October 30, 2023

Monday October 30, 2023

Neuron Model: If you don't have a grade its either because you didn't do it or you didn't put you name on it.  Please let me know.

Circle: Say you’re independently wealthy and don’t have to work, what would you do with your time?

Homework: SQ3R 109-119

Test on Monday November 6: Module 9-12

Explore the Brain

Learning Targets: I can explain/understand:

What are neurons, and how do they transmit information? Myelin sheath

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?

Unit: Biological Bases of Behavior

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

Power Point

Domino Neuron Analogy

2 Minute Neuroscience- The Neuron

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

Why are people so afraid of clowns?

Kahoot

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

October 19, 2023

Thursday October 19, 2023

New Seating Chart and Activity

New Seating Chart and Activity. You will be designing, and building and flying a paper airplane with you new group.  1.  You will first do introductions and explain if you are an introvert or an extrovert.  2. You will come up with a plan to make sure that everyone is included in the building and designing of the plane.  3.  You will be asked how you made sure that everyone had a say in how the plane was designed and built and how the CNS and PNS interact to throw the paper airplane.  Your plane will be judged on distance with the 1st, 2nd and 3 place are getting a prize!  

Building a neuron model:  Due Today.  Please make sure it has all the parts labeled and an explanation of what each part does.

Homework due today: SQ3R  pages 98-107 is due Monday.  This module is heavy memorization.  You should consider making notecards as you go.

Circle: A concert that you would really like to see?  It can be current or past band.

Unit 3: The Brain-Everything Psychological is simultaneously Biological

Mind Body Connection Activity:  Check in on extra credit assignment.

Module 9 slide show: Biological Basis for Behavior

Activity: Create a notecard that has a definition of Action Potential.  This can have drawings, examples from class, notes, online examples, etc.  Share at your table and nominate the one that has the clearest, most understandable definition.

Module 10 slide show: The Nervous and Endocrine Systems

Activity: With you table, map out what has to happen in order for you to attempt to catch the note card using your understanding of the nervous system.

Activity: True/False

Learning Targets: I can explain/understand:

What are neurons, and how do they transmit information? Myelin sheath

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?

Practice Quiz

Module 9 and 10 Vocabulary you should know.

neuron

cell body

dendrites

axon

myelin sheath

glial cells

action potential

threshold

refractory period

all-or-none response

synapse

neurotransmitters

reuptake

endorphins

agonist

antagonist

Module10

nervous system

central nervous system (CNS)

peripheral nervous system (PNS)

nerves

sensory neurons

motor neurons

interneurons

somatic nervous system

autonomic nervous system

sympathetic nervous system

parasympathetic nervous system

reflex

endocrine system

hormones

adrenal glands

pituitary gland (master gland)

Monday October 16, 2023

Monday October 16, 2023

Building a neuron model:  Due Thursday October 19th.  

Homework: SQ3R  pages 91-97 for Wednesday.  

Circle: What is one band or artist that you are currently listening to?

Unit 3: The Brain-Everything Psychological is simultaneously Biological

Mind Body Connection Activity:  We know that everything psychological is simultaneously biological. 
Harvard Study
Shawn Achor Video

Extra Credit

Mind-body connection: At your table, discuss how would psychologist using only the biological perspective would explain depression.  How would another psychologist explain it using the biopsychsocial model?

Module 9 slide show

Activity: Create a notecard that has a definition of Action Potential.  This can have drawings, examples from class, notes, online examples, etc.  Share at your table and nominate the one that has the clearest, most understandable definition.

Activity: True/False

Learning Targets: I can explain/understand:

What are neurons, and how do they transmit information? Myelin sheath

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?

ACES Video

Your ACE's score: Does it surprise you?

Image of Neuron

Thursday, October 12, 2023

Thursday, October 12, 2023

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

Unit 3: The Brain-Everything Psychological is simultaneously Biological

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

Module 9 slide show

Mind-body connection: Using example from page 79 of the Chinese transplant surgeon how would you answer the following questions?  1. Would Wang still be Wang?  2.  After recovering whose home should he return to?  3.  If he had specialized skills like music, would Wang retain that skill or is it dependent on the new body's muscle memory?  4.  If Wang was to later father a child, whom should the birth certificate list as the father?  

Learning Targets: I can explain/understand

What are neurons, and how do they transmit information? Myelin sheet

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?

Homework: SQ3R  pages 79-89.  This is a big assignment.  You should break it up into three days.

