April 30, 2019

4 classes left until AP Exam!!!

Tuesday April 30, 2019

Circle:If you were to discover one of  your closest friends was a heroin dealer, what would you do?

Questions:

How do we tend to explain others’ behavior and our own?
Does what we think affect what we do,. Or does what we do affect what we think?
What do experiments on conformity and compliance reveal about the power of social influence?
How is our behavior affected by the presence of others or by being part of a group?
What is prejudice?  What are its social, emotional, and cognitive roots?
What psychological factors may trigger aggressive behavior?
Why do we befriend or fall in love with some people but not with others?
How do social traps and mirror-image perceptions fuel social conflict?
How can we transform feelings of prejudice, aggression, and conflict into attitudes that promote peace?

Activity: Zimbardo Video-Power of the Situation
Using the vocabulary from the study guide keep a list of subjects covered and take notes on understanding.

Crash Course: Social Thinking
Crash Course: Social Influence
Crash Course: Prejudice and Discrimination

Kahoot #1
Kahoot#2

April 26, 2019

5 Green Days until AP Exam!!!

Friday April 26, 2019

Circle: At what point would you seek psychological help?  What would have to happen?  How would you know?

1. Reminder that note cards are due on Friday.  No exceptions!
2. Reminder to let me know practice AP Test score.
3. Review sessions coming up.  Monday Sensation and Perception, Tuesday States of consciousness, Memory and Learning.

Activity: What do you imagine having depression is like?
What is it like to have depression?

Activity: Organize note cards at table and be prepared to defend you choices.

Slideshow: Psychological Disorder Slide Show

Disorder Questions:

What are the aims and methods of psychoanalysis, and how have they been adapted in psychodynamic therapy?

What are the basic themes of humanistic therapy, such as Rogers’ client-centered approach?

What are the assumptions and techniques of the behavior therapies?

What are the goals and techniques of the cognitive therapies?

What are the aims and benefits of group and family therapy?

Are some therapies more effective than others?

How do culture and values influence the therapist-client relationship?

What are the drug therapies?  What criticisms have been leveled against drug therapies?

How, by caring for their bodies with a healthy life-style, might people find some relief from depression?

What is the rationale for preventive mental health programs?

Turn and Talk  Why?


Activity: Revised Suicide Quiz

Activity: T or F

Activity: Personality Inventory

Activity: Self-Concealment Scale

Note Cards: 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.  These are due on Tuesday.  They will go in the grade book.

• Psychotherapy
• Free association
• Resistance
• Transference
• Insight therapies
• Client-centered therapy
• Active listening
• Exposure therapies
• Systematic desensitization
• Cognitive-behavior therapy
• Family therapy
• Drug therapy
• Anti-anxiety drugs
• Antidepressant drugs
• Electroconvulsive therapy
• Psychosurgery

April 24, 2019

6 Green Days until AP Exam!!!

Wednesday April 24, 2019

Circle: Would you rather be the one to break up or get broken up with?

1. Reminder that note cards are due on Friday.  No exceptions!
2. Reminder about practice AP Test due Wednesday at beginning of class.
3. Review sessions coming up.

Introduce Abnormal Psychology:

How should we draw the line between normality and disorder?
What perspectives can help us understand psychological disorders?
How and why do clinicians classify psychological disorders?
What are anxiety disorders, and how do they differ from ordinary worries and fears?
What produces the thoughts and feelings that mark anxiety disorders?
What are somatoform disorders?
What are dissociative disorders, and why are they controversial?
What are mood disorders, and what forms do they take?
What patterns of thinking, perceiving, feeling, and behaving characterize schizophrenia?
What causes schizophrenia?
What characteristics are typical of personality disorders?
How many people suffer, or have suffered, from a psychological disorder?

What is it like to have depression?

Activity: Dissociative 29-3

Activity: Revised Suicide Quiz

Activity: Personality Inventory 29-6

Activity: Referential Thinking 29-4

Activity: Measuring Fear

Note cards: We are doing note cards a little differently for this section.  Each one is a disorder - name of the disorder on the front; definition and/or symptoms on the back.  There are 25 (some are not listed in our book – internet research will be required).  Note cards completed are worth a test grade so do them well.  This grade will be posted in Application and Process. Meaning that if your grade is low this will have impact. These are due on Friday, April 26th.  If you aren't in class on Friday the expectation is that you will show them to me before Friday or if not possible take pictures and share them with me.  No exceptions.

