Thursday(GREEN) Friday(GOLD) December 4+5, 2025

Circle: Are you a picky eater?  How do you think your parents would describe you when you were little?  Easy or difficult?

Introduce Sensation and Perception: Point to remember-We feel, see hear, taste, and smell with our BRAIN, which can sense even without functioning senses.

Homework Due Next Class: SQ3R 222-230

Vocabulary List: We will be quizzing over these on Thursday.  You will be responsible for the first 14 words but you must also have an example about how it applies to you.  This is your self reference.  You can also get 3 points extra credit if you turn these into notecards that have the definition and a self reference included.

Study Guide for Sensation and Perception

Learning Targets: Understand the following-

What are sensation and perception? What do we mean by bottom-up processing and top-town processing?

Discuss how selective attention directs our attention.

Describe the three steps that are basic to all our sensory system.

What are the difference between absolute and difference thresholds.

Understand how we are affected by subliminal stimuli

What is the function of sensory adaptation?

Introductory Activity:
What is different this time? Man on a horse picture from text

(Bottom-up processing to Top-down processing)

Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality/TEDtalk

Basketball Experiment

(Because we only have Selective Attention the result is Inattentional Blindness.) Why?

WHO ARE YOU?

Video  Opponent Process
Video
Video Selective Attention
Video
Video Blind Spot
Video
Video High Frequency Test

Video Mosquito Test
Video 6 minute mark

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Video
Video
Video 

Video

Vocabulary:

sensation

sensory receptors

perception

bottom-up processing

top-down processing

selective attention

inattentional blindness

change blindness

*Transduction

psychophysics

absolute threshold

signal detection theory

subliminal

difference threshold

priming

Weber's law

sensory adaptation

Monday(GREEN) Tuesday(GOLD) December 1+2, 2025

Monday(GREEN) Tuesday(GOLD) December 1+2, 2025

Circle: Did you notice anything different about the rest of you day on Monday after guided hypnosis?  Do you believe that some people have ESP?

Introduce Sensation and Perception: Point to remember-We feel, see hear, taste, and smell with our BRAIN, which can sense even without functioning senses.

Homework Due Next Class: SQ3R 204-213

Vocabulary List: We will be quizzing over these on Thursday.  You will be responsible for the first 14 words but you must also have an example about how it applies to you.  This is your self reference.  You can also get 3 points extra credit if you turn these into notecards that have the definition and a self reference included.

Learning Targets: Understand the following-

What are sensation and perception? What do we mean by bottom-up processing and top-town processing?

Discuss how selective attention directs our attention.

Describe the three steps that are basic to all our sensory system.

What are the difference between absolute and difference thresholds.

Understand how we are affected by subliminal stimuli

What is the function of sensory adaptation?

Introductory Activity:
What is different this time? Man on a horse picture from text

(Bottom-up processing to Top-down processing)

Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality/TEDtalk

Basketball Experiment

(Because we only have Selective Attention the result is Inattentional Blindness.) Why?

Vocabulary:

sensation

sensory receptors

perception

bottom-up processing

top-down processing

selective attention

inattentional blindness

change blindness

*Transduction

psychophysics

absolute threshold

signal detection theory

subliminal

difference threshold

priming

Weber's law

sensory adaptation

Thursday November 20, 2025(GREEN) and Friday November 21(GOLD) 2025

 Thursday November 20, 2025(GREEN) and Friday November 21(GOLD) 2025

Circle: What is the GROSSEST item you have seen served at Thanksgiving?

Homework: Study for quiz over Sleep, Drugs and Hypnosis

Activity: T or F Drugs

Activity: T or F Hypnosis

Practice Quiz:

1. Take

2. Compare

3. Reflect

Hypnosis

Tuesday November 18, (GOLD) 2025 and Wednesday November 19, (GREEN) 2025

 Tuesday November 18, (GOLD)  2025 and Wednesday November 19, (GREEN) 2025

Homework SQ3R 180-190 for next class

Circle: Favorite food item for Thanksgiving?

