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PSY105 Introduction to Psychology

Week 1 Discussion

Please introduce yourself to the class. What’s your name? Where are you from? What degree are you working toward? When do you plan to graduate? Feel free to add any other fun facts related to your work, family, pets, hobbies, etc.

As we start to study psychology, some students wonder, "If I’m not a Psychology major, why do I need this class?" It’s a fair question, and educator Kendra Cherry has some answers. Please read her essay, “Why Do You Have to Take a Psychology Class?”

Cherry shares three key benefits that students get from studying psychology:

Better understanding of other people

Better understanding of yourself

Improved critical thinking—a key to good decision-making.

Choose ONE (1) thing you’d like to gain from this class. In the discussion, share how that benefit may help you toward your professional or personal goals.

PSY105 Introduction to Psychology

Week 2 Discussion

Do you have free will? Or does your brain chemistry make decisions for you?

This week you’re learning about the electrochemical reactions that happen every time you think, feel, sense, or act. So does that mean you aren’t in charge? Does body chemistry direct your choices and eliminate your control?

This TED video explains the specific ways caffeine affects your mood, alertness, and performance, all through your nervous system. Watch it and then write a post offering your opinion: Free will, or brain chemistry? Or is there some way to reconcile the two?

PSY105 Introduction to Psychology

Week 3 Discussion

Do people’s personalities ever really change? Or are we destined to make similar choices throughout our lives? This article explores the question through the dramatic example of a man in prison for a heinous crime.

PSY105 Introduction to Psychology

Week 4 Discussion

It's time to practice your focus and memory! Watch this video and play along with the focus game. Be sure to write down how well you did.

Start your discussion post by sharing how you performed. Did you get most of the words right, or not? Did you notice other details or did you miss them? What did you learn about your memory from this experience?

Along with your initial post, make sure to respond to 2 of your classmates’ posts in order to receive full credit.

PSY105 Introduction to Psychology

Week 5 Discussion

For this discussion, we will explore psychological disorders by hearing from those who have experienced one of these disorders in a personal way. Choose ONE of these stories and watch the accompanying Ted Talk. In your post, discuss what you learned from the talk about psychological disorders?

Elanor Longden (schizophrenia); https://youtu.be/syjEN3peCJw

Nikki Weber Allen (anxiety & depression); https://youtu.be/shG0ezBeeJc

Ji Hae Park (depression); https://youtu.be/ZMGZQZRIsJE

Kevin Briggs (depression & suicide); https://youtu.be/7CIq4mtiamY

These individuals share their stories about living with and addressing psychological disorders. Reading about these experiences is different than hearing these stories. In your post, share what you learned from the story. How does this story teach you about psychological disorders? Thank you!

PSY105 Introduction to Psychology

Week 6 Discussion

Review the following article: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/intense-emotions-and-strong-feelings/201012/it-or-not-emotions-will-drive-the-decisions-you

Assume that you are a team leader, and your team is responsible for achieving a number of tasks in a relatively short time. You have noticed that some of your team members tend to get overwhelmed and make emotional decisions that don’t always work out to the team’s benefit. Other team members seem to thrive in those situations and deliver in tight situations. Based upon this article, make a list of things you can do as a manager to make sure you balance the emotional profile of your team so they can be productive. For instance, how would you pair people to work together? How would you communicate (i.e. in-person, via email, one on one, etc.)?

PSY105 Introduction to Psychology

Week 7 Discussion

In the article, How Companies Can Profit from a “Growth Mindset”, there are a great number of benefits to encouraging employees and team members to grow and develop their skills, talents, and competencies. You started at your company as an entry level employee and have worked hard for several years. For a long time, you never thought you would be a good supervisor, but you decided to apply for the job. Now you find yourself as a manager at your company that believes in a fixed mindset approach. You’re the only person to be promoted within the organization to a manager level. All of the other managers have been hired from outside of the organization. How could you go about creating change within the organization and encouraging your company to foster a growth mindset? For instance, how would you deliver feedback to your team members that would promote a growth mindset?

PSY105 Introduction to Psychology

Week 8 Discussion

Assume for a moment that you are responsible for planning your family’s next summer vacation. Using the concepts of algorithms, schema, and heuristics, describe how you would go about planning this vacation. If you’re unfamiliar you can find definitions for these terms in Chapter 8 of the webtext. Think about how you decide on where to go, how you find your accommodations and/or travel arrangements, and what tools you decide to use to come to a decision.

PSY105 Introduction to Psychology

Week 9 Discussion

Congratulations! You've been promoted to be a new training manager for your department. Your first task is to train your team to use some new software. In your psychology class, you learned about two different approaches to learning 1.) Operant conditioning; 2.) Observational learning.

