Thursday, April 28, 2022

Thursday April 28, 2022

Circle: If you could get rid of one emotion which one would you delete?

Interest, Joy, Surprise, Sadness, Anger, Disgust, Contempt, Self-hostility

Sigmund Freud...

Brewster Burns High School Psychology class video

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


  • 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

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

April 27, 2022

Wednesday April 27, 2022

Circle: How many people do you know or suspect deal with mental illness, treated or undiagnosed.

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


  • 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

Monday, April 25, 2022

April 22, 2022

Monday April 22, 2022


Circle: Something you use to believe or worry about as a child that when you look back on it now is quite silly.

1.You should have completed the read through the AP Study guide.
2. Reminder about practice AP Test due Wednesday at beginning of class.

FRQ and scoring

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


  • 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

Thursday, April 14, 2022

April 14, 2022

Thursday April 14, 2022

Circle: What is stressing you out right now?

Free Response Activity:  2016 FRQ


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

Monday, April 11, 2022

Monday April 11, 2021

I am Discussion

AP Exam going forward...

How to study

Video

Practice Test


Circle: How many of you questioned yourself about being a sociopath or thought that someone you might know is one?


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?

AP Exam Sign Up!!!!!

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:

Please have Unit 8B read by March 19th

TBA: Test

Vocabulary Words

Abraham Maslow
  • Cannon-Bard Theory
  • Drive-Reduction theory
  • Emotion
  • General adaptation syndrome
  • Hierarchy of needs
  • Homeostasis
  • Incentive
  • Instinct
  • James-Lange theory
  • two-factor theory
  • Motivation
  • Stress
  • Abraham Mas

Thursday, April 7, 2022

 Wednesday April 6, 2022

Circle Question: One piece of advice you would give to an incoming freshman next year?

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?

Activity: I am...

Activity: Adulthood True or False

Activity: Parenting Style

Activity: Lifespan

Activity: Thinking about death

Homework: You should be reading the unit on Developmental Psychology in the Study Guide.  I would recommend reading the unit in the text book too if you want to supplement your knowledge.


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

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Wednesday April 6, 2022

Circle Question: What is the first sign of spring for you?

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?

Activity: Adolesence-True or False

Activity: Parenting Style

Activity: Lifespan

Activity: Thinking about death

Homework: You should be reading the unit on Developmental Psychology in the Study Guide.  I would recommend reading the unit in the text book too if you want to supplement your knowledge.


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

Monday, April 4, 2022

Monday April 4, 2022

Circle Question: One thing you will do the same as a parent and one that you will do differently?

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?


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: Parenting Style

Homework: You should be reading the unit on Developmental Psychology in the Study Guide.  I would recommend reading the unit in the text book too if you want to supplement your knowledge.


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