Monday, November 25, 2019

November 26, 2019

Tuesday November 26, 2019

Seating chart/Activity-Share your full name and then tell the members of your table a re-occurring dream you've had or the most recent dream you can remember.  Freud Analysis/Table Analysis

Circle: Do you think dreams any meaning? 


Unit 5 Assignment Sheet

Activity: How high is your sleep IQ?
You will be taking the Sleep IQ test as an individual and then in your group you will compare answers and determine which you think is correct.  After discussing in your group, you will be reporting out to the class with a defense of your answer.  After the Sleep IQ test you will be given time to research how to improve your sleeping habits and get a better night sleep.  You will be reporting out your answers to the class.

Activity: Are you a morning or evening person?  Why?


Sleep
Stages of Sleep - Sleep Cycles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RjPZNNSGlY
Stages of Sleep, REM Sleep and Dreaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaoMD1XI5u8
What Makes You Tick: Circadian Rhythms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BoLqqNuqwA
Circadian Rhythm and Your Brains Clock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbQ0RxQu2gM
Sleep loss and disorders
What It’s Like To Have Insomnia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwkKcqdrfGo
Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dXEgVK-fF4
Nightmares and Night Terrors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds8GRH4xmN8
What would happen if you didn’t sleep? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqONk48l5vY
Dreams
Crash Course Dreams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMHus-0wFSo
Hypnosis
Drugs (Psychopharmacology and Psychology)
Crash Course:Altered States https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=373&v=9PW1fwKjo-Y

                                                                                        
Assigned reading (35 pages)
Note cards: Below is a list of terms that you will need to know for the AP Psych exam.  These are due before the exam (12/13).  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.
  • consciousness
  • circadian rhythm
  • REM sleep
  • hallucinations
  • insomnia
  • narcolepsy
  • sleep apnea
  • night terrors
  • manifest content
  • latent content
  • hypnosis
  • dissociation
  • physical dependence
  • psychological dependence
  • depressants
  • barbiturates
  • opiates
  • stimulants
  • hallucinogens
Homework: Please keep a record of your dreams over the next two night.  Write them down with as much detail of specifics as you can.  You will be doing dream analysis on Tuesday after Thanksgiving and this will make class much more interesting if you have your own dream to analyze.

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

November 22, 2019

Thursday and Monday 2020

Test: Sensation and Perception

Circle: On average, how many hours of sleep do you get on a school night?

Unit Test 4 Sensation and Perception

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Unit Topics: Sleep and Dreams, Hypnosis, Drugs and Consciousness
Dates for Unit: December 17th- January 14th
Exam Dates: January 11th Pod A January 15th Pod B – 25 multiple choice questions - 2 pts each, 1 ten point FRQ.                                                                                                      
Assigned reading (35 pages)
Note cards: Below is a list of terms that you will need to know for the AP Psych exam.  These are due before the exam (12/11).  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.
  • consciousness
  • circadian rhythm
  • REM sleep
  • hallucinations
  • insomnia
  • narcolepsy
  • sleep apnea
  • night terrors
  • manifest content
  • latent content
  • hypnosis
  • dissociation
  • physical dependence
  • psychological dependence
  • depressants
  • barbiturates
  • opiates
  • stimulants
  • hallucinogens

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

November 20, 2019

Wednesday November 20, 2019

Test on Sensation and Perception has been moved to this Friday, November 22nd.

Sensation and Perception Assignment Sheet

Circle: What was your best year of school and why?

Notecard Check

Keynote: Sensation and Perception


Learning Targets: Understand the following-
What are sensation and perception? What do we mean by bottom-up processing and top-town processing?
What are the absolute and difference thresholds, and do stimuli below the absolute threshold have any influence?
What is the function of sensory adaptation?
What is the energy that we see as visual light?
What are the characteristics of air pressure waves that we hear as sound?
How do the eye and ear transform light and sound energy into neural messages?
How do we experience each of the body’s senses?
How do Gestalt psychologists understand perceptual organization?
How adaptable is our ability to perceive?

Activity: We will be watching two or three crash courses if time allows and you will be self assessing on your grasp of content. You will be taking notes and assessing your knowledge and looking for gaps in understanding.

Crash Course Sensation and Perception

Crash Course Homunculus

Crash Course Perceiving is believing

Study Tools
AP Psychology Crash Courses
Mnemonic
Quizlets
Study Guide
AP Study Notes
Online Test


Exit Ticket: What is one big thing you will take away from this class today?

Sunday, November 17, 2019

November 18, 2019

Monday November 18, 2019

Test on Sensation and Perception has been moved to this Friday, November 22nd.

Sensation and Perception Assignment Sheet

Circle: Seniors: Where are you in the college application process?  What is a piece of advice you would give to your fellow juniors?


Learning Targets: Understand the following-
What are sensation and perception? What do we mean by bottom-up processing and top-town processing?
What are the absolute and difference thresholds, and do stimuli below the absolute threshold have any influence?
What is the function of sensory adaptation?
What is the energy that we see as visual light?
What are the characteristics of air pressure waves that we hear as sound?
How do the eye and ear transform light and sound energy into neural messages?
How do we experience each of the body’s senses?
How do Gestalt psychologists understand perceptual organization?
How adaptable is our ability to perceive?

Understanding Touch and Pain
Video
Depth Perception

Activity: We will be watching two or three crash courses if time allows and you will be self assessing on your grasp of content. You will be taking notes and assessing your knowledge and looking for gaps in understanding.

