March 31, 2025

Monday March 31, 2025

Circle: If you could make one thing illegal, just because it annoys you, what would it be?

Homework: SQ3R 300-316 for Monday.  If you haven't done this you need to have it done for Thursday when we will be quizzing and working on the AEQ

Psychological Definition of Learning: A relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience. 

Definition of Classical Conditioning: We learn to associate two stimuli and thus to anticipate events.

Definition of Operant Conditioning: Organisms associate their own actions with consequences.  Actions followed by reinforcers increase; those followed by punishment often decrease.

Definition of Observational Learning: is the process of learning by watching and imitating the behaviors of others, retaining the information, and then later replicating those behaviors. 

Questions:

What are some basic forms of learning?

What is classical conditioning, and how did Pavlov’s work influence behaviorism?

In classical conditioning, what are the processes of acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization, and discrimination?

Why is Pavlov’s work important?

What is operant conditioning, and how does it differ from classical conditioning?

What are the basic types of reinforcers?

How do different reinforcement schedules affect behavior?

How does punishment affect behavior?

Do cognitive processes and biological constraints affect operant conditioning?

What is observational learning, and how is it enabled by mirror neurons?

Module 26

Module 27

Module 28

Module 29

Module 30

Discovering Psychology: Learning

Practice Quiz

Quiz on Thursday

March 27, 2025

Thursday March 27, 2025

Circle: Where do you want to be living when you are 30 years old?

Homework: SQ3R 300-316 for Monday

Psychological Definition of Learning: A relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience. 

Definition of Classical Conditioning: We learn to associate two stimuli and thus to anticipate events.

Definition of Operant Conditioning: Organisms associate their own actions with consequences.  Actions followed by reinforcers increase; those followed by punishment often decrease.

Questions:

What are some basic forms of learning?

What is classical conditioning, and how did Pavlov’s work influence behaviorism?

In classical conditioning, what are the processes of acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization, and discrimination?

Why is Pavlov’s work important?

What is operant conditioning, and how does it differ from classical conditioning?

What are the basic types of reinforcers?

How do different reinforcement schedules affect behavior?

How does punishment affect behavior?

Do cognitive processes and biological constraints affect operant conditioning?

What is observational learning, and how is it enabled by mirror neurons?

Module 26

Module 27

Module 28

Module 29

Module 30

The Difference Between Classical and Operant Conditioning

Activity: Operant Conditioning Reinforcement Schedules

What is this?  Classical or Operant? 

If Operant, what kind of Operant Conditioning is it? 1. Positive Reinforcement 2. Negative Reinforcement 3. Positive Punishment 4. Negative Punishment 

And more importantly, what is the behavior that is trying to be reinforce or extinguished?

If Classical, what is the UCS, UCR, NS, CS CR?

Penny

Jim and Dwight

Sheldon and Leonard

Coach Carter

Stewy

Negative Reinforcement Quiz

Activity: Shaping if we have time.

Wednesday March 26, 2025

Wednesday March 26, 2025

Homework for tomorrow: 294-297 and 300-309

New seating chart and reward

Score the brackets!

Circle: If your parents could see all of you social media would they be happy, sad or mad?  

Activity: Take a few minutes and write down something about yourself you would like to improve.  Then write down how it make you feel if you succeed and finally what would incentivize you to work towards it?  We will be sharing in your group and then to the class.

Point to remember: This is the beginning of the behavioral branch of psychology!

Psychological Definition of Learning: A relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience. 

Definition of Classical Conditioning: We learn to associate two stimuli and thus to anticipate events.

Definition of Operant Conditioning: Organisms associate their own actions with consequences.  Actions followed by reinforcers increase; those followed by punishment often decrease.

Questions:

What are some basic forms of learning?

What is classical conditioning, and how did Pavlov’s work influence behaviorism?

In classical conditioning, what are the processes of acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization, and discrimination?

Why is Pavlov’s work important?

What is operant conditioning, and how does it differ from classical conditioning?

What are the basic types of reinforcers?

How do different reinforcement schedules affect behavior?

How does punishment affect behavior?

Do cognitive processes and biological constraints affect operant conditioning?

What is observational learning, and how is it enabled by mirror neurons?

Activity: Find some examples of operant conditioning.  The Office and The Big Bang Theory are two great spots.  Be prepared to share out to class.

