely an individual will be to help someone in need.  So let's look at some examples below.

 



The death of Kitty Genovese

 

and some fun ones to end with

 

 

Sheldon from Big Bang theory on eidetic memory

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Classical Conditioning Assignment

Classical conditioning is a form of learning in which the subject develops a particular response to a stimulus that would otherwise be nuetral, without being paired with a stimulus that is not neutral and elicits an automatic response. In other words, the subject generates a response that wouldn't naturally occur as a result of associating a neutral stimulus with a nonneutral stimulus.

Classical conditioning occurs daily in our lives but we don't think about it. Examples of this classical conditioning concept can be found throughout our lives in many different ways.

 One of the most obvious real world examples of classical conditioning is it's use in the media. Here is how:
Unconditioned stimulus: Paradise or the pretty woman
Conditioned Stimulus: Corona
Unconditioned Response: Happiness or excitement to paradise or the pretty woman
Conditioned response: Happiness or excitement  to Corona

Assignment:  Your assignment is to find an example of classical conditioning in your everyday life.
You should find a visual aid to represent it and label the US, CS, UR CR as done in the example above.

Methods of Learning: Classical, Operant, Modeling

There are three ways psychologists categorize the way we learn.  They are classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and through shaping or what we will call modeling.  Below are some clips that describe some of these.

Little Albert Experiment by John Watson

 

 Pavlov's Bar

 

Classical Conditioning my father

 

Link #1

 

 

 

Operant conditioning in the Big Bang Theory

                                                              Shaping through rewards

                                                                              The Skinner Box

              

 

 

 

 

Positive and negative reinforcement

Ch 2 learning Links and activities

http://tr008.k12.sd.us/New%20Folder/Psychology/Learning/Learning%20experiments.htm

Learning/Teaching Journal writing

Recall a situation in which you taught another person a skill or how to do a task.  Write a brief account about it.  Make sure to include a description of the strategy you used for teaching this person and any steps/organization you needed to accomplish the teaching of the skill/task.

Scientific Analysis Assignment

Use this link for the assignment:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/

Use the Mind and Brain tab to find articles

Assignment:  Read four articles and answer the following set of questions for each article.

1- In one sentence, what was the research about?

 

2- How many subjects were used in the experiment?

 

3- Was there a control group?

 

4- How were the subjects chosen?

 

5- What did the experimenters do to the subjects?

 

6- How did the subjects react?

 

7- Did the subjects act the way the experimenters expected?

Psychology Chapter 1 experiments

 

Use the following link above for the online activities before.

QUIPS & QUOTES (select Quips & Quotes)

Define the different perspectives utilized by psychologists.

 

Using a teenager as your subject, give an example of each perspective.

 

 

RATE THE CELEBRITIES (select Rate the Celebrities)

Define correlation coefficient. What happens to variables in a positive correlation coefficient. Negative coefficient?

 

How strong was the correlation coefficient between attractiveness and success? Why do the results say about you

 

The Body Beautiful

How did your results compare to those of the study of undergraduate?

 

What cultural factors might be contributing to the tendency of women to show more dissatisfaction with their physiques than men?

 

Why do you think both men and women misjudge the opposite sex with respect to preferred body types?

 

 

Anagrams

What was your score?    ____/10

List the words you got.correct-

 

What Provokes you?-this is 61 questions and will take awhile.

Print off final answer page and attach.

 

Find Eliza the online therapist-you will have to google Eliza online therapist to find a link.  Talk to Eliza, the Rogerian therapist,  and write down in 100 words your thoughts about this.  Did you know this was actually a computer based model used in the 1950’s and 1960’s.