Future Advances In Psychology

Kids, teens and adults are now constantly navigating the internet or using some sort of technology. In the article “Is the Onslaught Making Us Crazy” by Tony Dokoupil, different psychologist claim that technology has a bad influence on the human mind. Throughout the text, real life examples, showing psychological breakdowns, are used to support the statement.

Reminisce when you were a child between the ages of about six to eighteen years old. For a vast majority of us, we would think about memories from elementary, middle, and high school. Now ponder how your life would change if you never went to school? Seems like an unimaginable task for many of us. Many people just assume that every child has the opportunity to be educated. The heartbreaking fact is that there are still people in the world today who don’t have access to education. In “The Future Progress of the Human Mind,” Condorcet discusses and emphasizes the importance for equal access to education. Education is crucial and no matter who you are or where you come from, everyone should be entitled to an education.

With new technological advancements occurring more rapidly each year, it is no surprise that there is an extensive conversation about how these new progressions impact the brain’s development and cognition. One trend is evident: there is a universal acknowledgment that technology is indeed changing the way we think. Among the members contributing to this conversation, two strikingly different outlooks on how these changes will affect the future exist. Either we should be terrified, or worrying is premature. Articles written by experts specializing in psychology and the brain, such as Pinker’s “Mind Over Mass Media,” as well as "How Has the Internet Reshaped Human Cognition?" by Kee and Loh, as well as and finally “Children, Wired- for

References: Spoors, P., Dyer, E.W. and Finlay, L. (2011) Starting With Psychology, Milton Keynes, The Open University.

The final field of study to cover is psychology, which for starters is a scientific evaluation of behavioural and metal processes (Pastorino and Doyle-Portillo, 2011). However this rather cumbersome term does not fully compel what psychology involves and in turn requires breaking down. Take for example the complex psychological theory of behaviour; we all dream, reminisce, dislike or like others, have motivational tendencies, vary in self-esteem, experience levels of depression, behave aggressively, participate in helping others, learn, engage with our surroundings, and use our senses (Pastorino and Doyle-Portillo, 2013). A fundamental consequence of this complexity means psychologists must think critically, evaluate and analyses information in the knowledge that “definitive behaviour”, does not explain the behaviour of all (Marston, King and Marston, 1999). On a simplistic level, this time looking at mental processes it cumulatively includes intelligence, memory, creativity, problem solving and rationalization to name be a few (Train, 2007).

There were contextual forces as well as work in America to foster the growth of applied psychology. The number of people with a Ph. D. in psychology rose and there were not enough academic positions to employ them, and when one attained a teaching job many administrations did not value (or fund) psychology programs. As psychology was a newest science when compared to physics and chemistry…received smallest financial support, so need to proof that psychology is useful in solving social, educational and industrial problem in order to improve budgets. An emerging societal problem was a dramatic increase in public school enrollment, which opened doors for some psychologists. Thus, the focus of psychology shifted towards the application in solving real-world problem.

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Before we evaluate the role of technology let us take a moment to discuss an example of research taken from a time when resources were limited to what was available. Stanley Milgrams ‘obedience study’ in the 1960’s (Banyard, 2012) played a significant role in the historical timeline of Psychological research however, the very nature of his work raised many questions about the undue stress it caused to participants. It was those questions that heightened the awareness of ethics in research and constituted the necessity for more creative studies. Even Charles Hofling et al. (cited in DE100, Chapter 2, p.85) (a) attempt at replicating Milgrams

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Results: The control group had a mean telomere length of 6140.43±175.67 base pairs while the experimental group had a mean length of 5171.74±145.39 base pairs. Therefore, the null hypothesis is rejected. However, the questionnaire given to both groups revealed other significant differences. The schizophrenics had less education and less routine exercise; they had more medical conditions, smoked more and more likely to live alone; and overwhelming majorities of them were unemployed, single, and received welfare. Yet there was not a difference in BMI and alcohol consumption.

over time, due to psychologists coming to light in the modern world. This essay will also

With this new way of thinking, the telomere theory of aging ties together the contradictory view points from past theories. Making a single theory

I will be looking at three areas of psychological research that affect the way we interact with and can be affected by technological advances. These pieces of research were not undertaken as a result of current hypotheses, but were the early examples of research within their areas and led onto further research. I will be showing how psychological research can provide awareness, can be used to manipulate

As American computer scientist, Emerson Pugh, once said, “If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t”. Over the course of sixteen weeks we, the fall of 2017-2018 Psychology 101 class, were able to look in depth into some topics, and only begin to skim the surface on others. Although I may have reached the end of the semester college course, I have not reached the end in wanting to learn more about the topics we were able to explore during this short time. From the phases of classical conditioning, to the hundreds of types of therapies used to treat psychological disorders, the amount of beneficial information you can learn about humans is limitless. In my case, I found the material on Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development, the parts of the brain, and the personality tests the most intriguing and the most advantageous in helping me as I progress through life. To completely understand the brain is simply phenomenal, and a feat that no one has truly accomplished, but to be aware of some of the reasoning for why our brains react the way they do can be just as useful.

On 9th September 2014 apple stepped into the watch industry with the launch of its most awaited smart watch named apple iwatch. This was apples first new product category in 5 years after the iPad. (Hasalum , 2015). The watch has no bounds and it was described as “absolutely amazing” and its software as “fluid” by many of the developers. Terms such as “phenomenal “ have been used for this highly advanced innovation of today’s world by apple. (Clover, 2015,)