TED Talks
D. Seligman
D. Seligman opens his TED Talk with a stoy about an inteview he was asked to do with CNN. He had to pepae a sound bite that fist was composed of just one wod in egad to the state of psychology. He simply said "good." Then he was not to use two wods and he said "not good." Finally he was asked to use thee wods and he said "not good enough." Befoe he gets into why psychology is not good enough howeve, he fist speaks of the disease model and all the advancements that psychology has made along these lines.
In the histoy of psychology, most of the wok has been diected at helping people with disease. D. Seligman states that thee ae oughly sixteen psychological diseases that people can have that impact thei mental health. Psychology can help with almost all of them and completely cue two…...
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Amy Cuddy's "Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are" TED talk is fascinating because it is so simple. The speaker begins by showing how body language is widely recognized and proven as being important factors in social situations. We judge people, consciously or not, on their body language. What Cuddy wanted to know is whether our own body language affects the way we think and feel about ourselves, to the point where our body language could eventually determine our behaviors and our outcomes in life.
The researcher performed a study in which she asked participants to adopt either a high power or a low power pose for just two minutes. After the poses, she had the participants choose whether or not to play a gambling game, and then she measured the cortisol and testosterone levels of the participants. Cortisol is a hormone that is linked to stress. High levels of cortisol…...
Glenn Greenwald notes in his TED Talk on why privacy matters, the Internet is a great tool both for sharing and for spying and surveillance. Greenwald makes an important point about not viewing the world as made up of good people and bad people (as though only bad people have a reason to want privacy -- so that they can hide what they are doing from those who want to protect the world, aka the government). In reality, the government is responsible for terrorism by arming, training and funding "moderate rebels" and promoting extremist ideologies in the Middle East. It is a pure 1984 play -- an Orwellian nightmare come to life. Those who have no problem with government surveillance are essentially saying that "I have agreed to make myself such a harmless, unthreatening, uninteresting person" that no government will have any reason to look at them. By what…...
mlaWorks Cited
Greenwald, Glenn. "Why Privacy Matters." TED, 2014. Web. 5 Feb 2016.
TED Talk: uggy Moral Code
"How much can I get away with without being hit by the consequences?" (Ariely, 2009)
A deep discussion ensued when I broached this topic with my peers, as individuals justify cheating depending on the context. If our type of person does a particular thing, we would also tend to engage in it. Here's where the concept of morality becomes effective. Ariely associates this with cheating on God's divine law (the Ten Commandments). The moment one starts taking morals into consideration, one will become more unwilling to cheat. A student will definitely tend to cheat less if his/her professor establishes high academic integrity standards, as cheating breaks down his/her fudge factor. There will not be much room to justify why one cheats. On the whole, cheating consistently on smaller projects will ultimately build up till one has no qualms about cheating on examinations and other larger tasks (Yousif,…...
mlaBibliography
Ariely, D. (2009, February). Dan Ariely: Our buggy moral code. Retrieved from TED: https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_on_our_buggy_moral_code?language=en#t-8559
Dokodemo. (2011, August 11). Dan Ariely on our buggy moral code (TED Talk). Retrieved from da2el.wordpress: https://da2el.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/dan-ariely-on-our-buggy-moral-code-ted-talk-2/
Yousif, J. (2013, February 18). Dan Ariely, "Our Buggy Moral Code." Retrieved from UMICH: http://www.umich.edu/~hcouncil/home/In_The_News/Entries/2013/2/18_The_Ted_Talk_titled_Our_Buggy_Moral_Code%2C_given_by_Dan_Ariely_provides_the_hidden_reasons_that_several_of_people_think_it_is_the_norm_to_cheat._He_begins_by_relating_cheating_to_economics
As David Logan mentions in the 2009 TED talk called “Tribal Leadership,” most people are in what he called Level Three Tribes: functioning at a high level of personal and professional performance but lacking the broader visions that can unite people and change the world. Reflecting on Logan’s message, I have become more aware of the ways I remain stuck at either Level Two or Level Three throughout my life but am passionate about moving up and into Level Four and hopefully, Level Five. The tribes I belong to are many, including more than one at the professional level. For example, I am a member of several different professional organizations, am a team leader in a healthcare institution as well as in class, and am also a member of an extended group of healthcare workers and patient advocates in the community. In my personal life, I am also a member…...
Open-Source or Crowd-Source Initiatives
In accordance to the TED Talk, a crowd-source initiative is one that can be delineated as an enterprise attaining required services, conceptions, or content by beseeching and petitioning contributions from large crowds and sets of individuals, and particularly from the online community, instead of the conventional personnel or suppliers. In other words, crowdsourcing brings together the endeavors of several individuals taking initiative to bring resolve to small pieces that make up a larger puzzle. Crowdsourcing outlines the muscle that comes off in numbers (Noveck, 2015). The following segment will outline and discuss the manner in which a federal product, specifically Medicare and Social Security, can be transformed into a crowdsourcing initiative.
