Lecture 2: Science and Research Instructor: John Gabrieli View the complete course: ocw.mit.edu/9-00SCS11 License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at ocw.mit.edu
Hey kind advice from a student who is actually nobody from nowhere If you really want to become a psychologist then ask a lot of questions from your parents A lot means a lot Because Being a student from a nobody's family I know how great it is to have your parents as your teachers
im so entranced by his lectures - they’re so thought-inducing, u can rlly tell that he does what he does because he loves it. so glad to have this series act as an eye-opener to the basics of psychology as an aspiring psychologist!
52:55 you can tell by his laugh that he genuinely enjoys talking about what he teaches. Being confident in what you teach, and engaging enough to elicit a laugh from your students when you slip a joke in shows a lot about how good of a professor he is!
I love how relaxed Gabrieli is, and seems like a friendly guy. Paul Bloom knows his shit and has a few funny moments, but he doesn’t seem as approachable as Gabrieli.
This is a prerequisite to understanding the human brain course taught by Nancy Kanwisher and I'm enjoying him enormously. He's a terrific teacher. I worked in Neuroscience research for almost 20 years and the stuff we knew then is so primitive now.
I agree with you fully. It is the same thing with using I.Q tests as an accurate measure of intelligence. Factors such as mood, concentration, energy levels etc., play a role in how well you do on the test. If such an experiment were carried out, we would have to keep these factors in mind and take the results with a grain of salt. However, such an experiment would give us an insight into the learning process of the student and help further research into helping students learn better.
Also IQ only measures a very limited aspect of intelligence. Theres other things way more powerful and meaningful such as emotional control, social awareness, grit, the ability to recognize the intentions of others and see past outward rhetoric And when it comes to mastery of a field of study, nothing compares to passion and persistent focus
@@skybirdnomad hey there! I wrote that comment 10 years ago and wow, so much has changed. I've finished grad school and am now in a career related to psychology and philosophy. Funny how that works haha. I think IQ is entirely a sham and it is frontloaded with a bunch of classist stuff.
So grateful for these MIT open courses, thank you! On a side note, we should stop judging and giving responsibility to people (including ourselves). If a crime or a misdeed is committed, a society should act to protect its citizens by limiting the perpetrator ability to do it again (through jail, hospitals, therapy etc..). To judge is in our human nature, yet I think we would better put that off
Penswordking You are right, this result suggest that both effects work to some degree. Men are more likely to say "yes" in general, but when the women are rotating, the two effects cancel each other out.
thank you very much and very interesting final point. i wondered about the speed dating statistics. To me the graphs imply that the person at the desk is more selective but still that men are less selective then women. as the rotating women are still less selective then the rotating men. Even if sitting at the desk makes you more selective.
I'm always looking for new interesting lectures on Psychology/Philosophy, please let me know if you guys have any recommendations, would be highly appreciated
Excellent. Thank you, MIT and Professor Gabrieli. It would be interesting to conduct an experiment that tests the overall quality (in terms of a rating) of the same lecture viewed online versus the lecture experienced physically - i.e. a classroom experience. In which situation are people more likely to 'learn' and, therefore, rate the lecture accordingly?
Maybe, in the speed dating example, the stationary position primes the desk bound partners to see themselves as judges, or managers; and the rotating position primes people to see themselves as applicants/contestants/ defendants? Could that be why the rotating partners ate more likely to say yes than the stationary ones?
I understand Environmental effects and how some people grow with the mental pressures they believe is the truth. Even adults from my experiences are still unable to choose ethically to help solve or conclude correctly in many cases.
