February 29, 2024

Thursday February 29, 2024

Vocabulary Quiz on Monday.  This is recall, not multiple choice.

24 Green Days including today till AP Exam!!!!

Circle: Who is the smartest person you know.  How would you describe their intelligence? 

Module 36 Slideshow

Vocabulary for  Modules 34-36

Definitions and examples

Intelligence and Testing: Moving to Princeton Review to finish part 2 of Cognition Unit but I strongly encourage you to read Modules 37-40 which are on pages 402-432

Review Approaches from Princeton: Unit 2 part 1 and Unit 2 part 2

What you should be studying right now.  For Monday you will complete the first practice test in the AP Study guide.  You will be trying to simulate as real test conditions as you can.  

1. Please find a quiet space and sit at a table, not in your bed.

2. Set a timer for 70 minutes.  This is for the multiple choice section only.  Please keep track of time and pause it if you have to go to something and restart when you return.  Understand the pacing is key.  

3. Set a timer for 50 minutes and answer the two Free-response questions.

4. After correcting the test use the self evaluation on page 32 to figure out where you need to focus.  Remember you will not know all of the material yet since we haven't covered it.

5. On page 59 complete the scoring sheet.

6. This will be checked for a quiz grade.

February 26, 2024

February 26, 2024

Hand back quizzes

Vocabulary for  Modules 34-36

New Seating Chart

Seating Chart: Activity-Share one thing  you have come to think differently about yourself (an insight) or about people around you.

Circle: Something you wish was true?

Link below has all the learning targets for unit on Cognition.  It also contains a list of vocabulary words.  The vocabulary list should not be considered exhaustive as there my be other words in the units you should know.  Learning Targets  and Vocabulary

Activity: Look up the definitions of each of these concepts at your table.(Confirmation Bias, Mental Set, Representative Heuristic, Base-Rate Fallacy and the Availability Heuristic)  You will have 10 minutes to come up with a definition in your own words and an example from someone at your table that explains these concepts at work(example-when you know you had a confirmation bias about something).  These explanations and examples should be made into your notecards.  You will be presenting these to the class.  You will also be voting on best 

Review Approaches from Princeton: Unit 2 part 1 and Unit 2 part 2

Activity: Heuristic's and how they turn into Mind Traps. 1. Cognitive Dissonance 2. Spotlight Effect. 3. The Anchoring effect 4. Halo Effect 5. Gamblers Fallacy 6. Confirmation Bias 7. The paradox of choice

Definitions and examples

Student Activity: M35: Problem-Solving Strategies 

Student Activity: M35: Fact or Falsehood? 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: Dice Games to Demonstrate Problem Solving 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: Confirmation Bias 

Student Activity: M35: Confirmation and Custody Decisions 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: Demonstrating Mental Set 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: The Representativeness Heuristic 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: The Base-Rate Fallacy 

Student Activity: M35: The Availability Heuristic 

Student Activity: M35: Belief Bias 

Student Activity: M35: Framing Decisions 

Student Activity: M35: Risk Averse Versus Loss Averse 

Problem Solving

Module 35

February 14, 2024

Wednesday February 14, 2024 

Circle: TBA

Quiz on Memory

Reminder about homework due after break.

February 15, 2024

Thursday February 15, 2024

Circle: Every year our top students leave OHCHS and head off to college.  A lot go into nursing.  Why don't they go on to be doctors?

Link below has all the learning targets for unit on Cognition.  It also contains a list of vocabulary words.  The vocabulary list should not be considered exhaustive as there my be other words in the units you should know.  Learning Targets  and Vocabulary

Activity: Look up the definitions of each of these concepts at your table.(Confirmation Bias, Mental Set, Representative Heuristic, Base-Rate Fallacy and the Availability Heuristic)  You will have 10 minutes to come up with a definition in your own words and an example from someone at your table that explains these concepts at work(example-when you know you had a confirmation bias about something).  These explanations and examples should be made into your notecards.  You will be presenting these to the class.  You will also be voting on best 

Review Approaches from Princeton: Unit 2 part 1 and Unit 2 part 2

Activity: Heuristic's and how they turn into Mind Traps. 1. Cognitive Dissonance 2. Spotlight Effect. 3. The Anchoring effect 4. Halo Effect 5. Gamblers Fallacy 6. Confirmation Bias 7. The paradox of choice

Definitions and examples

Student Activity: M35: Problem-Solving Strategies 

Student Activity: M35: Fact or Falsehood? 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: Dice Games to Demonstrate Problem Solving 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: Confirmation Bias 

Student Activity: M35: Confirmation and Custody Decisions 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: Demonstrating Mental Set 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: The Representativeness Heuristic 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: The Base-Rate Fallacy 

Student Activity: M35: The Availability Heuristic 

Student Activity: M35: Belief Bias 

Student Activity: M35: Framing Decisions 

Student Activity: M35: Risk Averse Versus Loss Averse 

Problem Solving

Module 35

February 14, 2024

Wednesday February 14, 2024 

Circle: TBA

Quiz on Memory

Reminder about homework due after break.

