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

Re: DISCUSSION: CLASS PROJECT

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

Duce wrinkles her nose, "As much as we enjoy the thought of strapping some big dumb jock to a ceiling and .. scaring him.. they generally don't bathe. We object to stale fear-sweat. It's not sanitary."

She sighs with slight disappointment, "Probably have to clue them. Liability and all that."

Re: DISCUSSION: CLASS PROJECT

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

totally skipping over any conversations involving manly sweat and what Jonathan knows about it Jonathan shakes his head sadly, "That's to bad, it kind of takes a little of the fun out of it," and he does look a little sad, "I guess we can tell them, try and make it sound exciting rather than pants wetting scary," he says and the bounce is back in his voice.

Re: DISCUSSION: CLASS PROJECT

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

Duce makes a face, "Sadly, this is just the planning and theory stage. We don't get to do any experiments until after midterms have been approved. Today's just the proposal." which I kinda already stuck down in the comments but didn't do the 100 words for cuz I suck

Re: DISCUSSION: CLASS PROJECT

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

"Right, planning and theory. So, what stimulus should we choose? Or should we choose a few, some of the things most commonly afraid of things?"

Re: DISCUSSION: CLASS PROJECT

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

"We were thinking of a few of them. Fear of the unknown, fear of certain noises, fear of being alone.."

Re: DISCUSSION: CLASS PROJECT

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

"I hate to be so trite and Fear Factorish but perhaps spiders and snakes as well? They are something commonly afraid of."

Re: DISCUSSION: CLASS PROJECT

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

Duce gives Jonathan a bland look, "Well, we could gaurantee access to lots of little venemous snakes or one really big venemous one." She shrugs, "There's also stuff like citric acid. Take an Alka Seltzer, wet it, put it on the skin, tell someone it's a tablet of acid and they've got 4 minutes until their skin dissolves.."