Psychology Week 5 Discussion Board 1-2

Written by P. A. Owens on September 20, 2018

Week 5 DB 1-2

DB1:  Take one of the chosen  Learning Styles inventories.  You should have taken one initially at the start of the course.  Please compare your results then to now.  Are there changes?  Please discuss with reference to what you have learned thus far in the course, ie: brain structure, learning, contemporary psychological perspectives.

     In all of the quizzes that I have taken, this time and during week 1, I scored highest in the visual aspect. Of course I usually do need at least a small amount of instruction to go along with the visuals, but in most instances, I am definitely a more visual learner. As our text states, “when people learn anything, some part of their brain is physically changed to record what they’ve learned.” (Ciccarelli & White, 2017)

 

DB2:  Beginning ASAP, play both the Impossible quiz multiple times, as well as Luminosity.  Relate your discoveries to concepts shared in the text.   Did you prefer one game to another?  Do you feel real learning occurred?  Why or why not?  Please develop your reasoning, making an argument for your position.

     I preferred the game Luminosity over The Impossible Quiz. I found it to be more fun, probably because that one had so much more visuals and the Impossible Quiz had mainly words only. I think some learning occurred because, in Luminosity there were a lot of thinking ahead and quick thinking instances, which one can always learn from. Luminosity also had the memory game, where you see a certain screen for a few seconds then it goes away and you have to select which one was there to begin with. Overall, I’d say both games included and had to have critical, fast thinking to succeed which are great brain exercises to help encourage learning and memory. “This (learning) is actually a process of memory, for without the ability to remember what happens, people cannot learn anything.” (Ciccarelli & White, 2017)

Citations:

Ciccarelli, Saundra K., & J. Noland White.  Psychology (REVEL with e-text/access code), 5th Edition.  Person 2017.  ISBN:  978-0134715305