One of the most important skills for students to master is how to study! Using information from the Memory and the Learning chapters in your textbook, discuss the following: • Often incoming freshmen rely on flashcards and rote repetition as their primary method of studying. What are advantages and disadvantages of this approach? • If you were to lead a Freshman Seminar for incoming students, what study strategies would you recommend and why? Support your suggestions with citations from the textbook. Replies: Using concepts from the Memory and the Learning chapters, how might you expand upon your classmates' study seminar and help students "learn" to study? Read and reply to 2 classmates, recommending an additional strategy (in each reply) that may add to their proposed Seminar
Emotional Intelligence
This module/week, you are going to test the "Facial Feedback Hypothesis." First, have 5 friends/colleagues/family members hold a pencil in their mouths showing their teeth for 30 seconds. Then, ask them to rate how happy they feel on a scale of 1-7 (1 = very unhappy, 7 = very happy). Second, have another 5 friends/colleagues/family members hold a pencil in their mouths without showing their teeth (i.e., lips together) for 30 seconds. Then, ask them to rate how happy they feel on a scale of 1-7 (1 = very unhappy, 7 = very happy). For your thread, discuss the following: • Summarize the facial feedback hypothesis, citing the course textbook. • What were the findings of your mini-experiment? For example, the average rating was # for Group 1 (teeth showing) versus # for Group 2 (no teeth). • Were your findings consistent with the Facial Feedback Hypothesis? Why or why not? • Why do you think God created us to experience emotions?
Topic: There's an App for That! Your job for this discussion board is to choose a developmental period and design an app that would apply to them. It could be a game, a self-help app, a parenting resource app, etc. For your discussion thread: • Describe your app. What is the purpose? How does it work? • Identify the target audience for your app (i.e., who you would want to buy/download it). • Discuss key developmental markers or characteristics for that age group (include textbook citations). • Discuss the key developmental period or elements that this app will address, using citations from your textbook to support the need for your app.
From the start of this course, we have emphasized the importance of research in shaping our understanding of human behavior and mental process. Several major studies and social psychology concepts were discussed throughout this chapter. If a local church asked you to present 3 research studies or concepts from this chapter as part of a "Psychology and Christian Life Seminar," which 3 would you pick and why? Come up with your top 3 and discuss why you selected them. Also, highlight how each one might be of value to Christians and/or the church. For your discussion thread, discuss the following:
• Identify your top 3 studies/concepts, using citations from the textbook as you describe.
• Discuss why you think they are most important to living.
• Discuss how each study is consistent/inconsistent with a biblical worldview, as well as how it might be of value to Christians in the real world.
Topic: Psychological Disorders and Treatments
Choose one of the following disorders or a sub-type within the major category: • Depression • Anxiety
• Schizophrenia Summarize key symptoms of the disorder as well as possible causes, citing your textbook. How might a biblical worldview-apply to understanding this disorder?
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