• Phobias
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder
• Panic Disorder
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
• Somatization Disorders
• Hypochondriasis
• Conversion Disorders
• Somatoform Pain Disorders
• Depersonalization
• Dissociative Amnesia
• Dissociative fugue states
• Dissociative Identity Disorder
• Major Depression
• Bipolar Disorder
• Schizophrenia
• Delusional Disorder
• Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
• Schizoid Personality Disorder
• Antisocial Personality Disorder
• Anorexia
• Bulimia
• Tourette Syndrome
• Munchausen's Syndrome
• Impulse Control Disorders

Crash Course: Psychological Disorders
Crash Course: OCD & Anxiety Disorders
Crash Course: Depressive and Bipolar Disorders
Crash Course: Trauma & Addiction
Crash Course: Eating & Body Dysmorphic Disorders
Crash Course: Personality Disorders
Crash Course: Schizophrenia and Dissociative Disorders

April 22, 2019

7 Green Days until AP Exam!!!

Monday April 22, 2019

Circle: How many people do you know who suffer from a mental illness?

1.You should have completed the Unit on disorders for class on Monday after vacation.

2. Reminder about practice AP Test due Wednesday at beginning of class.

Introduce Abnormal Psychology:

How should we draw the line between normality and disorder?
What perspectives can help us understand psychological disorders?
How and why do clinicians classify psychological disorders?
What are anxiety disorders, and how do they differ from ordinary worries and fears?
What produces the thoughts and feelings that mark anxiety disorders?
What are somatoform disorders?
What are dissociative disorders, and why are they controversial?
What are mood disorders, and what forms do they take?
What patterns of thinking, perceiving, feeling, and behaving characterize schizophrenia?
What causes schizophrenia?
What characteristics are typical of personality disorders?

How many people suffer, or have suffered, from a psychological disorder?

What is it like to have depression?

Activity: Look up rates of mental illness;
In America
Worldwide
In Maine
In Men
In Women
In Teenagers
What are the most prevalent mental illnesses?
What are the rarest mental illnesses?

If we have time:

Activity: Revised Suicide Quiz

Activity: Social Anxiety Thoughts

Activity: Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale

Activity: Measuring Fear

Note cards: We are doing note cards a little differently for this section.  Each one is a disorder - name of the disorder on the front; definition and/or symptoms on the back.  There are 25 (some are not listed in our book – internet research will be required).  Note cards completed are worth a test grade so do them well.  This grade will be posted in Application and Process. Meaning that if your grade is low this will have impact. These are due on Friday, April 26th.  If you aren't in class on Friday the expectation is that you will show them to me before Friday or if not possible take pictures and share them with me.  No exceptions.

• Phobias
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder
• Panic Disorder
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
• Somatization Disorders
• Hypochondriasis
• Conversion Disorders
• Somatoform Pain Disorders
• Depersonalization
• Dissociative Amnesia
• Dissociative fugue states
• Dissociative Identity Disorder
• Major Depression
• Bipolar Disorder
• Schizophrenia
• Delusional Disorder
• Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
• Schizoid Personality Disorder
• Antisocial Personality Disorder
• Anorexia
• Bulimia
• Tourette Syndrome
• Munchausen's Syndrome
• Impulse Control Disorders

Crash Course: Psychological Disorders
Crash Course: OCD & Anxiety Disorders
Crash Course: Depressive and Bipolar Disorders
Crash Course: Trauma & Addiction
Crash Course: Eating & Body Dysmorphic Disorders
Crash Course: Personality Disorders
Crash Course: Schizophrenia and Dissociative Disorders

April 8, 2019

Thursday April 8,  2019

1)Circle: Who is the most intelligent person you know?  What makes them so intelligent?

2)Circle: If you could choose an area of your life to be more intelligent about what would it be.  Examples: 

Learning Target: Understanding what intelligence is; How it is assessed; How much do our genes and environment matter; What do test score, differences among individuals and groups really mean? How should we use testing of intelligence in schools, college and the workplace?

Working definition of Intelligence: The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.


Activity: What is intelligence? The question on each of these; Is this intelligence?

Kim Peek
Stephen Wilshire
Kelvin Doe 

Are you a genius?