Module 26

Module 27

Module 28

Module 29

Module 30

Activities: True or False

Activities: Examples of Negative reinforcement

Activity: Shaping if we have time.

Classical ConditioningVideo's
Crash Course
Classical Conditioning: Ivan Pavlov
Classically Conditioning your roomate


Operant Conditioning

The Little Albert Experiment
BF Skinner Pigeon Ping Pong

Observational Learning
Our Skinner Box
Crash Course: The BoBo Beatdown
Classical vs Operant Condtioniong

Note cards:  Below is a list of terms that you will need to know for the AP Psych Exam.  Each note card should have the term on the front.  Then, on the back you need to A) define the term and B) show application of the term.  This application can sometimes best be expressed as a personal example.  You can also draw the application of the term if you so desire.

acquisition	learning
associative learning	Neutral stimulus
classical conditioning	operant conditioning
cognitive map	punishment
discrimination	reinforcer
extinction	shaping
fixed interval schedule	spontaneous recovery
fixed ratio schedule	US / UR / CS / CR
generalization	variable interval schedule
latent learning	variable ratio schedule

March 20, 2025

Thursday March 20, 2025

Circle: The worst movie you have ever seen or a terrible one that you love?

Burrito Brackets- Chance to win lunch, delivered by yours truly.

This is Behaviorism- Otherwise known as Learning: The process of acquiring through experience, new and relatively enduring information or behaviors.  What does that mean?

Classical Conditioning Slide Show

Activity: Classical Conditioning class activity

Activity: On your own

Operant Conditioning: Scenario- a student skips class and gets caught.  In order to reduce the student skipping in the future, what should be done to improve their attendance?  What actually is done?

Homework: SQ3R 283-291

March 17, 2025

 Monday March 17, 2025

Circle: Something you can't eat or drink anymore because it made sick?

Test over Development

Homework: SQ3R 270-280

This is Behaviorism- Otherwise known as Learning: The process of acquiring through experience, new and relatively enduring information or behaviors.  What does that mean?

March 13, 2025

March 13, 2025

Circle: You are given $10,000 but the only caveat is that you have to spend it on yourself.  You cannot give it away, you cannot save it for later, and if you don't spend it all you have to give back whatever you don't spend back and you cannot put it towards anything practical like a car.  You must indulge yourself.

What do we want to review?

Module 36- Thinking and Language

Module 42- Prenatal and the newborn

Module 43- Infancy and childhood/Physical Development

Module 44- Infancy and Childhood/Cognitive Development

Module 45- Infancy and Childhood/Social Development

Module 46- Gender Development

Module 47- Parent, Peers, Social Development

Module 48- Adolescence/Physical and Cognitive Development

Module 49- Adolescence/Social Development and Emerging Adulthood

Module 50- Sexual Development

Module 51- Adulthood/Physical Cognitive and Social Development

Kahoot 

March 12, 2025

March 12, 2025

Baby Journal is due!!!  You are an empty nester now.  Let your sock go and enjoy your life without children!

Circle: At your funeral, what would you hope they would say about you and your life?

Practice Test- Today you will be taking a practice quiz over the different modules.  This should be used as a self assessment to see what you know and more importantly what you don't know.  The test over Developmental Psychology will be on Monday March17th.  

Pre-Test- With a partner go through the vocabulary and figure out where you need to target your studying.  After completing, use the AP Study guide to review your weakest areas.

Practice Test

What do you want to review tomorrow?

Kahoot if we have time.

March 10, 2025

Monday March 10, 2025

New seating chart...

Activity: If you were having a movie made about you, what would the music playing be when your character was introduced?  Who would play you in the movie?

Sock Baby Slide show is due on Monday March 12th

Homework for due for Monday March 10th: SQ3R 514-525

Test over Development will be next Monday, March 17th.

Homework Quiz

Circle: How do you think you will know you are finally an adult?

Circle: One thing you've always wondered about being an adult. 

I am Debrief

Interview Teachers: 
One piece of advice they wished they had  listened to or wish they had got as a teenager.  It does not have to be school related.  Please ask them to be specific, not generalize, like "study more".  We will compile advice and critique it. 

Activity: Write a letter to your child.  You are leaving on a space ship and will not return until they are 21 years old.  What would you want your child to know about being a young kid, a pre-teen, teenager, young adult?

