First Academic Conference on Psychology and the Body

Abstract

This chapter discusses the first Academic Conference in which students attempt to integrate the five units discussed thus far: the brain, memory, learning, sensation–perception, and cognition. At Academic Conferences, students have the opportunity to complete larger writing, role-play, and discussion assignments in which they respond to assigned questions which call on them to create and enact higher-order dialogues between Socrates and a larger strain of thought in the discipline of psychology. Prior to the Conference meeting, students do a Conference reading at home. This text is chosen because it encompasses the larger themes and questions that have arisen in the units preceding the Conference. In this case, prior themes and questions all relate to the soul’s relationship to the body.