Thursday, February 5, 2015

Psych Taxi Drivers Case Notes & Assignments

Assingnment 1: Taxi Drivers Case Reading and Questions (click here) Due Mon., 02/09/15 (3 & 5) & Tues., 02/10/15 (2 & 6)

Taxi Drivers Original Case (click here)
Taxi Drivers Case PPT Notes (click here)

Assignment 2 (CW, groups): Article link from last page of the PPT Notes for assignment (click here)
Answer the following questions with your group members on one sheet of paper (also found on last slide of PPT Notes):

-Hypothesize how you would begin to learn that many streets in a 6 mile radius.
–Analyze the statement “Maguire likens the brain to a muscle –exercise it and it gets stronger”.
–Create a list of three other jobs that could result in an increase in the size of your hippocampus. Explain what aspect of this job would cause this to occur.
–Does this scenario end the nature v. nurture debate or only further complicate it? Explain.

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