Monday November 9, 2026 Green
Circle: Have you eaten deer and have you shot a deer yourself or do you think you would if given the chance?
Waiting for you Neurons...If you were a Neuron and forgot to do your One-Pager, you will be presenting today!
Debrief Neurotransmitters: Agonist, Antagonist or Blocker
Introduce Old Brain...
Friday November 6, 2026 Gold
Circle: Do you believe in love at first sight? Do you have a type?
2 Minute Neuroscience: Synaptic Transmission
Activity: You are acting like a Neuron!
Activity: Neurotransmitters
One-Pager and then Speed Dating
Monday November 2, 2026 Green
Parent Teacher Conferences Wednesday!
Circle: Do you believe in love at first sight? Do you have a type?
2 Minute Neuroscience: Synaptic Transmission
Activity: You are acting like a Neuron!
Activity: Neurotransmitters
One-Pager and then Speed Dating
Tuesday November 3, 2026 Gold
Homework 98-107 and worksheet
Circle: If you could instantly send one message to every neuron in your body, what would you tell them to do? For example-
Never feel tired again.
Make me remember everything I study.
Make me faster or stronger.
Stop me from getting nervous before a test.
Let me understand any language.
Make me fall asleep instantly.
Activity: Finish True or False questions
Follow up questions for groups:
How does your brain communicate with your hand when you decide to raise it?
How does your brain know that you touched something hot?
How can a message travel from your brain to your toes so quickly?
Domino Activity: Your brain doesn't send text messages or use tiny wires. It uses specialized cells called neurons that communicate through electrical and chemical signals. Today, we're going to model how one of those signals travels.
Challenge: Using dominoes to model how a neural signal travels along an axon.
Round 1: Build the signal
Put students in groups of 3–4.
Give each group 15–25 dominoes.
Have them arrange the dominoes in a line with enough space for each domino to knock over the next one.
Ask one student to tip the first domino.
Have the group observe what happens from beginning to end.
Ask students to discuss:
What started the chain reaction?
Did the first domino physically travel to the end of the line?
What actually moved down the line?
Why did the chain reaction stop when it reached the last domino?
Round 2: Introduce the threshold
Now arrange the dominoes so that a small push does not start the entire chain, but a sufficient push does.
A neuron must reach a particular threshold to generate an action potential. In a neuron, this is not simply a matter of pushing harder; it involves changes in electrical voltage across the cell membrane that open voltage-gated ion channels.
Round 3: Break the signal
Have students deliberately leave a large gap between two dominoes.
What happened to the signal?
What might happen if a neuron could not successfully transmit its message?
Does a real neuron work exactly like this?
Domino model has limitations. Dominoes physically fall and stay down, while a neuron generates an electrical signal that is regenerated along the axon. The neuron does not need to knock down a series of permanently falling parts.
Student vocabulary investigation
Term:
Clue to help students figure it out
Neuron
The specialized cell that sends and receives information
Dendrites
The branches that receive incoming signals
Cell body (soma)
The part that contains the nucleus and integrates incoming information
Axon
The long extension that carries the action potential away from the cell body
Myelin sheath
Insulation around some axons that helps signals travel faster
Threshold
The membrane voltage that must be reached to trigger an action potential
Action potential
A brief, rapid change in membrane voltage that propagates along the axon
Depolarization
The membrane voltage becomes less negative, primarily because sodium ions enter the neuron
Repolarization
The membrane voltage moves back toward its resting level, primarily as potassium ions leave
Refractory period
A brief period when the neuron cannot fire normally again, or requires a stronger stimulus
Synapse
The junction where a neuron communicates with another cell
Neurotransmitter
A chemical messenger released by a neuron that can affect a receiving cell
For the first domino to fall...
The important idea is that an action potential is an all-or-none event. Once threshold is reached, the neuron generates a full action potential rather than a smaller one. Stronger stimulation can increase the frequency of action potentials, rather than increasing the size of each individual action potential.
Point to remember: Every time you move, feel something, remember a fact, or react to a sound, neurons are communicating. The action potential is one of the fundamental ways your nervous system makes that communication possible.
