Written by P. A. Owens on October 17, 2018
Week 9 DB 1-2
DB1: Currently "Mindfulness" is a buzzword with "life coaches," sports coaches...just about everyone. The concept has actually been around for quite some time. Do a bit of independent research (not any Wikis), but you may consider anything ending in .gov. Google scholar is also a good source; look for peer-reviewed articles.
After learning about Mindfulness, give an example from your own life (PG-13 please) where you may have applied this concept without realizing.
How does this relate to this chapter?
How does this relate to your text?
My Answer to DB 1:
The first thing I thought to write about myself being mindful of course is related to something I absolutely love. Food. I love food. I mean, who doesn’t? But in all seriousness, every single time I eat anything, I have to be super mindful. Why, you ask? Because I am gluten intolerant and anything that contains gluten hurts my stomach tremendously. So every time I even think about eating, I have to stop and think, “wait… does this have gluten?” Reading labels has become my second hobby, close behind crochet. A woman who wrote an online article about mindful eating sates: I learned about mindful eating, which she (her therapist) describes as "eating what you want when you want it." Sounds so simple, but for most people, this is pretty revolutionary. (health.com 2018). Eating can be something so simple for “normal” people, or those without allergies etc., but for those with the setbacks do have to be much more mindful of what they are consuming.
This type of mindfulness can be closely related to this chapter of our text because on page 362, when it talks about the person eating too much pie on Thanksgiving. The pie, in all its glorious promise of flavor and sweetness, becomes, in itself, an incentive to eat. Incentives are things that attract or lure people into action. (Ciccarelli and White 2017) in my case, the incentive is to not eat gluten so my stomach does not get upset and start cramping and bloating.
DB2: The topic of motivation and emotion is often laughingly considered the "Sex and Food" topic. For DB2 I recommend a movie, called, "Kinsey," Starring Liam Neeson. (I know, I know...) He is fantastic. This is an incredible documentary. It is disturbing, but depicts a ground-breaking study into human sexuality before it was considered an appropriate field of research. See what you make of it. Please post an appropriate response, relating the concepts of motivation and emotion to researchers such as Abraham Maslow, Phillip Zimbardo, Alfred Kinsey and the biological mechanisms you have studied so far in your text (ie: the brain and its functions, sensory perception, development...) the goal now and going forward in all your other studies is to begin synthesizing your lessons from previous work and developing theories and then utilizing those previous studies to support your positions. Have fun. Keep it above board: no inappropriate statements or judgement calls, rather evaluate your perception of this topic as the professional scientists you are becoming.
My Answer to DB 2:
Abraham Maslow is the person that inspired the idea of the humanistic approach. Maslow proposed that there are several levels of needs that a person must strive to meet before achieving the highest level of personality fulfillment. (Ciccarelli and White 2017)
Phillip Zimbardo is probably most famous for his prison experiment that was conducted in 1971. It showed how easily one can be swayed to become violent, or vulnerable, according to the situations and circumstances that they were put in at the time. The conclusions of Zimbardo and his colleagues highlighted the influence that a social role, such as that of “guard,” can have on perfectly ordinary people. ( Ciccarelli and White 2017)
Alfred Kinsey conducted a research survey on the sexual conduct and lives of a certain amount of people. His results, which were published in 1938, astonished the audience with the results being very high in how many had had sexual intercourse at an early age and how many had engaged in homosexuality behavior. Although, a face to face interview might cause some people being interviewed to be inhibited about admitting to certain kinds of sexual behavior, or others might exaggerate wildly, increasing the likelihood of inaccurate data. ( Ciccarelli and White 2017)
References:
https://www.health.com/weight-loss/mindful-eating-hack
Ciccarelli, Saundra K., & J. Noland White. Psychology (REVEL with e-text/access code), 5th
Edition. Person 2017. ISBN: 978-0134715305
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