April 1, 2019

Monday April 1, 2019

Target: Understanding Human Development from Pre-Natal to Death

Circle Question: What is the best/worst April fools joke you have played on someone or they played on you?

How does life develop before birth?
What are some newborn abilities, and how do researchers explore infants’ mental abilities?
During infancy and childhood, how do the brain and motor skills develop?
From the perspective of Piaget and today’s researchers, how does a child’s mind develop?
How do parent-infant attachment bonds form?
What physical changes mark adolescence?
How did Piaget, Kohlberg, and later researchers describe adolescent cognitive and moral development?
What are the social tasks and challenges of adolescence?
What is emerging adulthood?
What physical changes occur during middle and late adulthood?
How do memory and intelligence change with age?
What themes and influences mark our social journey from early adulthood to death?

You need to have read to page 455 for class on Monday and finish reading unit for Wednesday.

Pre-Natal Slide Show: 
Infant Slide Show: 
Piaget's Stages of Development
Parenting Styles: What would you do differently as a parent?  What do you think is the best way to parent?  After slideshow: How would you describe your parents style?  Is it effective?
Kohlberg's Moral Development
Activity: Heinz's Dilemma
Activity: With your new group discuss what you thought being a teenager was going to be like. Write down responses.  Next discuss what being a teenager is actually like.  Write down responses?  Next answer the following problem.  Your psychology teacher believes that it is next to impossible to be in "love" with another person until successfully completing your identity formation(meaning High School "love" is actually only lust).  Do you agree or disagree?
Erik Erikson Stages
Gender Roles

Supplemental Video: Please 
Kohlberg's Six Steps to Morality
The Trolley Problem
Harlow's Monkeys
Harlow's Study on Monkeys' Attachment
The Strange Situation-Mary Ainsworth
Crash Course: 19 Monkeys and Morality
Crash Course: 18  The Growth of Knowledge
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

March 28, 2019

Thursday March 28, 2019

Target: Understanding Human Development from Pre-Natal to Death

Circle Question: What do you think you will do differently when/if you become a parent?  Why?


How does life develop before birth?
What are some newborn abilities, and how do researchers explore infants’ mental abilities?
During infancy and childhood, how do the brain and motor skills develop?
From the perspective of Piaget and today’s researchers, how does a child’s mind develop?
How do parent-infant attachment bonds form?
What physical changes mark adolescence?
How did Piaget, Kohlberg, and later researchers describe adolescent cognitive and moral development?
What are the social tasks and challenges of adolescence?
What is emerging adulthood?
What physical changes occur during middle and late adulthood?
How do memory and intelligence change with age?
What themes and influences mark our social journey from early adulthood to death?

You need to have read to page 455 for class on Monday.

Pre-Natal Slide Show: 
Infant Slide Show: 
Piaget's Stages of Development
Parenting Styles: What would you do differently as a parent?  What do you think is the best way to parent?  After slideshow: How would you describe your parents style?  Is it effective?
Kohlberg's Moral Development
Activity: Heinz's Dilemma

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

March 27, 2019

Thursday March 26, 2019

Target: Understanding Human Development

How does life develop before birth?
What are some newborn abilities, and how do researchers explore infants’ mental abilities?
During infancy and childhood, how do the brain and motor skills develop?
From the perspective of Piaget and today’s researchers, how does a child’s mind develop?
How do parent-infant attachment bonds form?
What physical changes mark adolescence?
How did Piaget, Kohlberg, and later researchers describe adolescent cognitive and moral development?
What are the social tasks and challenges of adolescence?
What is emerging adulthood?
What physical changes occur during middle and late adulthood?
How do memory and intelligence change with age?
What themes and influences mark our social journey from early adulthood to death?

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.

Activity: Landmarks

Activity: True or False

Homework:

You should have already started to read ahead in Unit 9 Developmental Psychology.  You need to have read 411-435 for class on Thursday.  Have Handout 4-2b filled out for class Thursday!

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

March 20, 2019

Wednesday  March 20, 2019

Circle: How do you react when you are stressed out?  What do you do to relieve stress?

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.


Going forward- Things you should understand about Motivation and Emotion:

From what perspectives do psychologists view motivated behavior?

What physiological factors produce hunger?

What psychological and cultural factors influence hunger?

How do anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder demonstrate the influence of psychological forces on physiologically motivated behaviors?

What stages mark the human sexual response cycle?

How do internal and external stimuli influence sexual behavior?

What has research taught us about sexual orientation?

What is the role of organizational psychologists?

What are the components of an emotion?

How do we communicate nonverbally? Are nonverbal expressions of emotion universally understood?

