Watch the video entitled, The Magic of the Unconscious: Automatic Brain (Links to an external site.).
Select a “hot topic” of cognitive psychology based on what you have heard and/or seen in the media and
your personal interests.
Please make sure that you are including the question and then respond, then do the following three
assignments;
- Look for a report in the media (e.g., newspapers, magazines, web pages of professional organizations,
etc.) that refers to the selected topic such as “defendant cannot remember what happened,” “false memories explain
UFO abduction stories,” and so forth.
- Describe the content of the selected report and offer your own perspective. Namely, use your critical-
thinking skills to examine the extent to which the claims made in the report and the evidence upon which the report relies are to be trusted. Then, discuss the real-life consequences of the evidence reported.
- And finally mention something you saw in the video, The Magic of the Unconscious Automatic Brain, that
you were asked to watch, that you thought was rather interesting/amusing/fascinating.
In your post, include a link to the selected report, and explain to the members of the class why you have
selected it. Support your points with evidence from at least one peer-reviewed research article.
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