LABORATORY EXERCISE 1: ‘Think Psychologist-
Researcher’
Date: September 22,2022
Name: Leogene Lloyd S. Nicolas
Section: BS PSYCHOLOGY 3A
Activity Steps
Consider a psychological
phenomenon you are most
interested about (just consider 1)
Using your own experience and
intuition, what are your beliefs
about this phenomenon?
Select one very good research
article on this and read the entire
paper
What findings in this research
supported what you initially know
of this phenomenon?
What findings were surprising to
you? Contrasting what you initially
Your Response
Familiarity of life’s scenario.
I have a lot of experience in life wherein the scenario a
looks like it have similarity or it’s already done in the
thought that, it’s happened because I’ve think a lot of p
life or maybe I’m just stressed in that day were I exper
goes by, I’m still confused and curious about this, so I
internet about what I experience and they called it Déj
describes the uncanny sensation that you’ve already ex
something, even when you know you never have.
Alan S. Brown, Elizabeth J. Marsh, Chapter 2 - D
Deja  Vu: Recent Research on Possible Mechan
Brian H. Ross, Psychology of Learning and Moti
Academic Press, Volume 53, 2010,. (n.d.).
Their research confirmed what I already knew and sug
vu could be brought on by two perceptions that happen
another, a momentarily inaccessible prior experience o
scene, an overly generalized familiarity emanating from
scene, and a general-form match between the present a
experience.
I surprised to their findings that a déjà vu is “a subtle c
dysfunction like déjà vu among cognitively disturbed o
know of the phenomenon patients will always be difficult(Brown, 2004), but find
déjà vu to milder forms of cognitive dysfunction, disso
medication side effects may elucidate biological and c
dimensions of the experience. “ (Kalra, Chancellor, &