Concourse 9.00 - Introduction to Psychology 1999Score:p1 (10) ______p2 (10) ______p3 (25) ______p4 (15) ______p5 (15) ______p6 (20) ______p7 (20) ______p8 (15) ______p9 (20) ______p10 (20) _____p11(25) _____p12 (15) _____p13 (25) _____p14(25) _____p15 (25) _____p16 (20) _____TOTAL _____% _____Concourse 9.00 - Introduction to Psychology 1999 Love's Labours Lost but not Psych. Labours Lost (320 points) I have heard that there is a forthcoming Kenneth Branagh film of this play so I thought it would make a good topic for the final. The play just provides the story line for this final. You do not need to know the play or Shakespearean English. If any question seems confusing, just ask about it. Use the back of the paper if you need to. Just tell us where to find the answer. You should have plenty of time to complete this. Good luck. 1. (10 points) Here is the situation in Act 1 Scene 1. The King of Navarre (on the Spanish/French border, by the way) has made a deal with three noblemen, Berowne, Longaville, and Dumain. It is a sort of proto-MIT deal. The plan to study for three years, making "war against your own affections And the huge army of the world's desires,--" (act 1,scene 1... henceforth, just 1,1) They are going to give up good food, women, and sleep in order to study. Almost immediately, Berowne objects to the plan "to sleep but three hours in the night, And not be seen to wink of all the day (meaning no naps in class)" (1,1) The others argue that he is a coward. What do you think will happen if they try to stick to a schedule of just 3 hours of sleep per day? Please defend your answer with material from the course, NOT merely with personal anecdotes about the need for sleep. 2. (5) The four 'students' begin to argue about the details of their agreement. Does the contract ban sleep or just rapid eye movement sleep? Suppose that contract bans REM sleep, but not slow wave sleep, which of the following are true (pp100ff)? a. Restorative sleep will be reduced but dreaming sleep will be unaffected. b. This is not possible. You cannot selectively eliminate or even markedly reduce the amount of REM sleep relative to slow-wave sleep. c. This is stupid. REM sleep is the same as slow-wave sleep.d. This is fine. You can eliminate REM sleep. Moreover, there are no noticeable effects of REM deprivation. For example, the percentage of REM sleep after 2 weeks of REM deprivation is the does not increase over the percentage of REM before deprivation. e. This is stupid, there is no such thing as sleep. f. Stupid or not, none of the answers above are true. 3. (5) Berowne is feeling a lot of social pressure to agree to this study plan. Three guys...one of them a king....all telling him that he should agree. Latané's Social Impact Theory seems to capture Berowne's situation. Latané theory proposes three factors that modulate the total impact. Those are: (Pick three and only three. No partial credit, p517). a. Number - the number of people who effect the target individual b. Sex - whether the people are same sex or different c. Immediacy - how close the people are in space or time. d. Interest - how interesting the topic is to the subject of the impact e. Strength - how powerful/authoritative are the people exerting the pressure? f. Sympathy - how likable are the people exerting the pressure? g. Nuturance - how nurturing/supportive is the subject of the pressure? 4. (10) Pick one of these factors and explain how it could be changed in this situation to REDUCE the social pressure on Berowne. Then give one example of experimental data that supports your explanation. Here is an example of the sort of answer we want (using a bogus factor): Let's manipulate the "speciation" factor. Social pressure on Berowne would be reduced if his friends and the king were turned into dogs (another species). This hypothesis is supported by the experiment in which researchers compared the persuasiveness of speeches by worms, dogs, and humans on worms, dogs, and humans. In all cases, same-species speeches were most effective." OK...now you do the same for number, sex, or whatever. 5. (10) Pick a different one of the factors from #3 and explain how it could be changed in this situation to INCREASE the social pressure on Berowne. Then give one example of experimental data that supports your explanation.6. (10) To make it easier to stay away from women, the men have banned women from the court (on pain of losing their tongues). However, as Berowne notes, the daughter of the King of France is scheduled to arrive tomorrow. Oops! Or as the king says "What say you, lords? Why, this was quite forgot." What sort of memory is this that has been forgotten? a. semantic b. episodic c. implicit d. subconscious e. unconscious f. You know, this is tricky. I am not sure any of these is correct. Let me explain (briefly). In fact, please explain your answer (briefly) even if you pick something from items a-e. Your explanation should make it clear that you understand the term you chose (or refused to chose). 7. (5) Berowne comments So study evermore is overshot: While it doth study to have what it would It doth forget to do the thing it should, (1,1).......... umm...yeah...great...What that means is that there is a lessened ability to recall old material (the arrival of the princess) because of material learned subsequently (p281). This is called: a. psychogenic amnesia b. iatrogenic amnesia c. proactive inhibition (or interference) d. retroactive inhibition (or interference) e. reaction formation f. being "dumber than dirt" 8. (10) In the end, Berowne agrees to sign up. He then asks what they will do for fun. The king responds that there is a man at court named Armado who speaks very strangely. He has " a mint of phrases in his brain" (1,1). He makes up new words. He speaks with an elaborate but odd syntax. He says things like "Great deputy, the welkin's vicegerent and sole dominator of Navarre, my soul's earth's god, and body's fostering patron." (1,1) when he means to be saying 'Greetings, King.'). Dumain says that he has heard the Armado did not learn to speak until he was twelve and that is why is language is so odd and complex. Is Dumain's theory reasonable? Why or why not? Be sure that your answer reveals someknowledge about the psychology of language and language development. We don't just want some speculation about this story.