“Well he did X how come I can’t do X” “Well he did X and got a slap in the wrist / got away with it, I bet I can too” “Well he did X and got caught, but he doesn’t know what I do so I’ll get away with it” “Well he did X perfectly and still got caught - but he doesn’t have my luck” ^ 31:32 here’s what I think goes through the mind of a person who sees X criminal / illegal / immoral / unethical activity and performs the activity. I believe someone who was already going to do X is more likely to do it and that those people are members of society therefor I agree that X happens, you’ll see more X occur. Now, what’s implied is: “if YOU see X, YOURE likely to replicate it” That I cannot agree with. If it is adjusted to: “if you see X, you are more likely to do another version of X” I can see how that would work. I might not murder someone after seeing a murder, but I might give ‘em the cold shoulder - for me, acting as though you’re dead is the equivalent of killing you…. Psychology is fun 😊🎉
(cont) On the other hand, if you feel that it's just part of your studies and you have to be there you might not be as interested. Plus, since this is MIT, I suspect many have other majors and might just have needed a course to fill some quota and in fact aren't as interested as people who actively sought the lectures out online. In short, I think there are so many factors at play that the effect of the experience of sitting in a classroom is negligible. I could be wrong of course.
In relation to the warmth promoting interpersonal warmth study, more recent studies suggest that the original study does not replicate. Ex: Lynott et al. 2014.
Im highly considering going back to college for psychology. I am curious, if anyone can answer this, are these videos in order(as in is the second video literally from the second day of class) ? Just trying to get a head start before actually returning to college(possibly trying to to use clep to test out of intro to psych at odu if I can).
So if people can act “weird” during experiments and a lot of the subjects come from a specific pool of people, How many Psychological discoveries are we missing out on?
“The broken window theory” may sound like a metaphors, but represents a super bug reality, which is a direct consequence of poverty and ruthless capitalism. There are people who are naturally more equipped to face the challenges and demands of life than others. Nevertheless, there are those who fall behind and in need of public economic planning and welfare. We are not exaggerating if we say that poverty is behind crimes, disease, mental illnesses, teenage delinquency, suicide and illiteracy. On the other hand, ruthless capitalism is behind political tension, corruption, war, pollution, economic collapse and failed response to pandemics.
with the practical issues which are discussed in this lecture with the current research methods, how good are the results of the psychology researches? how are they considered reliable?
Wow. How sad that the first video has over 260k views and 1.8k likes, but the second one has less than a third. So many undedicated people in this world.
I don't think he was saying that it is causal, just observing the data that he has been given and making an uneducated guess...I agree that there is more variables involved with coming to the conclusion mentioned, but it does not necessarily make it a wrong one, just one with little evidence to support it.
Now my perceptions all wake up back from Lecture 6 to this Lecture 2 for audit this class. Not again. what is going on most of the student in MIT with no responds and answers at all toward this cool Prof.'s question? Kind a disappointed for the student sitting in such top-notch lecture in the world....What a shame and waste!!.......... STF...................
1:09:00 I am not sure how applicable the differences between praise for working hard and praise for good work is to the working labourer. They are no longer a 5th grader, there are many more factors to their behaviour to consider...
HAHAHAH... I couldn't fall asleep at all in this interesting lecture from the beginning till the end with those funny experiments and statistic analysis. For the issue of brain injury, how come I still can't remember the missing page of my crucial memory in my life book at all when I got brain injury-ABT by neurological explanation. This is still a myth for me to search............ STF
At the 33:00 mark I stopped the video, shook my head, cradled my forehead with both hands and had a slight panic attack. I've always denied the premise that an individual's behaviour is a product of their environment, I can't refute evidence though. How can anyone abandon logic and reasoning just because those around you do it as well? I know it's just loitering, on the surface. But it's applicable to all negative behaviour. I guess when I was asked as a child if a friend would jump off a cliff would I do it as well, I was being honest when I replied no. I guess I'm hopelessly searching for a reason to make me believe that the human species actually serves a purpose on a global scale, it's exhausting.
Yes, all behavior is a result of gene-environment interactions. Every event is predetermined by antecedent conditions (environmental and biological). We don't serve an objective purpose, besides to survive and reproduce.
Absolutely. I would imagine we can use Psychology to better our understanding of the people we interact with. Like he said, we all are amateur psychologists :).
Thank you . A question pls. If a student is not performing well, and parents links this to a possible thinking that the kid brain is busy to finish studies in order it go back to play , would it benefit to retain the game during school days ? This is the only way to the kid will stop being obstructed while studying ? Kind regards
