Saturday, December 11

6 points of today's psychology in the US

  • Foundation:  uncertainty?  science is truth, truth is science (not-magic)?  i-can-do-anything?  entitlements? small world?  digital?  all-control-all-the-time?  vulnerability through strength of electronic world?  
  • Self:  self-ISH? lonely-isolated? not gender based?  sexually ambiguous? freer? on a side because all if bifurcated? New Age'd and responsible for "happiness"?  Metro-sexuals?  secular?  believers?  drugs as solutions?
  • Network:  NO networks? must be a team player? disposable relationships? men-women "equal"?
  • Soc Sys:  locked up?  poor & rich US within poor & rich globe?  bureaucracy rules?  newly open to diverse groups?  digital?
  • Change:   terror, global resources (water-food shortages), upswing of religious fervor, conflict reality, smallness of world, outer space-inner space discoveries, speed of charity, empathic world view growth
"HOLLYWOOD"
  • FOUNDATION - Everyone's in show biz
  • SELF - self sufficiency expectation:  hard work will "do it"
  • NET - networking, "who you know"
  • SOC SYSTEM - technology affords opening to creativity
  • CHANGE -  ?

Thursday, December 9

Oh No, Not Psychology - Sean Williams

Same two characters we saw, on Girl w the Dragon Tattoo

xtranormal assignment

www.xtranormal.com   sign up, download free, make a movie of 1-5 minutes.
one character monologue or two character dialog about something you learned from this class.  Watch my little movie on the stages of life:
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7881121/ 
Comment here on my little movie so I know you watched it :)

Post your little movies here - but SAVE rather than PUBLISH so we watch them all together next week in class. 

Tuesday, December 7

And the winner is ...

Larry Rodriquez for Best Actor!  Wow, was Larry ever good in "Noises Off!"

Thursday, December 2

8 stages of life

1.  Erickson detail 

Positive Psychology

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FBxfd7DL3E
He speaks of psychology to get into the positive rather than just to get out of the negative.  There is a test you can take to see what gets you into the "flow", which is the better place to be than to be in pleasure.

Final Paper

  1. Fears:  falling, noise, constriction - all of which prevent creativity, our natural urge (Otto Rank)
  2. Invalidation:  Drama of the Gifted Child (Alice Miller)
  3. Emotional Zone:  Fact Field, Judgment, Practices (Tabor)
  4. Goal Setting:  foundational "law", self, network, social sphere, change of 3 types (Objectives - Stanislavsky)
  5. Body Language (our book #1)
  6. Influence - examples of influence techniques (our book #2)
  7. Stages of Life (Eric Ericson)
  8. "quads" of types
  9. Birth order
same as mid-term paper.  stick to the method of analysis you select  
PICK your film off this list - or email me so I can watch it 
notes for paper on stages of life and Barry Lyndon 

Wednesday, December 1

erikson stages

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGFKAfixHJs