Description
After watching the lectures/videos for the chapters this week, post FOUR comments – these can be insights you may have had while watching, perhaps about something from the videos that was useful to for you to learn, or made you think about something differently, or resonated with you, etc. It can also be a question you may have. Each of the 4 comments needs to be at least 100 words long, and EACH post needs to have to do with a DIFFERENT topic from the lectures/videos for the week. Posts need to contain specific references to the content of the video – (so “informative video” doesn’t work as a post).
Guidelines for posting:
Post FOUR times to participate for the week – once with an initial post, and then 3 more posts as responses to a class-mate’s post.
Each of the 4 posts are worth 2 points each, for a total of 8 points; if posts do not contain references to content, or are less than 100 words long, they will not count toward the posts for this week. Remember each post should be about a different topic you learned something about during the week.
Be thoughtful about what you write, and above all, be respectful of the opinions of your classmates.
Abby post
The lectures this week regarding memory, thinking, intelligence, language, and development are super interesting to me because they are the topics within psychology that I find most interesting. Of these topics, my favorites were thinking and intelligence. The research and investment in trying to understand how our minds think and how we measure intelligence is a huge scientific feat.
Creativity, the ability to produce valued outcomes in new ways, has an important role in defining intelligence–which is essentially a measure of how we learn, acquire, and adapt. I found it intriguing how there are three elements to creativity: originality, fluency, and flexibility; and the variables that affect creativity. It really shows how complex human expression and thought can be.
What I found most interesting about intelligence was Gardner’s 9 multiple intelligences. His theory on describing different ways to learn and acquire information opens up the world of psychology to continue studying and exploring how intelligence works and how it is measured.
Has anyone else found the discussion on thinking and intelligence interesting? If so, which type of intelligence did you find most interesting?
Katsura post
“Memory” was very fascinating to me in this week’s lectures and videos, especially TED talk. This is exactly what I wanted to know right now while I am studying. I was the one to think that memory ability was genetic or something, like it is a given ability, however Mr. Joshua Foer showed us that we can build skills for memorizing with efforts and I was very impressed he became the memory champion after a year. Also, I strongly understood what he meant about how technology was taking away from human’s capability to memorize. For me, I was able to remember phone numbers before the cell phone became common. I guess this could be considered “motivated forgetting” since we carry our cell phone around with us all day. So, I got a big hint to study from this week’s topic.
Arlene Post
Memory
A lot of great information came from this lecture. What stood out to me was the “flashbulb memories”. As I was watching the video to ask a friend a question. What where you doing on September 11th? I didn’t ask her the year. Her face changed. The actual event wasn’t mentioned she did answer my question. Packing for a trip back home to Guam. She remembered it being 12am in Guam and calling her family to turn on the news. She would not be coming home. Flashbulb memories… I to can recall where I was, what I was doing and calling family to turn on the news. Sad day, large scale of an emotional event. Moving on to the encoding failure. The penny, I pick up pennies I collect them I believed that they mattered. Yet I couldn’t draw or pick you up out of a line up.
Thinking, Language, Intelligence
