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Psychological Effects of the Internet For Dummies
This is blog that summarizes in a way for non-psychology majors so that everyone will be able to understand it's content. I am hoping to do it in a fun and appealing way!
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Nikola Tesla prediction 1926
"From the inception of the wireless system." he says, "I saw that this new art of applied electricity would be of greater benefit to the human race than any other scientific discovery, for it virtually eliminates distance. The majority of the ills from which humanity suffers are due to the immense extent of the terrestrial globe and the inability of individuals and nations to come into close contact.
"Wireless will achieve the closer contact through transmission of intelligence, transport of our bodies and materials and conveyance of energy.
"When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain. which in fact it is, all things being particles or a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were race to race. despite intervening distances or thousands or miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket.
"We shall be able to witness and hear events-the inauguration of a President, the playing of a world series game, the havoc of an earthquake or the terror of a battle-just as though we were present.
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Predictions of the Future
Predictions of the future has happened and they are here. They predicted the smart watch, Netflix, and more. I listed some examples below:
1. Nikola Tesla in 1926 predicted cellphones. They thought that "we will be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance". They also thought that we would be able to carry these devices in our pocket and will be amazingly simple.
2. Arthur C. Clarke in 1976 predicted smart watches. He thought we would have a "radio watch" where we would be able to be contacted at any time however, it would also be able to save lives because you could communicate through the watch.
3. AT&T in 1993 predicted Netflix. In the commercial "You Will" they predicted that people will be able to watch any movie they want at any given time.
4. Eric Schmidt in 1995 predicted the Google search of businesses. He predicted that "any business, no matter how large, no matter how small, will be on the internet in the year 2000".
5. Douglas Adams in 1999 predicted the internet gap, as we have learned earlier in this course, between first internet users, older adults, and the generation that was born into the internet. He predicted that the internet linguistics will be unknown to the first generation users, but the ones growing up in it will be able to adopt it into their own.
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Podcast from Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Results may surprise you.
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Can Google Searches Provide Data about Hidden Attitudes and Behavior?
YES, Google can provide data about hidden attitudes and behaviors. The main investigator of this question was Seth Stephens-Davidowitz that took public Google search data to find whether people were telling the truth about things, that others may not find pleasing, such as homosexuality.
In NPR's (2017) podcast, Seth makes a point on how people may lie about data. According to a survey between California and Mississippi. The survey showed that there is a lot more homosexual men in California than there is in Mississippi. However, when he pulled up search results for 'gay porn' he found in both states the amount of people doubled and there was little difference between the states, even though California showed to still be slightly higher.
He also elaborated on how parents in surveys are to be impartial to how they treat their children and people are not racist based on their location or what party they vote for. Parents are more likely to search for 'is my son mentally gifted' and for 'is my daughter overweight' (these are only examples), which showed that parents are more likely to use gifted/genius with searches that start with 'my son' than 'my daughter'. When it comes to searches, when Barack Obama was becoming president, people were more likely to search for jokes about blacks than they were to search for jokes about first black president. Data also showed that people were more likely to be racist when voting for Donald Trump from Google searches, and it isn't as much as a North/South divide as it is for East/West of Mississippi river.
In Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (2017) article, he elaborates on how surveys may not be as accurate for personal questions versus impersonal questions. Surveys were our main way of finding out information about the public before the internet. Now, Stephens-Davidowitz argues that we should be using Google searches to start pulling for more accurate data about people and their "hidden" ideals and interests. So, according to Google, it knows what a person's hidden attitudes and behaviors are just from what people search.
Mind you all, this is all public data. He did not pull data from a separate, private database. You technically can do this search yourself. Google takes statistics on what people search for so you don’ t need to type in your full search because Google will predict it for you. Statistics.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: What is it and How can it benefit me?
According to Mayo Clinic, it is a very typical mental health therapy that helps you become aware of inaccurate and negative thinking so that you can tackle more challenging situations more effectively and clearly. It can be a very helpful therapy when taking on anxiety or depression.
Many many studies have shown that cognitive behavioral therapy is not only affective in-person, however, but it is also affective online as well. Knowing this, you may want to try out SilverCloud! This is an online cognitive behavioral therapy that you may benefit from.
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How Internet Interventions Can Change a Woman’s Negative Views of Herself
Albertson et al.’s (2014) study, "Self-Compassion and Body Dissatisfaction in Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Brief Meditation Intervention."
This study took an internet-based intervention to see if listening to self-compassion meditation audio recordings could increase the participant’s self-compassion and improve their body image, specifically in adult women. Their study let the women choose if they wanted to listen to the recordings all together or download them and have them be listened to on their own time.
The experimenters wanted to make this a blind test study so that they would not be biased in their results. They compared 2 groups (experimental and waitlist control) where they compared the two groups together with their other two tests (baseline and posttreatment). A waitlist control group means that they don’t receive treatment during the study so that they can be compared to the experimental group, but they receive treatment after they complete the study. The baseline test of each group should have been very similar to each other, since both groups should have had negative views of themselves.
Baseline/postintervention measures were completed online 1 to 2 days prior to and after the end of the 3-week program. They also gave the study measures again for a 3-month follow-up to see if any improvements were made over time.
The intervention group demonstrated significantly greater gains in self-compassion compared to the control group. Compared to the control group, participants in the experimental group had significantly less body dissatisfaction, body shame, contingent self-worth based on appearance, and experienced greater gains in body appreciation. They also found that gains in all outcomes were maintained when tested at 3-months after the intervention.
The intervention may have worked due to less frequently having negative thoughts by having more positive thoughts brought out through the podcasts from their positivity. The podcasts were more remindful that everyone comes in different shapes and sizes and so the participants may not have put an emphasis on their self-body shame.
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Internet Addiction
Did you know, not everything on the internet is inherently evil? Some people might think a psychology course about the internet would be all about the bad effects of the internet. This isn’t true. Everything has both good sides and bad sides to the internet.
Is internet addiction real? No, probably not. Over time, people have claimed that all the new fabs has taken over the brains of children and are extremely addicting. They thought reading books would be addicting and claimed that murders were caused because of mystery novels. Do you remember the Waukesha incident when girls assaulted a young girl because of Slender Man? They blamed that on internet addiction too. People thought that telephones were addicting when teens and housewives would spend hours talking to their friends. TV was supposed to be addicting as well, even though we binge watch Netflix now, they claim that TV is like giving a child a gram of cocaine. People argue that anything and everything is addicting. Is it real? Probably not.
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Why Do You Use the Internet? Motivations.
What are your motivations for using the internet? Keep a single day diary and write down 20 internet uses you have done. Then match why you did those uses with the chart below. Enjoy!
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Where do you get your news?
People’s source of information is coming from online sources more and more and is increasing every year, and television source of news, which used to be the main source, is decreasing. The average person gets 35% of their news from social media. Depending on who you are, this may increase or decrease. My challenge for you is to keep a news diary. For one week, note where you get your news at least twice a day. The results may surprise you.
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You Should Make a LinkedIn! (And About Digital Literacy)
Did you know that some colleges make admissions based off of LinkedIn?
Digital literacy is very important to your future. Your Facebook isn’t as private as it seems and employers are interested in you as a person. Use the internet cautiously. If you don’t want to end up like “nice wand” guy where he had a picture posted on his social media and his boss found out. Be smart about what you post and make yourself look good to people who will eventually give you a job. It’s your future, let your private life be private and let your Facebook be “Grandma can see this” clean.
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