Monday, January 25, 2010

How would Freud make a PB&J sandwich?

I just saw this great post about how various characters from "Lost" would make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and I thought wow, how easy it would be to do something like this in psychology! Maybe as an end of the year review activity of famous psychologists, or as a wrap of a unit (like personality or development) with lots of theories.

So here goes ...
  • Freud's would be in three parts with a much larger part below the table.
  • Loftus's would be --- wait, she thought she made one, but she really didn't!
  • Asch's would require you to check out others were making their sandwiches first, and if they were making theirs wrong, what would you do?
  • Rorschach would make disturbing pictures in the jelly and ask you what you saw.
  • Walter Freeman's wouldn't involve cutting the sandwich but would require an ice pick.
Add more below! Or suggest other ideas besides "making a PB&J sandwich."

3 comments:

  1. I like this idea! I was thinking Erikson, Kohlberg, Horney, Piaget would be interesting to look at as well. Not sure what their sandwiches would look like. I'll have to think about it.

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  2. Maslow would consider a PB&J mundane, even though it was sustenance-he would use it as a launching pad for something more amazing. Adding cream cheese, and possibly layered with bananas. He would tier his sandwich! :)

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  3. Love it! An old post finds new life! B.F. Skinner would leave the sandwich in a box with a pigeon and return a day later to find a finished sandwich and a VERY well conditioned bird.

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