Monday March 2, 2026

Monday March 2, 2026

Circle: Where do you want to be living when you are 30 years old?

Homework: SQ3R 300-316 for Monday

The Difference Between Classical and Operant Conditioning

Activity: Operant Conditioning Reinforcement Schedules

What is this?  Classical or Operant? 

If Operant, what kind of Operant Conditioning is it? 1. Positive Reinforcement 2. Negative Reinforcement 3. Positive Punishment 4. Negative Punishment 

And more importantly, what is the behavior that is trying to be reinforced or extinguished?

If Classical, what is the UCS, UCR, NS, CS CR?

Penny

Jim and Dwight

Sheldon and Leonard

Coach Carter

Stewy

Thursday March 26, 2026

Thursday March 26, 2026

Circle: The worst movie you have ever seen or a terrible one that you love?

Activity: Looking at the AAQ and EBQ

This is Behaviorism- Otherwise known as Learning: The process of acquiring through experience, new and relatively enduring information or behaviors.  What does that mean?

Classical Conditioning Slide Show

Activity: Classical Conditioning class activity- Pupil Dilation

Activity: What are some things that you have made associations with.

Operant Conditioning: Scenario- a student skips class and gets caught.  In order to reduce the student skipping in the future, what should be done to improve their attendance?  What actually is done?

Homework: SQ3R 283-291

Tuesday February 24, 2026

 Tuesday February 24, 2026

New Seating Chart- Interview everyone at your new table and determine who had the best snow day and the worst snow day?  Two different people must present the best and worst but you cannot present your own.  It must include specific details about why it was so bad or good.

Circle: Your favorite pair of shoes?

Collect Lab

Hand out study guide:

1. Register for Princeton Review

2. Read page 1-5

3. Answer questions

4. Look at Practice MCQ exam- What do you notice?

5. Look at AAQ on page 39

6. Look at EEQ on page 42

7. Turn to page 65

Next Unit: Human Development 

Homework is to SQ3R 269-280

Wednesday February 11, 2026

 Wednesday February 11, 2026

Circle: Do you foresee a time when people will turn to AI for personal advice?  Example, should I continue to date this person or even should I marry someone?

Lab Report: Looking at the data.  How do we write a report?

This is due on Tuesday when we return to school at the beginning of class.

Working on Lab

Tuesday February 3, 2026

Tuesday February 3, 2026

New Seating Chart and Activity- if your table was to open a restaurant, what would be the different course's you would serve.  i.e. what is your best meal you can cook?  Also what is the name of your restuarant?

Circle: If you had to choose to be better at one, high grit and normal IQ  or high IQ and low grit/perseverance?

Definition of Intelligence:  Look it up.

Definition of Wisdom: Look it up.

What is the difference between wisdom and intelligence?

Circle: Who is the smartest person you know?

Circle:  In a number of European and Asian countries you take tests to see if a student should continue  with their education.  How do you think this school would be impacted if we used IQ tests to determine which level of course you take?  What would be good and what would be bad?

Circle: If you could choose an area of your life to be more intelligent about what would it be and why?  Examples: 

Turn and Talk:  How should we use testing of intelligence in schools, college and the workplace?

What do we think about intelligence?

Lets take a test...

Working definition of Intelligence: The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.

Circle: You are smarter than some people and not as smart as others.  What does "smart" mean in this context?  Write down you answer first.

Circle: If you had the choice between  having more intelligence or being more likable which would you choose and why?

Turn and Talk:  How many of you immediatly asked after the IQ test thursday how others did?  How did taking the test and the subsequent score make you feel?

Turn and Talk:  How should we use testing of intelligence in schools, college and the workplace?

Learning Target: 37-1 

-Discuss the definition of intelligence and the present the arguments for g.

-Compare Gardner's and Sternberg's theories of multiple intelligences, and discuss criticisms they have faced.

-Describe the four components of emotional intelligence.

Activity: What is intelligence? The question on each of these;  Is this intelligence?

