September 12, 2022

 Psychology: The study of behavior and mental processes

Monday September 12, 2022

Circle: One thing you understand better about yourself or people based on the MB profile.

Table Activity: When is the first time you remember meeting/seeing the people at your table.  Who has known each other the longest?

Learning Target(s): A.  I can help build a community in the classroom and understand its importance in relation to learning.  

B.  I can read an informational textbook efficiently and effectively.

Answer the follow: .What strategy do you use for reading a textbook?  How effective is it?  How do you know what to take for notes?  How do you organize your notes?  How effective are your notes when it comes time to study for an assessment? 

Textbook: Handout and talk about Ms. Danis and SQ3R

1. Nominate a note taker.

2. Nominate someone to lead the discussion

3. Nominate a reporter

Activity: You will be researching the efficacy of SQ3R with your group and putting together a brief presentation about why it works and the science behind it.

Activity: Why is Psychology considered a science?  How reliable is common sense?  Can it be contradictory?  Most tidbits of accepted common sense have a polar opposite that that is just as accepted.  See if you can come up with the corresponding contradictory statement to the examples below.

"Birds of a feather flock together"

"out of sight, out of mind"

"the more the merrier"

Psychology's job is to test and in which contexts, each statement rings true.

Activity: The power of context.  A newspaper...

Activity: We will be SQ3R'ing Module 1 together.  How should we do it?  Consult your research and let's list the steps.  Begin.

 

Activity: Note walk

Perspective Activity: At your table come up with a working definition of perspective. What do you see?

Another Perspective: Evolutionary Psychology

Study Groups?