The Awakenings
Recently I watched a fascinating movie which related psychology and experimental drug usage. The movie was quite long, and had a variety of high points and low points. A few main aspects were touched on and could be related directly to my class and the information we have covered over the past few weeks. It would crucial to summarize the movie first and then compare and contrast it to the information I have been presented with in my psychology class. Imagine your life being seemingly normal one day, and the next day changed forever. Dr. Sayer was a research psychologist who studied the cause or result of behaviors based on experimental data. He applied at an institute to work as a neurologist. He was told that his professional skills could be used elsewhere because the neurological ward lacked instruments and was not used often. Dr. Sayer was a very quiet man who didn’t respond well with other people. He preferred to sit back and watch, rather then get out there and help. He had been working with a lady named Lucy for a few weeks, she was un-conscience, but had unbelievable reflexes. As Dr. Sayer worked with these patients he felt that a drug used on Parkinson’s disease might make a di
I would argue that Dr. Sayer is both a Research Psychologist and an Applied Psychologist. He originally did the research and took the data, and made conclusions. After working with this data he put his knowledge to use and worked with actual people. He got out there and put himself in the position to help them. I felt that the approach he used when working with the people in their comatose state was Cognitive. He found the information, analyzed it, retrieved it, and created a drug. Later when the people were “awoken” he switched gears into Neurobiological approach. This makes perfect sense especially because he worked in Neurology and so he applied what he had the most knowledge, and information about. He studied the patients carefully, recording their movement on video camera and asking them numerous questions to try and get into their head, and understand how felt, thought etc. There was a very interesting fact which I noted in the video. The fact that neither doctor nor chemist wanted to do the damage to the people. Nobody ever wants to be held responsibility unless the outcome is favorable, then they all rush to take credit. In the medical field I have a gut feeling that they reason the same way saying, “ let them take the blame” everyone wants to protect themselves and this is a common mentality today. In the end however, someone must inflict the pain, and either end up with a positive result, or a negative result. After only a
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