Thursday March 28, 2024

Hand back practice test!

How many days left?  14!

Review!!!

Circle: If you could get rid of one emotion,(happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, fear, and disgust) what would it be and why do you think it would make your life better?

The major theories of motivation? Quizlet

Emotions

Emotions Activity: What is it like to not have normal emotions?

Anti-Social Personality Forum
Online Test

Circle: How many of you questioned yourself about being a sociopath or thought that someone you might know is one?

What are the 

Video:

TEDtalk Stress 


Harvard Study

Stress and Memory  10:56 Mark

What are the long term implications for your health, career, relationships etc.  What did you learn about yourself and what you need to understand?

March 25, 2024

Monday March 25, 2024

Motivation, Emotion and Stress

Seating Chart- one positive thing about your new seat and the people you sit with

Circle: What is stressing you out right now?

New Unit: Motivation, Emotion and Stress...

Slide Show

Activity: True or False

Activity: Intrinsic Motivation and Achievement

Activity: Sensation-Seeking Scale

Activity: An assessment of your present needs

March 18, 2024

Monday March 18, 2024

Circle: One thing you think your parents don't understand/forgot about being a teenager?

Module 42 Slide Show Slides 4 and 10

Module 45 Slide Show

Module 47 Slide Show

Module 48 Slide Show

Module 51 Slide Show

We are going to spend 5 minutes become experts on the following:

Piaget 10 minute mark 

Kohlberg Heinz Dilemma What should he do?

Erik Erickson Activity: I am...

Relate them to your own life:

Piaget-Examples

Kohlberg-Examples

Erik Erikson-Example

Yippee- I am an adult!

Discuss: Do adults sometimes act like a child? What are some examples and what do you think is going on?

What is growing older like? What are some of you biggest fears about becoming an adult?  Where do those fears come from?

What do you want your final years to look like?  What do you picture you last decades of life to look and feel like?

Decades of Life: 6-3

Your table will be rotating around the room and adding to each decade.  We will be reporting this out?  Does this match up with the people you know in the different age categories?

Thinking About Death: 6-9

On your own fill out the questionaire.  

March 13, 2024

Thursday March 13, 2024

Circle: What do you think will be the most difficult part, psychologically, of being an adult and why?

Temperment Survey: What did you learn?

Module 42 Slide Show Slides 4 and 10

Module 45 Slide Show

Module 47 Slide Show

Module 48 Slide Show

Module 51 Slide Show

We are going to spend 5 minutes become experts on the following:

Piaget 10 minute mark

Kohlberg Heinz Dilemma What should he do?

Erik Erickson Activity: I am...

2nd circle question: Your psychology teacher believes that it is next to impossible to be in "love" with another person until successfully completing your identity formation(meaning High School "love" is actually only lust).  Do you agree or disagree?

Target: Understanding Human Development

How does life develop before birth?
What are some newborn abilities, and how do researchers explore infants’ mental abilities?
During infancy and childhood, how do the brain and motor skills develop?
From the perspective of Piaget and today’s researchers, how does a child’s mind develop?
How do parent-infant attachment bonds form?
What physical changes mark adolescence?
How did Piaget, Kohlberg, Erickson, and later researchers describe adolescent cognitive and moral development?
What are the social tasks and challenges of adolescence?
What is emerging adulthood?
What physical changes occur during middle and late adulthood?
How do memory and intelligence change with age?
What themes and influences mark our social journey from early adulthood to death?

Supplemental Video:
Kohlberg's Six Steps to Morality
Gender Roles
Harlow's Study on Monkeys' Attachment
The Strange Situation-Mary Ainsworth
Crash Course: 18  The Growth of Knowledge
Crash Course: 19 Monkeys and Morality
Crash Course: 20 Adolescence

Pre-Natal Slide Show: 
Infant Slide Show: 
Piaget's Stages of Development
Parenting Styles: What would you do differently as a parent?  What do you think is the best way to parent?  After slideshow: How would you describe your parents style?  Is it effective?
Kohlberg's Moral Development
Activity: Heinz's Dilemma
Erik Erikson Stages
Gender Roles

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March 11, 2024

Monday March 11, 2024

WE HAVE 20 CLASS PERIODS UNTIL AP EXAM.  YOU SHOULD BE REVIEWING IN THE PRACTICE BOOK.

Circle Question: If you had to wear the same T-shirt every day for a year and you had to  have one word on it what would that word be?

Look it up: Heritability...Quick

Module 42 Slide Show

Module 45 Slide Show

Module 47 Slide Show

Module 48 Slide Show

Module 51 Slide Show

Activity: True-False

Activity: Landmarks

Temperament Survey: Take the survey yourself and then give the other copy to your parent(s) and have the fill it out but ask them to fill it out for what your personality was like when you were 2-3 years old.  Then have a conversation about what has changed about your personality and what has remained the same. 

Supplemental Video:

Kohlberg's Six Steps to Morality

Gender Roles

The Trolley Problem
Harlow's Monkeys
Harlow's Study on Monkeys' Attachment
The Strange Situation-Mary Ainsworth
Crash Course: 18  The Growth of Knowledge
Crash Course: 19 Monkeys and Morality
Crash Course: 20 Adolescence
Inside the Teenage Brain

• Erik Erikson
• Carol Gilligan
• Harry Harlow
• Lawrence Kohlberg
• Jean Piaget
• Lev Vygotsky
• Habituation
• Maturation
• Assimilation
• Accommodation
• Object permanence
• Conservation
• Egocentrism
• Attachment
• Imprinting
• Temperament
• Self-concept
• Gender role
• Gender identity
• Social identity

March 7, 2024

Thursday March 7, 2024

Homework: SQ3R Modules 42 and 42.  This is due Monday.