February 12, 2024

Monday February 12, 2024

Quiz over Modules 31, 32, and 33 on Wednesday

Homework that is due when we get back from break: Modules 34, 35 and 36 on pages 365-392.

Circle: TBA

How do we want to study:  Lets look at what is available to us.  Wow!  You mean everything I need to know about encoding, storage and retrieval is all over the internet?

Vocabulary, Quizlet, Crash Course, Practice Quiz, Kahoots

Memory-the persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information

Three basic steps in the information processing model: Encoding, storage and retrieval.

Module 31

Activity: Can you answer these questions?

1. What is memory and how is it measured?

2. How do psychologists describe the human memory system?

3. How do explicit and implicit memories differ?

4. What information do we process automatically?

5. How does sensory memory work?

6. What is our short-term and working memory capacity?

Module 32

1. What is the capacity of long-term memory?  Are our long-term memories processed and stored in specific locations?

2. What roles do the frontal lobes and hippocampus play in memory processing?

3. What roles do the cerebellum and basal ganglia play in memory processing?

4. How do emotions affect our memory processing?

5. How do changes at the synapse level affect our memory processing?

6. How do external cues, internal emotions, and order of appearance influence memory retrieval?

Student Activity: M32: Fact or Falsehood?
Student Activity: M32: Flashbulb Memory
Student Activity: M32: Retrieval Cues
Teacher Demonstration: M32: Expertise and Retrieval Rates 
Student Activity: M32: Serial Position Effects in Recall

Module 33

1. Explain why we forget.

2. Discuss how misinformation, imagination, and source amnesia influence our memory construction, and describe how we decide whether a memory is real or false.

3. Analyze why reports of repressed and recovered memories have been so hotly debated.

4. Describe the reliability of young children's eyewitness descriptions.

5. Discuss how you can use memory research findings to do better in this and other courses.

Activity: How good is your memory? You will be testing your memory using something that you think you know very well.  How good is you memory and what could you do to improve it?  Blank Home Screen, Default Screen, List your app library in order.

Thought Question: Do you think it's possible that someone could convince you that you had committed a crime, even for a crime that never happened?  What do you think is wrong with someone who confesses to a crime they didn't commit?

Memory Hackers

1. What are some of the most surprising ways that people have been able to enhance their memories according to the documentary "Memory Hackers"?

2. How do scientists believe that memories are formed and stored in the brain, and what implications does this have for memory hacking?

3. What role does the hippocampus play in memory formation, and how have researchers been able to manipulate it to enhance or erase memories?

4. What are some of the ethical concerns surrounding memory hacking, and how do researchers plan to address them?

5. How have people with conditions like PTSD and Alzheimer's disease been able to benefit from memory hacking techniques?

6. What impact do emotions have on memory formation, and how have scientists been able to manipulate emotional responses to enhance memories?

7. How have individuals been able to use technology like brain implants and virtual reality to enhance their memories, and what are some of the limitations of these techniques?

8. What have researchers learned from studying individuals with exceptional memories, and how might these findings be applied to memory hacking?

9. What are some of the potential future applications of memory hacking, and how might they impact society?

10. How have ancient memory techniques, like the method of loci, been used and adapted in modern memory hacking?

February 9, 2024

Thursday February 9, 2024

Hand Back Tests: Learning

Homework due for Thursday: 350-364

Circle: 1.What suggestions to you have for me that would help you to understand the material?  What improvements do you think you need to make?  2. Beach or lake?

Memory-the persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information

Three basic steps in the information processing model: Encoding, storage and retrieval.

Module 31

Activity: Can you answer these questions?

1. What is memory and how is it measured?

2. How do psychologists describe the human memory system?

3. How do explicit and implicit memories differ?

4. What information do we process automatically?

5. How does sensory memory work?

6. What is our short-term and working memory capacity?

Module 32

1. What is the capacity of long-term memory?  Are our long-term memories processed and stored in specific locations?

2. What roles do the frontal lobes and hippocampus play in memory processing?

3. What roles do the cerebellum and basal ganglia play in memory processing?

4. How do emotions affect our memory processing?

5. How do changes at the synapse level affect our memory processing?

6. How do external cues, internal emotions, and order of appearance influence memory retrieval?

Student Activity: M32: Fact or Falsehood?
Student Activity: M32: Flashbulb Memory
Student Activity: M32: Retrieval Cues
Teacher Demonstration: M32: Expertise and Retrieval Rates 
Student Activity: M32: Serial Position Effects in Recall

Module 33

1. Explain why we forget.

2. Discuss how misinformation, imagination, and source amnesia influence our memory construction, and describe how we decide whether a memory is real or false.

