March 1, 2018

Thursday March 1, 2018

Target: Understanding Human Develpment

Kick off question: What do you think will be the most difficult part of being an adult and why?

Circle Question: What was your best year as a person?  What made is so good?

Temperament Survey: Take the survey yourself and then give the other copy to your parent(s) and have the fill it out but ask them to fill it out for what your personality was like when you were two years old.  Then have a conversation about what has changed about your personality and what has remained the same. Period 3 Juniors please come and find me and get the sheets before the end of school Friday.

Activity: Landmarks

Activity: True or False

You should have already started to read ahead in Unit 9 Developmental Psychology.  You need to have read 418-435 for class on Monday.

Supplemental Video:
Kohlberg's Six Steps to Morality
Gender Roles
The Trolley Problem
Harlow's Monkeys
Harlow's Study on Monkeys' Attachment
The Strange Situation-Mary Ainsworth
Crash Course: 18  The Growth of Knowledge
Crash Course: 19 Monkeys and Morality
Crash Course: 20 Adolescence
Inside the Teenage Brain

Note Cards:  Below is a list of terms that you will need to know for the AP Psych Exam.  These are due the day of the exam.  Each note card should have the term on the front.  Then, on the back you need to A) define the term and B) show application of the term.  This application can sometimes best be expressed as a personal example.  

• Erik Erikson
• Carol Gilligan
• Harry Harlow
• Lawrence Kohlberg
• Jean Piaget
• Lev Vygotsky
• Habituation
• Maturation
• Assimilation
• Accommodation
• Object permanence
• Conservation
• Egocentrism
• Attachment
• Imprinting
• Temperament
• Self-concept
• Gender role
• Gender identity
• Social identity

February 27, 2018

Tuesday February 27, 2018

Mid Term Test

This will cover the units we have done up to now.  

 

February 13, 2018

Tuesday February 13, 2018

Final Head Count for AP Exam

Circle: How many of you questioned yourself about being a sociopath or thought that someone you might know is one?

Stress and Health Learning target: Students will be able to understand the different theories of emotion, define what stress is and how it can affect our health.  


Theories of Emotion: Using the three theories of emotion; James-Lange Theory, Cannon-Bard 

Theory and Schacter-Singer Theory attempt to explain how "beauty feels".

Revisit cartoon drawing, face, motorcycle and categorized each into the different theories of 

emotion

Video:

TEDtalk Art and emotion


Video:

TEDtalk Stress 


Harvard Study

Stress and Memory  10:56 Mark

Type A or B?

What are the long term implications for your health, career, relationships etc.  What did you learn about yourself and what you need to understand?


Homework: Study for Unit 8a and 8b Test.  Please use all available methods: SQ3R,Crash Course, Quizlet, Mnemonic Devices, etc.

Reading Assignments:
1/31: 327-337

2/6: 337-362

2/8: 366-376

2/12 377-384

2/14: 384-406 and Note Cards Due

2/15: Test

Vocabulary Words

• Abraham Maslow
• Cannon-Bard Theory
• Drive-Reduction theory
• Emotion
• General adaptation syndrome
• Hierarchy of needs
• Homeostasis
• Incentive
• Instinct
• James-Lange theory
• Motivation
• Stress

February 9, 2018

Friday February 9, 2018

Circle: If you could get rid of one emotion,(happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, fear, and disgust) what would it be and why do you think it would make your life better?

Going forward- Things you should understand about Motivation:
1.  Instinct and Evolutionary Psychology
2. Drives and Incentives
3. Optimum Arousal
4. A Hierarchy of Motives
5. Physiology of Hunger
6. Psychology of Hunger
7. Obesity and Weight Control
8. Physiology of Sex
9. Psychology of Sex
10. Adolescent Sexuality
11. Sexual Orientation

Activity: Cartoons

Activity: Graphic Organizer

Emotions Activity: What is it like to not have normal emotions?
Anti-Social Personality Forum
Online Test

Activity: In groups of two describe the three Theories of Emotion and how they would help explain Anti-Social Personality Disorder.

If we have time Activities: 
Dispositional Envy Scale
Fear Survey
Emotional Expressivity Scale
The Disgust Scale
Mood Awareness Scale

Reading Assignments:
1/31: 327-337

2/6: 337-362

2/8: 366-376

2/12 377-384

2/14: 384-406 and Note Cards Due

2/14: Test

Vocabulary Words

• Abraham Maslow
• Cannon-Bard Theory
• Drive-Reduction theory
• Emotion
• General adaptation syndrome
• Hierarchy of needs
• Homeostasis
• Incentive
• Instinct
• James-Lange theory
• Motivation
• Stress

February 5, 2018

Monday February 5, 2018

Circle: Something you are embarrassed about  having done to fit in?

AP Exam Sign Up Sheet

Hand out Study Guide/Midterm Exam

Big Picture- Looking at the diversity of needs that underlie our thoughts, behaviors, and the choices we make.

Discussion: What motivates people to action? Pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain generally promotes our survival and explains much of what we do.  However sometimes the principal is counterproductive.  In your group generate a list of things we do that confirm the seek pleasure and avoid pain principal and a list that but also a list that goes against the principal.  

Can you explain the motivation behind these two eating disorders?
Image 1
Image 2

Where does the behaviorist, evolutionary, cognitive, social cultural, psychoanalytic, biological and humanistic perspective fit into the conversation around motivation?  Is poverty a choice?  Why would anyone want to be poor? Cape Elizabeth versus Rumford? Generational poverty

Activity: T or F

Activity: Sensation-Seeking Scale

Activity: Self Actualization Survey

Activity: Desirability of Control Scale

Research: How to motivate yourself

Reading Assignments:
1/31: 327-337

2/6: 337-362

2/8: 366-376

2/12 377-384

2/14: 384-406 and Note Cards Due

2/14: Test

Vocabulary Words

• Abraham Maslow
• Cannon-Bard Theory
• Drive-Reduction theory
• Emotion
• General adaptation syndrome
• Hierarchy of needs
• Homeostasis
• Incentive
• Instinct
• James-Lange theory
• Motivation
• Stress