Psychology 100: Psychological Research
For this assignment we had to find a photo, a meme, or write an example of something that is correlated but not necessarily related. This could be something like how ice cream sales could be related to global warming, something that could be correlated as ice cream sales rise while global warming rises as well. Psychological research and analysis uses this concept so we were tasked to do this fun activity to better understand it. For my correlation, I chose Kung-Fu Panda and Homicide (meaning Kung-Fu Panda sales could have increased homicide rates, but not likely).
This assignment addressed information skills as prior to completing this assignment, I had to read the text correlated with this forum. Understanding how psychological research is performed and how data is analyzed was the foundation of this project, while the research of finding a meme or coming up with a correlation was just the fun part of the project. A lot of the reading portion of this forum had to do with reading about psychological studies and their outcomes which tended to confuse me. Understanding how correlations were analyzed in this type of research helped me come up with my own unique correlation.
I am most proud of my creativity in this project. I had to sit down and think for a while before I was able to come up with the correlation of Kung-Fu Panda and homicide. For this project I wanted my forum to be outrageous and funny so I could make it fun to read. I spent some time looking around my house for information and I came across my old DVD copy of Kung-Fu Panda 2. I thought about how Kung-Fu was a huge theme in the movie and how some people could assume that the movie could be violent, and took the case of homicide to create the extreme aspect of my forum. I found my forum to be outrageous yet it still fit the original assignment given to us.
In the future, I believe if I get stuck on an assignment that deals with creativity, I will again look towards items in my house. This had to be one of my favorite forums I have written as it was half fun and half reflection on what we had learned in class. Something I appreciate about this Psychology class is that our professor always creates interesting and fun forums that help us explore our creative aspects while still reflecting on our readings for the week.
This assignment addressed information skills as prior to completing this assignment, I had to read the text correlated with this forum. Understanding how psychological research is performed and how data is analyzed was the foundation of this project, while the research of finding a meme or coming up with a correlation was just the fun part of the project. A lot of the reading portion of this forum had to do with reading about psychological studies and their outcomes which tended to confuse me. Understanding how correlations were analyzed in this type of research helped me come up with my own unique correlation.
I am most proud of my creativity in this project. I had to sit down and think for a while before I was able to come up with the correlation of Kung-Fu Panda and homicide. For this project I wanted my forum to be outrageous and funny so I could make it fun to read. I spent some time looking around my house for information and I came across my old DVD copy of Kung-Fu Panda 2. I thought about how Kung-Fu was a huge theme in the movie and how some people could assume that the movie could be violent, and took the case of homicide to create the extreme aspect of my forum. I found my forum to be outrageous yet it still fit the original assignment given to us.
In the future, I believe if I get stuck on an assignment that deals with creativity, I will again look towards items in my house. This had to be one of my favorite forums I have written as it was half fun and half reflection on what we had learned in class. Something I appreciate about this Psychology class is that our professor always creates interesting and fun forums that help us explore our creative aspects while still reflecting on our readings for the week.
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