Essay Questions

-Write about three out of the following five questions (see the attachment)

 

-Your answers to these questions should be at least 5 paragraphs long.  If you use outside sources, please cite them. 

  

Read the attachment word to word and the papers have to be double spaced, 12 font

PSYC100 Sp13 Final Essay Questions

Write about three out of the following five questions

Your answers to these questions should be at least 5 paragraphs long. If you use outside sources, please cite them.

1. Using an experience from your own life, name one social psychological phenomenon described in our textbook and demonstrates it in depth. Please describe how the life episode left you feeling. Name and describe how you would like to be treated, based on this experience, and how it has taught you to treat others henceforth. Is this a way you would prefer to be in the world?

2. In December 2012 a young man used automatic weaponry to commit a massacre in Newtown, CT. The 26 victims were mostly under the age of 7. Around the same time, a man in central China used a knife to stab elementary school children. Psychologically speaking, name some physiological, psychodynamic, neurological, social psychological, and DSM-IV TR or DSM-V diagnostic factors that could have underlain these events. Cite your references and explain your reasoning.

3. Write about our class research project:

1. What question(s) did we investigate?

2. What were the steps we took to carry out our investigation?

3. What did we find?

4. What improvements could we make to the process if we repeated the investigation?

5. What further questions could be asked about our topic?

4. View the PowerPoint about the late adulthood stage of life created by Elodie Fichet, Pax Bisamwa, Zablon Gobena, Kyle Cavens, and Chloe Yu of PSYC100(5)Sp13 (you should have received the Ppt via email). Using the information in it, write about three of the challenges faced by people in this stage of life:

What is the challenge?

What is the cause of this becoming a challenge?

What are biochemical, social and/or cognitive remedies to alleviate the problems caused by this challenge?

Are there any popular myths around this challenge? What are they, and what is the truth about this challenge?

5. Based on all we have studied this quarter, what is psychology? Give a brief description of your two or three favorite topics we have surveyed together, including why these topics especially appeal to you. How can psychology be used to help humanity?