November 2, 2020 Pod A in-class B remote

Monday November 2, 2020 Pod A in person.   B remote.

Homework Assignment Sheet  for Unit 3

Circle: $10,000 dollars today or 100,000 in 10 years?

Hand back tests

AP Sign Ups

Importance of taking notes

Unit 3: The Brain-Everything Psychological is simultaneously Biological

Learning Targets:

What are neurons, and how do they transmit information?

How do nerve cells communicate with other nerve cells?

How do neurotransmitters influence behavior, and how do drugs and other chemicals affect neurotransmission?

What are the functions of the nervous system’s main divisions?

How does the endocrine system – the body’s slower information system – transmit its messages?

How do neuroscientists study the brain’s connections to behavior and mind?

What are the functions of important lower-level brain structures?

What functions are served by the various cerebral cortex regions?

What do split brains reveal about the functions of our two brain hemispheres?

Activity: Introduction to the brain and neuroscience. David Eagleman.

Activity: Reaction Time

Activity: Cross hands and confuse brain

Very useful video's about the Brain:

1.Crash Course- The Chemical Mind

2.Crash Course- Meet Your Master


3.Neurons- How They Work

4.Pinky and the Brain

5.What is an fMRI

6.Stabbed in the brain- Phineas Gage

7.Expressive Aphasia- Sarah Scott

8.The Phenomenon of Neuroplasticity

9. Do you have the addiction gene?