Monday, October 31, 2022

October 31, 2022

Monday October 31, 2022

Circle: Which is something you wish you were better at: being a risk-taker?  More understanding?  More assertive? 

Options: Friday.  Where we are right now.  Where we are going.  AP sign up.

Unit: Biological Bases of Behavior

Point to remember!!!- Everything psychological is simultaneously biological.

Homework Due: SQ3R to page 106.  

Activity: True or False

Activity:  "Hands on" Portable brain model.  

Research: mnemonic devices for brain structures.  You will be reporting out what you found.

Activity: Case study in Neuroanatomy. Diagram of brain

Homework: SQ3R 109-119



Thursday, October 27, 2022

October 26, 2022

Thursday October 26, 2022

Circle: What concert would you love to see right now?

Unit: Biological Bases of Behavior

Point to remember!!!- Everything psychological is simultaneously biological.

Homework: SQ3R to page 106 for Monday.  Please break this up over multiple days.  

Power Point

Domino Neuron Analogy

2 Minute Neuroscience- The Neuron

Quiz Thursday over the Neuron: 50% picture, 50% quiz.  Your drawing will contain all the parts of the neuron, labeled and function explained.  You will also be responsible for understanding the vocabulary from Module 1.  These should already be made into notecards.

Crash Course

Get to you know your nervous system

Divisions of the Nervous System

2 Minute Neuroscience- Division of the Nervous System

Psych for kids


Vocabulary for this unit and which should be turned into notecards:

Monday, October 24, 2022

October 24, 2022

Monday October 24, 2022

Circle: What candy did you hate getting at Halloween?

Unit: Biological Bases of Behavior

Point to remember!!!- Everything psychological is simultaneously biological.

The Brain- David Eagleman

Homework Due: SQ3R 80-89  Due today!

Activity: True or False

Reaction Time: Neural Transmission and mental process.

Power Point

Quiz Thursday over the Neuron: 50% picture, 50% quiz.  Your drawing will contain all the parts of the neuron, labeled and function explained.  You will also be responsible for understanding the vocabulary from Module 1.  These should already be made into notecards.


Vocabulary for this unit and which should be turned into notecards:

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

October 19, 2022

Wednesday October 19, 2022

Circle: What is your least favorite pet and why?

New Seating Chart/Activity: One food taste you all agree is yucky

New Unit: Biological Bases of Behavior

Point to remember!!!- Everything psychological is simultaneously biological.

What is reality?

Homework Due: SQ3R 80-89  Please break this up into two days.  

Activity: True or False

Tedtalk: Why we laughWhy school should start later for teens.

Why are you laughing?  East bound and down

SQ3R 91-97 for Monday

Vocabulary for this unit and which should be turned into notecards:

Monday, October 17, 2022

October 17, 2022

Monday October 17, 2022

Circle: How confident are you about your studying?

You have a test todayMonday October 17th on Psychological Research Unit.  If you haven't logged into the AP Classroom and created an account you need to do that ASAP so you will be signed up to take the AP Exam at the end of the year.

Lets incentivize...If you have your notes and notecards Monday, the worst you can do on the exam is a 78.  If you have those and you faithfully get together with at least one other person from either class and study together for at least 30 minutes, hopefully longer, the worst you can get is a an 80!

15 Minutes to study and ask questions

Take Test

New Unit: Biological Bases of Behavior

Point to remember!!!- Everything psychological is simultaneously biological.

Tedtalk: Why we laugh. Why school should start later for teens.

Homework: SQ3R 80-89  Please break this up into two days.  

Vocabulary for this unit and which should be turned into notecards:

neuron

cell body

dendrites

axon

myelin sheath

glial cells

action potential

threshold

refractory period

all-or-none response

synapse

neurotransmitters

reuptake

endorphins

agonist

antagonist

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

October 13, 2022

Thursday October 13, 2022

Announcements:  Please read

Test Monday October 17th on Psychological Research Unit.  There will be a least 5 questions from the previous quiz so please make sure you review your old quiz.  How to study?  What is you plan?  Let's create it right now.  What are our resources?

If you haven't logged into the AP Classroom and created an account you need to do that ASAP so you will be signed up to take the AP Exam at the end of the year.

