October 26, 2017

Thursday October 26, 2017

Circle: Do you consider yourself a trusting person or a suspicious type of person?
 
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Sensation and Perception Assignment Sheet

Sensation and Perception: Point to remember-We feel, see hear, taste, and smell with our BRAIN, which can sense even without functioning senses.

This unit will be answering the following questions:

What are sensation and perception? What do we mean by bottom-up processing and top-down processing?

What are the absolute and difference thresholds, and do stimuli below the absolute threshold have any influence?

What is the function of sensory adaptation?

What is the energy that we see as visual light?

What are the characteristics of air pressure waves that we hear as sound?

How do the eye and ear transform light and sound energy into neural messages?

How do we experience each of the body’s senses?

How do Gestalt psychologists understand perceptual organization?

How adaptable is our ability to perceive?

Activity:

How do our expectations, contexts, and emotions influence our perceptions?

Eye-witness Accounts

Activity: Synthesize the following:  What do the following tell us about the world YOU live in?


Answer the following questions in your group. Make a chart for each person to record answers.
1) A common smell you cannot stand?
2) A type of clothing you cannot wear because of how it feels?
3) A common sound that really bothers you?
4) Do you usually feel hot or cold?
5) What flavor of food do you prefer given a choice? Sweet, sour, salty or bland? Ex. If had to choose between chips and a cupcake, which would you choose a majority of the time.


Test Strips: Do you have the gene?


Hearing Tests
Optical Illusions
Pheromones
Color Blindness Test

David Eagleman Ted Talk
Zimbardo Video: Discovering Psychology-Sensation and Perception

October 24, 2017

Tuesday October 24, 2017

Circle: A smell that brings back a memory?

Unit 3 Test Grade will be entered by the end of today.

New Seating Chart/Activity
1)Introduce yourself.  Where do you live, what grade are you in, how much do you love AP Psychology....
2)Talk about your greatest weakness according to your MB Profile.  Ex. I freak out if my handwriting is to messy...
3)When do remember first meeting/seeing the other people in your group?  How many classes have you had together?  
4)Did you have a first impression?  What was it?

Sensation and Perception Assignment Sheet

Sensation and Perception: Point to remember-We feel, see hear, taste, and smell with our BRAIN, which can sense even without functioning senses.

This unit will be answering the following questions:

What are sensation and perception? What do we mean by bottom-up processing and top-down processing?

What are the absolute and difference thresholds, and do stimuli below the absolute threshold have any influence?

What is the function of sensory adaptation?

What is the energy that we see as visual light?

What are the characteristics of air pressure waves that we hear as sound?

How do the eye and ear transform light and sound energy into neural messages?

How do we experience each of the body’s senses?

How do Gestalt psychologists understand perceptual organization?

How adaptable is our ability to perceive?

How do our expectations, contexts, and emotions influence our perceptions?

Introductory Activity:
The Invisible Gorilla Experiment
Man on a horse picture from text

Have you ever been under anesthesia?

Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality/TEDtalk

Eye-witness Accounts

Activity: Synthesize the following:  What do the following tell us about the world YOU live in?

Answer the following questions in your group. Make a chart for each person to record answers.
1) A common smell you cannot stand?
2) A type of clothing you cannot wear because of how it feels?
3) A common sound that really bothers you?
4) Do you usually feel hot or cold?
5) What flavor of food do you prefer given a choice? Sweet, sour, salty or bland?
6) What is your favorite color?

Test Strips: Do you have the gene?
Sodium Benzoate has different taste perceptions than the other papers. A different pair of alleles determines the ability to taste Sodium Benzoate. It can taste sweet, salty, sour, bitter or tasteless, so this paper is often used in conjunction with another taste test, such as PTC, to characterize taste perception, and break tasters/non-taters into subgroups.
The point is, PTC in genetics has been studied for quite some time, and there is quite a bit of information on it. There are several known alleles for the PTC gene, but PTC sensitivity is really controlled by two major alleles in humans. PTC paper either tastes bitter or it doesn’t taste like anything at all. Some tasters can taste a very strong bitter taste, while other tasters can taste a mildly bitter taste. Thus, there can be three classifications of phenotypes in a PTC study (strong tasters, mild tasters, and no taste).

Our Taste
Optical Illusions
Pheromones
Color Blindness Test

David Eagleman Ted Talk
Zimbardo Video: Discovering Psychology-Sensation and Perception

October 20, 2017

October 20, 2017
Circle: A thing you always seem to notice that others don't?

Review: Test taking strategy reminder.

Test: Unit 3 The Brain

Introduce Sensation and Perception

Have you ever been under anesthesia?

Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality/TEDtalk

Eye-witness Accounts

Homework: Please begin reading Unit 4 and SQ3R'ing pages 115-119 for Tuesday.

