Unit 1 and 2 Assignments
Circle: 10,000 today or 100,000 in ten years. What would you choose?
Thought Question: Thinking about why the two transcripts and the way they turned out, using the perspectives, why do you think you have had the level of success you've had in high school?
Activity: You will be interviewing one adult in building and finding out why they believe students experience failure or success in school. What do they think could be done to help more students become more successful? What perspective does it employ?
Notes: SQ3R notes are going to be checked on Monday. Note cards should be completed and notes should be completed. Show example. Remind students about getting 78 to start the exam. Revised date for test is September 26th. Notes
Review Transcript Activity: 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? In your notes, write down how you understand the major psychological perspectives via the transcripts.
Learning Target: I can explain how the different subfields of psychology might be useful in explaining/improving our educational system.
Introduction to Research Unit
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.
Video: Why it is important to understand scientific studies.
John Oliver and scientific studies
Activity: Looking at article about criminals
Correlation vs. Causation: Firemen and fires, Ice cream and drowning, Shoes and headaches.
Activity: Ethics in psychological research.
Research Methods: Zimbardo Video
Psychology Quiz online
Exit Ticket: Something you would like me to know.
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