Physiological Psychology and Political Psychology

P/siological Psychology

Purpose: The purpose of this activity is to help you learn about neuronal communication and prepare for the upcoming exam.One of the best ways to know whether you understand a topic is to teach it to someone else, so use this assignment to teach your classmates about a topic. The more you think about how to clearly explain it to another person, the better you will learn it. Teach the topic as if your classmates know nothing about it. Once you have submitted your assignment, you will be able to review your classmates’ posts and learn from them, and it will help you identify which parts you need to study more.

Option 3:

Describe the steps involved in an action potential. To answer this question fully, you will need to 

• Define threshold
• Define action potential
• State where in the neuron the action potential begins
• State which ion channels open, describe what causes these ion channels to open, state which direction the ions will move, and explain how the concentration and electrical gradients work to make the ions move in that direction
• Political Psychology
• The Big 5 is one of the most popular personality assessments because it easily summarizes a wide range of individual characteristics. Do you think personality traits can be distilled into five basic categories? Reflect on your own results from the Big 5 test and how accurately they capture your general disposition. Is there another basic trait that you would include in this personality assessment?  The reading for this week, titled ‘The Big Five Personality Traits in the Political Arena’, highlights how these five personality traits map onto political attitudes and behaviors. What do you make of this body of research, both in terms of measurement validity and its practical use within contemporary politics? Are personality approaches to explaining political attitudes and behaviors compatible or in conflict with evolutionary approaches to explaining pollical attitudes and behaviors? Explain.