Escape Room Trip
Cognitive Psychology: Escape Room Trip"Sit back down and push your button!"
The rat race feels a lot like fingers making keystrokes. Screens warm our faces and chill our imaginations night after night. Children in their bunk beds don't dream of lives like these – so maybe the time is right to break out of the cage and connect with the future we once imagined for ourselves? You'll need everything you've got -- if you're going to have any hope of unlocking the mystery of Skinners Box. |
- Description: The purpose of the club is to provide psychology students with a more complete view of psychology by discussing theories and the practical application of these theories and ideas in our world today. Students will also be involved with Hoop Rats (High School), which is a hands on lab activity where students will train lab rats to play basketball by shaping their behavior (B.F. Skinner’s Operant Conditioning). Middle school students will be involved with a similar lab experiment; Fish School, in which students will train fish in a lab setting to swim a slalom courses and play soccer by shaping their behavior .
Requirements: High school students must be enrolled in AP Psychology or have already taken the course. - Cost (high school and middle school): The club fee of $15 will cover the price of a club shirt and supplies.
- This year the club will explore several themes. A few are mentioned below.
Abnormal Psychology: The Psychology of Superheroes
What’s the matter with Batman? There must be something wrong with him, right? After all, he does things most of us wouldn’t do in a million years: He dresses up in a bat costume and puts his life on the line night after night, without any official status. He’s a billionaire, yet he dedicates a significant portion of his personal wealth to fund his “hobby” of being a crime fighter. He has no real personal life to speak of—at least not one that isn’t directly connected to his work as Batman. (Note, though, that the same can be said of many of us!) He broods, he can be obsessive in his preparations to tangle with criminals, and the fact that he witnessed the murder of his parents must have left a scar. These facets of his life are certainly unusual, but the question I investigate in this book is whether these issues—along with various problems and “symptoms”—place Batman in the “abnormal” range from a mental health perspective. If so, just how bad is his problem (or problems)?
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