Connection: Revisit the domino model when you introduce synapses and neurotransmitters. “If the domino chain represents the axon, what happens when the signal reaches the end? Does the next neuron get knocked over directly, or does something else have to happen?” This sets up the distinction between electrical signaling within a neuron and chemical communication across most synapses.
Friday October 30, 2026 Gold
Quiz Today
Circle: If you brain wasn't working correctly, how would you know?
Introduce Neurons...
Activity: Get out you old homework. Neurons. Review
Activity: True or False
2 Minute Neuroscience: The Neuron
Label the parts of a Neuron
Thursday October 29, 2026 Green
Homework 98-107 and worksheet
Circle: If you could instantly send one message to every neuron in your body, what would you tell them to do? For example-
Never feel tired again.
Make me remember everything I study.
Make me faster or stronger.
Stop me from getting nervous before a test.
Let me understand any language.
Make me fall asleep instantly.
Activity: Finish True or False questions
Follow up questions for groups:
How does your brain communicate with your hand when you decide to raise it?
How does your brain know that you touched something hot?
How can a message travel from your brain to your toes so quickly?
Domino Activity: Your brain doesn't send text messages or use tiny wires. It uses specialized cells called neurons that communicate through electrical and chemical signals. Today, we're going to model how one of those signals travels.
Challenge: Using dominoes to model how a neural signal travels along an axon.
Round 1: Build the signal
Put students in groups of 3–4.
Give each group 15–25 dominoes.
Have them arrange the dominoes in a line with enough space for each domino to knock over the next one.
Ask one student to tip the first domino.
Have the group observe what happens from beginning to end.
Ask students to discuss:
What started the chain reaction?
Did the first domino physically travel to the end of the line?
What actually moved down the line?
Why did the chain reaction stop when it reached the last domino?
Round 2: Introduce the threshold
Now arrange the dominoes so that a small push does not start the entire chain, but a sufficient push does.
A neuron must reach a particular threshold to generate an action potential. In a neuron, this is not simply a matter of pushing harder; it involves changes in electrical voltage across the cell membrane that open voltage-gated ion channels.
Round 3: Break the signal
Have students deliberately leave a large gap between two dominoes.
What happened to the signal?
What might happen if a neuron could not successfully transmit its message?
Does a real neuron work exactly like this?
Domino model has limitations. Dominoes physically fall and stay down, while a neuron generates an electrical signal that is regenerated along the axon. The neuron does not need to knock down a series of permanently falling parts.
Student vocabulary investigation
Term:
Clue to help students figure it out
Neuron
The specialized cell that sends and receives information
Dendrites
The branches that receive incoming signals
Cell body (soma)
The part that contains the nucleus and integrates incoming information
Axon
The long extension that carries the action potential away from the cell body
Myelin sheath
Insulation around some axons that helps signals travel faster
Threshold
The membrane voltage that must be reached to trigger an action potential
Action potential
A brief, rapid change in membrane voltage that propagates along the axon
Depolarization
The membrane voltage becomes less negative, primarily because sodium ions enter the neuron
Repolarization
The membrane voltage moves back toward its resting level, primarily as potassium ions leave
Refractory period
A brief period when the neuron cannot fire normally again, or requires a stronger stimulus
Synapse
The junction where a neuron communicates with another cell
Neurotransmitter
A chemical messenger released by a neuron that can affect a receiving cell
For the first domino to fall...
The important idea is that an action potential is an all-or-none event. Once threshold is reached, the neuron generates a full action potential rather than a smaller one. Stronger stimulation can increase the frequency of action potentials, rather than increasing the size of each individual action potential.
Point to remember: Every time you move, feel something, remember a fact, or react to a sound, neurons are communicating. The action potential is one of the fundamental ways your nervous system makes that communication possible.
Connection: Revisit the domino model when you introduce synapses and neurotransmitters. “If the domino chain represents the axon, what happens when the signal reaches the end? Does the next neuron get knocked over directly, or does something else have to happen?” This sets up the distinction between electrical signaling within a neuron and chemical communication across most synapses.
Wednesday October 28, 2026 Green
Quiz Today
Circle: If you brain wasn't working correctly, how would you know?
