Abnormal Psychology (11-18-05)

[crazyvampchick]

Drusilla is reading over last week's essays and growing increasingly angry. She glares at Cameron, then scribbles on an essay, then glares at Cameron again.

"Murder," she snaps, after everyone has signed in. "What drives one to murder another? Ignore petty questions of self-defense or euthanasia. This isn't an ethical debate. What causes one person to murder another? Is it insanity?"

"We're going to work on class projects. Joint class projects. This counts as your midterm grade." Drusilla looks irritated at the thought of handing out projects. "You're going to develop psychological experiments to be run on your fellow students." She thinks for a minute. "You should probably have their permission first, so do a permission slip. And don't hurt the little boys and girls irreversibly. Don't run the experiment, though. That comes later, after your midterms have been approved and the player gets OOC permission from the mods for you to do them."

She looks around. "Pair up. Cameron, you get to be partnered with whoever's left over, or if someone is out today. Then each of you discuss what you'd like to do, and write a 100 word proposal for your experiment. We'll talk about experimental design another time." Drusilla's smile was malicious. "And at that time, we'll introduce you all to hell statistical analysis."

Drusilla looks angry. "Cameron Mitchell. Vala Mal Doran. See me after class. Separately."

"Anyone who has missed a class essay needs to make it up or I'll start giving detentions for missed homework. This includes excused absences. If you'd rather not go back and look up what was missed, come and see me and we'll work out a special project for you to do to make up your grade."

Sawyer: C+ (failure to hand in essay, good participation)
Paige Matthews: A (good participation, well thought out essay)
Bagoas: D- (failure to participate in class or hand in essay)
Medusa: D- (failure to participate in discussion, did not hand in make up assignment)
Draco Malfoy: D- (failure to participate in class or hand in essay)
Callisto: A+ (good participation, well thought out essay)
Faith Lehane: A (good participation, good understanding of the word yo, well thought out essay)
Jessica Atreides: B+ (good participation, good essay)
Broots: A (good participation, well thought out essay)
Teacher's Note: Multiple personalities? You obviously don't understand. (The A and has been stricken out and replaced with a C.)
Mystique: B+ (excellent essay, failure to add to discussion)
Jonathan suck up Crane: A (good participation, well thought out essay even if he didn't get the point)
Samuel Anders: A (good participation, well thought out essay)
Wednesday Addams: A+ (good participation, well thought out essay)
Jack Harkness: D- (failure to hand in essay, minimal participation)

Excused Absences (11/6/05):
Vala Mal Doran
Jack O'Neill
Oz

Unexcused Absences - Detention
Julian Sark - Is He A Cat Again?

OOC: This was supposed to go up yesterday, but things were insane, and I'm still driving my husband to and from the train station. That ends today, thank God. We can slow-play this as necessary.

Comments

DISCUSSION: CLASS PROJECT

[crazyvampchick]

Pair up, discuss your project, and decide what you're going to work on here.

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[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack looks around for someone to pair up with. He's still attempting to not be noticed by Dru.

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[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

Paige walks towards Jack, "erm wanna partner? I promise Sawyer won't kill you and I've had an idea," she says

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[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"I'm fond of not dying. What's your idea?"

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[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

"The effect of fear on memory, I'm thinking we'd have two groups, both have to learn say a list of words then repeat them to us, one group just does it, the other group gets told that for every word they miss out bthe receive some sort of pain or punishment." she grins, "I thought it was something the professor might like the sound of."

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[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Considering that I practically forget my own name whenever she looks at me... yeah, that sounds fantastic. But I don't know if I'm comfortable with threatening to hurt someone. Maybe if we scared them? Like get a big set of cymbals and crashed them together right before they were going to start reciting the list?

"And yeah, I imagine the professor would love it."

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[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders looks around for someone to work with. Meantime, he fidgets and folds over the corners of all the pages in his notebook.

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[aka-vala.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Anders. Got any bright ideas I can partner up and steal for this?"

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[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"I dunno yet." Anders grins. "Wanna find out?"

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[aka-vala.livejournal.com]

"Drat, me neither," Vala says, snagging the reading materials (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Psychology_experiments). "Think we can make something out of her announcing she wants a private conference with me after class and what that's doing to my blood pressure?"

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_gottahavefaith/]

Faith looks around the room for a partner she can stand. And who is willing to do a totally fun experiment.

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[pure-blooddraco.livejournal.com]

Draco walks over to Faith. He sort of shrugs and says "You wanna work together?"

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_gottahavefaith/]

She shrugs back. "Sure. You got any ideas? I've got a feeling that Dru would appreciate something mean."

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[pure-blooddraco.livejournal.com]

Draco looks over the handouts. I like the sound of this prisoner's dilemma (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma) one.

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[dorky-broots.livejournal.com]

Broots howevered nervously, hoping that he wouldn't be the last one left.

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[lady-jessica-bg.livejournal.com]

"Hey, would you like to be my partner?" Jessica asks.

She thinks, well, it's certainly an opportunity to examine human weaknesses. Not necessarily a bad thing, either.

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[dorky-broots.livejournal.com]

"S-sure? I'm Broots."

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[lady-jessica-bg.livejournal.com]

"Pleasure to meet you, Broots. Any suggestions for the project?"

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[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

Duce looks around the class and tilts her head at Jonathan speculatively. Faith seems to have already been paired up with Draco. She smiles slightly, at the thought of being the person Dru forced Cam to pair up with. That, she thought, could be fun too.

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[persian-eunuch.livejournal.com]

*looks at Duce* *is unpaired so far too*

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[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

(Points you at Callisto! Duce can't interact with you, she's going to ask to interview you for her Journalism mid-term and it has to be someone she doesn't know or interact with.)

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[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

Jonathan walks right up to Duce after hearing he has to pair up with someone for a psych experiment.

"How awesome is this assignment?" he asks, clearly enthusiatic, "Do you think we'll get to actually conduct the experiment? On other students?"

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[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

"That's what it sounds like, although we'd need a waiver. We kind of had a thought in mind for it.. how sensory deprivation affects the expression of fear. But we're also willing to hear other ideas, if you have any in mind."

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[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

Jonathan's grin just gets wider at Duce's suggestion, "No, no that's perfect. That is... beyond perfect. We're doing that," he says nodding emphatically.

"So do we want to try each deprived sense individually, all of them together or C. all of the above?" he asks her.

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[psycho-barbie.livejournal.com]

Callisto looks around for a partner.