Students' Motivation and The Clasroom Teacher are focal topics.

Help with these areas is given: 1. What are intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and motivation to learn? 2. What are the possible motivational effects of success and failure, and how do these effects relate to beliefs and about ability? 3. What are the roles of goals, interest, emotions, and beliefs about the self in motivation? 4. What external factors can teachers influence that will encourage students’ motivation to learn? 5. What strategy can be used to teach a subject to an uninterested student?

This posting helps to prepare a Socialization Survey.

Develop a 10-question survey on how socialization affects us. Develop 10 questions that would help you understand how the individuals completing the survey are affected by socialization. Give the survey to at least five individuals. The questions should demonstrate thought and be designed to gather information on socialization's effect on the individuals surveyed such as, "When you are ignored, how do you feel?" or "If you go to a party and everyone else is dressed formally, but you show up in jeans, do you feel out of place?" Summarize your findings by preparing a two-page memo to your boss providing an overview of socializaqtion that summarizes the results of the survey and your interp... click for more

Ideas about a school of thought in psychology are provided.

These areas are emphasized in terms of psychology: School of thought major figures derived from key ideas time period well known examples therapeutic approaches

Is Kluver-Bucy Syndrome an emotional or perceptual deficit. How can you test this?

Original student question: When monkeys with Kluver-Bucy syndrome pick up lighted matches and snakes, I don't know whether they are displaying an emotional deficit or an inability to identify the object. What kind of research method might help answer this question?

Advanced Parkinson's disease

Suppose an ordinary patient with advanced Parkinson's disease, who has a brain damage tom dopamine-releasing axons, move very slowly if at all. However, during a emergency for ex: a fire in the building, they may move rapidly and vigorously, what is a possible explanation for this?