Introduce Neurons...
Activity: Get out you old homework. Neurons. Review
Activity: True or False
2 Minute Neuroscience: The Neuron
Label the parts of a Neuron
Monday October 26, 2026 Green
Check notecards
Circle: What are you afraid of?
New Seating Chart/Paper Airplane
From last class:
Activity: Mapping the Nervous System
Present your body project
Watch 2 minute neuroscience. What becomes clearer to you?
Individual Application activity
Check in quiz next class.
Exit ticket
Introduce Neurons...
Thursday October 22, 2026 Green
Circle: Strangest or most unique food you have ever tried?
Activity: Mapping the Nervous System
Friday October 16, 2026 Gold
Circle: Where do you see yourself 10 years from now and what are you doing?
Quiz Today
Bring in your homework sheets for formative assessment grade.
Biological Bases of Behavior
Point to remember!!!- Everything psychological is simultaneously biological.
Get to you know your nervous system
Divisions of the Nervous System
2 Minute Neuroscience- Division of the Nervous System
Why are people so afraid of clowns?
Unit for Neurons
2 Minute Neuroscience- The Neuron
Thursday October 15, 2026 Green
Circle: Where do you see yourself 10 years from now and what are you doing?
Quiz on Today
Bring in your homework sheets for formative assessment grade.
Biological Bases of Behavior
Point to remember!!!- Everything psychological is simultaneously biological.
Get to you know your nervous system
Divisions of the Nervous System
2 Minute Neuroscience- Division of the Nervous System
Why are people so afraid of clowns?
Unit for Neurons
2 Minute Neuroscience- The Neuron
Wednesday October 14, 2026 Green
New Seating Chart/Activity Name that tune...
Circle: What is you best time of day?
Practice Quiz- Nature and Nurture/Correlational Studies
Quiz on Friday
Bring in your homework sheets for formative assessment grade.
Make sure you are in AP Classroom! This is where we will be taking the quiz!
Biological Bases of Behavior
Point to remember!!!- Everything psychological is simultaneously biological.
Get to you know your nervous system
Divisions of the Nervous System
2 Minute Neuroscience- Division of the Nervous System
Why are people so afraid of clowns?
Unit for Neurons
2 Minute Neuroscience- The Neuron
Tuesday October 13, 2026 Gold
New Seating Chart/Activity
Circle: What is you best time of day?
Practice Quiz- Nature and Nurture/Correlational Studies
Quiz on Friday
Biological Bases of Behavior
Point to remember!!!- Everything psychological is simultaneously biological.
Get to you know your nervous system
Divisions of the Nervous System
2 Minute Neuroscience- Division of the Nervous System
Why are people so afraid of clowns?
Unit for Neurons
2 Minute Neuroscience- The Neuron
Monday October 5, 2026 Green Day
Circle: Which do you think plays more of a role in who you are after watching the video, Nature or Nurture?
Homework Check: Module 14
Homework for Thursday Module 10 SQ3R 91-97 and fill in review sheet.
Nature and Nurture: Are we in control or are we just acting according to our genes?
AP Classroom: Activity: What the hell is heritability?
Activity: Smiles Predict Marriage Success
Activity: With your group you will choose two of the following studies/articles. After reading each one discuss your findings and be ready to report out to the class the following questions:
Nurture:
Childhood Stress
Harlow's Monkeys
Parents matter but they don't make a difference
Nature:
Twin Studies
5 True Stories of Twins Separated at Birth
Monday September 28, 2026 Green
Test Today!!! Perspectives
New Seating Chart and Activity: Name that tune!
Introduce Nature and Nurture: Are we in control or are we just acting according to our genes?
Homework: SQ3R Module 14 which is on pages 129-138. You also received a handout in class this should be completed after you finish the homework. This will be collected next class.
AP Classroom: Activity: What the hell is heritability?
Activity: Smiles Predict Marriage Success
Activity: With your group you will choose two of the following studies/articles. After reading each one discuss your findings and be ready to report out to the class the following questions:
Tuesday September 22, 2026
Circle: What is the scariest thing about the whole college/after high school business?