Kim Peek
Stephen Wilshire
Kelvin Doe 

Crash Course Intelligence

Howard Gardener's Multiple Intelligences

Crash Course: Controversy of Intelligence

Terms to know for test:

• Intelligence
• g
• Factor Analysis
• Howard Gardner
• Robert Sternberg
• Emotional intelligence
• Alfred Binet
• Stanford-Binet & Wechsler
• IQ
• Validity
• Reliability
• Standardization
• Normal distribution
• Stereotype Threat

Tuesday January 27, 2026

Tuesday January 27, 2026

Circle: If you had to choose, you rather be well liked or well respected but not both?

Link below has all the learning targets for unit on Cognition.  It also contains a list of vocabulary words.  The vocabulary list should not be considered exhaustive as there may be other words in the units you should know.  Learning Targets  and Vocabulary

Activity: Look up the definitions of each of these concepts at your table.(Confirmation Bias, Mental Set, Representative Heuristic, Base-Rate Fallacy and the Availability Heuristic)  You will have 10 minutes to come up with a definition in your own words and an example from someone at your table that explains these concepts at work(example-when you know you had a confirmation bias about something).  These explanations and examples should be made into your notecards.  You will be presenting these to the class.  You will also be voting on best 

Activity: Heuristic's and how they turn into Mind Traps. 1. Cognitive Dissonance 2. Spotlight Effect. 3. The Anchoring effect 4. Halo Effect 5. Gamblers Fallacy 6. Confirmation Bias 7. The paradox of choice

Activity: At your table you will be putting together a short presentation about a heuristic and a personal example.

Slide Show

Study Guide

Definitions and examples

Student Activity: M35: Problem-Solving Strategies 

Student Activity: M35: Fact or Falsehood? 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: Dice Games to Demonstrate Problem Solving 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: Confirmation Bias 

Student Activity: M35: Confirmation and Custody Decisions 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: Demonstrating Mental Set 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: The Representativeness Heuristic 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: The Base-Rate Fallacy 

Student Activity: M35: The Availability Heuristic 

Student Activity: M35: Belief Bias 

Student Activity: M35: Framing Decisions 

Student Activity: M35: Risk Averse Versus Loss Averse 

Problem Solving

Tuesday January 20, 2026

Tuesday January 20, 2026

Circle: In a calamity, who do you think would be the calmest and most level headed?

Link below has all the learning targets for unit on Cognition.  It also contains a list of vocabulary words.  The vocabulary list should not be considered exhaustive as there my be other words in the units you should know.  Learning Targets  and Vocabulary

Activity: True or False

Activity: Tower of Hanoi

Activity: Sirracha Sauce

Activity: Bat and Ball

Activity: Look up the definitions of each of these concepts at your table.(Confirmation Bias, Mental Set, Representative Heuristic, Base-Rate Fallacy and the Availability Heuristic)  You will have 10 minutes to come up with a definition in your own words and an example from someone at your table that explains these concepts at work(example-when you know you had a confirmation bias about something).  These explanations and examples should be made into your notecards.  You will be presenting these to the class.  You will also be voting on best 

Activity: Heuristic's and how they turn into Mind Traps. 1. Cognitive Dissonance 2. Spotlight Effect. 3. The Anchoring effect 4. Halo Effect 5. Gamblers Fallacy 6. Confirmation Bias 7. The paradox of choice

Study Guide

Definitions and examples

Student Activity: M35: Problem-Solving Strategies 

Student Activity: M35: Fact or Falsehood? 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: Dice Games to Demonstrate Problem Solving 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: Confirmation Bias 

Student Activity: M35: Confirmation and Custody Decisions 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: Demonstrating Mental Set 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: The Representativeness Heuristic 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: The Base-Rate Fallacy 

Student Activity: M35: The Availability Heuristic 

Student Activity: M35: Belief Bias 

Student Activity: M35: Framing Decisions 

Student Activity: M35: Risk Averse Versus Loss Averse 

Problem Solving