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Speaking of Psychology

Kids and psychologists team up to learn from one another (SOP40)

Speaking of Psychology

Kim Mills

Health & Fitness, Life Sciences, Science, Mental Health

4.3781 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2016

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In order to understand how children think and behave, psychologists need to study them. Most of the time, these experiments take place in university labs or sometime in schools, but one program is taking psychological science into museums around the country. In this episode, Peter Blake, EdD, talks about the Living Laboratory and how it’s breaking down barriers between scientists and the public. APA is currently seeking proposals for APA 2020, click here to learn more https://convention.apa.org/proposals Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Going to therapy is probably one of the most common ways the average person sees a psychologist at work.

0:43.7

Some museums are trying to change that.

0:46.6

A program called the Living Laboratory is breaking down the barriers between psychological scientists and the public

0:52.3

by having museum visitors and their children

0:54.7

see and participate in actual psychological experiments.

0:58.8

And it's become a learning experience

1:00.7

for the participants and the scientists.

1:04.0

I'm Audrey Hamilton, and this is Speaking of Psychology.

1:07.0

Music psychology.

1:20.2

Peter Blake is an assistant professor of psychology and director of the social development and learning lab at Boston University.

1:23.1

He studies how children learn to become cooperative members of society.

1:27.2

Specifically, he uses experiments

1:28.9

to investigate children's altruism, fairness, and other social behaviors in different cultures.

1:34.0

Over the last 10 years, he's worked to bring the lab to the general public by collaborating

1:38.5

with the Boston Museum of Science as part of the Living Laboratory, a nationwide program that

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