Psychology Takeaway Podcast

In this multipart series Jim and Ralph discuss the evolutionary and social origins of Implicit bias. They will explore  the impact it has on education, the workplace,  policing, and health care practices. Strategies for reducing Implicit bias will be explored in this series.

Special note forMichigan health care PR actioners

Ralph and Jim are offering Implicit bias training for Michigan health care professionals who are mandated to take a two hour course in order to receive or renew their license. Training is live,  online or available as an asynchronies telecourse. It  fulfils the mandate and is sponsored by Ronan Psychological Associates (phone RPA at  989 779 8999 or contact Jim at carro1jl@cmich.edu for more information).

 

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Here is a short video that explains Implicit bias: https://youtu.be/BSguud-t1kc

 

 

Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.

But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.

A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said."

We are at our best when we serve others.  Be civilized.

-Submitted by  Ira Byock

 

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The Power Of Empathy with Brené Brown: You Tube Empsthy - Search (bing.com)

 

 

 

 

The adverse effects of natural or man-made disasters can haunt us long after the event has passed. Jim and Ralph talk about the long term effects in this repeat Podcast. If you have not heard it, it is certainly worth a listen. If have heard it, it is worth a second hearing!!!

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95ovIJ3dsNk

How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime 

 

 

In the past few weeks the boys have been looking at AI; today they focus on HI!

They look at recent attempts to enhance human performance like the Perry School Program and Head Start.

They also comment on the children is discussed.

The conclusion they come to is “stimulation is good”, “deprivation is bad” – like it takes a genius to figure that one out!!!

 

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Here is the Perry School project, from right here in Michigan: https://highscope.org/perry-preschool-project/

 

Does Head Start work? Yes, take a look: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/does-head-start-work-the-debate-over-the-head-start-impact-study-explained/

 

Frederick  II’s deadly experiment: https://signsofthetimes.org.au/2018/08/fredericks-experiment/ In the Podcast Jim said this was carried out by Frederic the Great of Germany; it was actually done by Frederic II of Sicily – sorry Frederick the Great.

 

 

 

Jim’s daughter Alicia sent a link to him. It was from a video blob that she had watched which warned of the potential dangers of AI, something Jim and Ralph addressed in the last Podcast. We don’t usually feature other people’s work on Psychology take away but we felt that it was important to get this to as many people as possible so here goes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brQLpTnDwyg

If the link does not open when you click on it, just copy and paste it into you browser!

Next week we will start a series on Human Intelligence as opposed to artificial intelligence. 

 

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Bill Gates, a fan of AI, expresses some reservation. Read his thoughts: https://time.com/6293735/bill-gates-ai-risk/

 We mentioned the movie “Metropolis” in the podcast Here is a synopsis from the web  and a link to the film: “As social allegory, Metropolis depicts a world in which the privileged sons of society live in ease and luxury on the surface while deep in the bowels of the city a chattel underclass labors out of sight on the machinery that supports Metropolis.: -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFzHH9EL9x0

 

Here is the quote from Elon Musk that we alluded to in the Podcast:

“AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production, in the sense that it is, it has the potential — however small one may regard that probability, but it is non-trivial — it has the potential of civilization destruction,” Musk said in his interview with Tucker ..

Jim and Ralph pick up on a Podcast from a few weeks ago.

At that time ttey looked at  some of the pros and cons of artificial intelligence  (AI)programs.

In the past two weeks a program called CHAT GPT has caught their attention.

They talk about AI  and the temptation it it presents for academic integrity.

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This is a link to the New York Times podcat that we mentioned in today’s session:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/podcasts/the-daily/ai-chat-gpt-schools.html

The link below takes you to the APA interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYF6itodA8g

And Ralph discuss the major sigs of stress and burnout. Besides pointing out the problems theyprovide various coping strategies 

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Interesting Ted Talk on stress and coping: 

How stress is killing us (and how you can stop it). | Thijs Launspach | TEDxUniversiteitVanAmsterdam 

 

 

 

Ralph and Jim examine the development of artificial intelligence. While there are many important functions for the technology, there exists a dark side.

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The promise of AI

https://www.uopeople.edu/blog/ai-in-education-where-is-it-now-and-what-is-the-future/

The dark side of AI

https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/dark-side-artificial-intelligence-manipulation-human-behaviour

 

Creativity – If at first you don’t succeed try smarter or “different” not necessarily harder!!!