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You will need to post your thoughts on the videos, as they apply to the field of psychology and what you learned from them. Initial posts should be at least 3-4 sentences long, and use complete sentences. Discussion A: Sci Show video covering research in Psychology Contains unread posts Link to video for the discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFV71QPvX2I Though the roots of psychology come from a combination of philosophy, medicine & the biological sciences, it is a relatively young field and we are still creating and honing our methodologies to learn more about ourselves. Humans are incredibly complex. We are influenced by a diverse variety of factors – from genetic predispositions and hormones to how much sleep we have had and what we just ate – all at the same time. This makes investigating the roots of our behavior (and predicting it) challenging, to say the least. This video covers much of what is covered in the first unit section on research methods. Discuss your thoughts on how we conduct research in psychology along with any challenges in understanding our behavior you might have found interesting or surprising. One of the more difficult aspects of research for psychologists is replication. Some studies, especially those investigating the biological foundations of behavior, should be able to be replicated. However, areas of research investigating our attitudes, values, or other aspects of behavior that tend to change from generation to generation, may have a difficult time with replicating findings as values, attitudes, and many aspects of social behavior change over time – thus, replication is not possible. The recent attention paid to differences between generations is a great example of how the same study investigating – say attitudes toward the workplace – may get completely different results, depending on the generation the individuals they are asking are from. You must start a thread before you can read and reply to other threads Discussion B: Why do we do such odd things on the internet (and how psychologists learn about humans from our online behavior) Contains unread posts Link to video for this discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6kUOjJ98cY As we will discuss behavior over the entirety of this course, I thought jumping in with both feet and discussing online behavior and all it’s unique-i-ness (as Dr. Sapolsky likes to say when referring to human behavior; his TED talk is one of the reaction report video choices for this unit) might be a good way to kick things off. In this 29 minute video, everything from challenge videos, to oddly satisfying videos, and arguing online are discussed along with how psychologists use our very diverse and often fairly unique online behaviors to learn more about us. Thoughts on how we might learn more about ourselves from our online behaviors or how we may behave differently online than in real life and why? You must start a thread before you can read and reply to other threads.
