January 21, 2019

Thursday January 31, 2019

New Seating Chart

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Activity: Your first impression of me, Mr. Toohey, the first time you met me.  Then talk about all the factors that led you to that impression.

Please bring your psychology book to class today.

Circle:  A first impression you were totally wrong about.  Usually a person.

Unit: Cognition

Activity: Problem Solving  

Activity: Solving puzzles

Activity: Confirmation bias

Activity: Demonstrating Mental Set

Crash Course Cognition

Activity: 
1.At your table share your definition of concept, and explain why it is so useful.
2.At your table share your definition of algorithms and heuristics and why they are useful.
3.At your table analyze how fixation, confirmation bias, heuristics, overconfidence, framing and belief perseverance influence our ability to solve problems.

Homework: Finish SQ3R'ing Unit 7b.  Bring your notes and to class on Monday.

Vocabulary:

• Cognition
• Algorithm
• Heuristic
• Confirmation bias
• Mental set
• Functional fixedness
• Availability heuristic
• Phoneme
• Morpheme
• Telegraphic speech

January 29, 2019

Tuesday January 29, 2019

Please bring your psychology book to class today.

Circle:  If you were going to be a teacher, what subject or grade would you want to teach?

Check note cards

Test today: Memory

Next Unit: Cognition

Activity: At your table you will be diagraming Unit 7b. 

Homework: SQ3R up to page 312 in the Unit 7b.  Bring your notes and to class on Thursday.

Vocabulary:

• Cognition
• Algorithm
• Heuristic
• Confirmation bias
• Mental set
• Functional fixedness
• Availability heuristic
• Phoneme
• Morpheme
• Telegraphic speech

Activity: Algorithms and Heuristics

January 25, 2019

Friday January 25, 2019

PLEASE BRING YOUR TEXTBOOK TO CLASS FRIDAY!

Mid Term Exam Date February 6th


Memory Test January 29th

Hand out Study Guide to anyone absent Wednesday

Three basic steps in the information processing model: Encoding, storage and retrieval

Activity: Diagram the chapter

Application Activity: Index Cards- Why is a self-reference important or drawing a picture? Turn and talk.

Visual Slide Show

Crash Course


Crash Course

Memory Kahoot

Assigned Reading (70 pages): 

Pages to have read for class

Due 1/14 255-278

Due 1/16 278-294

Due 1/18 298-302

Due 1/23

Due 1/25 Review

1/25 *Note cards due!*

1/29 Test

Cognition Exam – 50 multiple choice questions

Note cards: Below is a list of terms that you will need to know for the AP Psych Exam.  These are due  (1/25).  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.  You can also draw the application of the term if you so desire.

• Encoding
• Sensory memory
• Short-term memory
• Long-term memory
• Rehearsal
• Serial position effect
• Mnemonics
• Chunking
• Flashbulb memory
• Recall
• Recognition
• Proactive interference
• Retroactive interference
• Cognition
• Algorithm
• Heuristic
• Confirmation bias
• Mental set
• Functional fixedness
• Availability heuristic
• Phoneme
• Morpheme
• Telegraphic speech

Exit Ticket:  We are midway thru the year.  I would like some feedback on how the class is going?  What is working, what isn't working?   What should I do more of, what should I do less of.  What  would you like to see from your classmates? Etc.

January 23, 2019

Tuesday January 23, 2019

Circle: Where would you like to live when you grow up and settle down?

Hand out Study Guide

Calendar Adjustment

Three basic steps in the information processing model: Encoding, storage and retrieval

Activities: Forgetting and Memory Construction

Activity: True/False

Activity: Forgetting

Activity: Encoding Failure

Activity: T-O-T

Activity: Creating a false memory

Application Activity: Index Cards- Why is a self-reference important or drawing a picture?

Assigned Reading (70 pages): 

Pages to have read for class

Due 1/14 255-278

Due 1/16 278-294

Due 1/18 298-302

Due 1/23 303-312

Due 1/25 313-322

1/25 *Note cards due!*

1/29 Test

Cognition Exam – 50 multiple choice questions

Cognition Exam – 1 FRQ

Note cards: Below is a list of terms that you will need to know for the AP Psych Exam.  These are due  (1/25).  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.  You can also draw the application of the term if you so desire.

