February 26, 2020

Friday February 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 411-415 for class on Friday.  

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

February 26, 2020

Wednesday February 26. 2020

Circle: When you were 10, a made up game you use to love to play.

Test- Motivation and Emotion

February 24, 2020

Monday February 24, 2020

Circle: What is stressing you out right now?

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?

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

Activity: T or F

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:

1/31: 327-337

2/4: 337-362

2/6: 366-376

2/10 377-384

2/12: 384-406 and Note Cards Due

2/14: Winter Carnival

2/24 Test Review-Motivation and Emotion

2/26 Test- Motivation and Emotion

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

February 12, 2020

February 12, 2020

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?

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?

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

Activity: T or F

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:

1/31: 327-337

2/4: 337-362

2/6: 366-376

2/10 377-384

2/12: 384-406 and Note Cards Due

2/14: TBA

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

February 10, 2020

Wednesday February 10, 2020

Circle: How do you think we as a school could motivate more students to do well in school?  Is it possible?

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

Learning Targets: You should be able to answer the following questions by the end of the unit.

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?

Motivation and Emotion Slides

Motivation: A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior.

Discussion: What motivates people to action? Pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain generally promotes our survival and explains much of what we do.  However sometimes the principal is counterproductive.  In your group generate a list of things we do that confirm the seek pleasure and avoid pain principal, and a list that  also a list that goes against the principal.  

Turn and Talk

Can you explain the motivation behind these two eating disorders?
Image 1
Image 2

Where does the behaviorist, evolutionary, cognitive, social cultural, psychoanalytic, biological and humanistic perspective fit into the conversation around motivation?  Is poverty a choice?  Why would anyone want to be poor? Cape Elizabeth versus Rumford? Generational poverty

Activity: Sensation-Seeking Scale

Activity: Self Actualization Survey

Activity: Desirability of Control Scale

Research: How to motivate yourself

Reading Assignments:

1/31: 327-337

2/4: 337-362

2/6: 366-376

2/10 377-384

2/12: 384-406 and Note Cards Due

2/14: 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

February 4, 2020

Tuesday February 4, 2020

Circle: Your favorite super bowl moment/commercial/family moment.

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

Learning Targets: You should be able to answer the following questions by the end of the unit.

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?

Motivation and Emotion Slides

Motivation: A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior.

Evolutionary Psychology: Remember the one-year old???

Discussion: What motivates people to action? Pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain generally promotes our survival and explains much of what we do.  However sometimes the principal is counterproductive.  In your group generate a list of things we do that confirm the seek pleasure and avoid pain principal, and a list that  also a list that goes against the principal.  

Turn and Talk

Can you explain the motivation behind these two eating disorders?
Image 1
Image 2

Where does the behaviorist, evolutionary, cognitive, social cultural, psychoanalytic, biological and humanistic perspective fit into the conversation around motivation?  Is poverty a choice?  Why would anyone want to be poor? Cape Elizabeth versus Rumford? Generational poverty


Activity: Sensation-Seeking Scale

Activity: Self Actualization Survey

Activity: Desirability of Control Scale

Research: How to motivate yourself

Reading Assignments:

1/31: 327-337

2/4: 337-362

2/6: 366-376

2/10 377-384

2/12: 384-406 and Note Cards Due

2/14: 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