Transcription of 5 Approaches in psychology - Newton Abbot College
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5 Approaches in psychology - Newton Abbot College
Approaches in psychologyCHAPTER5123123 Approaches to amusement parksA few summers ago I (Mike) paid a visit to Tivoli Gardens, the famous amusement park in Copenhagen, Denmark. The park opened in 1843 and is the second oldest amusement park in the world. It features the world s second tallest carousel at 80 metres high (The Star Flyer pictured above) and Vertigo, a looping plane ride where the rider is able to control the plane him or herself. This one seemed to draw the loudest screams, so must have been the scariest. I watched while a seemingly never-ending line of people threaded their way onto all sorts of horrifying contraptions that swung them around ancient towers, dropped them from great heights, turned them upside down at frighteningly high speeds and generally did the sorts of things that logically we should avoid at all , why do some people (like ) stare upwards at these monstrosities with a sense of absolute dread, whereas others can t wait to be twirled, dropped, rotated and generally scared witless?
non-regular gamblers, proposing that the thought processes of regular gamblers would be more irrational. To assess irrational thinking the participants were asked to ‘think aloud’ while playing a fruit machine. In order to do this the participants were given a list of instructions, such as: • Say everything that goes through your mind.
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