[tips] List of Psychological Studies the Public Might Know
Michael, I read your request differently. I read it as What do people know about psychology, but didn't know there is a psychologist and perhaps a book or a study related to what they know. You can probably phrase it better than I. For example, memories are reconstructed malleable and are not photographs of isolated events. Based on the work of Elizabeth Loftus and her studies. Parents may inadvertening reinforce certain fears and behaviors. Based on the work of Thorndike and later Skinner. The first part of my examples list the behaviors that people know. The second part is the intellectual or based on the studies and books of.. JIm Jim Matiya Florida Gulf Coast University jmat...@fgcu.edu Contributor, for Karen Huffman's Psychology in Action, Video Guest Lecturettes John Wiley and Sons. Using David Myers' texts for AP Psychology? Go to http://bcs.worthpublishers.com/cppsych/ High School Psychology and Advanced Psychology Graphic Organizers, Pacing Guides, and Daily Lesson Plans archived at www.Teaching-Point.net Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:37:46 -0500 From: michael.br...@thepsychfiles.com Subject: Re: [PSYTEACH] List of Psychological Studies the Public Might Know To: psychteac...@list.kennesaw.edu Thanks for the many good suggestions. Good point about how while Beck is on the list, probably fewer people have heard of him than have heard of David Burns' Feeling Good book. Man who mistook his wife for a hat (and the Awakenings movie) are good ideas. Washoe is a great suggestion Regarding Thomas Capo's comment that we might be deviating a bit from the intent of the list: I have to say that it's been difficult for me to keep to the original intent of the list. The idea behind the list and the episode is to just point out to listeners that they are more familiar with psychologists and psychological studies than they might think at first. It's been tough to keep off the list studies and people that I think (or wish) the public SHOULD know from those that they probably DO know. That's where Loftus' work would probably fall - her work is classic and more of the public should know it, but I'm going to guess that they've never heard of her or her studies. That's why perhaps a different list should perhaps be compiled, consisting of Studies We Wish the Public Knew At any rate, it looks like the list is about 95% complete, since we're it's becoming harder to decide whether to add something or not. If it's getting this hard to decide then probably the list is useful enough as it is. Michael Britt mich...@thepsychfiles.com www.thepsychfiles.com Twitter: mbritt PsychTeacher is a moderated discussion list for teachers of psychology owned by the Society for the Teaching of Psychology and hosted by Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw GA All messages for the list should be emailed to psychteac...@list.kennesaw.edu LIST OPERATOR: Bill Hill bh...@kennesaw.edu LIST MODERATORS: Rick Froman, Ted Bosack, Tom Pusateri, Bryan Saville, Tracy Zinn, and Julie Penley --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
[tips] List of Psychological Studies the Public Might Know
I'm putting together notes for an upcoming episode which I've decided would be on the idea of showing listeners that while they might first associate psychology with Freud and Pavlov, they really know (or at least are somewhat familiar with) more studies/concepts from our field than they realize. I scoured a few sources and come up with the list below, which was surprisingly longer than I thought it would be, but I may be stretching things in some cases as well as completely missing the obvious. If you could suggest an addition to the list that would be much appreciated. I'll post the complete list once I get everyone's feedback. Remember: these are not what we as teachers would consider important in the history of psychology - just events/ studies/concepts that the general public are probably somewhat familiar with in one way or another. Thanks for your feedback! The Technique of Correlation is developed 1890 Animal Intelligence (Law of Effect is developed) - Edward Thorndike - 1898 The Interpretation of Dreams Sigmund Freud 1900 Intelligence Test was published in France Alfred Binet 1905 Formula for the Intelligence Quotient William Stern 1912 Carl Jung develops Analytical Psychology (collective unconscious, archetypes, anima/animus) 1913 Conditioned Emotional Resposes - Watson and Rayner 1920 Rorshach's Inkblot Test 1921 Conditioned Reflexes - Pavlov 1927 Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Test published 1939 The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense - Anna Freud 1948 Childhood and Society (eight stages of psycho-social devel) - Erikson 1950 Client Centered Therapy 1951 Rapid Eye Movement (REM) discovered 1953 Motivation and Personality is Published (hierarchy of needs) - Maslow -1954 The Development of Object Concept (Piaget - object permanence, egocentrism) - 1954 Opinions and Social Pressure (Asch) - 1954 The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two (Miller)1956 The Natue of Love 1958 (Harlow's monkeys) Cognitive Dissonance1959 (Festinger's study) Imprinting is demonstrated 1961 (Lorenz) Transmission of Aggression Through Imitation of Aggressive Models 1961 (Bandura's Bobo Doll study) Systematic Desensitization (Wolpe) 1961 Thinking And Depression Beck, A. (1963). Behavioral Study of Obedience (Milgram) 1963 Human Sexual Response (Master's and Johnson) 1966 Teacher's Expectancies (Rosenthal and Jacobson) 1966 The Split Brain in Man (Sperry) 1967 Failure to Escape Traumatic Shock (Seligman)1967 Bystander Intervention (Latane and Darley) 1968 On Death and Dying (Kubler-Ross)1969 The Pathology of Imprisonment (Zimbardo)1972 On Being Sane in Insane Places (Rosenhan) 1973 Type A and B Personality1974 Leading Questions and the Eyewitness Report (Loftus)1975 Frames of Mind: the Theory of Multiple Intelligences1983 The Jigsaw Classroom1986 Emotional Intelligence concept - 1995 Michael Britt mich...