• Encoding
• Sensory memory
• Short-term memory
• Long-term memory
• Rehearsal
• Serial position effect
• Mnemonics
• Chunking
• Flashbulb memory
• Recall
• Recognition
• Proactive interference
• Retroactive interference
• Cognition
• Algorithm
• Heuristic
• Confirmation bias
• Mental set
• Functional fixedness
• Availability heuristic
• Phoneme
• Morpheme
• Telegraphic speech

January 18, 2019

Friday January 18, 2019

Circle: If you could edit out certain memories from your life, would you want to?

Three basic steps in the information processing model: Encoding, storage and retrieval

Revisit: Semantic Encoding Activity 18-5

True-False Activity

What perspective???  What does this tell us about our own memories?  Think sensation and bottom up processsing.

Activities: Encoding

Visually vs Auditorally Encoded Information 18-1

Meaning and Memory

Self-Referencing

Application Activity: Index Cards- Why is a self-reference important or drawing a picture?

Crash Course

Crash Course

Assigned Reading (70 pages): 

Pages to have read for class

Due 1/14 255-278

Due 1/16 278-294

Due 1/18 298-302

Due 1/23 303-312

Due 1/25 313-322

1/25 *Note cards due!*

1/29 Test

Cognition Exam – 50 multiple choice questions

Cognition Exam – 1 FRQ

Note cards: Below is a list of terms that you will need to know for the AP Psych Exam.  These are due  (1/25).  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.  You can also draw the application of the term if you so desire.

• Encoding
• Sensory memory
• Short-term memory
• Long-term memory
• Rehearsal
• Serial position effect
• Mnemonics
• Chunking
• Flashbulb memory
• Recall
• Recognition
• Proactive interference
• Retroactive interference
• Cognition
• Algorithm
• Heuristic
• Confirmation bias
• Mental set
• Functional fixedness
• Availability heuristic
• Phoneme
• Morpheme
• Telegraphic speech

January 16, 2019

Wednesday January 16, 2019

Circle: What is your earliest memory as a child?

Semantic Encoding Activity 18-5

Introduce Memory: "If you lose the ability to recall your old memories then you have no life. You might as well be a rutabaga or a cabbage." 

True-False Activity

What perspective???

Three basic steps in the information processing model: Encoding, storage and retrieval

Activities: Encoding

Encoding: Serial Positioning Effect in Recalling U.S. Presidents

Visually vs Auditorally Encoded Information 18-1

Meaning and Memory

Self-Referencing


Application Activity: Index Cards- Why is a self-reference important or drawing a picture?

Assigned Reading (70 pages): 

Pages to have read for class

Due 1/14 255-278

Due 1/16 278-294

Due 1/18 298-302

Due 1/23 303-312

Due 1/25 313-322

1/25 *Note cards due!*

1/29 Test

Cognition Exam – 50 multiple choice questions

Cognition Exam – 1 FRQ

Note cards: Below is a list of terms that you will need to know for the AP Psych Exam.  These are due  (1/25).  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.  You can also draw the application of the term if you so desire.

• Encoding
• Sensory memory
• Short-term memory
• Long-term memory
• Rehearsal
• Serial position effect
• Mnemonics
• Chunking
• Flashbulb memory
• Recall
• Recognition
• Proactive interference
• Retroactive interference
• Cognition
• Algorithm
• Heuristic
• Confirmation bias
• Mental set
• Functional fixedness
• Availability heuristic
• Phoneme
• Morpheme
• Telegraphic speech

January 8, 2019

Tuesday January 8, 2019

Circle:  A bad/sad/disappointing memory that you can now laugh at?

What if you could get ride of it?

Mid Year Review

Hand back Unit 5

Unit 6 Test Learning

Next Unit: Cognition: 7A Memory-the persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information.

Assigned Reading (70 pages): 

Pages to have read for class

Due 1/14 (255-278),    Due 1/16(278-292)

Due 1/18 293-297

Due 1/23 298-302

Due 1/25 303-312

Due 1/25 313-322

1/25  *Note cards due!*

1/29 Test

Cognition Exam – 50 multiple choice questions

Cognition Exam – 1 FRQ

Note cards: Below is a list of terms that you will need to know for the AP Psych Exam.  These are due  (1/25).  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.  You can also draw the application of the term if you so desire.