Some of the key products being provided or rendered by the Federal government include social security and Medicare. These particular products can be transformed into crowd-sourced initiatives. For starters, in recent periods, there have been several instances…...
mlaReferences
Santosus, M. (2003). Why You Need a Project Management Office (PMO). CIO. Retrieved 10 February, 2016 from: -- pmo-.htmlhttp://www.cio.com/article/2441862/project-management/why-you-need-a-project-management-office
Noveck, B. (2015). Demand a More Open Source Government. Retrieved 10 February 2016 from: http://www.ted.com/talks/beth_noveck_demand_a_more_open_source_government
Video Discussion by Bryan Stevenson- A Ted Talk Presentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2OxyQ
Discuss your reaction and ideas you have about the content of this video. Then, discuss your ideas in relation to Criminal Justice. Finally, discuss this in relation to you as a criminal justice professional.
Stevenson does have a valid concern in that it is alarming that one third of all black people are incarcerated at some point in their lives. However, automatically expecting the demographics of those arrested or jailed to match that of the demographics of the wider population is a misnomer because it assumes that both sets of people act in the proportionality. Of course, that is not true. As such, the "one in three" comment is misleading because it would seem to infer that this is only happening because of racism in terms of sentences and such. That is surely happening to some degree based on some of the…...
Minimalists
In the Ted Talk, "A ich Life with Less Stuff," yan Nicodemus and Joshua Fields Millburn, a duo with a YouTube and web following who are also known as the Minimalists, discuss the basic principles of their take on the minimalist approach to life, which differs from the traditional minimalist approach. yan begins the discussion by talking about how he used to define rich, and how that definition, which was based on earnings, had to continue to expand because it could never be enough. He discussed how he had material success but that he was still essentially unhappy and mentioned having just experienced a divorce. Then he moved into a comparison with friend Joshua Fields, who, like him, had recently gone through a divorce and had also experienced a death in his family, and credited his transition to a minimalist lifestyle with his ability to find inner peace.
Of course,…...
mlaReferences
Millburn, J.F. & Nicodemus, R. (2014). A rich life with less stuff. Tedx Whitefish.
March 6, 2015 from Yahoo website: -- ?p=ted+talks+the+minimalist&tnr=21&vid=148E8D8C185383788AF1148E8D8C185383788AF1&l=898&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts3.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DUN.608052839914867426%26pid%3D15.1&rurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DGgBpyNsS-jU&sigr=11bsrrvlc&tt=b&tit=A+rich+life+with+less+stuff+https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=A0LEV7oLiJlU.QwArX0PxQt.;_ylu=X3oDMTBsa3ZzMnBvBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkAw
TED talk, Jason Clay talks about how the major buyers in the world like Cargill are the key to creating a sustainable future. Clay started out working on the side of the small farmers, going the traditional route of purchasing products at fair and equitable trade and driving consumer demand for sustainable products like Ben & Jerry's Rainforest Crunch ice cream. Then, Clay and his colleagues realized that they were not going to achieve their goals of massive transformations in the ways goods are produced without working with the big key players -- the organizations responsible for tearing down the rainforests to place cattle pasture or rainforests to plant palm oil plantations. Beef, lumber, soy, and certain types of fishing are among the top fifteen global products that are singularly responsible for much deforestation. ith current consumer-driven demand, there will be insufficient resources on the planet in the near…...
mlaWorks Cited
Clay, Jason. "How Big Brands Can Help Save Biodiversity." Retrieved online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcp5vvxtEaU
Strategy
As Sinek (2010) explains, “people don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.” What this means for leaders in an organization is that vision is what matters most. Giving people a reason to understand why an organization is operating is paramount to fostering a connection with them. People act according to reason and when they are given a “why” they are given that reason upon which they can act. An organization that simply approaches people and tells them what they do and how they do it is an organization that’s intended strategy will not match its realized strategy. In order to have one’s realized strategy correlated with one’s intended strategy, the organization must communicate to stakeholders from the inside-out rather than from the outside-in. In other words, it must explain the “why” before it explains the “what” and the “how.”
In my own life I can see that…...
The Power of DataPrompt:In the TED Talk linked in this lesson, Horowitz asked what we should do about the power we have, thanks to the data we can access. Specifically, he asked: So, what should we be doing with that guy's data? Should we be collecting it, gathering it, so we can make his online experience better? So we can make money? So we can protect ourselves if he was up to no good? Or should we respect his privacy, protect his dignity, and leave him alone? Which one is it? How should we figure it out?In a discussion post, describe how you would answer these questions. What framework discussed in this lesson guided your decision-making? Refer back to the bottom of p. 73 and the top of p. 74 in Whetten and Cameron (2016). Which of the strategies for decision-making did you use? Which framework does it align with?…...
mlaReferences
Horowitz, D. (2011, June 6). Damon Horowitz calls for a \\\\\\"moral operating system.\\\\\\" TED Talks [YouTube]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG3vB2Cu_jM .
Whetton, D. A. & Cameron, K. S. (2016). Developing Management Skills, 8th ed. New York: Prentice-Hall.