What is stress, and what types of events provoke stress responses?

What factors affect our ability to cope with stress?


Activity: At your table discuss the what you learned from the video's and the Type A or B personaity test.  What are the long term implications for your health, career, relationships etc.  What did you learn about yourself and what you need to understand?

TEDtalk Stress
Harvard Study
Stress and Memory  10:56 Mark
Type A or B?
13-2
13-3
14-1

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

Reading Assignments:
Please have Unit 8B read by March 19th

Test over Units 8a and 8b will be on Tuesday March 26, 2019

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

March 18, 2019

Monday March 18, 2019

Circle: What is stressing you out right now?  How much control do you have over it?

Video: A lost girl's diary: The hidden anguish of Alexandra Valoras


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.  

Going forward- Things you should understand about Motivation and Emotion:

From what perspectives do psychologists view motivated behavior?

What physiological factors produce hunger?

What psychological and cultural factors influence hunger?

How do anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder demonstrate the influence of psychological forces on physiologically motivated behaviors?

What stages mark the human sexual response cycle?

How do internal and external stimuli influence sexual behavior?

What has research taught us about sexual orientation?

What is the role of organizational psychologists?

What are the components of an emotion?

How do we communicate nonverbally? Are nonverbal expressions of emotion universally understood?

What is stress, and what types of events provoke stress responses?

What factors affect our ability to cope with stress?


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:

Please have Unit 8B read by March 19th

Test over Units 8a and 8b will be on Friday March 22nd.

Vocabulary Words

Abraham Maslow

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

March 12, 2019

Monday March 12, 2019

Final Head Count for AP Exam

Circle: If you could go back and re-watch a movie for the first time again what would it be and why?

Going forward- Things you should understand about Motivation and Emotion:

From what perspectives do psychologists view motivated behavior?

What physiological factors produce hunger?

What psychological and cultural factors influence hunger?

How do anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder demonstrate the influence of psychological forces on physiologically motivated behaviors?

What stages mark the human sexual response cycle?

How do internal and external stimuli influence sexual behavior?

What has research taught us about sexual orientation?

What is the role of organizational psychologists?

What are the components of an emotion?

How do we communicate nonverbally? Are nonverbal expressions of emotion universally understood?

What is stress, and what types of events provoke stress responses?

What factors affect our ability to cope with stress?

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

Circle 2: What is stressing you out right now?  How much control do you have over it?


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:

Please have Unit 8B read by March 19th

TBA: Test

Vocabulary Words

Abraham Maslow

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

March 7, 2019

Friday March 7, 2019

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?

Going forward- Things you should understand about Motivation and Emotion:

From what perspectives do psychologists view motivated behavior?

What physiological factors produce hunger?

What psychological and cultural factors influence hunger?

How do anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder demonstrate the influence of psychological forces on physiologically motivated behaviors?

What stages mark the human sexual response cycle?

How do internal and external stimuli influence sexual behavior?

What has research taught us about sexual orientation?

What is the role of organizational psychologists?

What are the components of an emotion?

How do we communicate nonverbally? Are nonverbal expressions of emotion universally understood?

What is stress, and what types of events provoke stress responses?

What factors affect our ability to cope with stress?

AP Exam Sign Up!!!!!

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:

Please have Unit 8B read by March 19th

TBA: Test

Vocabulary Words

Abraham Maslow

• Cannon-Bard Theory
• Drive-Reduction theory
• Emotion
• General adaptation syndrome
• Hierarchy of needs
• Homeostasis
• Incentive
• Instinct
• James-Lange theory
• two-factor theory
• Motivation
• Stress
• Abraham Maslow
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March 4, 2019

Monday March 4, 2019

Going forward- Things you should understand about Motivation and Emotion:

From what perspectives do psychologists view motivated behavior?

What physiological factors produce hunger?

What psychological and cultural factors influence hunger?

How do anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder demonstrate the influence of psychological forces on physiologically motivated behaviors?

What stages mark the human sexual response cycle?

How do internal and external stimuli influence sexual behavior?

What has research taught us about sexual orientation?

What is the role of organizational psychologists?

What are the components of an emotion?

How do we communicate nonverbally? Are nonverbal expressions of emotion universally understood?

What is stress, and what types of events provoke stress responses?

What factors affect our ability to cope with stress?

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?

AP Exam Sign Up!!!!!

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

Activity: T or F

Activity: Sensation-Seeking Scale

Research: How to motivate yourself

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:

2/12: 327-337


2/14: 337-362


2/16: 366-376


2/18 377-384


2/26: 384-406



TBA: 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