PSYC100

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Why deep sleep is helpful for memory
Why deep sleep is helpful for memory
It has been known for nearly 20 years that slow, synchronous electrical waves in the brain during deep sleep support the formation of memories. Why that is was previously unknown. Now, a team of researchers posits an explanation. According to the study, the slow waves make the neocortex, the location of long-term memory, especially receptive to information. The findings could help to optimize the treatment approaches that are intended to support memory formation from outside.
·sciencedaily.com·
Why deep sleep is helpful for memory
The "Door" Study
The "Door" Study
Get my new book (co-authored with Christopher Chabris), *** Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do About It *** available July 11, 2023. Learn...
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The "Door" Study
Parenting
Parenting
Living in an optimization culture is making parenting much more complicated than it need be. Or so says Dr. Aliza Pressman, author of The Five Principles of Parenting and the host of Raising Good Humans, who spends a lot of time with the latest research and a lot of time with parents in clinic. Today’s conversation is about exactly what does and does not protect us from the worst health outcomes and is to be shared with anyone who is looking for a parenting north star. (Previously aired)Our takeaways were juicy on this one… if you’d like to receive the weekly list in your inbox subscribe to our Weekly Takeaways email at www.kellycorrigan.com/takeaways.
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Parenting
Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science
Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science
C. Nathan DeWall, University of Kentucky, and renowned textbook author and APS Fellow David G. Myers, Hope College, have teamed up to create a new series of Observer columns aimed at integrating cutting-edge psychological science
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Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science
What is Environmental Psychology?
What is Environmental Psychology?
This project represents an opportunity to leverage technological resources to enhance teaching and learning of environmental psychology (EP) online. We are developing a dynamic video series that will introduce concepts and methods critical to the study of EP. Guided by an initial question for this project, the video series is aptly titled “What is Environmental Psychology?” It is one professor’s modest take on this multidisciplinary field. The project has received support from the APS Fund for Teaching and Public Understanding of Psychological Science.
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What is Environmental Psychology?
Teaching: Shared Emotions / Positives of Psychological Disorders
Teaching: Shared Emotions / Positives of Psychological Disorders
Lesson plans about the emotions within and between us and the positives of autism, ASD, and other psychological disorders.
Two student activities illustrate interdependence of emotion (IOE).  Activity 1: Imagine athletic success  Divide students into two groups. Show each group one of two comments by an Olympic athlete who was interviewed by a TV station after winning a gold medal for swimming:  [Self-focused] “I’m so happy—winning the gold has always been my dream! My personal race strategy was to save energy for the end, and it worked. I’ve spent countless hours in the pool. After the Olympics, I’ll take a few days off, but then start training for the next Olympics.”   [Relationship-focused] “I’m so happy—winning the gold has always been a dream for my family, my coach, and me! My coach’s race strategy was to save energy for the end, and it worked! Together we have spent countless hours training at the pool. After the Olympics, we’ll take a few days off, but then start training for the next Olympics.”   After reading, students should imagine themselves as the athlete whose comment they read and write 4–5 sentences about them in the first-person voice in as much detail as possible. They should write about their background, relationships, and psychological and emotional state.   Then have students count the emotion words (e.g., elated, anxious) they used in their passage and compare between groups. In Uchida et al.’s study (2009), Japanese participants used more emotion words in response to the relationship-focused paragraph, presumably because in Japan, lay theories emphasize that emotions are interpersonal—they happen between people. By contrast, North American participants used more emotion words in response to the self-focused paragraph. In the North American context, emotions are seen as coming from within a person.  Activity 2: Compare happiness scales  Present two happiness scales. One, developed by North American psychologists, is the Subjective Well Being (SWB) scale (Pavot & Diener, 1993). The other was developed from an interdependent perspective by Japanese psychologists (Hitokoto & Uchida, 2015).   Subjective Well Being scale:   In most ways my life is close to my ideal.  The conditions of my life are excellent.  I am satisfied with my life.  So far, I have gotten the important things I want in life.  If I could live my life over, I would change almost nothing.  Interdependent Happiness scale (selected items):  I believe that I and others around me are happy.  I make significant others happy.  I do not have any major concerns or anxieties.  I can do what I want without causing problems for other people.  I feel that I am being positively evaluated by others around me.   Students can reflect on the cultural models of happiness (self-focused vs. relationship-focused) expressed in each of these scales. Ask students, “Imagine you work at the Gallup organization and are planning to measure levels of happiness around the world. Which scale would you use, and why?”
·psychologicalscience.org·
Teaching: Shared Emotions / Positives of Psychological Disorders
Psychological Effects of the Internet
Psychological Effects of the Internet
Open-access, active-learning, semester-long course created by Professor Morton Ann Gernsbacher
·internet.psych.wisc.edu·
Psychological Effects of the Internet
Change How You Study: Secrets from Cognitive Science
Change How You Study: Secrets from Cognitive Science
Many people use ineffective strategies when studying. Fortunately, insights from cognitive science give us a better way. Watch this 9-minute video to learn how you might change your study strategies for the better. Steve Most is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) and co-author of an award-winning textbook on human cognition (https://pages.oup.com/he/us/cognition-oup). He is passionate about spreading understanding of psychology both within and beyond the university. Get in touch if you would like to arrange and educational workshop at your school or organization.
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Change How You Study: Secrets from Cognitive Science