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                                                  Visualizing Data for the Masses 🪟🪟🌡️🌡️🌡️🟥🟥🟥▶️▶️ Wells's 1903 argument Physical science and advanced thinking require mathematical analysis skills Soon, citizen competence will include the ability to compute, analyze averages,, and understand extremes. Wilks's 1951 simplification "Statistical thinking will be essential for citizenship as reading and writing" (Marriott, 2014). Wilks's breakdown of statistical thinking according to Marriot (2014). Six core concepts Expectation and variance - understanding averages, maximums, and minimums. Distribution - Recognizing patterns in data variation Probability - Assessing the likelihood of events Risk - Evaluating potential costs or dangers Correlation - Identifying relationships between variables Basically, both thinkers highlight the need f...

 The Waves of Change: Embracing Life's Dynamic Nature 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 Life is a continuous dance of change, an ever-evolving tapestry woven with threads of both anticipation and uncertainty. Like a river meandering through the landscape, our lives are constantly shifting and reshaping, adapting to the terrain and the currents that propel us forward. Some changes, like the gentle progression of seasons, unfold gradually, allowing us to prepare and adjust with ease. Others, like sudden storms, strike with unexpected force, leaving us scrambling to find our footing amidst the chaos. 🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️ Amidst this dynamic flux, the human spirit possesses an innate capacity to adjust, to adapt to the ever-changing landscape of life. Adjustment, in essence, is the process of altering our behavior or...

Experiment 🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪 The Stanford Prison Experiment was a psychology experiment conducted in 1971 by Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University. The experiment was designed to examine the psychological effects of imprisonment, particularly the effects of power and authority. 🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪 Methods Participants were 24 male college students who were randomly assigned to be either prisoners or guards. The experiment took place in a mock prison that was set up in the basement of the psychology building. The guards were given instructions to maintain order and discipline in the prison, while the prisoners were given instructions to obey the guards. 🧪🧪 Results Within a few days, the guards began to exhibit abusive behavior towards the prisoners, including sleep deprivation, sexual humiliation, physical abuse, solitary confinement, and incessant prisoner counts. Many of the prisoners became depressed and disoriented Half of the student prisoners had to be released from the study becau...

How Far Will You Go to Obey an Authority Figure? 🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼 In July of 1961, psychologist Stanley Milgram began a series of about twenty social psychology experiments designed to test the way people comply with authority (Davidson 2022) 🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼 Milligram wanted to know how many people who were considered normal would continue to inflict pain on another person when told to do so by an authority figure. He was inspired by the atrocities committed during World War II by seemingly average German citizens who were following the orders of their leaders. 🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪 First Experiment (Davidson 2022): one adult played the role of an emotionless authority figure, while an actor played the role of the learner. The experimental subjects, all men, were cast in the role of the teacher and instructed to deliver an electric shock to the learner for each mistake. The shocks started at 15 volts up to 450 volts. T...

A Creative Approach to Sobriety  🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and Rollo May were all influential psychologists who developed different theories of personality and psychopathology. While their theories had some similarities, they also had significant differences. If these three were to come together to develop a treatment plan for someone suffering from addiction they would likely draw on all of their different perspectives to create a comprehensive and individualized plan. Well I have been studying these guys this term and I believe that a daily schedule would look like this for the patient  ▶️▶️▶️▶️▶️▶️▶️▶️▶️▶️▶️▶️▶️▶️▶️▶️▶️▶️▶️▶️▶️ Here is a sample daily schedule therapy plan for someone suffering from an addiction based on the approaches of Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and Rollo May Monday Morning: Individual therapy with a Jungian therapist Afternoon: Group therapy Evening: Cognitive-behavioral therapy Tuesday: Morning: Psychoanalysis wit...

Existential Psychology 📔📔📔📔📔📔 A person's existence and experience is unique, exceptional, and unrepeatable Everyone is a universe in itself. Importance of a person's free will and choice It is necessary to consider every person as a unique entity in the context of their own circumstances, relationships, conditions, influences, and internal forces. Existential psychologists tend to be optimistic A self-improving person overcomes selfish desires and pride keeps away from the material world and practices meditation to reach a state of pure consciousness Focus on the awareness of others, and self-awareness to pursue pure consciousness and happiness. 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 Rollo May His health problems early in life and his search for inner strength gave him a creative insight into personality psychology he believed anxiety was provoked by technological and social changes taking place in the world and he believed that these factors led to anxiety (Shiraev 2016): People were caught...

 Principles 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 Five Theoretical Principles of the Humanistic Tradition ( Shiraev 2016)" It viewed people from a holistic perspective People are more than the sum of their habits, reflexes, and mental operations. Does not just focus on isolated behaviors People are aware of their own psychological processes Humanistic Theory shifts the focus from the unconscious to the conscious People's existence is not limited to their immediate surroundings. A person has material, social, cultural, and spiritual dimensions Free will of the people the choice comes with accountability people can make mistakes and learn from them People can control the outcomes of their behavior Human behavior is intentional and deliberate 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 People are not direct products of stimuli and circumstances People do not follow the imperatives of the unconscious mind. People are genera...