Crash Course Sensation and Perception

Crash Course Homunculus

Crash Course Perceiving is believing

Study Tools
AP Psychology Crash Courses
Mnemonic
Quizlets
Online Multiple Choice Practice test
Study Guide
AP Study Notes


Exit Ticket: What is one big thing you will take away from this class today?

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

November 14, 2019

Thursday November 14, 2019 

Circle:1) Describe the feeling when you found out it was a snow day when you were in elementary school.  What changed?
2) A sound you would miss if you lost your hearing?  A sound you wouldn't miss?

Sensation and Perception Assignment Sheet


Learning Targets: Understand the following-
What are sensation and perception? What do we mean by bottom-up processing and top-town processing?
What are the absolute and difference thresholds, and do stimuli below the absolute threshold have any influence?
What is the function of sensory adaptation?
What is the energy that we see as visual light?
What are the characteristics of air pressure waves that we hear as sound?
How do the eye and ear transform light and sound energy into neural messages?
How do we experience each of the body’s senses?
How do Gestalt psychologists understand perceptual organization?
How adaptable is our ability to perceive?

How do our expectations, contexts, and emotions influence our perceptions?

Activity: Synthesize the following:  What do the following tell us about the world YOU live in?

Answer the following questions in your group. Make a chart for each person to record answers.
1) A common smell you cannot stand?
2) A type of clothing you cannot wear because of how it feels?
3) A common sound that really bothers you?
4) Do you usually feel hot or cold?
5) What flavor of food do you prefer given a choice? Sweet, sour, salty or bland? Ex. If had to choose between chips and a cupcake, which would you choose a majority of the time.

Test Strips: Do you have the gene?

Chocolate Test

When senses collide-JellyBeans

Crash Course

Kahoot

Understanding Touch and Pain
Video



Monday, November 11, 2019

November 12, 2019

Tuesday November 12, 2019 

Snow Day

Circle:1) Describe the feeling when you found out it was a snow day when you were in elementary school.  What changed?
2) A sound you would miss if you lost your hearing?  A sound you wouldn't miss?

 Sensation and Perception Assignment Sheet

Activity: Synthesize the following:  What do the following tell us about the world YOU live in?

Answer the following questions in your group. Make a chart for each person to record answers.
1) A common smell you cannot stand?
2) A type of clothing you cannot wear because of how it feels?
3) A common sound that really bothers you?
4) Do you usually feel hot or cold?
5) What flavor of food do you prefer given a choice? Sweet, sour, salty or bland? Ex. If had to choose between chips and a cupcake, which would you choose a majority of the time.

Crash Course

Kahoot

Understanding Touch and Pain
Video




Wednesday, November 6, 2019

November 7, 2019

Thursday November 7, 2019

Circle: If you were forced to give up one sense what would it be?  Why?

Unit 4: Sensation and Perception Homework Assignment Sheet

Sensation and Perception: Point to remember-We feel, see hear, taste, and smell with our BRAIN, which can sense even without functioning senses.


Synthesize the following:  Why doesn't our brain try to make sense of everything that is happening around us?


Activity:  Share your mnemonic device for light passing through the eye.  Vote on which one is the best.


Learning Targets: Understand the following-
What are sensation and perception? What do we mean by bottom-up processing and top-town processing?
What are the absolute and difference thresholds, and do stimuli below the absolute threshold have any influence?
What is the function of sensory adaptation?
What is the energy that we see as visual light?
What are the characteristics of air pressure waves that we hear as sound?
How do the eye and ear transform light and sound energy into neural messages?
How do we experience each of the body’s senses?
How do Gestalt psychologists understand perceptual organization?
How adaptable is our ability to perceive?
How do our expectations, contexts, and emotions influence our perceptions?

Activity: As a class, you will be watching series of brief videos relating to Sensation and Perception. Your job will be as a small group to connect what you have watched to what we are studying. You will have one person who is leading the discussion, i.e. restating the question and keep the group focused, another will be the reporter who will explain to the class what specifically this connects to and how it connects once everyone in your group understands. You will be taking notes that you can add to your unit 4 notes. Please bring your book to class!

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Monday, November 4, 2019

November 5, 2019

Tuesday November 5, 2019

Circle: TBA?

Unit 4: Sensation and Perception Homework Assignment Sheet

Sensation and Perception: Point to remember-We feel, see hear, taste, and smell with our BRAIN, which can sense even without functioning senses.

Learning Targets: Understand the following-
What are sensation and perception? What do we mean by bottom-up processing and top-town processing?
What are the absolute and difference thresholds, and do stimuli below the absolute threshold have any influence?
What is the function of sensory adaptation?
What is the energy that we see as visual light?
What are the characteristics of air pressure waves that we hear as sound?
How do the eye and ear transform light and sound energy into neural messages?
How do we experience each of the body’s senses?
How do Gestalt psychologists understand perceptual organization?
How adaptable is our ability to perceive?
How do our expectations, contexts, and emotions influence our perceptions?

Activity: As a class, you will be watching series of brief videos relating to Sensation and Perception. Your job will be as a small group to connect what you have watched to what we are studying. You will have one person who is leading the discussion, i.e. restating the question and keep the group focused, another will be the reporter who will explain to the class what specifically this connects to and how it connects once everyone in your group understands. You will be taking notes that you can add to your unit 4 notes. Please bring your book to class!

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