PSY105 Introduction to Psychology
Module 1 Discussion
DQ1 What is Psychology?
I believe studying topics such as emotion, language, and body language can help fine-tune your interpersonal communication skills. By learning more about these things, you can gain a greater understanding of other people and what they are trying to say. Let's get started!
DQ 1: How would you define the study of Psychology?
In this discussion, explain the definition and purpose of studying psychology including the reasons you are interested in Psychology!\
DQ2 Mind and Body
Dualists believe that the mind and body are interacting but distinct entities. On the other hand, monists deny the separation of mind and body. They argue that the mind and body are different aspects of the same thing. In essence, the mind is what the brain does.
DQ 2: What is the relationship between mind and body?
Include in this discussion whether or not the mind exists separate from the body?
Resources to Review:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-mind-body-connection (Links to an external site.)
https://www.builtlean.com/2013/08/15/mind-body-connection-facts/ (Links to an external site.)
https://www.consciouslifestylemag.com/mind-body-connection-health/
PSY105 Introduction to Psychology
Module 2 Discussion
DQ1 Nature vs. Nurture
The oldest and longest development debate is Nature vs Nurture. Both present good points. However, it is difficult to whether a person's development is predisposed in his/her DNA, or a majority of it is influenced by these life experiences and his environment.
DQ 1: Explain the differences between Nature vs. Nurture. Identify and Explain some examples of the characteristics of each?
SOURCES FOR REVIEW:
https://www.simplypsychology.org/naturevsnurture.html (Links to an external site.)
https://www.simplypsychology.org/naturevsnurture.html (Links to an external site.)
https://www.medicinenet.com/nature_vs_nurture_theory_genes_or_environment/article.htm
DQ2 Life Span Development
The Life Span Development, which refers to the changes related as we age from birth through adolescence and old age.
DQ 2: Research and chose one area of the Life Span Phases that interests you the most and explain it to your classmates
Explain the elements of development areas: social, emotional physical, and cognitive.
Choose 1 - Life Span Development Phases; Pre-Natal, Infancy, Childhood, Adulthood, Death & Dying
SOURCES FOR REVIEW:
http://www.apa.org/action/science/developmental/index.aspx (Links to an external site.)
https://www.bestcounselingdegrees.net/faq/what-is-lifespan-development/ (Links to an external site.)
http://www.measureofamerica.org/human-development/
PSY105 Introduction to Psychology
Module 3 Discussion
DQ1 Sensation and Perception
Our chapter reading tells us that sensation refers to the process of sensing through touch, taste, sound, sight and smell. The information is sent to our brains where perception comes into play. Perception is the way we interpret these sensations and therefore, make sense of everything around us.
Watch Video:
DQ 1: Research and Explain the Basic Principles of Sensation and Perception. Offer examples to highlight the Principles.
Resource: https://allpsych.com/psychology101/sensation_perception/
DQ2 Learning
Learning theories are conceptual frameworks describing how information is absorbed, processed, and retained during learning. Cognitive, emotional, and environmental influences, as well as prior experience, all play a part in how understanding, or a world view, is acquired or changed and knowledge and skills retained.
Behavioral psychologists have focused on the learning of associations through classical conditioning and operant conditioning. Cognitive psychologists studying learning are interested in the more complex type of learning involved in human memory.
DQ 1 Research & Discussion: Choose 1 Learning Theory - your favorite!
Operant Conditioning, Classical Conditioning, Observational Learning, Behavior Modification
Include the important principles of your learning theory. Offer examples.
Explain your reasons for supporting this theory.
PSY105 Introduction to Psychology
Module 4 Discussion
DQ1 Memory
Our Memory is the storage center for our life from birth to old age. Without our memories, we would not have any recollection of our past life and even the past minutes/seconds.
DQ 1: Research and explain the importance of memory, its components, and what a healthy memory is vs. unhealthy.
DQ2 Thinking and Intelligence
Thinking as the process for information to solve problems and make judgments and decisions.
DQ 2: Research and explain: What is intelligence and what kind of THINKER are you? Include an explanation of what critical thinking is defined.
PSY105 Introduction to Psychology
Module 5 Discussion
DQ1 Motivation
We often see motivation as something that moves a person to act and behave to achieve the desired goal, while emotion is the feelings that emerge from the motive, or from the actions caused by the motive and from the achievement or failure of the desired goal.
