Category Archives: Blog Prompts

Week 7 Blog Prompts

Option 1:

Not everyone learns the same way. Each of us do best under certain conditions, and these tendencies are called learning styles. Take these two online learning style assessments (Link 1, Link 2). Report your results, discuss how credible you find them (both in terms of how well the results fit your experience and how well the assessment is designed), and discuss how you can use your preferred learning style improve your study skills. Finally, how well does AC do at teaching to your preferred learning style?

Option 2:

Violence in the media has ...

Week 6 Blog Prompts

This week's blog prompts are from chapters we aren't covering in lecture, so take advantage of this opportunity to delve deeper into psychology and explore sensation and perception. Option 1: Synesthesia is a condition in which people's perceptions of one sense activates another (for example hearing colors or seeing sounds). Watch Daniel Tammet explain his experience of synesthesia in a TED Talk entitled "Different Ways of Knowing." Share your reactions to this video and discuss how you think this condition would affect someone's day-to-day life. You also need to find an internet source which provides more information on the condition. Make sure ...

Week 5 Blog Prompts

Here are the blog prompts for this week: Option 1: Elizabeth Loftus is one of the preeminent researchers in false memories. Her research has shed light on the fallibility of eyewitness testimony, the over-reporting of satanic ritual abuse, and the ease of implanting false memories. Her TED talk outlines much of her research and illuminates the fragility of our memory. Watch the TED talk and discuss your reactions. Make sure to specifically address Loftus's implication that we could manipulate memory for positive outcomes (like enjoying vegetables) by discussing potential pros and cons and stating whether or not you believe we ...

Week 4 Blog Prompts

For your blog prompt this week, you are to choose one of the following TED talks: Each talk focuses on a different aspect of the brain. In your response, address the following issues:
  • What drew you to choose the talk you ...

Week 3 Blog Prompts

Here are the options for this week's blog prompt:

  1. Assess the reliability of parenting advice on the internet. Find a website or news story offering parenting advice (include a link to the site in your post) and critique the advice it gives based on the information in Chapter 3 and lecture this week. You may not be able to judge the truth of all pieces of advice, so be sure to point out what looks like good advice, what looks like bad advice, and what is undetermined. Make sure to tie your assessments back to information in ...

Week 2 Blog Prompts

Here are the options for this week's blog post: Option 1 For this week's discussion, I want you to design a research study about a topic you find interesting in psychology. You can choose any topic you would like as long as you relate it to something from our textbook. In your post make sure to do the following:
  • List your research question
  • State your hypothesis (what you think the outcome would be and why)
  • Decide which methodology you would use (i.e., survey, observation, etc.) and explain your choice
  • Describe your procedure (what you would have participants do, how you would recruit participants)
Make your ...

Week 1 Blog Prompts

There are two options for this week’s blog prompt:
  1. The major schools of psychological theory were introduced in class this week. Typically students feel drawn to some theories more than others. Based on what you’ve learned so far (as well as any other knowledge of these theories), select the theory you think is best. In your post, make a case for why this theory is superior to the others. I also want you to select the theory you think is worse than the others and explain why. For this assignment, you must choose only 1 theory to be best and worst. ...

Introductory Blog Prompt

Here is the prompt: For the first blog entry, I want you to explain:
  • Why you chose to take this class
  • Which 3 topics from the syllabus look the most interesting to you (and why)
  • Which 3 topics from the syllabus look the least interesting to you (and why)
  • What one question you want to be able to answer by the time this class is over
I look forward to seeing what you think!

Finals Week Bonus Blog Prompt

This is the prompt for finals week. You must post by 1 am Sunday, 12/14 to receive credit (comments will be accepted until 5 pm on Monday, 12/15).

Return to your introductory blog post where you described the 3 topics you were most and least excited about for this course, and the one question you wanted to be able to answer when it was over. Reflect on whether your predictions came true in terms of your favorite and least favorite questions, and try to answer the question you posed.

Week 15 Blog Prompts

Here are the prompt options for 12/1-12/8

Option 1:

Your textbook lists 4 major types of psychotherapy (psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, and humanistic/existential). Rank these types of therapy according to how helpful you think they would be if you needed therapy and explain what it is about each one that you like/dislike. For your highest rated therapy, find additional information about it from a web source (include a link to the source and discuss its credibility).

Option 2:

Some phobias are relatively well known (like arachnophobia) while others are less common (though can be equally debilitating). Choose one of the phobias ...