• Encoding
• Sensory memory
• Short-term memory
• Long-term memory
• Rehearsal
• Serial position effect
• Mnemonics
• Chunking
• Flashbulb memory
• Recall
• Recognition
• Proactive interference
• Retroactive interference
• Cognition
• Algorithm
• Heuristic
• Confirmation bias
• Mental set
• Functional fixedness
• Availability heuristic
• Phoneme
• Morpheme
• Telegraphic speech

January 4, 2019

Friday January 4, 2019

Test next class over Learning and note cards due.

Circle: What is one small thing about your behavior that you would like to change?

Psychological Definition of Learning: A relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience. 

Questions:

What are some basic forms of learning?

What is classical conditioning, and how did Pavlov’s work influence behaviorism?

In classical conditioning, what are the processes of acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization, and discrimination?

Why is Pavlov’s work important?

What is operant conditioning, and how does it differ from classical conditioning?

What are the basic types of reinforcers?

How do different reinforcement schedules affect behavior?

How does punishment affect behavior?

Do cognitive processes and biological constraints affect operant conditioning?

What is observational learning, and how is it enabled by mirror neurons?

Point to remember: This is the beginning of the behavioral branch of psychology!

Hand out graphic organizers

Activity: Shaping

Activity: Reinforcement Schedules-Note Cards

Activity: Negative Reinforcement Quiz

Kahoot


Homework:
Due 12/20: Pages 215-222
Video's
Crash Course
Classical Conditioning: Ivan Pavlov
Classically Conditioning your roomate

Due 1/2: Pages 223-232
The Little Albert Experiment
BF Skinner Pigeon Ping Pong

Due 1/4: Pages 232-249
Our Skinner Box
Crash Course: The BoBo Beatdown
Classical vs Operant Condtioniong
Unit 6 TEST 1/8

Notecards Due: 1/8

Note cards:  Below is a list of terms that you will need to know for the AP Psych Exam.  These are due January 8th.  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.  You can also draw the application of the term if you so desire.

acquisition	learning
associative learning	Neutral stimulus
classical conditioning	operant conditioning
cognitive map	punishment
discrimination	reinforcer
extinction	shaping
fixed interval schedule	spontaneous recovery
fixed ratio schedule	US / UR / CS / CR
generalization	variable interval schedule
latent learning	variable ratio schedule

January 2, 2019

Wednesday January 2, 2019

Make-up Test Schedule

Circle: Not including me, who was/is the best teacher you have ever had in terms of learning.  What made them so good?

Circle: Besides me, who are the easiest teachers to get off task and what is the device you use to shape their behavior?

Psychological Definition of Learning: A relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience. 

Questions:

What are some basic forms of learning?

What is classical conditioning, and how did Pavlov’s work influence behaviorism?

In classical conditioning, what are the processes of acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization, and discrimination?

Why is Pavlov’s work important?

What is operant conditioning, and how does it differ from classical conditioning?

What are the basic types of reinforcers?

How do different reinforcement schedules affect behavior?

How does punishment affect behavior?

Do cognitive processes and biological constraints affect operant conditioning?

What is observational learning, and how is it enabled by mirror neurons?

Point to remember: This is the beginning of the behavioral branch of psychology!

Reminder Activity: Define US, CS, CR, UCR
At your table identify the various parts of classical conditioning or determine if its even classical conditioning.
Quizlet

Activity: At your table look up examples of Operant Conditioning.  The Big Bang Theory is a good one.


Homework:
Due 12/20: Pages 215-222
Video's
Crash Course
Classical Conditioning: Ivan Pavlov
Classically Conditioning your roomate

Due 1/2: Pages 223-232
The Little Albert Experiment
BF Skinner Pigeon Ping Pong

Due 1/4: Pages 232-249
Our Skinner Box
Crash Course: The BoBo Beatdown
Classical vs Operant Condtioniong
Unit 6 TEST 1/8

Notecards Due: 1/8

Note cards:  Below is a list of terms that you will need to know for the AP Psych Exam.  These are due January 8th.  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.  You can also draw the application of the term if you so desire.

acquisition	learning
associative learning	Neutral stimulus
classical conditioning	operant conditioning
cognitive map	punishment
discrimination	reinforcer
extinction	shaping
fixed interval schedule	spontaneous recovery
fixed ratio schedule	US / UR / CS / CR
generalization	variable interval schedule
latent learning	variable ratio schedule