@thepsychfiles.com www.thepsychfiles.com Twitter: mbritt --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] List of Psychological Studies the Public Might Know
I like your list and could probably add but this will already overwhelm folks who don't realize what they do know about psychology. Maybe I would add Donald Norman's books on using everyday things as a good example of how much cognitive psychologists have contributed to everyday life. What I would like to see you do is make sure you talk about whether or not the items on the list have evidence to support them. For example, it would be good to debunk the Rorschach (see lots of stuff written or edited by Scott Lilienfeld), the psychodynamic stuff in general, the uses and misuses of intelligence testing, the multiple intelligences stuff, the conflicting evidence on Kubler-Ross' formulation of grief stages, etc. And maybe a special episode on commonly believed in psychobabble! Here is a short list. *Sugar CAUSES hyperactivity in children. *Listening to Mozart will make you smarter. *Teaching babies sign language will make them smarter. *We all have a distinct learning style that is either visual, auditory or kinesthetic. *The right side of the brain is creative and emotional; the left side is rigid and logical. (or any other variety of popular but incorrect dichotomy) *Most people only use 10% of their brains. *Subliminal messages can be used to persuade others to purchase products. *Immediate contact between a mother and infant after birth is critical for bonding. *You can “spoil a baby if you respond to its demands too quickly. *The suicide rate is higher among adolescents than any other age group. *In criminal eyewitnesses, confidence is closely related to accuracy. *Hypnosis is ... fill in with any number of misconceptions. *Individuals commonly repress the memories of painful or traumatic experiences. *If you’re unsure of your answer while taking a test, it’s best to stick with your initial hunch. *The defining feature of dyslexia is seeing words backwards (e.g., “pal” instead of “lap”). *Individuals can learn information (e.g., new languages) while asleep. *It is generally better to express anger openly than to hold it in. *When it comes to communication styles, women talk more than men. (“Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”). *People’s attitudes are highly predictive of their actual behaviors. *People’s responses to inkblots tell us a great deal about their personalities and propensities toward mental disorders. *“Psychological profiling” has been shown to be an effective means of identifying criminals. *A large proportion of criminals are acquitted on the basis of the insanity defense. *Clinical judgment and intuition are the best means of combining information to reach a diagnosis for a patient. *High self-esteem is necessary for high achievement. *Drug education programs (i.e., DARE) are effective in deterring drug use among teenagers. *Students have a good sense of how well they know class material. *Taste areas for sweet, sour, salty and bitter are well defined on the tongue. *Although one could study hard and do better in school, “intelligence” is mostly the result of heredity and genes. *Instinct determines many of our behaviors. *Vision depends on light waves that exit the eyes and hit objects in the environment. Actually, you could do a segment on Scott's book on 50 great myths. Maybe juxtapose it with the segment on how much more we know about real psychology than we think we do. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 tay...@sandiego.edu Original message Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 09:12:46 -0500 From: Britt, Michael michael.br...@thepsychfiles.com Subject: [tips] List of Psychological Studies the Public Might Know To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@acsun.frostburg.edu I'm putting together notes for an upcoming episode which I've decided would be on the idea of showing listeners that while they might first associate psychology with Freud and Pavlov, they really know (or at least are somewhat familiar with) more studies/concepts from our field than they realize. I scoured a few sources and come up with the list below, which was surprisingly longer than I thought it would be, but I may be stretching things in some cases as well as completely missing the obvious. If you could suggest an addition to the list that would be much appreciated. I'll post the complete list once I get everyone's feedback. Remember: these are not what we as teachers would consider important in the history of psychology - just events/studies/concepts that the general public are probably somewhat familiar with in one way or another. Thanks for your feedback! 1. The Technique of Correlation is developed 1890 2. Animal Intelligence (Law of Effect is developed) - Edward Thorndike - 1898 3. The Interpretation of Dreams Sigmund Freud 1900 4. Intelligence Test was published
