Psychological Disorders: Guided Questions

Hey everyone, I promised that I'd have these questions posted by 3pm. They are not totally complete, but they are definitely enough to get you started. I'll update later this evening or tomorrow.

Guess What? Quiz Chapter 11 Tomorrow

I suggest you review on Study Island, Section Reviews etc. Probably about 30 questions. Cheaters will be subjected to the same torturous conditions experienced by Harlow's monkeys.

Intelligence, Controversy and Testing

There are few topics that create as much controversy as intelligence. How is it defined? How can it be tested? Should it be tested, and if so, how should the results be used? What connections, if any, exist between intelligence and achievement? Should people of widely different aptitudes be educated identically? Why do individual differences exist in the first place? The website "Human Intelligence" does an excellent job providing an overview of the topic. Particularly, I want you to take a look at "Current Controversies" aka "Hot Topics" in Intelligence. There are 14 subtopics listed. Choose one, read the material and then comment.

Also, please read the "The social cost to academic achievement". Don't comment here, but be prepared to discuss on Monday.

And, if you're interested, the little mini IQ sampler we played with on Thursday was taken from the website of Mensa, the oldest high IQ society in the world (minimum of 132 @ +2.2 SD). Scroll down towards the bottom and click on "mental workout" if you've nothing else to do.

As promised...

So here's the "clues" or "questions" or whatever, some of them have the terms following, some don't, no need to guess a number 1 - 100 ( 2 and 12 Shanda.. all the way).

Development Jeopardy


Personality Jeopady

Don't forget to work on your paper, with delay of game, due Friday 1/28, also those 4 questions?, Due Wednesday. The test for chapters 9 and 10 is also Friday. If you're lucky I'll post short answer hints here in a day or two, IF you're lucky.

For class Friday let's chat about moral development and Kohlberg. I think ya'll need a brush up/review with Piaget too. Also, let's  review differences between different schools of thought with personality theory (Psychoanalysts, Humanists, Behaviorists (or Social-Cognitive/Social-Learning, Trait Theorists)).

Please get your collective act together.

Personality Theory: Psychodynamic: Freud and Jung

Jung's "Red Book"

Freud, chillin'

Let's start Chapter 10 by taking a focus on the first fully developed theories
of personality. You've only got 10 questions that you need to deal with by Tuesday. The focus is on the Psychodynamic perspective, particularly Freud and Jung, you can give yourself a super easy to understand overview of their theories, once again created by Michael Britt. Click on "Personality Part 2". 

Piaget and Erikson: Stages of Development

Get to know Piaget a little better with this brief overview from UC Berkeley. The take a look at the following series of videos that demonstrate Piaget's Stages:
 Stage 1 - Sensorimotor, Object Permanence (1:03)
Stage 2 - Preoperational, Lack of Conservation (2:16)
Stage 3 - Concrete - Reversibility (0:56)
Stage 4 - Formal - Deductive Reasoning (0:58) 

So Piaget's focus was on Cognitive Development, but Erik Erikson was more interested in how our personality and social relationships interact to influence our development. He believed that all humans face common obstacles at different points in our lives. He worked out 8 basic stages of Psychosocial Development common to all. To gain true understanding of the stages of development you should read all the relevant info in your text. You may also want to check out this overview. The following video will MAKE you remember each and every stage of Erikson's for life, but you have to watch the entire thing at least once and give it your full attention. Force yourself yo connect to everything Mr. Britt is doing. It's 18 minutes long, deal with it.

And last but not least, these Developmental Psych Cliff Notes provide an EXCELLENT overview of lifespan development. Click around on the tabs on the left for more detail

Baby Ducks, Tortured Monkeys and a "Strange Situation": UPDATED HARLOW LINK

Please make sure you watch all three of the following videos. They relate to pages 370 - 373.

Konrad Lorenz and Imprinting

Mary Ainsworth and Attachment Studies

Harry Harlow and Contact Comfort, UPDATE: sorry about the bad link earlier. The following article appeared in the Boston Globe a few years back and does a good job explaining the impact of Harlow's research on both Psychology and the Animal Right's Movement.