FYI: The Collateral Damage of a Teenager-Impact on Parents

NY Post Article

The Collateral Damage of a Teenager
by Jennifer Senior
New York magazine

Excerpt:

"Laurence Steinberg, a psychologist at Temple University and one of the country’s foremost authorities on puberty, thinks there’s a strong case to be made for this idea. “It doesn’t seem to me like adolescence is a difficult time for the kids,” he says. “Most adolescents seem to be going through life in a very pleasant haze.” Which isn’t to say that most adolescents don’t suffer occasionally, or that some don’t struggle terribly. They do. But they also go through other intense experiences: crushes, flirtations with risk, experiments with personal identity. It’s the parents who are left to absorb these changes and to adjust as their children pull away from them. “It’s when I talk to the parents that I notice something,” says Steinberg. “If you look at the narrative, it’s ‘My teenager who’s driving me crazy.’ ”

FYI: More on Character: 6 Clues to One's Character

Friendship!

Check out this article on key aspects of "character"

6 Clues to Character-Psychology Today

• Intelligence/Controlled and Spontaneous
• Drive/Setting Goals: Perserance and Passion
• Happiness/Capacity for Satisfaction
• Goodness/Moral Capacity and Calming One's Self
• Friendship/Capacity for Reciprocity
• Intimacy/Capacity for Vulnerability

FYI: Personality vs. Character-How Different?

Check out this article...

Personality vs. Character

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FYI: How Happy Is Our Class?

Overall Pew Research Poll United States Very Happy 34% Pretty Happy 50% Not So Happy 15%

Homework Assignment No .1

Watch one (or more!) of the 11 video selections and post your thoughts on the video you viewed in the Comment section below:

http://www.pbs.org/thisemotionallife/topic/happiness?ct=video

• Type your thoughts in comment box below (and copy them in case they don't post).
• Choose your posting account in drop-down menu. You can use your personal non-UA Gmail. Or you can uses including Name/URL or Anonymous
• Sign your posting before submitting as if you're handing in a paper
• Check to make sure it's posted!

Due Friday, September 11.

Extra Credit No. 3 Zimbardo Lecture

Worth 10 Extra Points Quiz Average! Prepare a 1 page overview, with brief summary of highlights from your perspective. Any thoughts re: controversial elements of his presentation? Hand in Friday of the week of the presentation.

Dr. Philip Zimbardo: My Journey from Evil to Heroism

Registration Deadline: September 25th, 2015

When: Monday, October 5, 2015 at 7:00 pm 
Where: Quaker Station, 130 S. Broadway, Akron, Ohio, 44325
Cost: Free for UA students, faculty and staff (with ID); $10/person for non-UA personnel
Registration: Registration required.

• Secure online registration (preferred), payable with Visa, MC, Discover, and E-check
  Online registration for general public
  Online registration for UA faculty/staff/students

• Print and mail-in registration form here.

About this Event

In celebration of the CCHP's 50th anniversary, we invite you to a special event featuring renowned psychologist Dr. Philip Zimbardo, as he gives a presentation titled, "My Journey from Evil to Heroism."

A book signing will take place after the talk; books will be available for purchase on site.

This lecture traces Dr. Zimbardo’s journey from childhood through the Stanford Prison Experiment on the theme of the banality of evil, then switches to focus on the banality of heroism, his new life’s mission of training people around the world to be wise and effective heroes who stand up, speak out and take action in challenging situations in their lives, as part of the Heroic Imagination Project.

Philip Zimbardo is one of the most distinguished living psychologists, having served as President of the American Psychological Association, designed and narrated the award winning 26-part PBS series, Discovering Psychology, and has published more than 50 books and 400 professional and popular articles and chapters, among them, Shyness: What it is and what to do about it, The Lucifer Effect, The Time Cure and The Time Paradox.

A professor emeritus at Stanford University, Dr. Zimbardo has spent 50 years teaching and studying psychology. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from Yale University, and his areas of focus include time perspective, shyness, terrorism, madness, and evil. He is best-known for his controversial Stanford Prison Experiment that highlighted the ease with which ordinary college students could cross the line between good and evil when caught up in the matrix of situational and systemic forces.

