The Best of the Century
As the century goes by, the field of psychology grew really fast and wide, from a field of science available for only the aristocrats of one culture only, to the field of wide-range science for a population of all cultures. The improvements in psychotherapy slowly move this new science to life. Some changes included the workshop for all people, multicultural therapy, improvement in the field of addiction studies, the growing of biological psychology, and the approach of behavior psychology.
From the article, The Best of the Century, twenty breakthroughs in the field of psychology throughout the century are mentioned, all interesting and fascinating.
One of the breakthroughs are stated by Stanley Milgram that "nearly everyone has the potential to follow the authority up to the point of murdering." With the experiment he had tried by telling his college students to go up to people in the subway train and ask them for their seat. At first, none of his students agreed to do so because they thought no one will ever going to give up their seats, therefore it's futile to do so. Some students though agreed to give it a try on 20 subway passengers. Then the turning point came that about half of them did really gave up their seats. I think this is an important one because when people follow the authority in good things, it's not a bad part, but if people really do follow the authority and the authority in this place is bad, then it can lead to a massacre, like what Hitler did in WWII, where people just killed people, the Jewish, without even knowing it.
Another breakthrough is stated by Ellen Langer that "thinking may help people to live a longer, healthier, more productive life." She stated the the harm of mindlessness is that it shortens one's life span. She tested on the experiment on the people in the nursing home to encourage them to be more mindful by giving them each a plant in which they are responsible. From the experiment, the people who tends to be more mindful have their plants live longer than the ones who doesn't. I think this is important because if thinking make people to live a longer and better lives, then people should think more, rather than do things mindlessly, and sometime, mindlessness can be dangerous as well. When people are mindless, they mostly do thing without thinking and some can be very harmful.
Another breakthrough is stated by Harry F. Harlow that "love and care of the mother have effect in emotional and intellectual development." From his experiment with monkeys, he came up with the result that love and care for the mother have effect on emotional and intellectual development of the baby. I think this is important because nowaday, there're many news of mothers abandon the children. From this statement, those abandoned children who didn't have love and care from their mothers can have bad emotional and intellectual development, which if many can be harmful to the country in the future as well.
The fourth breakthrough I chose is stated by Philip G. Zimbardo that "societal role also determine much of our behavior." Through his experiment of putting college students in the prison in the role of prisoners' guards, the college students became so violent and so cruel that he had to stop the experiment. I think this is important because the societal role are determine by one's behavior, which mean one behavior sometime determine another behavior. Also, from what Stanley Milgram stated, people tend to follow authority up to the point of murdering, which mean that maybe the reason why this experiment works is because the students think the guards must be like this.
Finally, the last breakthrough I choose is by Hans Selye, stated that being busy all the time is the way to cope with stress. He said that people often mistaken the meaning of stress. I think this is important because people often tend to relax when they got stressed, which sometime gains more stressful because people are free, and don't know what to do. I believe that oftentime stress leads to disease as well, so people should really know the real meaning of stress in order to cope with it correctly.
Pg. 6 - Hans Selye - "Busy all the time can cope with stress."
From the article, The Best of the Century, twenty breakthroughs in the field of psychology throughout the century are mentioned, all interesting and fascinating.
One of the breakthroughs are stated by Stanley Milgram that "nearly everyone has the potential to follow the authority up to the point of murdering." With the experiment he had tried by telling his college students to go up to people in the subway train and ask them for their seat. At first, none of his students agreed to do so because they thought no one will ever going to give up their seats, therefore it's futile to do so. Some students though agreed to give it a try on 20 subway passengers. Then the turning point came that about half of them did really gave up their seats. I think this is an important one because when people follow the authority in good things, it's not a bad part, but if people really do follow the authority and the authority in this place is bad, then it can lead to a massacre, like what Hitler did in WWII, where people just killed people, the Jewish, without even knowing it.
Another breakthrough is stated by Ellen Langer that "thinking may help people to live a longer, healthier, more productive life." She stated the the harm of mindlessness is that it shortens one's life span. She tested on the experiment on the people in the nursing home to encourage them to be more mindful by giving them each a plant in which they are responsible. From the experiment, the people who tends to be more mindful have their plants live longer than the ones who doesn't. I think this is important because if thinking make people to live a longer and better lives, then people should think more, rather than do things mindlessly, and sometime, mindlessness can be dangerous as well. When people are mindless, they mostly do thing without thinking and some can be very harmful.
Another breakthrough is stated by Harry F. Harlow that "love and care of the mother have effect in emotional and intellectual development." From his experiment with monkeys, he came up with the result that love and care for the mother have effect on emotional and intellectual development of the baby. I think this is important because nowaday, there're many news of mothers abandon the children. From this statement, those abandoned children who didn't have love and care from their mothers can have bad emotional and intellectual development, which if many can be harmful to the country in the future as well.
The fourth breakthrough I chose is stated by Philip G. Zimbardo that "societal role also determine much of our behavior." Through his experiment of putting college students in the prison in the role of prisoners' guards, the college students became so violent and so cruel that he had to stop the experiment. I think this is important because the societal role are determine by one's behavior, which mean one behavior sometime determine another behavior. Also, from what Stanley Milgram stated, people tend to follow authority up to the point of murdering, which mean that maybe the reason why this experiment works is because the students think the guards must be like this.
Finally, the last breakthrough I choose is by Hans Selye, stated that being busy all the time is the way to cope with stress. He said that people often mistaken the meaning of stress. I think this is important because people often tend to relax when they got stressed, which sometime gains more stressful because people are free, and don't know what to do. I believe that oftentime stress leads to disease as well, so people should really know the real meaning of stress in order to cope with it correctly.
Pg. 6 - Hans Selye - "Busy all the time can cope with stress."
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