PIRC Lab at Mesa Community College

02/18/2020

The Friday movie this week is the 2001 film "A Beautiful Mind" starring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly and directed by Ron Howard. The movie is adopted from the Pulitzer Prize nominated book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar. The movie is loosely based on the life of a young prodigy named John Nash who suffered from schizophrenia and whose works in game theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations resulted in theories still being used today in many different fields.

The movie will be shown in the PIRC Lab (AD 2E). There will be 2 showings at 11:00am and 1:30pm. The psychological relevance for this movie is cognition, language and intelligence.

As always, all psychology students are welcome to attend. See you there!

01/08/2020

Expand your world. Sign up for a psychology class today!

10/15/2019

09/16/2019

The movie playing this week in the PIRC is the Oscar winning 2010 film Inception starring Leonardo DiCaprio. In this science fiction thriller, DiCaprio is a professional thief who commits corporate espionage by extracting secrets from people’s minds while in a dream state. The movie explores lucid dreaming and the issues that can arise when the lines between conscious and subconscious begin to blur.

The psychological relevance for this movie is "consciousness". There will be 2 showings at 11:00 am and 1:30 pm in the Stats Lab of the PIRC. As always, all psychology students are welcome to attend this free event. Free popcorn will also be available.

06/18/2019

An excellent online class that will help you step-up your parenting game. The class begins July 1st so register ASAP to save your spot in the class!

Details below:

Psychology of Parenting
Professor Heidi Keone
Mesa Community College PSY123 Section 17642
https://www.mesacc.edu/enroll/register

Also, there is a payment plan with $35 deposit https://my.maricopa.edu/how-pay/payment-plan

Congrats. You’re ready to take some classes. Register For Classes Okay. You’ve explored areas of study that interest you and you've joined the online community. You enrolled yourself at MCC, learned more about paying for school, and have a solid academic game plan. Now you’re ready to sign up ...

04/29/2019

The final movie this semester is the 2019 psychological thriller Glass written, produced, and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Glass is the third installment to Shyamalan’s previous films Unbreakable (2000) and Split (2016). The film presents Shyamalan’s vision of the Freudian brain in the uncontrolled ID of DID-afflicted Kevin Crumb (James McAvoy), the regulating superego of David Dunn (Bruce Willis), and the moderating ego between hero and villain of Elijah Price (aka Mr. Glass played by Samuel L. Jackson). The psychological relevance for this movie is personality.

The movie will be shown this Friday in the Stats Lab located here in the PIRC. There will be 2 showings at 11:00am and 1:30pm. As always all psychology students are welcome to attend!

04/22/2019

The movie this week is the 1975 musical horror comedy, The Rocky Horror Picture Show based on the 1973 musical stage production by the same name. It stars Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon as Brad and Janet - a young engaged couple who find themselves seeking shelter in a nearby castle after their car breaks down in the rain. They soon discover that their mad scientist host, Dr. Frank N. Furter played by Tim Curry, is actually an alien transvestite. The psychological relevance is human sexuality.

The movie will be shown this Friday in the Stats Lab located here in the PIRC. There will be 2 showings at 11:00am and 1:30pm. As always there will be free popcorn and all psychology students are welcome to attend!

04/15/2019

The movie this week is the 2010, award winning biopic, Temple Grandin starring Clair Danes as the title character. The film tells the early story of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who revolutionized the process for humane handling of livestock on cattle ranches and slaughterhouses. Temple Grandin invented the “hug box” devise used to calm those on the autism spectrum, and is one of the first individuals to publicly share her personal experience of autism. In 2010, Time magazine named her as one of the most influential people in the world.

The movie will be shown this Friday in the Stats Lab located here in the PIRC. There will be 2 showings at 11:00am and 1:30pm. All psychology students are welcome to attend and as always, free popcorn will be available. See you there!

04/08/2019

The movie playing this week in the PIRC is "As Good As It Gets" starring Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt and Greg Kinnear.

Jack Nicholson plays an obsessive-compulsive, misanthropic novelist who develops an unlikely friendship with his gay neighbor and a single mother with an asthmatic son. The film was both a critical and box office success. For their performances Jack Nicholson won the Academy Award for Best Actor and Helen Hunt won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

There will be 2 showings this Friday, April 12th, at 11:00 am and 1:30 pm in the Stats Lab of the PIRC. As always, psychology students are welcome to attend.

04/01/2019

The movie this week is the 2016 psychological thriller film Split directed by M. Night Shyamalan starring James McAvoy. The film follows the experiences of Kevin Wendell Crumb who kidnaps and imprisons three teenage girls in an isolated underground facility. Crumb suffers from dissociative identity disorder (DID) with 24 prominent personalities, each with something peculiar or dangerous for his captors.

The movie will be shown this Friday in the Stats Lab here in the PIRC. There will be 2 showings at 11:00 am and 1:30 pm. The psychological relevance for this movie is personality. As always, all psychology students are welcome to attend!