In the field of Social Psychology, we are examining ways to explain topics such as "Evil".

Regarding the information in Chapter one and the Zimbardo webinar you watched answer the following questions:

1. What defines "evil"?

2. As a Social Psychologist, discuss 3 ways you personally would study "evil".

3. Explain cultural differences in defining "evil".

Watch the movie Dreamworlds 3 and answer the following questions.

In the real world violence against women is neither entertaining nor erotic. But it is an all-too-normal part of our society:

- More than 1 million women are stalked by intimate partners every year.

- 1 in 5 college females will be the victim of rape or attempted rape.

- On college campuses 90% of rape victims know their assailants.

- A sexual assault occurs every 2 1⁄2 minutes in America.

- 1 in 6 women has been the victim of sexual assault.

 (Ending Violence Against Women by Francine Pickup, Suzanne Williams, and Caroline Sweetman. Oxfam Publishing, 2001.)

Please answer the following questions:

 If the images and stories of music videos don’t directly cause male violence against women, then how should we understand the relationship between music video and gender relations?

 What role do you think images in music videos play in the high incidence of male violence against women mentioned at the end of this film?

In her closing comments, Jean Kilbourne states that change will depend upon “an aware, active, educated that thinks of itself primarily as citizens rather than primarily as consumers.”

What does it mean to think of oneself primarily as a citizen rather than primarily a consumer? Can one be both a citizen and a consumer? How? 

 For the Killing Us Softly 3 Blog, answer the above questions and 1 of the 2 questions below: 

 1. Do advertisers have a responsibility to society? Why? Why not? 

 2. How do the messages in advertising counter or undermine social change?

For the Killing Screens Blog, watch the movie and please choose 2 of the 3 following questions to answer:

 1. What is "happy violence", and why is it becoming more prevalent? What are some of the social effects of routine or amusing violence?

 2. What is "mean world syndrome", and how does it relate to the amount of television exploitable in terms of crime and urban policy?

 3. Should the government take steps to regulate the television industry? What can citizens, parents, and educators do to counter the influence of television on society and in our everyday lives?

Please choose 3 slides from the Slide Tour of Prejudice, and discuss why you think the slide is prejudicial. Then rewrite the ad to be non-prejudicial.

You will have to register on the website to get in to the Slide Tour.

Go to the Libguides on our Library website and make yourself familiar with the various tabs for The Glass Castle.

While watching the videos create a few questions you would like to ask the author.  Please write the questions below.  These questions will be your baseline for the next 2 blogs.

As you are reading The Glass Castle, consider the theroists we are discussing, in class, for the following clinical discussion question.

Using Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development, with what stages do you think Jeannette Walls and her siblings may have issues?

Choose another theorist you have learned about and discuss how this theorist, through your eyes, might view the family or children.

Now that the book is completed, discuss an answer to your earlier personal question from

blog 1.

Also, depending on your major, would you have responded differently than the teachers, social workers, nurses, etc. in the book.  Explain. (The explanation is where your points are in this question - use terms learned in class.)

Hello Class and welcome to your first Blog.  After watching "The Brain" created by the History Channel, I would like you to answer these questions.  The best way to get full points for these blogs is to use concepts from your book chapters and have these questions in front of you while watching the video.

Using the following terms from the video "The Brain", discuss memory and ESP:

Neminism, visual cortex, parietal lobes, cerebellum, 6th sense, gut feeling, and laboratory experiments with John. Is there really any "proof" of ESP?