Posted Most Memorable Moment (err...Concept) of Psy 1001 to Fall 2011 Psy1001 Sec21
As a psychology major, as much as I'm sorry to see 1001 end, I'm really excited to move on to more in-depth courses and research opportunities. Since I want to focus on evolutionary psychology as I continue my academic career,...
Posted Career-Personality Tests: Terrific tools, or useless entertainment? to Fall 2011 Psy1001 Sec21
This week in my blog entry I'd like to consider something akin to the activity we did last week in our discussion sections. Below is a link to a career-selector personality quiz that claims to be based on Carl Jung...
Posted Media Violence: Invalid Results? to Fall 2011 Psy1001 Sec21
I had a lot of trouble finding recent articles about media violence and its effects on aggression. Most of the work on this kind of phenomenon seems to be from the late 90s or early 2000s, and I really wanted...
Posted The Mozart Effect: Not for Musicians! to Fall 2011 Psy1001 Sec21
Take a look at this 2010 article in the journal of Psychology of Music, "A limiting feature of the Mozart effect: listening enhances mental rotation abilities in non-musicians but not musicians." http://pom.sagepub.com/content/38/1/107.short Basically, the experiment ran a set of spatial...
Posted Washington Post: Some Believe "Truth Serum" Will Come Back to Fall 2011 Psy1001 Sec21
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/19/AR2006111900891_pf.html In this section, we've been discussing the mechanisms of memory and the phenomenon of false memories - how they can be created and the consequences they can have, such as in the case of Paul Ingram, whose bizarre series...
Posted More People Living Than Dead? Extraordinary Claims & Falsifiability to Fall 2011 Psy1001 Sec21
http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/dead.asp Myth: The number of people currently living is greater than the number of people who have ever died. This claim seems possible, if unlikely, especially because it supports popular notions of world overpopulation that became popular in the 1970s...
Posted Marcus de Satoy -- Who Makes Our Decisions? to Fall 2011 Psy1001 Sec21
I found the video posted on the WebVista site, Marcus de Satoy's "The Secret You," very interesting. For the purpose of this entry, I'd like to focus on his discussion of who really makes our decisions - our conscious selves...
Posted More People Living Than Dead? Extraordinary Claims & Falsifiability to Psych 1001 -- Amy's Blog
http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/dead.asp Myth: The number of people currently living is greater than the number of people who have ever died. This claim seems possible, if unlikely, especially because it supports popular notions of world overpopulation that became popular in the 1970s...
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