Go to this link http://www.learner.org/resources/series138.html# and watch the following videos:
Video Assignment 1
Go to this link http://www.learner.org/resources/series138.html# and watch the following videos:
# 3 – The Behaving Brain
#13 – The Mind Awake and Asleep
Then go to the discussion board and post a response to the two videos. What did you find interesting? Were you surprised by anything that you learned? Did you find these videos helpful in understanding how the brain (especially neurons) works?
Hypnosis: Can you really make people do things? Assignment 2
Go to the following links to watch the short clips of Boris, the Hypnotist, as he commands his hypnotized subjects to perform on the Montel Williams show. Then go to the discussion board and post a response. Based on what you have read on hypnosis (pgs. 142 – 145), were these people really hypnotized? Tell us what you think.
Hypnosis Links at Youtube:
Drug Abuse versus Drug Use Assignment #3
Go to one of the following web sites (or links from these sites):
http://www.nida.nih.gov/
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/
Write down at least four basic tenets or beliefs about the definition of drug abuse and thoughts regarding enforcement efforts gleaned from these sites, or sites listed on the “drug abuse web ring” (there are links at the bottom of any web site that is in a ring, that is a grouping of similar topical sites. It is a “ring” in that you can keep clicking on “next”, visit them all, and return to the original web site where you started. You don’t have to travel the entire ring.
Now, go to one of the following web sites:
http://november.org/index.html
http://www.norml.org/
http://www.alltheway.com/
Now write down at least four basic tenets or beliefs about the definition of drug abuse and thoughts regarding enforcement efforts gleaned from these sites.
Finally, write a summary of each web site that you visited, and then compare and contrast the basic beliefs, efforts, philosophies of two of the “seemingly opposite” web sites. Report your findings using the form in the Discussion Board forum.
Read about the eight types of sleep disorders listed at: Assignment#4
http://www.activebeat.co/health-news/8-common-sleep-disorders/?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=AB_GGL_US_DESK-SearchMarketing&utm_content=g_c_178113747313&cus_widget=&utm_term=sleep%20disorders&cus_teaser=
Additional information can be found below at the National Institute of Health and the National Sleep foundation:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/sleepdisorders.html
http://www.sleepfoundation.org/articles/sleep-disorders
Read about two of the sleep disorders and any additional information that you find helpful, and write a brief (50 – 100 word) report of your findings at that sight. List any urls to sites that seem particularly scholarly or beneficial to your learning. Briefly relate to the sleep disorders section in the text.
Professor’s Question (Critical Thinking) for Extra Credit Assignment#5
In discussing Nature/Nurture, most Psychologists today consider themselves to be “Dualists”, that is for most human traits an explanation of origion involves both nature and nurture.
Assume dualism is valid, then address how “free-choice” fits into the equasion?
Why would one then choose homosexuality if one’s culture is going to be punitive?
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