-With your group, share out what you think your best piece of advice is

Activity: Decades of Life

Activity: Death Quiz

Module 51

Sock Baby Project

Sock Baby Parenting Worksheet

Activity: Mr. Toohey and Erik Erickson says that it is almost impossible to be in love when you are in high school.  Do you agree or disagree?

Erik Erickson Activity: I am...

Activity: What do you do with you kid(s)?

Monday March 6, 2025

Sock Baby Slide show is due on Monday March 10th

Homework for due for Monday March 10th: SQ3R 514-525

Homework Check: SQ3R 495-500

Homework Quiz

Circle: Reflecting on your last few days with your baby, what is one thing you are starting to realize about being a parent- good or bad?

Parenting: How hard are you going to push your child as a parent?  Are you going to be super involved, passive, or protective?

Module 48 Slide Show

Sock Baby Project

Sock Baby Parenting Worksheet

Kohlberg Heinz Dilemma What should he do?

Activity: Mr. Toohey and Erik Erickson says that it is almost impossible to be in love when you are in high school.  Do you agree or disagree?

Erik Erickson Activity: I am...

Activity: What do you do with you kid(s)?

March 3, 2025

Monday March 3, 2025

Homework for Thursday: SQ3R 495-500

Homework Check: Modules 47 and 48 on pages 485-493 

Homework Quiz

Circle: When you are feeling an oncoming conflict--between you and a friend, you and a teacher, you and a sibling, or you and a parent--what is your typical response: fight, flight, freeze, or fawn? 

Parenting: How hard are you going to push your child as a parent?  Are you going to be super involved, passive, or protective?

Sock Baby Project

Sock Baby Parenting Worksheet

Piaget 10 minute mark

Kohlberg Heinz Dilemma What should he do?

Erik Erickson Activity: I am...

27, 2025 Remote Day

Thursday February 27, 2025 Remote Day

Please check the google classroom for the homework assignment and then go to AP Classroom and take the online quiz.  Your completion is you attendance.

Toohey

February 26, 2025

Thursday February 26, 2025 

Homework Check and Quiz

Circle Question: How many children would you like to have?

Sock Puppets...Meet Zuka

Learning Target: Understanding Human Development

Activity: Video The Strange Situation: Mary Ainsworth- Examine the following scenarios and think about how the impact of attachment might affect the individual as they age.  

Parenting Styles

Developmental Psychology

Harlow's Monkeys

Homework for Wednesday: SQ3R Pages 476-483 If you do the homework in the SQ3R format you will receive a formative 100 on for a homework grade.  You will also be taking a quick homework quiz that if you get over a 90 on the quiz you will get a bonus point on the next summative assessment up to 5 points.  For example 5 quiz grades over 90, 5 bonus points on the next exam.  2 quiz grades over 90, 2 bonus points on the quiz.  Reminder that Formative is going to be 20% of your grade.

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...

February 24, 2025

Monday February 24, 2025 

Homework Check and Quiz

Circle Question: What do you think is hardest part of parenting a baby, a child, a teenager?

Sock Puppets...

Learning Target: Understanding Human Development

Discovering Psychology

Slideshow: Prenatal Development and the Newborn

Temperament Survey: At you table with your group, share out what were the biggest consistency's and differences in your temperament from age 2-3 to know, a teenager.  How do you account for the similarities and differences?

Can you call a 9-year-old a psychopath?

Parenting Styles

Developmental Psychology

Harlow's Monkeys

Homework that was for Thursday(the snow day)before break: 465-474

Homework for Wednesday: SQ3R Pages 476-483 If you do the homework in the SQ3R format you will receive a formative 100 on for a homework grade.  You will also be taking a quick homework quiz that if you get over a 90 on the quiz you will get a bonus point on the next summative assessment up to 5 points.  For example 5 quiz grades over 90, 5 bonus points on the next exam.  2 quiz grades over 90, 2 bonus points on the quiz.  Reminder that Formative is going to be 20% of your grade.

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...

February 10, 2025

Monday February 10, 2025 

Homework Check and Quiz

Circle Question: From what you were told, were you an easy or difficult baby?