Class Code:
4ZZQ34
Letter home
College/Career Fair
Tests and Quiz's
Formative Self Assessment
If you have all the homework done the minimum grade will be an 80!
Revisit: Definition of Psychology- The study of behavior AND mental processes. Remember...The Brain is a prediction machine!
Perspectives
1. What is going on here? How would you explain what is going on and why its happening?
2. Reflection Question
3. BioPsychSocial Model
4. Fill out "The Hand"
Next Unit: Psychology as Science
Psychology as Science: Smiles Predict Marriage Success Should we believe this? How could we test it?
Activity: Turning a myth or common belief into a hypothesis.
Monday September 21, 2026 Green
AP Classroom
Period 3 Code PRX672
Period 4 CodeGRA467
Letter home
College/Career Fair
Tests and Quiz's
Formative Self Assessment
Homework Check: Gallery Walk again!
Circle: If you saw a fight at the fair, would you record it, just watch it, walk away or tell the authorities so they could stop it?
Revisit: Definition of Psychology- The study of behavior AND mental processes. Remember...The Brain is a prediction machine!
Perspectives
1. What is going on here? How would you explain what is going on and why its happening?
2. Reflection Question
3. BioPsychSocial Model
4. Fill out "The Hand"
Next Unit: Psychology as Science
Psychology as Science: Smiles Predict Marriage Success Should we believe this? How could we test it?
Activity: Turning a myth or common belief into a hypothesis.
Thursday September 17, 2026 Green
Circle: One useless talent that you would love to get good at. Not great but just impressive.
Homework/SQ3R Gallery walk
Homework SQ3R pages 38-47 It's a big one so break it up over time.
Hand Activity: Using your homework
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.
Step 7 Reflection question
If time allows, Starting to SQ3R pages 37-47 which is their next homework assignment.
Wednesday September 16, 2026 Gold
Circle: One useless talent that you would love to get good at. Not great but just impressive.
Homework/SQ3R Gallery walk
Homework SQ3R pages 38-47 It's a big one so break it up over time.
Hand Activity: Using your homework
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.
Step 7 Reflection question
If time allows, Starting to SQ3R pages 37-47 which is their next homework assignment.
Tuesday September 15, 2026 Gold
Nuts and Bolts: Google Classroom and Blog
New Seating Chart and Activity: A place outside of Maine you have all been to.
Why do you think Psychology wants to be thought of as a science?
Homework Gallery Walk
Homework: "Why is the rat always right"? What does it say about psychology as a science?
Circle: What's one explanation for why some student are so successful at school and others struggle so badly?
Transcripts: Can we use Psychology to help us understand?
Transcript activity. Maxwell Smart Jane Doe Bio-psych-social modelHomework: SQ3R 13-22. Diagram in class.
For next class:
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.
Monday September 14, 2026 Green
Nuts and Bolts: Google Classroom and Blog
New Seating Chart and Activity: A place outside of Maine you have all been to.
Why do you think Psychology wants to be thought of as a science?
Homework Gallery Walk
Homework: "Why is the rat always right"? What does it say about psychology as a science?
Circle: What's one explanation for why some student are so successful at school and others struggle so badly?
Transcripts: Can we use Psychology to help us understand?
Transcript activity. Maxwell Smart Jane Doe Bio-psych-social modelHomework: SQ3R 13-22. Diagram in class.
For next class:
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.
Friday September 11, 2026 Gold
Circle: What is one pet peeve of your? Why do you think it bothers you and not others?
Hand out Textbooks (Period 4) 3 has them.:
(Period 3) 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: 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.
Do Homework together
Revisit: Definition of Psychology- The study of behavior AND mental processess.
1. The Hand
2. Evolutionary Perspective
3. Introduce other perspectives
4. Lets look at ourselves... What does it mean???
5. Lets see if we can figure out what's going on here. Remember the Fundamental Attribution Error
6. What is going on here? How would you explain what is going on and why its happening?
Friday September 10, 2026 Gold
Circle: What is one pet peeve of your? Why do you think it bothers you and not others?
Hand out Textbooks (Period 4) 3 has them.:
(Period 3) 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: 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.
Do Homework together
Revisit: Definition of Psychology- The study of behavior AND mental processess.