Presentations: You will have 15 minutes to put together your presentation about what happens if you are running a chronic sleep deficit?  Your presentation should include:

Biological

1.  What is the impairment?

2. What is role of the sleep stages?

3. What is occuring in the brain structures?

4. What are the physical effects?

Cognitive:

1. What happens to attention, memory and decision making?

2. What is the potential academic  impact of a sleep deficit

Psychological/Social

1. Mood, behavior and risk-taking

2. What are the social consequences if running a sleep deficit?

Next Topic: Drugs...

Are you addicted?

Here are the learning targets for the next Quiz 

Monday November 17, (GREEN) 2025

Monday November 17, (GREEN) 2025

Circle: Your favorite Thanksgiving food item, could be a desert too!

Activity: Quantify your sleep.

Activity: How lack of sleep can change can affect you.

Sleep Test on Monday

Circle: What was your most effective study strategy?

This is college practice.  5-6 thousand dollars a class.  You don't get refunds.

When you take college classes, you'll take some hard ones.  You need to have strategies!!!

TEST

Second Circle: How many hours on average do you sleep a night?  Do you feel like its enough?  What gets in the way?

Wednesday November 12, 2025

Wednesday(GOLD) November 12, 2025 and Thursday(GREEN) 13, 2025

New Seating Chart/Activity Each team has to find something unique about each person and something they all share in common as a group — these can be things about their personality, hobbies, fun facts, or anything else.

Circle: How good of a sleeper are you?  Go to bed quickly and awaken refreshed and ready to go? 2). Do you have or had a re-occuring dream, or what do you remember about your last dream?

Unit Topics: Consciousness, Sleep, Dreams, and Hypnosis

Homework Due for Wednesday or Thursday : SQ3R 157-165

Sleep Journal:  On average, how many hours of sleep have you been getting on a school night?  Research about if you can make up for lost sleep?

Activity: 20-8 How large is you sleep deficit?  What are strategies you can implement to improve you sleep.  Create a customized list of things that you know you need to work on or strategies you currently use that work and are backed up by science.

Activity: At you table you will come up with a brief presentation about the long term effects of not getting enough sleep.  What topic sounds the most interesting? If you have three people, your presentation will have 3 parts.  If four people, it would have 4 parts.

For Example: Lack of sleep can lead to weight gain because; 1. Increases ghrelin, a hunger-arousing hormone and decreases leptin which decreases hunger.  2. Decreases metabolic (energy use) rate.  3. Increases cortisol production,  a stress hormone that stimulates the body to make fat(energy storage). 4. Enhances limbic brain response to the mere sight of food and reduces cortical response which helps us resist temptation.

Activity: 20-13 How good are your sleep strategies?

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.

• consciousness
• circadian rhythm
• REM sleep
• hallucinations
• insomnia
• narcolepsy
• sleep apnea
• night terrors
• sleepwalking
• manifest content
• latent content
• hypnosis
• dissociation

Sleep

Stages of Sleep - Sleep Cycles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RjPZNNSGlY

Stages of Sleep, REM Sleep and Dreaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaoMD1XI5u8

What Makes You Tick: Circadian Rhythms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BoLqqNuqwA

Circadian Rhythm and Your Brains Clock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbQ0RxQu2gM

Sleep loss and disorders

What It’s Like To Have Insomnia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwkKcqdrfGo

Sleep Apnea Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTUjQ-IcKPU

Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dXEgVK-fF4

What is Narcolepsy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=Ucpf_OYvs4E

Nightmares and Night Terrors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds8GRH4xmN8

Night Terrors https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=R1srWn4QWoU

What would happen if you didn’t sleep? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqONk48l5vY

Sleepwalking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_JLTmIFq_A

Dreams
Crash Course Dreams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMHus-0wFSo
Hypnosis Discovering Psychology: The Mind Hidden and Divided (11:30 mark)

Tuesday(GOLD) November 4, 2025

Tuesday(GOLD) November 4, 2025

Check Homework:  Due on Tuesday SQ3R 109-118

Circle: If someone gave you an amazon gift card with 500 dollars and you had to buy something frivolous, what wouldy you get?

Activity: True or False

Activity: Endocrine System in the classroom.