3. Analyze why reports of repressed and recovered memories have been so hotly debated.

4. Describe the reliability of young children's eyewitness descriptions.

5. Discuss how you can use memory research findings to do better in this and other courses.

Activity: How good is your memory? You will be testing your memory using something that you think you know very well.  How good is you memory and what could you do to improve it?  Blank Home Screen, Default Screen, List your app library in order.

Thought Question: Do you think it's possible that someone could convince you that you had committed a crime, even for a crime that never happened?  What do you think is wrong with someone who confesses to a crime they didn't commit?

Memory Hackers

1. What are some of the most surprising ways that people have been able to enhance their memories according to the documentary "Memory Hackers"?

2. How do scientists believe that memories are formed and stored in the brain, and what implications does this have for memory hacking?

3. What role does the hippocampus play in memory formation, and how have researchers been able to manipulate it to enhance or erase memories?

4. What are some of the ethical concerns surrounding memory hacking, and how do researchers plan to address them?

5. How have people with conditions like PTSD and Alzheimer's disease been able to benefit from memory hacking techniques?

6. What impact do emotions have on memory formation, and how have scientists been able to manipulate emotional responses to enhance memories?

7. How have individuals been able to use technology like brain implants and virtual reality to enhance their memories, and what are some of the limitations of these techniques?

8. What have researchers learned from studying individuals with exceptional memories, and how might these findings be applied to memory hacking?

9. What are some of the potential future applications of memory hacking, and how might they impact society?

10. How have ancient memory techniques, like the method of loci, been used and adapted in modern memory hacking?

February 5, 2024

Monday February 5, 2024

Homework Due Today: 339-347

Homework due for Thursday: 350-364

Circle: What is more important- your experiences or your memories of them?

Memory-the persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information

Three basic steps in the information processing model: Encoding, storage and retrieval.

Module 31

Activity: Can you answer these questions?

1. What is memory and how is it measured?

2. How do psychologists describe the human memory system?

3. How do explicit and implicit memories differ?

4. What information do we process automatically?

5. How does sensory memory work?

6. What is our short-term and working memory capacity?

Module 32

1. What is the capacity of long-term memory?  Are our long-term memories processed and stored in specific locations?

2. What roles do the frontal lobes and hippocampus play in memory processing?

3. What roles do the cerebellum and basal ganglia play in memory processing?

4. How do emotions affect our memory processing?

5. How do changes at the synapse level affect our memory processing?

6. How do external cues, internal emotions, and order of appearance influence memory retrieval?

Student Activity: M32: Fact or Falsehood?
Student Activity: M32: Flashbulb Memory
Student Activity: M32: Retrieval Cues
Teacher Demonstration: M32: Expertise and Retrieval Rates 
Student Activity: M32: Serial Position Effects in Recall

Thought Question: Do you think it's possible that someone could convince you that you had committed a crime, even for a crime that never happened?  What do you think is wrong with someone who confesses to a crime they didn't commit?

Memory Hackers

1. What are some of the most surprising ways that people have been able to enhance their memories according to the documentary "Memory Hackers"?

2. How do scientists believe that memories are formed and stored in the brain, and what implications does this have for memory hacking?

3. What role does the hippocampus play in memory formation, and how have researchers been able to manipulate it to enhance or erase memories?

4. What are some of the ethical concerns surrounding memory hacking, and how do researchers plan to address them?

5. How have people with conditions like PTSD and Alzheimer's disease been able to benefit from memory hacking techniques?

6. What impact do emotions have on memory formation, and how have scientists been able to manipulate emotional responses to enhance memories?

7. How have individuals been able to use technology like brain implants and virtual reality to enhance their memories, and what are some of the limitations of these techniques?

8. What have researchers learned from studying individuals with exceptional memories, and how might these findings be applied to memory hacking?

9. What are some of the potential future applications of memory hacking, and how might they impact society?

10. How have ancient memory techniques, like the method of loci, been used and adapted in modern memory hacking?

February 1, 2024

Friday February 1, 2024

Homework: 339-347

Circle: One part of your daily routine do you wish you could get rid of?

Three basic steps in the information processing model: Encoding, storage and retrieval

New Unit: Cognition:Memory-the persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information.

The Brain with David Eagleman

Introduce Memory: "If you lose the ability to recall your old memories then you have no life. You might as well be a rutabaga or a cabbage." 

What perspective??? all forms of knowing and awareness, such as perceiving, conceiving, remembering, reasoning, judging, imagining, and problem solving.

Activities: Encoding

Memory Slides

Activity: Revisit the Hand

Student Activity: M31: Semantic Encoding of Pictures (Semantic and Visual)

Student Activity: M31: Fact or Falsehood?

Student Activity: M31: Remembering the Seven Dwarfs (Recall vs. Recognition) -LTM

Student Activity: M31: Memory Capacity (Seven, Plus or Minus 2)-STM

Student Activity: M31: Meaningful Chunks (Chunking)

Student Activity: M31: Method of Loci 

Student Activity: M31: Meaning and Memory (Context)

Student Activity: M31: The Self-Reference Effect