Question

write a reflection paper that walks through the various films and psychological issues we've considered throughout the course. You may choose to submit the weekly reflection format as described below or to use this alternative version to write some narrative regarding your experience with the films and viewing them as academics versus an entertainment-seeking audience.

white Christmas

Good will hunting

Experimenter

The stanford prison experiment

Atypical

Answer 1

All the movies which are listed here are very interesting, full of emotions and twists. When I first the movies just for the sake of entertainment, the movie experimenter and good will hunting fractionated me about the role and work of a psychologist and therapist. It gave me a feeling that people of these profession is so manipulative and they can possibly solve all our issues and it’s not only the mad people which go to them. I was so fascinated that I started thinking human brain as a computer device which is hackable, erasable, changeable but all these movies provided me a great insight when I watched them again with an academic approach, from the movies experimenter I could sense and figure out the role, working of social psychologist , the area of their approach and their field of interests, what all they look in the society and personal relations . This time I could see and classify different streams of psychology. I could identify the role of emotions and social relationships in our decision making capacity and how a person can have and develop various perspective in their and about their life.