Activity: Review the learning targets.  What do you feel good about?  What do you need to work on? Test on

Activity: Introduce the Brain- What is wrong?  How do you know?

Activity: Weird disorders- Based on what you know about parts of the brain you will be come an expert and try and figure out why people have the ability or disorder

Create Study Plan for Test on Friday

Friday(GOLD) October 31, 2025

Friday(GOLD) October 31, 2025

Homework:  Due on Tuesday SQ3R 109-118

Circle: Are you going Trick o Treating and if you are what are you wearing.  If not, what was your most memorable costume?

Check Homework: 98-106

Activity: Endocrine System in the classroom.

Activity: Amygdala- Free Solo

Activity: Review the learning targets.  What do you feel good about?  What do you need to work on?

Activity: Introduce the Brain- What is wrong?  How do you know?

Activity: Weird disorders- Based on what you know about parts of the brain you will be come an expert and try and figure out why people have the ability or disorder

Tuesday(GOLD) October 28, 2025

New Table Activity- Hollywood is going to make your costume...

Circle: Worst Halloween candy?

Check: Get out homework

Behavior/Brain Scenario's

Homework: SQ3R98-104 

Exit Ticket: On your own: Based on your current mood what neurotransmitters do you feel like are are causing you to feel this way?

Monday(GREEN) October 27, 2025

Monday(GREEN) October 27, 2025

Circle: Worst Halloween candy?

Check: Get out homework

Behavior/Brain Scenario's

Exit Ticket: On your own: Based on your current mood what neurotransmitters do you feel like are are causing you to feel this way?

Friday(Gold) October 24, 2025

Friday(Gold) October 24, 2025

Circle: Which one- Incredible singing voice or incredible dancer?

Behavior/Brain Scenario's

Exit Ticket: On your own: Based on your current mood what neurotransmitters do you feel like are are causing you to feel this way?

Homework: TBA

Tuesday(Gold) October 21, 2025

Tuesday(Gold) October 21, 2025

Circle: Research colleges and chose one you are going to visit.  What did you choose and why did it interest you?  What questions do you have?

Get out homework:  Review analogy and decide which one is the easiest one to understand?  Easiest one gets to choose who presents.

Get out neurotransmitter worksheet: Watch 2 minute neurotransmitter and 2 minute Neuron

Activity: With your group, share out your neurotransmitter and record the others at your table.  Using that information, make a diagnosis from the scenario's as to which one to you think applies to your neurotransmitter.

On your own: Based on your current mood what neurotransmitters do you feel like are are causing you to feel this way?

Homework: In the classroom

Friday(Gold) October 17, 2025

Friday(Gold) October 17, 2025 

Circle: Do you believe in love at first sight?  Do you have a type?

Quiz: The Neuron

Activity: Neurotransmitters

Activity: Love at First Sight?

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

What did we get through?-

Circle

Quizzed

Shawn Achor Extra Credit

Started but did not finish Neurotransmitter Activity

Did not read and discuss Love at First Sight article

Assigned homework in the classroom- 2 minute and worksheet

Wednesday-Green October 15th, 2035

 Wednesday-Green October 15th, 2035

Circle: Do you think you are a good judge of character?

Activity: Picture

Who do you think is the kindest person?  “Why did you pick that particular person? What experiences or biases shaped your perception?”

Which person would you go to honest advice?  “How quickly did you decide? What influenced that judgment?”

If you were going to ask one of them for directions to a place you were looking for who would you ask?  Why that particular person?  What do you think influenced you?

The Brain with David Eagleman

2 Minute Neuroscience: The Neuron

Questions

Neuron Slide Show

Neuron Project

Thursday October 9th Green

Thursday October 9th

Check Homework

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 sensory, motor neurons and interneurons interact to throw the paper airplane.  Your plane will be judged on distance with the 1st, 2nd and 3 place are getting a prize!

Circle: A new artist(or new to you) that you currently listen to?

Introduce the Brain-

1. Sensory Neurons

2. Interneurons

3. Motor Neurons

Brain is a prediction machine? 