DQ: Research and Explain one of the Motivational Theories. Include incentives, drive and motives.
DQ2 Emotions, Stress & Health
Let's discuss important topics such as our different emotions, the stress in our lives, and health. These are all interconnected! One can impact the other.
Watch:
DQ: Research and explain how emotions, stress, and health and how these are interconnected. Include different levels of stress: hassles, alarm, acute, and chronic. Explain the difference between response vs. reaction and the impact on health.
PSY105 Introduction to Psychology
Module 6 Discussion
DQ1 Personality
The term personality refers to the traits and patterns that make up one's individuality. It refers to the way individuals think, feel, and behave in specific ways. Researchers believe our personalities are who we are in the short and long term, stable, and not easily changed. The word personality comes from the Latin word persona.
DQ: Research and explain what is personality, and what theories inform our understanding of personality?
DQ2 Therapy
Therapy comes with various stereotypes in our society today. Not everyone understands its value nor its effectiveness. We, as a society, harshly judge those who seek and participate in therapy.
Watch: https://www.goodtherapy.org/what-is-therapy.html
DQ: Research and explain what is Mental Illness?
PSY105 Introduction to Psychology
Module 7 Discussion
DQ1 Social Psychology
The 6 major Principles of Social Psychology:
1. We construct our social reality
2. Our social intuitions are often powerful but some- times perilous
3. Social influences shape our behavior
4. Personal attitudes and dispositions also shape behavior.
5. Social behavior is biologically rooted
6. Social psychology’s principles are applicable in everyday life
DQ: Choose 1 of the Principles above. Research and explain to your classmates the components & purpose of the Principle you chose.
Watch: Social Psychology:
DQ2 Psychological Disorders
Knowing about psychological disorders is important, but it is just as important to know where to find help if you believe that you or a loved one is struggling with mental illness.
DQ: Research and explain how are psychological disorders defined? Include an explanation of what is normal vs abnormal behavior in our society today.
Watch:
Psychological Disorders: Crash Course Psychology #28
PSY105 Introduction to Psychology
Module 1 Quiz
Question 1Patients with schizophrenia will most likely display ____ in their brains.
No detectable traces of the disease
Blood Clots
Enlarged ventricles
Discoloration of connective tissues
Question 2Who is known as the father of classical conditioning?
B. F. Skinner
Jean-Paul Sartre
Sigmond Freud
Ivan Pavlov
Question 3Which type of behavior modification relies on consequences?
Aversion therapy
Classical conditioning
Flooding
Operant conditioning
Question 4Who was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in psychology?
Helen Thompson Woolley
Leta Stetter Hollingworth
Margaret Floy Washburn
Mary Whiton Calkins
Question 5Which animals were primarily used in B.F. Skinner’s “Skinner Boxes” of operant conditioning?
Rats
Dogs
Rabbits
Cats
Question 6According to Freud, which inner force contains the libido?
Id
Ego
Superid
Superego
Question 7Which of these is not one of Freud’s stages of psychosexual development?
Oral
Phallic
Anal
Curious
Question 8 Which of these might be prescribed to a patient who has been diagnosed with major depressive disorder?
DSM
Norepinephrine
Acetylcholine
SSRI
Question 9What is the name of the book that holds the diagnosis criteria and overview of all documented psychological disorders?
APA Manual of Psychological Disorders
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Overview and Criteria of Current Mental Disorders
No such book exists.
PSY105 Introduction to Psychology
Module 2 Assignment
Student Led Debate: Nature vs. Nurture
**This student debate is to be set up in the discussion forum as their assignment to enable the students to discuss and debate the topic together. The requirements and rubric for this debate are as follows:
This assignment is an actual student-led debate regarding nature vs. nurture. Students will answer, explain, and discuss the following questions with their classmates in the discussion forum. (This is an additional special discussion in the discussion format as Module 2's assignment).
VIDEO LINK:
Upon review the above video, discuss the following topic areas:
What are your reactions to this study?
What are the most important points presented about these twins as they develop?
How are the twins different in their personalities?
Describe the impact on living day to day as a twin of life: social, family, economic, education, employment.
In your view, which is more powerful in these twin studies: Nature or Nurture? State your reasons.
Add your own questions. Include research to add new information.
REQUIREMENTS:
Minimum of 3 substantive posts (ON 3 SEPARATE DAYS) in addition to your DQ posts.
