Psychology 2001 Fall 2020 Assignments

Create a commercial video or pamphlet on a DSM mental disorder. You must use the DSM criteria, treatment option, graphics and pictures for the disorder. You must email me the video OR you must turn in a paper copy of the pamphlet to my office. Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Happy New Year! Go away 'Rona!

1)Please watch the Social Dilemma on Netflix as a group or individually. It is one hour and 33 minutes. Take notes. Look for a portion that interests you.
2) Write a paper ( 2 pages minimum) with correct format. (cite only items from other sources than the documentary if you use them)
3) Possible topics "If you are not paying for the product, you are the product", "There are only two industries that call their customers 'users': illegal drugs and software.", Dopamine and social media, Pain-Pleasure cycle and Social Media, Youth suicide and social media rates, Marketing in the age of AI, Algorithms in Social media, or an approved topic from Mrs. Stokes
4) The paper should summarize a portion of the documentary that interests you. Go to other sources and validate/support your opinion.
5) I believe this may be the most important documentary that you watch this season of life. Please do this for your well-being and mental health.
6) I will be checking for plagiarism.

Watch five ABC Primetime videos of WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Summarize each one and give some of the key points of social psychology.

1) Upload a personal picture that elicits a flashbulb memory.
2) Give three mnemonics that you have used or been taught.
3) Write a one page paper on this topic using materials from these two videos below.

1) What does culture teach us about the human heart? 2)What does scripture teach about the human heart? according to Acts 14:17, Romans 9:2, Matthew 5:28, Luke 24:32, John 12:40, Matthew 9:4, Matthew 13:15, Acts 2:37, Acts 11:23 and Romans 10:10. 3) Why do you think they are so different?

1) Write Robert Plutchik's eight basic emotions with its polar opposite.
2)Jesus experienced his share of emotional pain. Look up the following verses and write down what emotional pain he experienced. 1) Matthew 26:47-49 2) Matthew 26:69-75 3)Matthew 27:15-23 4) Matthew 27:27-31 and 5) Matthew 27:33-44. It is possible to forgive through power of Jesus. It is a process. Our human response tends toward one of two ways: we play the tape of the offense over and over again in our minds OR we pretend the offense never happened.
5) Which response is more likely for you? In a fight or flight scenario, you may fight back with words, sarcasm or physical acitivity. FIGHT mechanism tends to make us want to punish the person. You dwell on the offense. In FLIGHT mechanism, you deny the pain, the event or the emotions. You bury it deep thinking you can overcome it alone without anyone knowing.
6) Which mechanism do you do often? It is like planting a seed. If we water the pain, it becomes bitter fruit. If we deny it, it becomes like a weed rampant destroying and choking out the good. This is a great activity to do before your paper on emotional pain.
7) Write a one page paper on your personal stress or traumatic events. What would you do differently? What defense mechanisms did you use? What did you learn? Did it change your personality?

This highlights why psychologists study the brain and explore the various structures that make up the nervous system. As we think about how the information discovered from research on these topics might be used, there is often room for debate over ethics in this area (Neuroethics).


Choose one of the articles found on the site and read.
Post to this assignment listing the name of your article, posting the link, giving a brief summary of the topics discussed (one paragraph MINIMUM), and finally giving your opinion on what you have read based on what you learned and your own personal beliefs.

1)Take the two quizzes and report your score. What does this mean for you?
2) What diseases/condtions are exacerbated or caused by stress? Google.
3) What is positive stress? How does this correlate with Adler's inferiority complex?

1) Create a Pinterest Board and send me an invitation. Find 10 memes that describe the theory in humor. Don't be crude please. (Freud, Behaviorism, Cognitive, Gestalt, Feminism, Evolutionary, Reality, Existentialism, MFT, and Humanism)
2) Find a Bible verse for each of these theory: behaviorism, cognitive, Gestalt (anger), existentialism and humanism. Key word searches of the theory work well.

Create a Google slides presentation of 10 slides. Two must be art of MC Escher and eight must be visual perception slides. Please make one of your visual perception slides a street/sidewalk art.

Summarize the following article in two paragraphs or more.

