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PSYC-1160 NotesIntroduction to Psychology as a Social Science
MIDTERM CONTENTS
W1: Intro to Psychology as a Social Science + Adapting & Thriving in a VUCA World
- Chapter 12: Stress, Coping, & Health
W2: How we collectively create Social Reality
- Chapter 9: Intelligence & IQ Testing
Where does Culture come from?
- Chapter 8: Thinking, Reasoning & Language
W3: Exploring your Personality
- Chapter 14: Personality
FINAL EXAM CONTENTS
W4: The Dark Tetrad of Personality
Dealing with High Conflict Persons
Chapter 15: Psychological Disorders
W5: Attachment Styles: Early Development
- Chapter 10: Human Development
Foundation of Social Life: Social Power
- Chapter 13: Social Psychology
W6: Foundation of Social Life: Power Case Study
Everyday Mental Health: Shame & Suicide
- Chapter 16: Psych and Biological Treatments
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WEEK ONE: INTRO TO PSYCHOLOGY AS A SOCIAL SCIENCE
● Before midterm: light side of personality
● After midterm: dark side of personality
● Special Interest Paper: first-person, make an assessment on special interest/readings (ie.
alzheimers, serial killers etc)
● Alternate Assignment: personality analysis, 1 page each, up to 3% bonus marks
● Three job classifications within university include:
○ Students (Undergraduate & Graduate)
○ Staff (President, HR, Food Services, Maintenance, Admin, etc)
○ Faculty (Professors & Librarians)
■ Adjunct Professors & Sessional Instructors
● Self-Care for a VUCA World:
Practical Psychology for Managing Your Attention, Energy, & Stress
○ Social Interactions Model (EMV&A-Person-Environment)
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ADAPTING & THRIVING IN A VUCA WORLD
● Self-Care: Managing Energy, Attention & Stress
○ There are limited energy and attention resources in the brain that get depleted
throughout the day; replenished by good food, sleep, etc.
○ The brain is a “cognitive meiser”: only 2% of body mass but consumes 25% of
caloric intake– motivated to expend as little energy as possible to reserve energy
for other things.
○ Types of Stressors
Eustress: positive stress; good psychologically and physically.
Distress: negative stress; if not maintained, it can cause physiologically and
psychologically undesirable effects.
● Self-Care Lab for a VUCA World
○ Introduction: The Social Context
If we wrote The Windsor Star: 8,000,000,000 Brains gone Limbic!
In short, we are in a period in history where 8 Billion people are far more
emotional and significantly less intelligent than they were just 3 years ago.
What’s a VUCA Environment?
● V = Volatility: the nature and dynamics of change, and the nature
and speed of change forces and change catalysts.
● U = Uncertainty: the lack of predictability; the prospects for
surprise, and the sense of a loss of awareness and understanding
of issues and events.
● C = Complexity: the multiplex of forces, the confounding of issues,
no cause-and-effect chain and confusion that surrounds
organization.
● A = Ambiguity: the haziness of reality, the potential for misreads,
and the mixed meanings of conditions; cause-and-effect
confusion.
● The Origins of “VUCA”: originated in the US military. Devised as a
description of the Post-Cold War landscape and first referenced in
print in 1991, its use became more frequent in the military
Post-9/11 as a way of articulating the new world in which the US
military would be operating
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