UNIT 1: RESEARCH & INQUIRY
Intro to the Social Sciences Quiz
You will have a 15 multiple choice quiz on what psychology, sociology, and anthropology are as well as commonly used research methods. All relevant slides presentations, handouts, and your textbook should be reviewed.
Survey Assignment
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Below are documents to help you with the individual written analysis:
HUMAN BEHAVIOUR TOPICS THAT MAY BE OF INTEREST THROUGHOUT THE COURSE:
- anger
- aggression (look this up in the text as background reading before you do research)
- selfless behaviour
- selfish behaviour
- betrayal
- projection (blaming others)
- mental health (diagnoseable illness; anxiety; depression, etc.)
- love (adults, teens) (I have a documentary that partly deals with teen love)
- fear
- social status
- self-esteem (confidence; lack of confidence)
- nature & nurture (endless documentaries and articles on this topic)
- false memories (see the textbook for background reading)
- sexuality
- peer pressure (see the textbook for background reading)
- language (swearing, slang, cultural idioms, dying languages)
- poor academic performance
- morals and how we develop them
- religion
- bullying (see textbook for background information)
- psychological/behavioural coping mechanisms (look for Freud's defence mechanisms as well)
- personality: extrovert/introvert/ambivert; personality types
- stress
- perfectionism
- technology
- maturity
- discrimination & prejudice (racism, sexism, etc.)
- emotions
- body language (facial expressions, gestures)
- competition
- jealousy
- conformity (see textbook for background information)
- attitude (positive/negative)
- happiness
- lying
- tattoos
- addictions (drugs, alcohol, gambling, sex)
- gossip
- mob mentality
- cultural taboos (see me for a documentary series)
- eating habits (delicacies; taboos; choices)
- sleep (loads of very recent research)
- crime
- superstitions
- memory
- gender
- loneliness (Vice has an interesting article about why loneliness affects so many young people/older people)