Thats a great one for memory! Unfortunately I wasn't much up on voyager. I have used Star Trek TNG before. One example was (and I don't know the episode) but I used it for methods. It is one where Jean Luc Picard is transported to and trapped inside a room with several other 'inmates'. One is a big ugly guy that can't eat the supplied food and will kill and eat humanoid life forms if he gets hungry enough. Another is a pacifist, and another is a start trek academy cadet (but she is actually an alien observer). Anyway, I have the students try to figure out what kind of study it was (an experiment? a case study?) and give their reasons. I haven't taught methods for a little while so I can't remember what I decided it was! But I use it for review and we discuss what makes up what kind of study and they get to think about it more. It would be nice for us to construct a star trek casebook for applications in different psych classes/issues. Another one I remember somewhere in the misty canyons of my mind is (I think from deep space 9) where one of the main characters (a woman with leopard spots on her skin) falls in love with another character (a man). But what she actually falls in love with is a simbiot (a creature using the man's host body). I think he becomes injured and dies. But the simbiot gets another body to inhabit (a female body). Now the leopard woman no longer loves "it". Could use it to explore issues of identity, sexuality, etc. The gay issue can be explored with a TNG episode where Ryker falls in love with a woman who comes from a planet of essentially lesbians; where attraction to a male is seen as abnormal and the offending female can be reprogrammed successfully to eliminate the abnormality. There is another one I cannot place which I will post after I get back to school --Mike
--- On Wed, 12/31/08, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [tips] Star Trek in intro psych (was: Dr. Seuss) To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, December 31, 2008, 8:30 AM Thanks for the reminder of the star trek episode. I had forgotten that one and it would be a good one for social psych. Another favorite of mine is from Star Trek Voyager: Retrospect. It deals with repressed memory and recovery of (false) repressed memory. Here is the plot from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrospect_(Star_Trek:_Voyager) Seven of Nine is overcome by distress and under hypnosis recalls a traumatic repressed memory. In her mind she sees a trader with whom Voyager made a transaction recently. She remembers him forcefully removing Borg technology from her body. Voyager heads back to confront the trader, who denies ever having assaulted Seven. Evidence mounts against him and his people put out a warrant for his arrest. He flees, still proclaiming his innocence. Captain Janeway and Tuvok continue investigating the alleged assault, and find that it is likely the evidence has been misinterpreted and Seven is reliving a memory from her time with the Borg, in which parts were applied to and removed from her routinely. Seven realizes they are correct and she has experienced a false memory. When the Voyager crew follows the trader to explain that they know he is innocent, he panics and blows himself up. Seven learns a bit more about being human by experiencing remorse, and The Doctor also agonizes over the result of his hypnosis of Seven. Any others we can add to our teaching toolkits? Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 [email protected] ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:23:09 -0500 (EST) >From: David Epstein <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: [tips] Dr. Seuss >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> > >On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Wuensch, Karl L went: > >> I recall that Rod Serling produced some TV shows with similar >> messages. One involved a race of beings who were white on one side >> and black on the other -- those white on the one side discriminated >> against those white on the other side. > >That was actually a _Star Trek_ episode: > ><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_That_Be_Your_Last_Battlefield> > >--David Epstein > [email protected] > >--- >To make changes to your subscription contact: > >Bill Southerly ([email protected]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