Learning Target: Understanding Human Development

Activity: True or False

Activity: Identifying Landmarks

Discovering Psychology

Slideshow: Prenatal Development and the Newborn

Temperament Survey

Homework for Thursday: 465-474

Homework for Monday: SQ3R Pages 442-448 and 450-462 If you do the homework in the SQ3R format you will receive a formative 100 on for a homework grade.  You will also be taking a quick homework quiz that if you get over a 90 on the quiz you will get a bonus point on the next summative assessment up to 5 points.  For example 5 quiz grades over 90, 5 bonus points on the next exam.  2 quiz grades over 90, 2 bonus points on the quiz.  Reminder that Formative is going to be 20% of your grade.

February 6, 2025

Thursday February 6, 2025 

Circle Question: What was your best year as a person?  What made is so good?

Hand out AP Study Guide

Learning Target: Understanding Human Development

Activity: True or False

Activity: Identifying Landmarks

Slideshow: Prenatal Development and the Newborn

Homework for Monday: SQ3R Pages 442-448 and 450-462 If you do the homework in the SQ3R format you will receive a formative 100 on for a homework grade.  You will also be taking a quick homework quiz that if you get over a 90 on the quiz you will get a bonus point on the next summative assessment up to 5 points.  For example 5 quiz grades over 90, 5 bonus points on the next exam.  2 quiz grades over 90, 2 bonus points on the quiz.  Reminder that Formative is going to be 20% of your grade.

January 30th, 2025

January 30th, 2025

Circle: From what you know about your parents, do you think you would have been friends with them when if you were both in HS at the same time?  Why or why not?

Homework Due: 

Learning Targets and Vocabulary

Targets turned into study guide

Module 37

Module 38

Module 39

Crash Course  How we make memories.

Crash Course Remembering and Forgetting

Crash Course Controversy of Intelligence

Create Study Plan

Practice Quiz

Test on Monday

 

Kahoot 

Memory

Intelligence

Practice Test

January 27, 2025

Monday January 27,  2025

Report on Intelligence on due Thursday

Please make sure you have a charged computer for our test on Monday.  We will be taking it online in the AP classroom.  Make sure you can log on.

Circle: If you could take a 5 minute trip to any year of you future life, what year would you want to see and why?

Learning Targets and Vocabulary

Module 37

Module 38

Module 39

Crash Course  How we make memories.

Crash Course Remembering and Forgetting

Crash Course Controversy of Intelligence

Create Study Plan

Practice Quiz

Thursday January 23, 2025

 Thursday January 23, 2025

Circle:  In a number of European and Asian countries you take tests to see if a student should continue  with their education.  How do you think this school would be impacted if we used IQ tests to determine which level of course you take?  What would be good and what would be bad?

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

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

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 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?

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

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.

January 22, 2025

Wednesday January 22, 2025

New Seating Chart/Activity- If your table was to open a restaurant, what would be the different course's you would serve.  i.e. what is your best meal you can cook?  Also what is the name of your restuarant?

Circle: If you had to choose to be better at one, high gand normal IQ  or high IQ and low rit/perseverance?

Homework: Please make sure you are SQ3R'ing the homework in the text.  We know from the Memory Unit the best what to put information into LTM is to use effortful processing while encoding and to do distributed rehearsal to make sure you are activation LTP.

Next Unit: Intelligence and Testing

Activity: Pre-testing questions.

Activity: Intelligence Test the imput the data.  What are some other variables that we could pair with the intelligence test to maybe get another look at the link between intelligence and...

Lab report

January 16, 2025

January 16, 2025

Definition of Intelligence:  Look it up.

Definition of Wisdom: Look it up.

What is the difference between wisdom and intelligence?

Circle: Who is the smartest person you know?

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 

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

January 15, 2025

January 15, 2025

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: True or False

Activity: Tower of Hanoi

Activity: Sirracha Sauce

Activity: Bat and Ball

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 

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

January 13, 2024

Monday January 13, 2024

Homework Quiz

Homework: 365-379

Circle: 1.What suggestions do 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.

Memory Hackers

Thursday January 9, 2025

Circle: If you had to get rid of all but three apps on your phone which would you keep?

Activity: Lets see how well you put your information in LTM.  You will get this again on Monday.  Maybe for a quiz?

Activity: True or False- Was it in your LTM?