Re: [tips] List of Psychological Studies the Public Might Know
...@thepsychfiles.com Subject: [tips] List of Psychological Studies the Public Might Know To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@acsun.frostburg.edu I'm putting together notes for an upcoming episode which I've decided would be on the idea of showing listeners that while they might first associate psychology with Freud and Pavlov, they really know (or at least are somewhat familiar with) more studies/concepts from our field than they realize. I scoured a few sources and come up with the list below, which was surprisingly longer than I thought it would be, but I may be stretching things in some cases as well as completely missing the obvious. If you could suggest an addition to the list that would be much appreciated. I'll post the complete list once I get everyone's feedback. Remember: these are not what we as teachers would consider important in the history of psychology - just events/studies/concepts that the general public are probably somewhat familiar with in one way or another. Thanks for your feedback! 1. The Technique of Correlation is developed 1890 2. Animal Intelligence (Law of Effect is developed) - Edward Thorndike - 1898 3. The Interpretation of Dreams Sigmund Freud 1900 4. Intelligence Test was published in France Alfred Binet 1905 5. Formula for the Intelligence Quotient William Stern 1912 6. Carl Jung develops Analytical Psychology (collective unconscious, archetypes, anima/animus) 1913 7. Conditioned Emotional Resposes - Watson and Rayner 1920 8. Rorshach's Inkblot Test 1921 9. Conditioned Reflexes - Pavlov 1927 10. Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Test published 1939 11. The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense - Anna Freud 1948 12. Childhood and Society (eight stages of psycho-social devel) - Erikson 1950 13. Client Centered Therapy 1951 14. Rapid Eye Movement (REM) discovered 1953 15. Motivation and Personality is Published (hierarchy of needs) - Maslow -1954 16. The Development of Object Concept (Piaget - object permanence, egocentrism) - 1954 17. Opinions and Social Pressure (Asch) - 1954 18. The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two (Miller) 1956 19. The Natue of Love 1958 (Harlow's monkeys) 20. Cognitive Dissonance 1959 (Festinger's study) 21. Imprinting is demonstrated 1961 (Lorenz) 22. Transmission of Aggression Through Imitation of Aggressive Models 1961 (Bandura's Bobo Doll study) 23. Systematic Desensitization (Wolpe) 1961 24. Thinking And Depression Beck, A. (1963). 25. Behavioral Study of Obedience (Milgram) 1963 26. Human Sexual Response (Master's and Johnson) 1966 27. Teacher's Expectancies (Rosenthal and Jacobson) 1966 28. The Split Brain in Man (Sperry) 1967 29. Failure to Escape Traumatic Shock (Seligman) 1967 30. Bystander Intervention (Latane and Darley) 1968 31. On Death and Dying (Kubler-Ross) 1969 32. The Pathology of Imprisonment (Zimbardo) 1972 33. On Being Sane in Insane Places (Rosenhan) 1973 34. Type A and B Personality 1974 35. Leading Questions and the Eyewitness Report (Loftus) 1975 36. Frames of Mind: the Theory of Multiple Intelligences 1983 37. The Jigsaw Classroom 1986 38. Emotional Intelligence concept - 1995 Michael Britt mich...@thepsychfiles.com www.thepsychfiles.com Twitter: mbritt --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] List of Psychological Studies the Public Might Know
I believe that the first presentation of schedules of reinforcement (and the serendipitous nature of their discovery) was presented in the B of O (The behavior of organisms: An experimental analysis. New York: Appleton-Century, 1938. ), but I doubt that that had much public impact. For that I'd nominate: Baby in a box. Ladies' Home Journal, October 1945, pp. 30-31, 135-36, 138. (the Aircrib). Walden Two. New York: Macmillan, 1948. Beyond freedom and dignity. New York: Knopf, 1971. On Dec 27, 2009, at 10:09 AM, Christopher D. Green wrote: Britt, Michael wrote: The Technique of Correlation is developed 1890 I thought the Pearson r wasn't published until the first years of the 20th century. What publication did you have in mind? And if you're going to include the correlation coefficient, why not the t- test (Gossett, aka Student) and ANOVA (Fisher)? Animal Intelligence (Law of Effect is developed) - Edward Thorndike - 1898 As I recall, the Law od Effect didn't appear explicitly until the expanded 1911 version of Animal Intelligence (the book). The 1898 version was just his dissertation, published, I think, in _Psych Monographs_. [] Conditioned Reflexes - Pavlov 1927 What of Skinner's schedules of reinforcement? Is that too obscure for your needs? I think they appeared in his 1938 book _Behavior of Organisms_ (but the may have appeared earlier in an article). Paul Brandon Emeritus Professor of Psychology Minnesota State University, Mankato paul.bran...@mnsu.edu --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