Activity: Neural Transmission Time

Activity: Touch the Weenus

Activity: Catch a dropping dollar

Activity: Messing with your interneurons- Reversed hands

Movie: David Eagleman- The Brain

Wednesday-Gold October 8, 2025

Wednesday-Gold October 8, 2025

Circle: Who is the funniest member of your family?

Activity: Picture

Who do you think is the kindest person?  “Why did you pick that particular person? What experiences or biases shaped your perception?”

Which person would you go to honest advice?  “How quickly did you decide? What influenced that judgment?”

If you were going to ask one of them for directions to a place you were looking for who would you ask?  Why that particular person?  What do you think influenced you?

2-Minute Neuroscience

Questions

Neuron Slide Show

Neuron Project

Tuessday October 6th (Green) and 7th(Gold)

Thursday October 2nd(Green) and 3rd(Gold)

Homework: SQ3R pages  91-95 for Wednesday

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 sensory, motor neurons and interneurons interact to throw the paper airplane.  Your plane will be judged on distance with the 1st, 2nd and 3 place are getting a prize!

Circle: One thing you did outside this weekend?

Introduce the Brain-

1. Sensory Neurons

2. Interneurons

3. Motor Neurons

Brain is a prediction machine? 

Activity: Neural Transmission Time

Activity: Touch the Weenus

Activity: Catch a dropping dollar

Activity: Messing with your interneurons- Reversed hands

Movie: David Eagleman- The Brain

Tuesday-Wednesday September 30, 2025

Circle: What would be your IDEAL (perfect) job?? 

AP Classroom

First Assessment on Friday October 3rd.  Don't forget that you can get an 80 if you have all the HW completed and bring to class.  Or roll the dice...

Activity: Using your data, create a scatterplot.  Label all appropriate items and make a determination of how strong a correlation your data shows and what it means.

Practice Test: How to take multiple choice tests.

Take Test

Worksheet- Finish the questions

1. What is a hypothesis? What was yours?

2. What is measurable data? What was one piece of yours?

3. What is population? What was your population?

4. What is a sample? What was your sample?

5. What is bias? Was your survey biased?

7. What was they conclusion you can make from your research?

Present Findings 1. What was your hypothesis? 2. What data stood out to you?  3. Look up what to do with you information you gathered if you were to build a scatterplot.  4. Practice Scatterplot.  5. Create your own and be ready to report out.

Test on Friday-Gold on Monday-Green

Hand out Study Guide

Test will be on Perspectives and Research Terms

This will be something you need to study for now.

Study Tips.

Friday September 26 and Monday 29, 2025

Friday September 26 and Monday 29, 2025

Circle: What is you most prized possession? 

AP Classroom

First Assessment on Friday October 3rd.  Don't forget that you can get an 80 if you have all the HW completed and bring to class.  Or roll the dice...

Activity: Finish Data Collection- send to classmates if you don't have at least 10 responses.

Worksheet- Finish the questions

1. What is a hypothesis? What was yours?

2. What is measurable data? What was one piece of yours?

3. What is population? What was your population?

4. What is a sample? What was your sample?

5. What is bias? Was your survey biased?

7. What was they conclusion you can make from your research?

Present Findings 1. What was your hypothesis? 2. What data stood out to you?  3. Look up what to do with you information you gathered if you were to build a scatterplot.  4. Practice Scatterplot.  5. Create your own and be ready to report out.

Test on Friday-Gold on Monday-Green

Hand out Study Guide

Test will be on Perspectives and Research Terms

This will be something you need to study for now.

Study Tips.

Wednesday(GOLD) September 24th, 2025

Wednesday(GOLD) September 24th, 2025

Quick View-What you should know about this unit 0?

Circle: A food you refuse to eat!

Survey: Today you will be collecting data for your survey.  Before you can go you must have all your survey questions and the boxes filled out on the assignment sheet.  Your population is this school.  If you are going into a classroom you need to have teacher permission.  

Due: You need to have your survey data by this Wednesday by the beginning of class.