In your discussion post, share which approach you would use to train your team in using the new software. Be sure to use EITHER operant conditioning OR observational learning. In general (just a few sentences), describe what your training would be like based on the approach. Why do you think that approach will successfully teach your team to use the new software?

Remember to have a total of 3 posts to earn full credit for the discussion.

PSY105 Introduction to Psychology

Week 10 Discussion

In this interview (https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/functioning-flourishing/201801/are-you-tougher-you-think), Emilia Lahti offers five specific actions you can take to build up Sisu so that you can endure and even thrive in moments of extreme stress. For this discussion, pick one of the five and describe how you will work to build your capacity to do this. How will cultivating this specific action help you?

Remember to have a total of 3 posts to earn full credit for the discussion.

PSY105 Introduction to Psychology

Week 11 Discussion

In the spirit of prosocial behavior, this is a chance for you to share your advice with future students. As you think back on the past 11 weeks of PSY105, what advice would you give to future students who take this class? Remember to have 3 posts in this discussion.

PSY105 Introduction to Psychology

Week 8 Assignment

Given what you have learned in Chapter 3 about brain development and social development, explain why Gloria’s son is making poor decisions.

What specific strategies can Gloria use to help her son make better decisions?

From what you have learned about human development and self-regulation, why do you think these strategies will be effective?

How does Reggie’s mindset affect the way that he prepares for the compliance test?

Use brain plasticity (neuroplasticity) to explain how Reggie can start to develop a growth mindset. What can Reggie do to actually change his brain so that he can adopt a growth mindset approach?

Suggest at least three study strategies that Reggie can use to study for the compliance test. Based on what you have learned about memory in Chapter 4, explain why these would be effective study techniques.

What are the big five personality traits? When thinking about the big five personality traits, on which ones do Gloria and Lakeisha differ the most?

Give some advice to Gloria. How can she use emotional regulation and cognitive reappraisal to work more effectively with Lakeisha? Give at least two things that Gloria can do and provide a rationale for why these will be effective.

References

Myers, D. (2017). Psychology (4th ed.). Asheville, NC: Soomo Learning. Available from hMp://www.webtexts.com

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Gloria has recently graduated college and started a new job. Her coworkers seem very nice, and Gloria has gotten to know Lakeisha and Reggie the best.

Reggie is a friendly older man who often talks about his plans for retirement in five years. He likes to make people laugh but often jokes about his struggles to learn new programs and technology.

Gloria and Lakeisha have been assigned to work on a project together. Lakeisha is very organized and has prepared a list of to-do items along with due dates. She even color-coded the list to indicate which partner will do each item. Gloria, who is more laid-back, feels a bit uncomfortable with this micromanaging from Lakeisha, who has only been at the job a few months longer than she has. Gloria wonders if Lakeisha thinks she is either lazy or stupid, and she does not look forward to working on this project. In the past, Gloria attempted to communicate her feelings with a co-worker; however, her coworker told Gloria that she needed to put her feelings aside and just do the work assigned to her. As Gloria ponders having a conversation with Lakeisha, she starts to feel overwhelmed and thinks she might have to ask to be removed from this project.

Still, she and Lakeisha have connected because they are both single mothers of teenagers. Gloria confides in Lakeisha about her 16-year-old son who has started making poor choices and is currently grounded for sneaking out of the house and getting drunk at a party the night before a big exam.

The company recently informed the team that there will be a compliance test on new safety policies, which employees will need to pass in order to keep their jobs. The company has provided materials to study as well as optional practice exams. Gloria and Lakeisha have signed up to take the first practice test. Reggie, however, jokes that he will probably wait until the night before the test to read the material. As the date of the test approaches, Reggie becomes increasingly nervous. He makes frequent comments about how hard it is for him to learn a different way of doing the jobs that he has been doing for years, joking that “you can’t teach an old man new tricks.”

1. Gloria’s son is making poor decisions. Given what you have learned about a) brain development and b) social development in Chapter 3:

Explain why Gloria’s son is making those poor decisions.

Discuss specific strategies Gloria can implement to help her son make better choices.

Use specific concepts related to development and self-regulation to explain why these strategies would be effective.

2. Reggie is demonstrating a fixed mindset. How is Reggie’s mindset affecting the way he prepares for the new compliance test?

Use brain plasticity (neuroplasticity) to explain how Reggie can start to develop a growth mindset.

Suggest study strategies for Reggie so that he will be prepared for the compliance test. Use specific concepts from Chapter 4 to explain why these strategies will be effective.

3. Consider Gloria and Lakeisha’s different approaches to the project. On which of the Big 5 personality traits do they most differ?

Give advice to Gloria on how she can use emotional regulation and cognitive reappraisal to work with Lakeisha.