Hello All: Annette Kujawski Taylor wrote:
I would very much appreciate some ideas posted for films for _other_ areas--there are already plenty for every aspect of clinical. First, off I want to thank you for sharing your wonderful list. I always look forward to your posts because they exude so much creativity. I wanted to add a couple that seem to work well for me. Social Psychology- I use clips from Remember the Titans to show: compliance, the contact hypothesis, possible brainwashing, and the power of one individual to help make a difference (the heavy set white player who sat with the African American table). I focus on the coaches dogmatic style and we talk about how it may have been necessary to evoke the change that he did. I then directly follow this with a discussion on Cult behavior and show the last 10-15 minutes of the Guyana Tragedy- which again shows a dogmatic style, compliance, obedience, conformity and how one individual can help to sway things (the woman who stood up for Jim Jones and publicly supported his desires when he was facing dissention) Using clips from these two films back to back seems to be a good illustration on how social psychology practices can be used for good or bad. Lifespan Development- I talk about John Gottman's 4 behaviors that lead to divorce and I show clips from the movie- The Story of Us. I also remember a great suggestion posted by list member Steven Specht who uses New Jack City- his post is presented below. I show the opening scene from the movie New Jack City, in this scene the focal point is a man being held over the side of a bridge about to be dropped into the river below as a result of a drug deal gone bad. I then distribute a short questionnaire (4 questions) asking students about their recall of facts of the movie scene. For the third question, I ask, "What is your estimate of the age of the woman who was screaming in the video?" However, for half of the class, the word "Woman" is replaced by the word "girl". This exercise may show the effect of language and questioning style on memory retrieval. Students tend to guess an average of age 23 when the female is referred to as a girl and 29 when the female is referred to as a woman. Amy Sweetman Professor of Psychology Los Angeles City College 323-953-4000 ext. 2931 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
