Posted Phineas Gage: A Tragic Story to Sections 24 and 25 SP12 PSY 1001
Phineas Gage was a railroad foreman who survived a traumatic accident in 1848. He was filling holes with gunpowder when an explosion caused a tamping iron to shoot under his cheekbone, out through his skull. This accident destroyed a good...
Posted Love is Love to Sections 24 and 25 SP12 PSY 1001
Should homosexual couples have the same rights to marriage as heterosexual couples? This question has been an ongoing controversial topic for decades. Many opposes of the issue feel that allowing same sex marriage would weaken the definition of marriage...
Posted Out-of-Body Experiences: The Mind-Body Problem to Sections 24 and 25 SP12 PSY 1001
The 58-minute video from BBC was very interesting because it caused several questions to arise from me. A more specific question I had was how Rene Descartes's theory of the mind and body being separate could explain out of body...
Posted The Murder of Kitty Genovese to Sections 24 and 25 SP12 PSY 1001
The thirteenth chapter in the Lilienfeld textbook focuses on social psychology. This type of psychology can be defined as the study of how people influence others' behavior, beliefs, and attitudes--for both good and bad (Lewin, 1951). The chapter goes into...