Building a neuron model:  Due Tuesday October 17th

Activity: True/False

Activity: Reaction Time

Activity: Cross hands and confuse brain

Mind Body Connection Activity:  We know that everything psychological is simultaneously biological.  What implications can you draw about the brain and its structure from the following three examples:  In groups of three what are some of the implications of the following information?

Shawn Achor Video

Harvard Study

NPR Story:
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/09/29/444451363/childhood-stress-may-prime-pump-for-chronic-disease-later

ACES Video

Your ACE's score: Does it surprise you?

Image of Neuron

October 11, 2023

 Wednesday October 11, 2023

Circle: One thing you would change about the school that you think would improve it.

Test: Research in Psychology

Homework: SQ3R pages 79-89

October 5, 2023

Thursday October 5, 2023

Circle: What is you go to sub or sandwich?

Study Tips...Word Bank Study Guide

Study Questions

Normal Curve

Ethics

Variables in experiments

Correlations

The Normal Curve

Activity: Packet from Thursday

Activity 2-19: Ethics in psychological research.

Research Methods: Zimbardo Video

Activity:  1) Screen time and GPA- you will be setting up an experiment and naming all the parts to determine if the amount of screen time can affect your GPA.  You will need to develop thesis, operationally define the experiment,  replication, population,  random sampling, correlation, causation, correlation coefficent, and scatterplots.  2) Then you will design an experiment that will try to determine how much a new medication for concentrating  can impact GPA by creating an experiment and all its parts. Your experiment must address the following, random assignment, double blind procedure, placebo effect, experimental group, control group, independent variable, confounding variable and dependent variable.

Report out at your table- I Can...

1. Recognizing problems and solutions in research

2. Understanding Scientific Method- Lunch room experiment

-Theory: Class rank does more harm than good in education.  

-Hypothesis?

-Operational Definition?

-Replication

-Descriptive(survey, naturalistic, case studies)

Correlational: A measure of the extent to which two factors vary together, and thus how well either factor predicts the the other.

-Understanding positive and negative correlations 6.2

-Correlation does not mean causation

3. Differentiate Correlation and Experimentation

-Correlation vs. Causation: Firemen and fires, Ice cream and drowning, Shoes and headaches.

-Boys with Unpopular names...

-Using a scatterplot

4. Explain Research design and ethics

-True or False

-Identifying IV's and DV's

-Experiments slide show

-Research Methods Ethics: 8 minute mark Zimbardo Video

5. Use Statistical Reasoning

Kahoot

October 2, 2023

Monday October 2, 2023

Section Name	Students	Join Code
3	0	WNQ6MP
4	0	9DXGVN

 Exam Day May 9, 2024

Go to Course & Exam pages 

Study Tips...Word Bank

Study Questions

Circle: If you were going on a long road trip, who would you bring to keep you entertained?

Activity: Packet from Thursday

Correlation vs. Causation: Firemen and fires, Ice cream and drowning, Shoes and headaches.

Activity 2-19: Ethics in psychological research.

Statistics

Research Methods: Zimbardo Video

Activity:  1) Screen time and GPA- you will be setting up an experiment and naming all the parts to determine if the amount of screen time can affect your GPA.  You will need to develop thesis, operationally define the experiment,  replication, population,  random sampling, correlation, causation, correlation coefficent, and scatterplots.  2) Then you will design an experiment that will try to determine how much a new medication for concentrating  can impact GPA by creating an experiment and all its parts. Your experiment must address the following, random assignment, double blind procedure, placebo effect, experimental group, control group, independent variable, confounding variable and dependent variable.

Study Guide

Report out at your table- I Can...

1. Recognizing problems and solutions in research

2. Understanding Scientific Method- Lunch room experiment

-Theory: Class rank does more harm than good in education.  

-Hypothesis?

-Operational Definition?

-Replication

-Descriptive(survey, naturalistic, case studies)

Correlational: A measure of the extent to which two factors vary together, and thus how well either factor predicts the the other.

-Understanding positive and negative correlations 6.2

-Correlation does not mean causation

3. Differentiate Correlation and Experimentation

-Correlation vs. Causation: Firemen and fires, Ice cream and drowning, Shoes and headaches.

-Boys with Unpopular names...

-Using a scatterplot

4. Explain Research design and ethics

-True or False

-Identifying IV's and DV's

-Experiments slide show

-Research Methods Ethics: 8 minute mark Zimbardo Video

5. Use Statistical Reasoning