September 28, 2017

Thursday September 28, 2017

Everything psychological is simultaneously biological.

Circle: Are you more like your mom or dad and in what way?

New Seating Chart

Activity: Getting to know your new group.  1. Introduce yourself  2. Share your most dominant personality trait from your MB test.  3. Create a poem using all of the names at your table.

Activity: Going over test.  Look over your test and examine the question you got wrong.  Find any questions that now looking at them you realize you could have gotten the answer if you had looked closer at the question and answers.   Share out at your table where you made the mistake.

Unit 3: The Brain:
Divisions of the nervous system, structures and functions of the brain, endocrine system, genetic influences on behavior

Homework Assignment Sheet Unit 3

Neuron Project

Very useful video's about the Brain:

1.Crash Course- The Chemical Mind

2.Crash Course- Meet Your Master


3.Neurons- How They Work

4.Pinky and the Brain

5.What is an fMRI

6.Stabbed in the brain- Phineas Gage

7.Expressive Aphasia- Sarah Scott

8.The Phenomenon of Neuroplasticity 

Activity: What your brain sees, feels, tastes and touches?

True-False Activity: 7-1

Introduce Brain-Mind Body Connection

Reaction Time Activity

The Brain with David Eagelman

Quiz next class: The Neuron

NPR Story:
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/09/29/444451363/childhood-stress-may-prime-pump-for-chronic-disease-later

Shawn Achor Video

Kahoot: Biological Basis for behavior

September 26, 2017

Tuesday September 26, 2017

Circle: One item you use to beg your parent to buy if you went food shopping with them as a kid.

Test: Unit 1 and 2.  Go over multiple choice test tips.  1. Understand the question.  What exactly is it asking.  2. Try and answer it before you look at the answers.  3. Process of elimination.  4.  Pick C.

Unit 3: The Brain

Homework Assignment Sheet Unit 3

Very useful video's about the Brain:

1.Crash Course- The Chemical Mind

2.Crash Course- Meet Your Master


3.Neurons- How They Work

4.Pinky and the Brain

5.What is an fMRI

6.Stabbed in the brain- Phineas Gage

7.Expressive Aphasia- Sarah Scott

8.The Phenomenon of Neuroplasticity

Circle: A specific place outside the USA that you want to visit before you pass from this earth?

Reminder: Test date change to next Tuesday

SQ3R notes are going to be checked on Friday.  Note cards should be completed and notes should be completed.

Unit 2 Research Methods

1.Understanding Scientific Method
2. Identify Research Methods
3. Recognize problems and solutions in research
4. Statistics
5. Ethics in Psychological Research

Activity:  TV and GPA- you will be setting up an experiment and naming all the parts to determine if the amount of TV watched can affect your GPA.  You will need to develop thesis, operationally define the experiment,  replication, population,  random sampling, correlation, causation, correlation coefficent, and scatterplots.  Then you will design an experiment that will try to determine how much a new medication for concentrating  can impact GPA by creating an experiment and all its parts. Your experiment must address the following, random assignment, double blind procedure, placebo effect, experimental group, control group, independent variable, confounding variable and dependent variable.

Activity: Ethics in psychological research.

Research Methods: Zimbardo Video

Video: Why it is important to understand scientific studies.
John Oliver and scientific studies

Correlation vs. Causation: Firemen and fires, Ice cream and drowning, Shoes and headaches.

Exit Slip

Psychology Quiz online

Unit 1 and 2 Assignments

September 20, 2017

Wednesday September 20, 2017

Circle: If you were given  $1000 with the stipulation that you had to spend it by the end of the day or return all unspent money, what would do with it?

Reminder: Test date change to next Tuesday

SQ3R notes are going to be checked on Friday.  Note cards should be completed and notes should be completed.

Unit 2 Research Methods

1.Understanding Scientific Method
2. Identify Research Methods
3. Recognize problems and solutions in research
4. Statistics
5. Ethics in Psychological Research

Activity: Looking at articles.  Is your kid a sociopath?

Research Method:  Predict who is going to be a criminal:  
1. What conclusion does this article imply?
2. Is this conclusion warranted by the study described? Why or why not?
3. Is the title an accurate summary of the study described? Why or why not?
4. Can this study prove that "you can predict if someone is going to be a criminal"? Why or why not?
5. What questions do you have after reading this article?
6. If you had the power to create guidelines for the press's reporting of a research study, what would you recommend?

Video: Why it is important to understand scientific studies.
John Oliver and scientific studies

Circle Question about statistics for the class: What can you make of the statistic that the graduation rate is 100% for students who don't receive free and reduced lunch at OHCHS?
Correlation vs. Causation: Firemen and fires, Ice cream and drowning, Shoes and headaches.

Research Methods: Zimbardo Video

Kahoot: If time allows

Exit Slip

Psychology Quiz online

Unit 1 and 2 Assignments

September 18, 2107

Monday September 18, 2017

Circle: One thing you have worked really hard to get good at?

Test Date Change

Notes: Talk about the SQ3R and what I need to see?  Remind students about getting 78 to start the exam.

Activity: Continue transcript activity with the six major perspectives.  What do we think are the possible reasons these students have so different transcripts?   How much can we blame success or failure on the students?

Activity: Looking at articles

Research Methods: Zimbardo Video

Kahoot: If time allows

Exit Slip

Psychology Quiz online

Unit 1 and 2 Assignments

Circle: What was your favorite thing to do on the playground in elementary school?

Check Notes: How did the SQ3R go for the second half of the unit?  Remind students about getting 78 to start the exam.

Debrief Evolutionary Psychology Activity:  In your notes process what you understand about the evolutionary perspective and then share out.  How does this help you understand perspective?

Pneumonic Device: The Hand.   Pneumonic Device for Careers, Subfields, History?  Suggestions?
At your table look up pneumonic devices for the chapter.


Perspective Activity: Activity sheet

First Impressions: You've had one class with me so far this year.  Some of you know me, some of  you don't.  Write down the first words you would use to describe me.  Do not put your name on it.

Activity: Transcript Activity with the six major perspectives

Research Methods

Exit Slip

Psychology Quiz online

Unit 1 and 2 Assignments

September 12, 2017

Tuesday September 12, 2017


New seating chart

Rock-Paper-Scissors-MATH!

Circle: What did you think of the SQ3R process? 2nd If you could wave a magic wand and get really good at something what would it be?

Check Notes: How did the SQ3R go for the second half of the unit?

Perspective Activity: What do you see?

Go over homework:  How was the unit broken down?

Pneumonic Device: The Hand.   Pneumonic Device for Careers, Subfields, History?  Suggestions?
At your table look up pneumonic devices for the chapter.


Unit 1 and 2 Assignments

First Impressions: You've had one class with me so far this year.  Some of you know me, some of  you don't.  Write down the first words you would use to describe me.  Do not put your name on it.

Perspective Activity
Activity sheet
Picture of old and young lady

Evolution Handout:

Psychology Quiz online

September 8, 2017

Friday September 8, 2017

Circle: One person, place or thing you use to hate and now really enjoy?

Activity: Reading and assessment.  How did you do it?

Activity: Memory with Riley

Textbook: Handout and talk about Ms. Danis and SQ3R

Activity: You will be researching the efficacy of SQ3R with your group and putting together a brief presentation about why it works and the science behind it.

Activity: Diagramming the units

Perspective Activity: What do you see?


Unit 1 and 2 Assignments explained

First Assessment Scoring