Lets incentivize...If you have your notes and notecards Monday, the worst you can do on the exam is a 78.  If you have those and you faithfully get together with at least one other person from either class and study together for at least 30 minutes, hopefully longer, the worst you can get is a an 80!

Learning Targets:  I Can...

1. Recognizing problems and solutions in research(Module 4)

2. Understanding Scientific Method(Module 5)

3. Differentiate Correlation and Experimentation(Module 6)

4. Explain Research design and ethics(Module 7)

5. Use Statistical Reasoning(Module 8)

Circle: Would you like it if someone threw you a surprise party?  Why or why not.

Power Point: Understanding Statistics

Ethics: This you need to study on your own.

Practice Test.  30 minutes to take test.  You will be working on this at your table with you group.  Please work through as quickly as possible.

Handout 2-3 and 2-4

Here is the Vocabulary for Unit 1.  These should all be turned into notecards.  These will be due on the day of the test which will be Monday October 17th.

Ethics in psychological research.

This video is old but does a good job of explain the science behind Psychology and should be watched before the exam on Monday. 

Zimbardo Video

Wednesday, October 5, 2022

October 6, 2022

Thursday October 6, 2022

Today you will have a substitute teacher teaching the class.  Please follow along with the directions.  Please start the class with the circle and explain to the teacher how it works.  Please choose one student to start the circle.  Please impress the substitute teacher with how good you are about staying off your phones.

Circle: Name one thing that older adults don't understand about teenagers these days. 

After circle get back into your groups.   In groups please review the learning targets below and make sure you understand what is assigned for homework.

Learning Targets:  I Can...

1. Recognizing problems and solutions in research(Module 4)

2. Understanding Scientific Method(Module 5)

3. Differentiate Correlation and Experimentation(Module 6)

4. Explain Research design and ethics(Module 7)

5. Use Statistical Reasoning(Module 8)

Remember for homework you need to complete Modules 6, 7 and 8 for next Wednesday.  Please break these assignments into multiple days.  It's a lot of information.

Here is the Vocabulary for Unit 1.  These should all be turned into notecards.  These will be due on the day of the quiz which a date has not been determined yet.

Once everyone is up to date you will choose one person to plug their computer in to TV and show the following video link listed below on the TV.  You might have to check settings on computer for it to show on TV.  Go to settings,  click the display icon and then check the box that allows mirroring.  I know you can do this.

 This video is old but does a good job of explain the science behind Psychology. 

Zimbardo Video

After video is over please make sure everyone has a copy of the data for the activity below.  At your table with you group look over the activity and then begin.  You can use a paper copy or use the link provided below

Link to spread sheet

Please read and understand ALL directions below before you begin.  Have one person at your group check in with group members to make sure everyone understands what you are doing.

Activity:  Schools and experts have been trying to figure out how to improve student achievement at school.  Experts study all kinds of information and now you can too. You will be determining how much attendance is related to your grades using actual data from our school. The data contains 2006 Class Rank, Grade Average, and Days Absent Senior Year.  You will be examining if there is a connection between how much a student attends and how they do in school.    Even though you will be working on this with your table group, each person at your table will be keeping their own answers and will submit what you completed to me next Wednesday.  Please make sure you are in groups of at least 3-4 people.  Move to a group if you don't have enough people.   If you can't figure out how to do a particular question please ask around the room.  If no one can figure it out move on to the next question.  You will need your textbook or internet to look up what some of the terms are.


1. Your group  will need to develop HYPOTHESIS.  Do you think there is a connection between grades and attendance?

2. OPERATIONALLY DEFINE the experiment.

3.  Why would you want this study REPLICATED? 

4.  Who is the POPULATION you are studying?

5. How will you make sure that you RANDOMLY SAMPLED the data?  Hint- you won't be looking at every single line.   

6. Create a SCATTERPLOT the the data( to do this you will need to look up how to set up a scatterplot).  

7. Determine if there is a CORRELATION. 

8. Does this mean that attendance CAUSES difference in grades?

9.  Make a determination about the connection between attendance and grades.  

THANK YOU FOR BEING SUCH GREAT KIDS AND BEING KIND TO THE SUBSTITUTE.