October 18, 2017

Wednesday October 18, 2017

Circle Question: 1)A career you have considered. 2)Where are you in the college process? 3)Why would you go to college if you don't know what you want to do?

Check notes

Questions you need to know for the test:
What are neurons, and how do they transmit information?

How do nerve cells communicate with other nerve cells?

How do neurotransmitters influence behavior, and how do drugs and other chemicals affect neurotransmission?

What are the functions of the nervous system’s main divisions?

How does the endocrine system – the body’s slower information system – transmit its messages?

How do neuroscientists study the brain’s connections to behavior and mind?

What are the functions of important lower-level brain structures?

What functions are served by the various cerebral cortex regions?

Kahoot if time.

October 16, 2017

Monday October 16, 2017

Circle Question: What is something you think will be easier about your life when you are an adult?

Questions you need to know for the test:
What are neurons, and how do they transmit information?

How do nerve cells communicate with other nerve cells?

How do neurotransmitters influence behavior, and how do drugs and other chemicals affect neurotransmission?

What are the functions of the nervous system’s main divisions?

How does the endocrine system – the body’s slower information system – transmit its messages?

How do neuroscientists study the brain’s connections to behavior and mind?

What are the functions of important lower-level brain structures?

What functions are served by the various cerebral cortex regions?


Activity: You are going to become an expert on one of the brief videos listed below. After your group is assigned a video you will 1. Watch Video (you might want to watch it twice) 2. Take notes on important information 3. Put together key points your group believes are the most important things to know 4. Determine which of the above questions the video is addressing. 5. Share what you found for information.

Neurons- How They Work
Pinky and the Brain
What is an fMRI
Stabbed in the brain- Phineas Gage
Expressive Aphasia- Sarah Scott
The Phenomenon of Neuroplasticity 
Why we can't tickle ourselves
The Girl who can't feel pain
Worlds tallest man
Nature Nurture: The study of twins
Is it all in our genes?
Girl living with half her brain
Fright night: Fight or flight
Robot Monkey
Hemispherectomy



Memorize parts of the brainBiological Kahoot

October 12, 2017

Thursday October 12, 2017

Circle: If your home was on fire, and everyone was safe (pets included) and you had time to grab one possession other than your phone, what would you take?

Questions you need to know for the test:

What are neurons, and how do they transmit information?

How do nerve cells communicate with other nerve cells?

How do neurotransmitters influence behavior, and how do drugs and other chemicals affect neurotransmission?

What are the functions of the nervous system’s main divisions?

How does the endocrine system – the body’s slower information system – transmit its messages?

How do neuroscientists study the brain’s connections to behavior and mind?

What are the functions of important lower-level brain structures?

What functions are served by the various cerebral cortex regions?

Activity:

Look up what the different hemispheres of the brain are responsible for.  Do you think you are more right brained or left brained.  Why?

What do split brains reveal about the functions of our two brain hemispheres?
Wagner Preference Test

Activity:

Due October 12th Homework: At your table talk about the implications from the show.  (Think in terms of your own life, society, education, crime, etc.)  Please use specific examples from the documentary to support your implications.PBS NOVA Memory Hackers

Nervous and Endocrine system Kahoot

Biological Kahoot

October 10, 2017

Wednesday October 10, 2017


Unit 3a, 3b and 3c Assignment Sheet

Circle: A person dead or alive that you would like to meet and why?

Mind Body Connection Activity:  We know that everything psychological is simultaneously biological.  What implications can you draw about the brain and its structure from the following three examples:  In groups of three what are some of the implications of the following information?

Kahoot

Brain Quiz


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

Smartphones and your mind

Due October 12th Homework: Using the same format as the class activity above, watch the the NOVA program and do a brief write up (no more than a page) about the implications from the show.  (Think in terms of your own life, society, education, crime, etc.)  Please use specific examples from the documentary to support your implications.PBS NOVA Memory Hackers

October 4, 2017

Wednesday October 4, 2107


Unit 3a, 3b and 3c Assignment Sheet

Circle: One nice thing you did for someone lately or someone did for you.

Mind Body Connection Activity:  We know that everything psychological is simultaneously biological.  What implications can you draw about the brain and its structure from the following three examples:  In groups of three what are some of the implications of the following information?

Shawn Achor Video

Harvard Study

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



Due October 12th Homework: Using the same format as the class activity above, watch the the NOVA program and do a brief write up (no more than a page) about the implications from the show.  (Think in terms of your own life, society, education, crime, etc.)  Please use specific examples from the documentary to support your implications.PBS NOVA Memory Hackers

October 2, 2017

Monday October 2, 2017

Circle: What is the biggest misconception people have about you?

Everything psychological is simultaneously biological.

Neuron Quiz

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

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 

9.Memorize parts of the brain

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

True-False Activity: 7-1

Introduce Brain-Mind Body Connection

The Brain with David Eagelman


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