INTRODUCTORY PSYCHOLOGY (Winter 2013) Tuesday Thursday 12:30-1:45 Campbell Hall Instructor: Jonathan Schooler TA’s Rachelle Oldmixon oldmixon@psych.ucsb.edu Psych 3818 Jessy LeClair leclair@psych.ucsb.edu schooler@psych.ucsb.edu Kaziya Lee kaziya.lee@psych.ucsb.edu Office hours Wednesday 11:30-1:30 Lauren Winczewski winczewski@psych.ucsb.edu Office: Psychology East (Building 251)‚ Room 3818 Celeste Pilegard pilegard@psych.ucsb.edu
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who scored badly on one test tended to score badly on others. He concluded that intelligence is general cognitive ability that could be measured and numerically expressed. (Sparknotes 2005) Contemporary psychologists continue to use the term g in research such as in measurements of SAT test scores. (Rathus‚ S. 2012) Specific or s factors account for specific abilities music or poetry. (Rathus‚ S. 2012) One of the more recent ideas to emerge is Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences. Instead
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schizophrenia through assessment of their videotaped interactions. The two types of communication used during this study were verbal and nonverbal communication‚ as it were suspected‚ the client had different responses to each type of communication. The research observed three different patients‚ each session lasting between 12-19 minutes. The conversations took place in an urban community mental health center during a medication monitoring session. All three patients were videotaped three times each for
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Reaction Paper One Physical Activity Relating to Memory Katie M. Lefeld Ball State University PSYSC 100:04 Hypothesis: Physical activity increases your memory. My Initial Hypothesis When I think of the human body‚ the first and most important organ that comes to my mind is the brain. Without this complex organ we‚ as humans would be incapable of performing small tasks like lifting up our hands or blinking. Our brain controls the smallest duties of our everyday life‚ including
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Maggie Halverson Abnormal Psychology 4/20/2014 Media Project: Shutter Island In the movie “Shutter Island”‚ the main character‚ Andrew Laeddis struggles with recognizing reality because he suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. The movie is set in 1954 at Ash Cliff‚ a treatment facility on Shutter Island for the “criminally insane”. Laeddis believes he is a U.S. Marshall who has come to the island with his partner‚ Chuck‚ to investigate the disappearance of one of the patients. As Laeddis continues
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PSYCH 305 observation paper The setting that I chose to observe is a Sunday morning Methodist Church service that included a baptism. It is Sunday morning at 6am and the church is pretty crowded. The candidates that are awaiting baptism are lined up on the front pew of the church; and they are all dressed in white. The reverend is speaking at the front of the church and he is dressed in white as well. The candidates are of a mixed crowd consisting of men‚ woman‚ teens‚ boys and girls.
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Hale’ Alexander Dr. Felty English 101 June 22‚ 2013 The Cultural Insights of Footbinding The Chinese practiced foot binding for over a thousand years in the Song and T’ang dynasties. Some people found it very cruel‚ and then some found it fascinating. The ‘Golden Lotuses’ were the art and symbol for the wealth and beauty of ancient China. For any other culture‚ one would ask what foot binding is? Or‚ how did foot binding in Ancient China compare to John Fairbank’s text “Footbinding”? Also
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Promoting motivation and learning. College Teaching 38:136-39 Mcfadden‚ S.H.‚ and B Meredith‚ G. M. (1984). Diagnostic and summative appraisal ratings of teaching effectiveness.Perceptual and Motor Skills 59:993-94. Petri‚ H. (2004). Motivation: theory‚ research‚ and applications. Australia: Thompson/Wadsworth. Reinsmith‚ W. A. (1992). Archetypal forms in teaching. Westport‚ Conn.: Greenwood Press. Skinner‚ B. F.(1982). The Contrived Reinforcer‚ TheBehavior Analyst‚ Spring‚ pp. 3- 8. Thorndike‚ E. L. (1966)
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psychology? The scientific study of behaviour and the physiological and mental processes that underlie such behaviour. A profession that applies the findings of psychological research to real world problems Wilhelm Wundt First psychology lab in 1879 Main focus was on consciousness Many students established research labs in North America and Germany. G. Stanley Hall Student of Wundt for a brief time Growth of psychology in North America Structuralism Edward TitchenerTo identify and examine
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Burt Affairs: Until his death in 1971‚ the British educational psychologist Sir Cyril Burt was viewed as one of the most significant and influential educational psychologists of his time. Within a year of his death‚ however‚ the legitimacy of his research was being questioned. The questions began to turn into accusations‚ and by 1976 he was officially accused of fabricating data to prove that intelligence was inherited. The publication of Burt’s official biography by Leslie Hearnshaw in 1979 seemed
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