One page Google document with citations ( Include where the transmitters are located/created, what they do in the body and what too many/too little can do to the body) It must be submitted to Turnitin.com

Crash Course Psychology 3 and 4 , Phineas Gage VTS YouTube 11:44,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw0zbyQVCEc

Movies, television, books, and the internet often have stories of altered consciousness. For example, they may discuss addiction, amnesia, zombie drugs, hypnosis, night-terrors, sleepwalking or dreams. History has plenty of accounts as well.

Find a story from a source other than a text book that involves a concept that you learned about in this unit. Describe the concept and how it is portrayed. Do you think it is portrayed accurately? Why or why not? Chose a movie, TV show or book that is based on altered consciousness. An example would be Finding Nemo....

Your answer should be at least three paragraphs, grammatical, logical. and it needs to clearly describe the character you are choosing.

Do not include multiple personalities or schizophrenia in your character analysis. We have not gotten to that section yet. So no "Split", please.

Watch the attached video and do the questions for 3 and 4.

Download a link to this thread about concussions and/or CTE of an article written in the last five years or a professional video. Write down three key points to the article. THEN read and respond to another student's linked article with your insight. Your insight must be clear and concise.

Read the following article. 1) Summarize the experiment from 1967 by Seligman. 2) List the four areas this may apply to in humans and why? 3) How does this affect college freshmen? 4)Define learned helplessness.

Read the two attachments on cognitive theory. 1) Write which irrational thought you struggle with and how it affects you. 2) Write a scenario for cognitive dissonance in your own words. 3) Write Philippians 4:8 down. 4) Write a ABCDE equation with your own scenario.

Go the following website and look at the top 100 fears. 1) Write down how many you personally have now. 2) What is the difference in a phobia and a fear? 3) What is desensitization? 4) What do you remember being afraid of as a young child? 5) What is the difference in a trauma and a fear?

Using TEN of the defense mechanisms presented in class, write how they may manifest themselves in these these two scenarios. DO BOTH SCENARIOS WITH TEN DEFENSE MECHANISMS EACH TOPIC.

1)A rookie pitcher who finally makes it to the major leagues is sent back to the minors after a surprise transfer.
2) On the first day of a long-awaited job, a young woman is accused of racism when she makes a nervous joke.

1) Find a Jung quote you like. Paste the quote into the document first.
2) Explain the quote in your own words and why you chose it.

Read the following experiments in psychology link. After you have read about these experiments PICK THREE to discuss in this assignment. Answer the following questions in your own words, using complete sentences and proper grammar. Briefly describe the study you chose. A MINIMUM of two paragraphs on each experiment.
What are your initial thoughts about the study (interesting? surprising?)? What do you believe was the purpose of the research experiment?
What research method did the psychologist(s) use? (i.e. Naturalistic Observation, Survey Research, Case Study, etc.)
Do you believe the study was ethical? Why or why not?

The psychologist Sigmund Freud used Greek myths such as the story of Oedipus to help explain his theories of psychosexual development. Freud believed that people have strong desires that are taboo, i.e. that society prevents them from expressing. For example, the story of Oedipus includes incest and patricide. This video contains adult subject matter.

Do the worksheet

Fill out the attached worksheet after viewing the first two videos.

1) What are the three kinds of stress according to the NIMH and give an example of each.
2) Describe your personal physical reactions to stress in your life.
3) What is your dream job? research the stressors it may have in it.
4) List three Proverbs in the Bible that deal with money.
5) Google Type A and Type B personalities. Which are you? Why? How will it affect your health?

1) Write five sentences about what you have learned from a marriage you have observed that you would like to emulate.
2) Write five sentences about what you have learned from a marriage you have observed that you would like to NOT do in your marriage.
3) Design a google slide with the four styles of parenting on it in a creative manner.
4) What style of parenting do your parents have? Give at least five examples to back up your opinion.

Read the following article and summarize in two paragraphs minimum.

Read Chapter One and Two in the TRIALS book. Answer the following questions.
1) Google the quote on contentment from Benjamin Franklin and write it down. Explain what it means to you. What does the Bible say about contentment?
2) Define normalcy from the dictionary. What does the Bible say about "fitting in" or normalcy?
3) What are the three most important choices you make in your life?
4) What determines our joy in circumstances?
5) What decisions do you make at 18 that might affect your life at 25? at 40? at 75?
6) I belive that some of the unhappiest people I have ever met are wealthy. Not all of course but many. Reading what you have already in the first two chapters, why do you think that is possible?