September 13, 2019

Friday September 13, 2019

Syllabus

Commitment Contract

Unit 1 Learning Targets:
When and how did psychological science begin?
How did psychology continue to develop from the 1920’s through today?
What is psychology’s historic big issue?
What are psychology’s levels of analysis and related perspectives?
What are psychology’s main subfields?

Definition of Psychology: The study of behavior and the mind (mental process).

Learning Target: To understand the major psychological perspectives and what they can tell us about ourselves and others.

Circle: One person, place or thing you use to hate and now really enjoy?

Check SQ3R Notes:
1) Check
2) Compare
3) Review SQ3R

The Hand: We will finish this in class

Activity: Celebrity Diagnosis and presentations

Celebrity Exercise: And by extension the Bio-Psych-Social Model.

Unit 2 Research Methods:
1.Understanding Scientific Method
2. Identify Research Methods
5. Ethics in Psychological Research
3. Recognize problems and solutions in research
4. Statistics

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.

Ethics in psychological research.

Research Methods: Zimbardo Video

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 co-efficent, 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.

Psychology Quiz online

Reading assignment:  Unit 1 and 2 Assignments 

Exit Ticket:  Something you would like me to know.

Textbook: The reading of the text is essential.  If you want to do good in this class and the AP exam you must read it.