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TED Talks
Ideas worth Spreading
Nina Jablonski breaks the illusion of skin color (TED2009, 2009)
Nina Joblonski opens by commenting on Darwin's pigmentation and his upbringing. She further speaks of his voyage on the Beagle and his interest in the pigmentation of humans. Darwin did not believe that there was any correlation to skin pigmentation and climate. However, Joblonski points out that if Darwin had access to NASA satellites that he may have come to a different conclusion. One of NASA's satellites has capabilities to monitor the Earth's radiation close to the surface. As a result, researchers today have been able to study skin pigmentation and the exposure to solar radiation and find that there is a perfect gradient and strong correlation between the two.
Therefore, skin color is a product of evolutionary forces as human adapted to their environments and their skin adapt to the levels of radiation that they were receiving. The…...
Looks Arent EverythingThe speech by Russell has a very persuasive thesis because it begins with this beautiful model telling the audience that looks are not everything and that the audience should believe her because she, after all, is a model and knows what she is talking about. Everyone in the audience is probably thinking how great it would be to look like a model, but Russell explains that when youre a model you are insecure all the time and you arent able to be taken seriously in any other line of work. So she challenges the audience to look beyond looks and she does this by giving a sense of the reality of what it is like to be a model and how what is captured and air-brushed on the screen is a false imageit is not reality or a real reflection of the person who is modeling.The speech is…...
mlaWorks CitedRussell, Cameron. “Looks Aren’t Everything.” Zig. Good Reads. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/243565-the-most-important-persuasion-tool-you-have-in-your-entire https://www.ted.com/talks/cameron_russell_looks_aren_t_everything_believe_me_i_m_a_model/transcript Ziglar,
Abnormal Psych: Narcissistic Personality DisorderNarcissistic Personality Disorder is a mental disorder that is characterized by an inflated sense of self-importance, a need for excessive attention and admiration, and a lack of empathy for others. People with this disorder often have a grandiose view of themselves and believe that they are special or unique. They may also take advantage of others to get what they want. Narcissistic Personality Disorder is more common in men than in women and usually begins in adolescence or early adulthood. The prevalence of the disorder is estimated to be between 1-2%. Narcissistic Personality Disorder can cause significant distress and impairment in functioning. The exact cause of the disorder is unknown, but it is thought to be the result of a combination of genetic and environmental factors (DSM-V, 2022). As Bandura (2018) points out, this type of behavior typically has its cause linked to environmental factors, as…...
mlaReferencesBandura, A. (2018). Toward a psychology of human agency: Pathways and reflections.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13(2),130-136.DSM-V. (2022). Retrieved from S. G., Sawyer, A. T., & Fang, A. (2010). The empirical status of the “new wave” of cognitive behavioral therapy. Psychiatric Clinics, 33(3), 701-710.Samuel, D. B., & Widiger, T. A. (2007). Describing Ted Bundy\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s personality and working towards DSM-V. Practice, 27, 20-22.https://lib.ku.edu/database/dsm-v-diagnostic-and-statistical-manual-mental-disorders Hofmann,
Peter eyland's 2023 TED talk provides an intriguing perspective on the idea of a god and generates much controversy as a result of trying to change society's understanding of this concept. The power to create is indeed, an impressive feat, and it is only natural for humans to feel privileged because of coming to control this power. eyland's speech is referring to androids whom people are going to have difficulties differentiating from real humans in a few years time. hen regarding matters solely from the perspective provided by Ridley Scott's 2012 motion picture Prometheus, it would only be safe to say that the power to create provides one with the ability to relate to him or herself as being a god.
hile Darwinism seems to be a powerful idea, many people prefer to think of their background as having had a creator. One can almost say that people are 'programmed' so…...
mlaWorks cited:
Thomas, Isabel, "Cloning," (Raintree, 2012)
Dir. Scott Ridley. Prometheus. (20th Century Fox, 2012).
1. Analyze a persuasive speech given by a political leader and evaluate the effectiveness of their rhetoric.
2. Examine an advertisement or commercial and analyze the rhetorical strategies used to sell a product or service.
3. Compare and contrast the rhetorical techniques used in two different speeches on a similar topic.
4. Analyze a controversial public figure's use of rhetoric and how it influences public perception.
5. Investigate how social media influencers use rhetoric to persuade their audience.
6. Evaluate the effectiveness of rhetorical techniques used in a famous courtroom speech or closing argument.
7. Analyze the use of rhetorical devices in a piece of literature....
Addressing Contemporary Societal Issues in Social Science Curricula
One of the primary challenges in social science education is the relevance of the curriculum to contemporary societal issues. Traditional curricula often fail to address current events and real-world problems, leading to disengagement and a lack of motivation among students (Johnson et al., 2021). To enhance the effectiveness of social science curricula, educators must find ways to integrate current societal issues into the classroom.
Student Call for Integrative Learning
Research shows that students desire more integrative and applied learning experiences that connect theoretical concepts to real-life situations (Johnson et al., 2021). This suggests that traditional....
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