Minimum of 2 paragraphs of 6 sentences each required)
Include research to expand your content.
PSY105 Introduction to Psychology
Module 3 Assignment
Student Self Assessment & Presentation
Week 3 Assignment: Engagement Activity - Self Assessment & Presentation
Find out your learning style at the following link: http://www.educationplanner.org/students/self-assessments/learning-styles.shtml (Links to an external site.)
Share your results with your classmates.
What did you learn about your style of learning?
How will learning your style assist you in school, home or work?
Requirements:
Minimum of 1 detailed substantive post (2paragraphs/8 sentences each)
PSY105 Introduction to Psychology
Module 4 Assignment
Case Study, Video &Student Led Discussion: What would you do?
Watch, Review, Analyze, and Explain:
This is who Clive Wearing was:
Upon review the above video, discuss the following topic areas:
What are your reactions to Clive living without short term memory?
What are the causes?
How would you live without a short term memory?
Describe the impact on quality of life: social, family, economic, education, employment.
Ask and present what your family and friends about their reactions and thoughts about living without short term memory
Add to your discussion:
What are your reactions to Clive Wearing's situation?
What would you do without your memory?
Requirements:
Minimum of 3 posts (ON 3 SEPARATE DAYS) in addition to your DQ posts.
(minimum of 2 paragraphs of 6 sentences each required)
Include research to expand your content.
PSY105 Introduction to Psychology
Module 5 Assignment
Student Self-Assessment and Discussion
For this discussion: Assess your Stress Level
Link: https://www.bemindfulonline.com/test-your-stress (Links to an external site.)
Upon completion of this assessment, share your score and present your reactions to your score. Include how your score relates to your emotional and physical health, and include your strategies to lower your emotional reactions and stress level.
REQUIREMENTS:
Minimum of 3 substantive posts (ON 2 SEPARATE DAYS) in addition to your DQ posts. Posts include your main response and 1 response to your classmates.
Minimum of 2 paragraphs of 6 sentences each required)
Include research to expand your content.
PSY105 Introduction to Psychology
Module 6 Assignment
Case Study, Assessment & Discussion
CASE STUDY, ASSESSMENT & DISCUSSION: The boy who couldn't stop washing his hands
At school, Charlie had been an enthusiastic student with particular abilities in chemistry and biology. He was a very easy going boy with a friendly and playful disposition. There had been talking of him pursuing a medical career. However, at about the age of 12, he had started to wash compulsively. There appeared to be no reason why this behavior started, but washing took up more and more of his time each day.
He tried to keep his obsessive-compulsive symptoms under control during the time he was at school. However, over months, his resistance weakened and his OCD became so severe that his time-consuming rituals took over his life.
Charlie was forced to leave school because he was spending so much of the day washing. His washing ritual always followed the same deliberate pattern. He would hold the soap under the water spray for one minute in his right hand and then out of the water for one minute in his left hand. he would repeat this for at least one hour. After washing for about three hours, Charlie would spend about two hours getting dressed.
Charlie's mother discouraged his strange washing rituals, but later, not wanting to see his misery 'helped him' by obsessively cleaning items in the house with alcohol and stopped people from entering the house with their 'germs.' Charlie's father could not understand these behaviors and spent more and more time at work.
VIDEO LINK:
Research, explain, and discuss:
Describe your overall assessment of Charlie's behavior?
What type of therapy, if any, would you recommend?
What do you think about medication for this type of OCD and a 12 yr. old boy?
Describe the family challenges, impact on learning, impact on socialization and life span development, etc.?
REQUIREMENTS:
Minimum of 3 substantive posts (ON 3 SEPARATE DAYS) in addition to your DQ posts.
Minimum of 2 paragraphs of 6 sentences each required)
Include research to expand your content.
PSY105 Introduction to Psychology
Module 7 Assignment
Reflection and Evaluation: What did you learn from this Course?
Student Reflection and Evaluation: Answer the following questions:
What are the top 3 Areas of Learning for you in this Course? (What did you learn?)
How will you apply what you learned in your life?
What are the 3 areas I (Your Instructor not the Student) can improve this class?
Summary: Content Format:
One Detailed Comprehensive Post
Be Specific on each question. Short answers will not be credited.
Minimum of 6 sentences per question
Minimum of 3 paragraphs sentence structure, punctuation, and spelling