Circle: If you could choose an area of your life to be more intelligent about what would it be and why?  Examples: 

Working definition of Intelligence: The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.

Circle: You are smarter than some people and not as smart as others.  What does "smart" mean in this context?  Write down you answer first.

Dealing with troublesome teenagers...

I had a conversation with a teacher recently who said that we should give kids a test going into middle school and divide them up between kids who are going to college and kids who should go into the trades or workforce.  

Turn and Talk: How should we use testing of intelligence in schools, college and the workplace?

Turn and Talk: Kindergarten Teachers and predicting students success.

Turn and Talk: Kids drop out in 2nd grade and the process is only formalized in HS

Learning Target: 37-1 

-Discuss the definition of intelligence and the present the arguments for g.

-Compare Gardner's and Sternberg's theories of multiple intelligences, and discuss criticisms they have faced.

-Describe the four components of emotional intelligence.

Activity: What is intelligence? The question on each of these;  Is this intelligence?

Kim Peek
Stephen Wilshire
Kelvin Doe 

Howard Gardener's Multiple Intelligences

Crash Course: Controversy of Intelligence

Terms to know for test:

• Intelligence
• g
• fluid/crystalized intelligence
• Factor Analysis
• Howard Gardner
• Robert Sternberg
• Emotional intelligence
• Alfred Binet
• Stanford-Binet & Wechsler
• IQ
• Validity
• Reliability
• Standardization
• Normal distribution
• Stereotype Threat
• heritability/coefficient

Turn and Talk:  How many of you immediatly asked after the IQ test thursday how others did?  How did taking the test and the subsequent score make you feel?

What you should know.

TEDtalk: None of the Above

Learning Target: Module 37 Introduction of Intelligence

-Discuss the definition of intelligence and the present the arguments for g.

-Compare Gardner's and Sternberg's theories of multiple intelligences, and discuss criticisms they have faced.

-Describe the four components of emotional intelligence.

Learning Targets: Module 38 Assessing Intelligence

-Describe the characteristics of an intelligence test, and distinguish between achievement and aptitude tests.

-Discuss when and why intelligence tests were created, and explain how today's tests differ from early intelligence tests.

-Describe the normal curve, and explain standardization, reliability and validity.

Learning Targets : Module 39 The dynamics of intelligence

-Analyze how again affects crystalized and fluid intelligence.

-Define cross-sectional studies, and explain why it is important to know which method was used.

-Describe the stability of intelligence test scores over the lifespan.

-Discuss the traits of those at the low and high intelligence extremes.

March 6, 2024

Monday March 6, 2024

Circle: If you could choose an area of your life to be more intelligent about what would it be and why?  Examples: 

Vocabulary Quiz

Go over practice test.  Questions?  Impressions?

Working definition of Intelligence: The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.

Circle: You are smarter than some people and not as smart as others.  What does "smart" mean in this context?  Write down you answer first.

Circle: If you had the choice between  having more intelligence or being more likable which would you choose and why?

Turn and Talk:  How should we use testing of intelligence in schools, college and the workplace?

Learning Target: 37-1 

-Discuss the definition of intelligence and the present the arguments for g.

-Compare Gardner's and Sternberg's theories of multiple intelligences, and discuss criticisms they have faced.

-Describe the four components of emotional intelligence.

Activity: What is intelligence? The question on each of these;  Is this intelligence?

Kim Peek
Stephen Wilshire
Kelvin Doe 

Crash Course Intelligence

Howard Gardener's Multiple Intelligences

Crash Course: Controversy of Intelligence

Terms to know for test:

• Intelligence
• g
• Factor Analysis
• Howard Gardner
• Robert Sternberg
• Emotional intelligence
• Alfred Binet
• Stanford-Binet & Wechsler
• IQ
• Validity
• Reliability
• Standardization
• Normal distribution
• Stereotype Threat

Turn and Talk:  How many of you immediatly asked after the IQ test thursday how others did?  How did taking the test and the subsequent score make you feel?

TEDtalk: None of the Above

Learning Target: Module 37 Introduction of Intelligence

-Discuss the definition of intelligence and the present the arguments for g.

-Compare Gardner's and Sternberg's theories of multiple intelligences, and discuss criticisms they have faced.

-Describe the four components of emotional intelligence.

Learning Targets: Module 38 Assessing Intelligence

-Describe the characteristics of an intelligence test, and distinguish between achievement and aptitude tests.

-Discuss when and why intelligence tests were created, and explain how today's tests differ from early intelligence tests.

-Describe the normal curve, and explain standardization, reliability and validity.

Learning Targets : Module 39 The dynamics of intelligence

-Analyze how again affects crystalized and fluid intelligence.

-Define cross-sectional studies, and explain why it is important to know which method was used.

-Describe the stability of intelligence test scores over the lifespan.

-Discuss the traits of those at the low and high intelligence extremes.