Will Smith Did It: The cognitive processes and behaviors involved in a meme from a developmental, behavioral, cognitive, interpersonal, multi-cultural, and abnormal psychological perspective
Watch the Will Smith Meme posted in the module on Canvas. Imagine you see this meme while cruising the web. Imagine you are one or more of the following…
A young adult whose parents died in the 9/11 incident and you lived your life in multiple foster homes
The person that posted this on the web
A 5-year-old surfing the web and looking at funny things with friends at a slumber party
An American who is a traditional member of a minority culture, such as African-American or Islamic-American
An adult with a mental illness such as schizophrenia or borderline personality disorder
A teenager who has been toying with the idea of planting a bomb at school and killing classmates and teachers
A trauma survivor who currently has PTSD that is comorbid with major depressive disorder and panic disorder
Will Smith
Other…?
Having chosen one or more of the scenarios, talk about the effects that meme might have on them in terms of the vocabulary of developmental psychology. Using vocabulary from the textbook, Write a 300-word reflection paper. Talk about your choice in terms of empirical evidence using vocabulary, constructs, and theories from your book. Explain what is going on with the person you have chosen and how it is likely to influence the choices, feelings, successes, failures, developmental stages, sensation & perception, et cetera. What motivational factors are at play, and how do they influence your person? What cognitive processes are at play and how do they affect your person’s behavior? In other words, what happens when we apply psychology to the person? Be sure to include lots of vocabulary, theory, and construct to your professional speculations in the field of psychology.
No Source. Just discuss