Survey Project:  Assignment

 Gold Day Friday

Using DATA: Scatterplot

Tuesday (GOLD) and Thursday (GREEN) September 23 and 25th, 2025

Quick View- Syllabus, What you should know about this unit 0?

Circle: What do you wish you had more time to do?

Activity: At your table formulate a response to the following problem:  We know Psychology wants to be considered a science.  Why are science based answers more valid than those based on common sense?

Survey Project:  Handout the Assignment. 

Friday 19, and Monday 22, 2025

 Friday 19, and Monday 22, 2025

Have you signed up for the AP Classroom?!!  You need to do it!!!

Homework is on Google Classroom

New seating chart and activity Monday and Tuesday

Seating Chart Activity: First introduce yourself and the share what is an ASMR sound, visual or feeling that produces a response for you? Better yet share a video or sound from your phone if you can.  Not everyone experiences ASMR so don't feel bad if you don't have one.

Circle: Something you wish was true, like "money grows on trees""nice guy always wins", ...etc

Friday Class: Hand Quiz-Review first

Table Activity: At your table see if you can figure out why that the 3 biggest factors determining assessment tests (STAR, NWEA, SAT) are: Birth mothers marital status, baby's weight at birth and first teacher.  How and why?

Second Question: Books in house?

Research in Psychology: How do we find out information about psychology?

Is this true and how would we know?

Why do we need science?

Astrology?

What we did- Took Quiz, signed up for AP Classroom.  Did Table Activity and Second Question.  For next class the were assigned homework for a formative and will get the research project. 

Wednesday-Gold Thursday Green September 17 and 18, 2025

Wednesday-Gold Thursday Green September 17 and 18, 2025

Quiz over the hand on Gold Friday and Green Monday

Next Class- sign up for AP Classroom

Talk About SAT's and superscoring

Circle: Doritos or Ice Cream

Green Day: 

1. Review-Go over HAND for Quiz on Monday

2. Handout: Biopsychsocial Model Worksheet

Gold Day:

Fill out the hand

1. Review-Go over HAND for Quiz on Friday

2. Handout: Biopsychsocial Model Worksheet

Intro to Psych: Prepare for Quiz-Practice Quiz

2. Handout: Biopsychsocial Model Worksheet

September 15 and 16, 2025

 Monday and Tuesday September 15 and 16, 2025

Circle: Something you heard or saw at fair?

Check homework for Formative Assessment

Green Day: 

1. Review-Explaining behavior with Psychological Perspectives

2. Handout: Biopsychsocial Model Worksheet

Gold Day: Check homework for Formative Assessment

Fill out the hand

1. Review-Explaining behavior with Psychological Perspectives

2. Handout: Biopsychsocial Model Worksheet

Intro to Psych:

Quiz

Next Class- sign up for AP Classroom

September 11, 2025

Thursday September 11, 2025

Circle: What is one dish/appetizer that is always at family holiday/functions and do you like it?

Homework Check: I screwed up.

Homework for the weekend.  SQ3R pages 38-47  It's a big one so break it up over time.

Activity: Using perspectives to solve a problem- Your tables job is to become an expert on one of the major Psychological Perspectives.  You will have a scenario that you are trying to understand AND explain why, from your assigned perspective,  they are acting the way they are.  Your will be reporting out to the rest of the class what your perspective thinks is going on.  You must make your explanations simple and straightforward and must check in with the rest of the class if they understand what you said because they are using your information for their notes and vice versa.  If they do not you must explain it a different in a different way.  There is an example page at on the last page of the handout.  At the end the class needs to decide which perspectives or combination of them seems like the best explanation for why the subject is behaving the way the are.  

Assign each table a perspective.  I've labeled them on the seating chart.  After they get their perspective:

Step 1 Decide who is taking on each role.

Step 2 Research

Step 3 Practice presentation.  If you don't understand what you teammate said you need to let them know.

Step 4 Present 

Step 5 Take clarifying questions from group

Step 6 Discuss with you group which perspective or combination seems like the best answer.

If time allows, Starting to SQ3R pages 37-47 which is their next homework assignment.