Crash Course Intelligence

Activity: Intelligence Test

Activity: Online IQ Test

Howard Gardener's Multiple Intelligences

Kahoot

Crash Course: Controversy of Intelligence

Terms to know for test:

• Intelligence
• g
• Factor Analysis
• Howard Gardner
• Robert Sternberg
• Emotional intelligence
• Alfred Binet
• Stanford-Binet & Wechsler
• IQ
• Validity
• Reliability
• Standardization
• Normal distribution
• Stereotype Threat

April 8, 2109

Monday April 8, 2019

Circle: Do you think people would still like you if you were completely open with them?  Do you ever show your true self?

Slideshow: Personality

Learning Target: Students will understand the Psychoanalytic, Humanistic, Trait and Social Cognitive Perspective and how it views personality.

Personality refers to individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. The study of personality focuses on two broad areas: One is understanding individual differences in particular personality characteristics, such as sociability or irritability. The other is understanding how the various parts of a person come together as a whole.

Question you should be able to answer:

What was Freud’s view of personality and its development?
How did Freud think people defended themselves against anxiety?
What are projective tests, and how are they used?
How do contemporary psychologists view Freud and the unconscious?
How did humanistic psychologists view personality, and what was their goal in studying personality?
How did humanistic psychologists assess a person’s sense of self?
How do psychologists use traits to describe personality?
What are personality inventories, and what are their strengths and weaknesses as trait-assessment tools?
In the view of the social-cognitive psychologists, what mutual influences shape an individual’s personality?
Are we helped or hindered by high self-esteem?

Homework:  Please read the Unit on Personality in the textbook.  This is now on your own.  We will not be assessing over this unit but it will appear on the AP exam.  Got it?

Video's you should watch!
Crash Course: Rorschach and the Freudians
Crash Course: Measuring Personality
Mr. Burns High School Freud Video
Zimbardo: The Mind, Hidden and Divided

If we have time: The Big Five Personality Test

Vocabulary: Note Cards: On this paper is a list of terms that you will need to know for the AP Psych 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. 

Psychoanalysis
Free Association
Id
Ego
Superego
Oedipus complex
defense mechanisms
collective unconscious
projective test
unconditional positive regard
self-actualization
self-concept
trait
reciprocal determinism
external/internal locus of control
individualism vs. collectivism

April 5, 2019

Friday April 5, 2019

Circle: The most positive aspect of your personality.

Test on Developmental Psychology

Learning Target: Students will understand the Psychoanalytic, Humanistic, Trait and Social Cognitive Perspective and how it views personality.

Personality refers to individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. The study of personality focuses on two broad areas: One is understanding individual differences in particular personality characteristics, such as sociability or irritability. The other is understanding how the various parts of a person come together as a whole.



Question you should be able to answer:

What was Freud’s view of personality and its development?
How did Freud think people defended themselves against anxiety?
What are projective tests, and how are they used?
How do contemporary psychologists view Freud and the unconscious?
How did humanistic psychologists view personality, and what was their goal in studying personality?
How did humanistic psychologists assess a person’s sense of self?
How do psychologists use traits to describe personality?
What are personality inventories, and what are their strengths and weaknesses as trait-assessment tools?
In the view of the social-cognitive psychologists, what mutual influences shape an individual’s personality?
Are we helped or hindered by high self-esteem?

Homework:  Please read the Unit on Personality in the textbook.  This is now on your own.  We will not be assessing over this unit but it will appear on the AP exam.  Got it?

Activity: 15 Freudian Principle Statements

Free Association Activity

Crash Course: Rorschach and the Freudians

Crash Course: Measuring Personality

Mr. Burns High School Freud Video

Zimbardo: The Mind, Hidden and Divided

Assigned reading (48 pages): THE ASSIGNMENT IS WHAT PAGES YOU NEED TO HAVE READ FOR THAT DAY

Vocabulary: Note Cards: On this paper is a list of terms that you will need to know for the AP Psych 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. 

Psychoanalysis
Free Association
Id
Ego
Superego
Oedipus complex
defense mechanisms
collective unconscious
projective test
unconditional positive regard
self-actualization
self-concept
trait
reciprocal determinism
external/internal locus of control
individualism vs. collectivism

April 3, 2019

Wednesday April 3, 2019

Target: Understanding Human Development from Pre-Natal to Death

Test Friday April 5

Circle Question: If you had to wear the same T-shirt every day for a year and you had to  have one word on it what would that word be?

2nd circle question: 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?

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 finish reading the unit on developmental psychology for Wednesday's class.

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
Erik Erikson Stages
Gender Roles

Erikson And Identity: Page 541
Activity: I am...
Activity: Through the years...
Activity: On dying...

Kahoot

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