September 15, 2022

Thursday September 15, 2022

Learning Target for the year: I can help build a community in the classroom and understand its importance in relation to learning.

Circle: What is your favorite thing at the fair?

New Seating Chart

Seating Chart activity: Introduce yourself and your share you favorite thing to do outside of school and something only someone who lives in your house would know about you.

MB: One thing you think would help people at your table understand about you from Myers-Briggs.

Definition of Psychology: The study of behavior and the mind (mental processes).

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.  Why do you think that Psychology is so worried about being known as a real science?  Why do you think some question the field of psychology?

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

Takeaway:  Psychology today is a science because it uses systematic observations and the collection of data to try to answer questions about the mind, behavior, and their interactions.  Psychology seeks to describe, predict, and explain behavior and the mental processes underlying behavior.  (use Introverts as example and split the room)  In psychology, as in science in general, people tend to accept one theory and proceed under the assumptions of that theory until sufficient data inconsistent with the theory is collected...aka...science.

Learning Target 1: To understand the major psychological perspectives and what they can tell us about ourselves and others.

Learning Target 2: I can explain how Psychology is the study of behavior AND mental processes and I can define and apply the major psychological perspectives.

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

Another Perspective: Evolutionary Psychology

SQ3R: Using your diagram from yesterday explain to you group what you think you will be reading about in the text.  Using the text start the SQ3R process for pages 13-16.  Remember you are trying to be efficient as possible.  

Activity: Evolutionary Psychology

Activity: The Hand...Perspectives. 

Activity: Outrageous Celebrity

Homework: SQ3R Module 2 pages 13-23.  How should you break this assignment up if it is due on Monday?

Next Class- Transcript activity.  Bio-psych-social model