Activity: Memory Hackers- Pre questions

Activity: Answer the questions in your group

Memory Hackers

Module 32 Slide Show

January 6, 2025

Monday January 6, 2025

New seating chart: Activity-come up with a place you have all visited outside of Maine.

Circle: What is your earliest childhood memory(and not one from a photo)

Activity: Hand out guided notes from homework to see how well information was put into LTM

Cognition- how knowledge is acquired, stored and used.  These processes include thinking, perception, memory, problem-solving, language, decision-making, and attention. Essentially, cognition encompasses all aspects of conscious and unconscious mental activity that enable us to understand and interact with the world around us.

Key Examples of Cognitive Processes:

Perception: Interpreting sensory information to make sense of the environment.

Memory: Storing and retrieving information over time.

Language: Understanding and producing spoken or written communication.

Problem-Solving: Finding solutions to challenges or obstacles.

Attention: Focusing mental resources on specific stimuli or tasks.

Decision-Making: Evaluating options and making choices.

Memory Slides

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

Homework: 325-336 and then 339-362.

Activity: Do you remember the story?

Activity: From Behaviorism to Cognition

Student Activity: M31: Fact or Falsehood?

Student Activity: M31: Remembering the Seven Dwarfs 

Student Activity: M31: Memory Capacity-  7(+/-2)

Student Activity: M31: Meaningful Chunks- Phone numbers

Student Activity: M31: Method of Loci- Shopping list

Student Activity: M31: Meaning and Memory- Flying a kite

Student Activity: M31: Semantic Encoding of Pictures- Two pictures

Student Activity: M31: The Self-Reference Effect 

What if you could get ride of it?

Each note card should have the term on the front.  Then, on the back you need to A) define the term and B) show application of the term.  This application can sometimes best be expressed as a personal example.  You can also draw the application of the term if you so desire.

• Cognition
• Encoding
• Sensory memory
• Short-term memory
• Long-term memory
• Rehearsal
• Serial position effect
• Mnemonics
• Chunking
• Flashbulb memory
• Recall
• Recognition
• Proactive interference
• Retroactive interference

Application Activity: Index Cards- Why is a self-reference important or drawing a picture?

Module 32 Slide Show

January 2, 2025

Thursday January 2, 2025

Circle:  An embarrassing memory that you can laugh at now? Circle:  If you could get rid of painful memories, would you? Circle: What is your earliest childhood memory(and not one from a photo)

Cognition- how knowledge is acquired, stored and used.  These processes include thinking, perception, memory, problem-solving, language, decision-making, and attention. Essentially, cognition encompasses all aspects of conscious and unconscious mental activity that enable us to understand and interact with the world around us.

Key Examples of Cognitive Processes:

Perception: Interpreting sensory information to make sense of the environment.

Memory: Storing and retrieving information over time.

Language: Understanding and producing spoken or written communication.

Problem-Solving: Finding solutions to challenges or obstacles.

Attention: Focusing mental resources on specific stimuli or tasks.

Decision-Making: Evaluating options and making choices.

Memory Slides

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

Homework: 325-336 and then 339-362.

Activity: Revisit the Hand

Circle: If you could erase the worst memory of your life, would you?

Activity: Do you remember the story?

Activity: From Behaviorism to Cognition

Student Activity: M31: Fact or Falsehood?

Student Activity: M31: Remembering the Seven Dwarfs 

Student Activity: M31: Memory Capacity

Student Activity: M31: Meaningful Chunks

Student Activity: M31: Method of Loci

Student Activity: M31: Meaning and Memory

Student Activity: M31: Semantic Encoding of Pictures 

Student Activity: M31: The Self-Reference Effect 

What if you could get ride of it?

Each note card should have the term on the front.  Then, on the back you need to A) define the term and B) show application of the term.  This application can sometimes best be expressed as a personal example.  You can also draw the application of the term if you so desire.

• Cognition
• Encoding
• Sensory memory
• Short-term memory
• Long-term memory
• Rehearsal
• Serial position effect
• Mnemonics
• Chunking
• Flashbulb memory
• Recall
• Recognition
• Proactive interference
• Retroactive interference
• Algorithm
• Heuristic
• Confirmation bias
• Mental set
• Functional fixedness
• Availability heuristic
• Phoneme
• Morpheme
• Telegraphic speech

Application Activity: Index Cards- Why is a self-reference important or drawing a picture?