Dr. Zimbardo currently lectures worldwide and is actively working to promote his non-profit The Heroic Imagination Project. His current research looks at the psychology of heroism. He asks: “What pushes some people to become perpetrators of evil, while others act heroically on behalf of those in need?”

Please email Dorothy Gruich or call 330-972-7284 with questions or for further information. Download the event flyer.

Extra Credit No. 2 Center for the History of Psychology

Visit the new University of Akron's national Center for the History of Psychology located at 73 College Street (former Roadway Building) in beautiful Akron, Ohio! Check out the museum gallery which is free and open to the public Monday-Friday, 10am - 4pm and Saturday, noon-4pm.

Bring back a copy of any brochure or info sheet on the Center (if available). Write a one page description of some of the thinhgs you saw. Describe what interested you the most. Did anything surprise or bother you about the type of experiments that were conducted in the past? Due Day of Exam. Worth 10 extra credit points toward your overall quiz average.

Directions: http://www.uakron.edu/resources/campusMapNew/?id=102

Extra Credit No. 1 Community Mental Health Opportunity

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Attend or participate in one of the following before the end of the semester, and receive 10 extra points on your quiz average.

A/ An Alcolohics Anonymous meeting, or

B/ A Laughing Club meeting at the Cuyahoga Falls Library

C/ A campus or community self-help or mental health advocacy group

                                                         D/ Something Else? (see me or ask)
                                                       

For either choice, write a journal article of your visit or participation, describing what happened while you were there (at least one page). What was the purpose of the meeting/organization? Who else was there (in general...no names)? What was done at the meeting? Who led the meeting or effort (I don't need his/her name, just whether there was a leader)? From your perspective, was the meeting successful? Were you eventually comfortable at the meeting? Are you going to continue to be a participant? Any other thoughts?

A/ If you visit an AA meeting, go to the web site below to select a meeting. Remember, some are open, some are closed to the public. Go only to an open meeting.

Meeting locations

B/ For the Laughing Club:

Cuyahoga Falls Public Library
Saturdays 10:00AM
2015 Third Street Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio 44221
Questions? Call Carol Bailey-Floyd at 330-836-4456

C/ For Community Self-Help Groups, UA has many opportunities available for students. One example is the Active Minds Chapter at the Department of Psychology here on campus. You can check out their activities at UA Active Minds.. Many other community service and self-help opportunities exist on campus and in your community. See me if you have any questions about your choice.

• Group meetings like the AA form of meeting are discussed in Chapter15 as a type of Psychotherapy.

• Laughter as a healthy response we make to our stressful lives as we discussed in class re: Chapter 4 on Coping Strategies

• Altruism, or helping others as a positive form of social interaction and is discussed in general in the text in several places, but most prominently in Chapter 15 Positive Psychology.

Assignment is due anytime from now to Day of  Final Exam.

Good luck and enjoy your assignment.

FYI: Gender Views on Red-Haired Persons

Hypohesis: There is no difference (null hypothesis) in how men and women rank the intelligence of red-haired persons

 Results: In our class of 29 respondents, the null hypothsis was proven correct, under the constriants of the likely less than random sample of 29 UA colllege students.

 Question: Why is this sample chosen not likely to be representative of the views of Americans in general?

Here's a quick article on some facts/myths about redheads!

1. Select category

2. Choose calculator

3. Enter data

4. View results

Unpaired t test results

P value and statistical significance:   The two-tailed P value equals 0.5127   By conventional criteria, this difference is considered to be not statistically significant. Confidence interval:   The mean of Men minus Women equals 0.71   95% confidence interval of this difference: From -1.48 to 2.89 Intermediate values used in calculations:   t = 0.6634   df = 27   standard error of difference = 1.066 Learn more: GraphPad's web site includes portions of the manual for GraphPad Prism that can help you learn statistics. First, review the meaning of P values and confidence intervals. Then learn how to interpret results from an unpaired or paired t test. These links include GraphPad's popular analysis checklists. Review your data:

Group	Men	Women
Mean	3.89	3.18
SD	3.07	2.23
SEM	0.72	0.67
N	18	11

FYI: The Effects of Technology: Revisiting a Paradox

Lisk Feng for NY Times

Check this article out! :

Technology Adds to Stress....or No?

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