September 10, 2025

Wednesday September 10, 2025

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

Homework Due:  Gallery Walk SQ3R pages 13-19 

Activity: The Hand and Perspectives

Discuss Activity: Evolutionary Psychology

Activity: Using perspectives to solve a problem

Activity: At your table formulate a response to the following problem:  We know Psychology wants to be considered a science.  Why are science based answers more valid than those based on common sense?  Why is, "Rat always right?"

Today....Assignment

Homework Due on Monday: SQ3R pages 

September 8-9, 2025

September 8-9, 2025

New Seating Chart

Seating Chart Activity:After you find you seat figure out three things you have in common with your table-mates.  You will be sharing this with the class.

Homework is due: Please get your homework out.  At you table discuss the following questions- How long did it take you to complete?  Did you feel like you took more or less notes than you usually would?  Do you feel like you understood what you should be looking for and what was important or not?  Now at you table, go over the homework and share how you answered the questions.

Circle: Your favorite fair food and/or ride?

Google Classroom

Period 1:

Period 2:

Period 3:

Period 5:

period 6:

Period 7:

Homework which we will start in class is to SQ3R pages 13-19 Due next class

Activity: The Hand and Perspectives

Activity: Evolutionary Psychology

Activity: Using perspectives to solve a problem

Activity: At your table formulate a response to the following problem:  We know Psychology wants to be considered a science.  Why are science based answers more valid than those based on common sense?

Coming up....Assignment

September 4, 2025

Thursday September 4, 2025

Quick View- Notebook, Being responsible, Maturity

Circle: Name and what is ONE pet peeve of yours?

Activity Quiz:

What do you remember about the people at your table?

1. Name a job you wanted to do when you were little

2. Favorite cartoon

3. One place you'd like to visit.

Psychology Definition: The scientific study of behavior and mental processes. 

Your brain is a prediction machine...

Lets look at mental processess? Using your Myers-Briggs profile look at that profile that is the opposite of yours and be ready to discuss how different that world would be for you.  What seems like it would blow your mind?

Understand... At your table-Fundamental Attribution Error

Perspective Activity: At your table come up with a working definition of perspective. 

Another Perspective: Evolutionary Psych

Old People- How much different do you think you'll be when you are 70 years old?  When you talk to old people, do you feel like they are happy or sad?  What is one of your biggest concerns about growing old and gray?  What do you think you'll look like when you are old.  Imagine what you think you'll look like.

What do you see?

What did I just do to influence what you saw?  Turn and talk

Activity: How to read informational texts.  Module 0.1 in class.  Module 0.2 for homework.  I will be checking this tomorrow for a formative grade.

Research SQ3R: Be prepared to present out your findings.  What is it?  How does it work? Why is it so effective?  

Homework: Jung Typology Test

1. Take the test

2. Get you profile letters- write them down.

3. Look up what your profile is online.  Just type in your 4 letters in the search bar.

4. Briefly write down what you agree with and 3-4 things and what you disagree with.

5. Then reflect in a short paragraph  how it makes you feel that you can be into 4 letters

September 2, 2025

Tuesday September 2, 2025

Quick View- Notebook, Phones, Being responsible, Maturity, Blog, Google Classroom, Syllabus

Review: 

-Definition of Psychology

-Fundamental Attribution Error

-What does it mean that the brain is a prediction machine?

-Perspective

Circle: Either the grossest thing you have seen served in school cafeteria or your favorite cafe item.

Another Perspective: Evolutionary Psychology Perspective...

Activity: How to read informational texts.  Module 0.1 in class.  Module 0.2 for homework.  I will be checking this tomorrow for a formative grade.

At your table: How do you read and remember informational texts so you you don't forget?  Power of Context!

Research SQ3R: Be prepared to present out your findings.  What is it?  How does it work? Why is it so effective?  

Activity: Psychology wants to be considered a science.  Why do history teachers teach it?

Homework: Jung Typology Test

1. Take the test

2. Get you profile letters- write them down.

3. Look up what your profile is online.  Just type in your 4 letters in the search bar.

4. Briefly write down what you agree with and 3-4 things and what you disagree with.

5. Then reflect in a short paragraph  how it makes you feel that you can be into 4 letters

Thursday, August 28, 2025

Thursday, August 28, 2025

Welcome to Advanced Placement Psychology!  

Phones reminder

Learning Target: I can help build a community in the classroom and understand its importance in relation to learning.

Groupings Chart

Activity:

Introduce yourself to the group:  Take notes on the people in your group.

1. Name a job you wanted to do when you were little

2. Favorite cartoon

3. One place you'd like to visit.

You will be reporting out your fellow group members.  You might want to write it down.

Why would I assign you to a group?  Make T-Chart with pros and cons

Rock Paper Scissors to see who presents

Activity:

You will not  be turning this in.  On a piece of scrap paper write down why you are taking AP classes.  Now look around the room and write down why you think others in the room are taking them.   

Circle Explanation: Restorative Justice

Circle: Not including yourself, why do you think students take AP classes?

Activity: Fundamental Attribution Error- One person from you table go get a textbook and look up the Fundamental Attribution Error and make sure everyone at your table understands what it is and come up with an example that you would use to explain it to your parents if they asked you what you did in AP Psych today.  Be prepared to share out.

Learning Target: To understand the major psychological perspectives and what they can tell us about ourselves and others.

Psychology Definition: The scientific study of behavior and mental processes. 

Circle: A bizarre behavior you have witnessed at this school.

Activity: Using  the behavior we talked about in circle and your limited understanding of psychology, try and determine why said person engaged in behavior.  Be ready to report out.

Fundamental Attribution Error

Perspective Activity: At your table come up with a working definition of perspective. 

What do you see?

What did I just do to influence what you saw?  Turn and talk

Another Perspective: Evolutionary Psych

Homework: Jung Typology Test

1. Take the test

2. Get you profile letters- write them down.

3. Look up what your profile is

4. Briefly write down what you agree with, 3-4 things and what you disagree with.

5. Then reflect in a short paragraph  how it makes you feel that you can be into 4 letters

May 28, 2025

May 28, 2025 Last day for Seniors!!! Textbooks please!!!

How did test go?

Circle: 

1. What are you feeling right now?

2. A piece of advice for juniors?

3. One thing you will miss about this place?

4. One thing you would have done different if you were sitting in the juniors seat right now?

5. A question you would like to ask the Seniors.

Participate in everything.

Don't forget that you have whole group of people that are here to support you.

At some point you are going to want to leave or question what you are doing.  Stay the path.

Farewells

Pomp and Circumstance.

May 19, 2025

Monday May 19, 2025

Review after school: The Brain

Circle: Tony or Dave?

Blooket

Jeopardy

Writing the AAQ and EBQ

Statistically Significant

Review Review Review

May 15, 2025

Thursday May 15, 2025

Circle: You get to create a holiday and a bizarre tradition that goes with it.  What's the holiday?

Not doing after school review.  Will do next week.

Stations Game

Blooket

Writing the AAQ and EBQ

Review Review Review

Monday May 12, 2025

After School Review: Today and Thursday- What do you want to review?

Circle: Do you think it's possible to have any prom live up to expectations?

Reviewing in AP Study Guide:  You should be doing this!!! 

Today: You are taking a practice MCQ

Assignment: FRQ's are posted in classroom.  FRQ one is due on Thursday next week.  The other two are for practice.  You should keep time when you do it.  70 minutes is the time.

Mental Disorders: When does it qualify as a disorder?  What is the criteria?  MUDA or DDDD.  At you table come up with the criteria for when behavior would qualify as a mental disorder with an example an why it meets criteria? Slideshow

Major Categories of Mental Illness Activity

Psychological Research Study Identifications Activity

FRQ Tips

Thursday May 8, 2025

Thursday May 8, 2025

Circle: How many of you know someone close to you who suffers from a mental illness?  How do you think you would know if you had one?

Reviewing in AP Study Guide:  You should be doing this!!!

Assignment: FRQ's are posted in classroom.  FRQ one is due on Thursday next week.  The other two are for practice.  You should keep time when you do it.  70 minutes is the time.

Mental Disorders: When does it qualify as a disorder?  What is the criteria?  MUDA or DDDD.  At you table come up with the criteria for when behavior would qualify as a mental disorder with an example an why it meets criteria? Slideshow

Major Categories of Mental Illness Activity

Psychological Research Study Identifications Activity

Monday May 5, 2025

Monday May 5, 2025

Circle: What's an "old person" thing you do already?

After School Study Sessions: Starting a week from today on Mondays and Thursdays.  

No fun Riddle: In the next few weeks we will experience our first really warm beautiful day of weather.  80 degrees, sunny, flowers will be blooming etc.  We will also experience an uptick in suicides, ideation and attempts.  Why? 

Go over test results.  What are you strongest and weakest areas?

Mental Disorders: When does it qualify as a disorder?  What is the criteria?  MUDA or DDDD.  At you table come up with the criteria for when behavior would qualify as a mental disorder with an example an why it meets criteria? Slideshow

Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and PTSD

Crash Course OCD and Anxiety Disorders

Notes on Anxiety

Activity: Taylor Manifest Score

Activity: OCD Rating

Crash Course Depressive and Bipolar Disorders

In Class Quiz

Activity: Zung Self Reporting

April 30, 2025

Wednesday April 30, 2025

Circle: Do you suspect anyone you know might be a sociopath?  Why?

Crash Courses and Quizzes in Classroom.  Due next Thursday.  Summative

Practice AP Test tomorrow

Emotion Scenario Worksheet

Emotions

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

Anti-Social Personality Forum

Online Test

Mental Disorders: Medical Student Disorder

March 28, 2025

Monday March 28, 2025

Circle: What do you do when you are stressed out?

Stress, what is it good for?

Emotion: At your table see if you can come up with a list of common emotions that most feel.

Compare with this list.  How did you do?

Group Question: Which one would you want to get rid of if you could delete one in yourself.  Discuss with you group your choice and why.

Circle: What do you do when you are stressed out?

The major theories of motivation? Quizlet

Emotions

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

Anti-Social Personality Forum
Online Test

Stress Slide Show

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?

April 17, 2025

Thursday  April 17, 2025

Circle: If you had to choose to either sneeze glitter or cry slime which one and why?

Assignment over the break:  In the Google Classroom there are six Crash Course videos with a short quiz below.  This is all review and will count as a summative assessment.  If you do all six you will receive a 100 as a summative.  If you don't, each one missing is 10 points.  You should be scoring at least 70 on each one.

Activity: Personality review practice quiz.

Activity: Motivation-NPR video. What is motivating them to do this?

Motivation Activity

If we have time: Emotion: At your table see if you can come up with a list of common emotions that most feel.

Compare with this list.  How did you do?

Group Question: Which one would you want to get rid of if you could delete one in yourself.  Discuss with you group your choice and why.

Monday April 14, 2025

Monday April 14, 2025

New seating chart

Seating chart activity- Look at brackets

Circle: It might be difficult but if you had to brag about yourself, what do you feel like is you biggest strength of you personality?

Video: The Big Five

The Big Five Personality Test- After taking the test write down your scores in the following order:

Factor 1 Extroversion

Factor 2 Neuroticism

Factor 3 Agreeableness

Factor 4 Conscientiousness

Factor 5 Openess

What do you see as your biggest strength and your biggest weaknesses?  Does it make sense?

Worksheet

Social Psychology Worksheet

April 10, 2025

Thursday April 10, 2025

Circle: What is a claim, what is considered evidence, what is a warrant?

Difference between AAQ (Article Analysis Question) and EBQ (Evidence Based Question)?

Video: What is the EBQ End at 6:06 mark

Activity: Reading and scoring an EBQ

Video: The Big Five

Taking an EBQ

April 7, 2025

Monday April 7, 2025

Circle: Do you think that you would be capable of killing someone who is no threat to you just because someone told you to?  Are humans good or evil or just products of their environment.

Social Psychology- The branch of psychology that deals with social interactions, including their origins and their effects on the individual.  

Power of the Situation with study guide.

Fundamental Attribution Error

If you were absent on Monday please watch this video

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