1. The Hand
2. Evolutionary Perspective
3. Introduce other perspectives
4. Lets look at ourselves... What does it mean???
5. Lets see if we can figure out what's going on here. Remember the Fundamental Attribution Error
6. What is going on here? How would you explain what is going on and why its happening?
Thursday September 10, 2026 Green
Circle: What is one pet peeve of your? Why do you think it bothers you and not others?
Hand out Textbooks (Period 4) 3 has them.:
(Period 3) 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: 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.
Do Homework together
Revisit: Definition of Psychology- The study of behavior AND mental processess.
1. The Hand
2. Evolutionary Perspective
3. Introduce other perspectives
4. Lets look at ourselves... What does it mean???
5. Lets see if we can figure out what's going on here. Remember the Fundamental Attribution Error
6. What is going on here? How would you explain what is going on and why its happening?
Tuesday September 7, 2026 Gold
Circle: Either the grossest thing you have seen served in school cafeteria or your favorite cafe item.
Quick View- Notebook, Phones, Being responsible, Maturity, Blog, Google Classroom, Syllabus
Hand out Textbooks
At your table: How do you read and remember informational texts so you you don't forget? Power of Context!
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?
Do Homework together
Activity: Psychology wants to be considered a science. Why do history teachers teach it?
Thursday September 3, 2026 Green
Psychology Definition: The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
Learning Target: To understand the major psychological perspectives and what they can tell us about ourselves and others.
Wednesday September 2, 2026 Green
Welcome to Advanced Placement Psychology!
Learning Target: To understand the major psychological perspectives and what they can tell us about ourselves and others.
Tuesday September 1, 2026 Gold
Welcome to Advanced Placement Psychology!
Learning Target: To understand the major psychological perspectives and what they can tell us about ourselves and others.
Friday May 22, 2026 Gold
Circle: What exactly is your go to Dunkin Order?
Why we do research: In 1998, a paper published in the medical journal The Lancet by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues suggested a possible link between the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine and autism. The study only involved 12 children, but it received enormous media attention and became the foundation of the modern anti-vaccine movement.
The paper was later fully retracted because investigations found serious ethical and scientific misconduct, including:
The UK General Medical Council concluded Wakefield acted dishonestly and irresponsibly, and he lost his medical license.
Since then, many large studies involving hundreds of thousands of children have found no credible link between the MMR vaccine and autism.
Activity: Continue to work on Annotated Bibliography. This needs to be submitted on Friday.
Coming Up: One minute presentations about your research and hypothesis.
Thursday May 21, 2026 Green
Circle: What is the most obvious trait you inherited from one of your parents. What is it and which parent? This could be physical or personality trait.
2nd Circle: Who are you more like? Mother or father or step-mother or step-father?
Finish Presentations:
Nature and Nurture: On your own answer the following questions and then share your response with your group. What is one thing most of you agreed on? What was the biggest disagreement?
Activity: Why is the Nature and Nurture debate so important? Cape Elizabeth? Norway? How do you think your life would be different if you grew up in Cape Elizabeth? Is it all NURTURE?
Values: Are they Nature or Nurture?
Zillow: Cape Elizabeth Norway
Wednesday May 20, 2026 Green
Circle: What exactly is your go to Dunkin Order?
Activity: Continue to work on Annotated Bibliography. This needs to be submitted on Friday.
Coming Up: One minute presentations about your research and hypothesis.
Monday May 18, 2026 Green
Circle: What is you favorite app to use on your phone that is not social media?
Project: Hypothesis Research Project
Wednesday May 11, 2026 Gold
Circle: You have secret benefactor and you have been told they will buy you any car in the world, what would you buy?
New Seating Chart and Activity: 2 truths and a lie.
What we are doing on Tuesday?
Thursday April 16, 2026
Bring AP Study Guide to class on Wednesday!
Circle 1: What do you hope to score on the AP Exam and how much work are you going to put in to achieve that goal?
Circle 2: What is the highest you have ever jumped from?
Activity: 10 Meter Tower Documentary
Activity: Personality Scenarios
Activity: Yerkes Dodson
Activity: Are you a sociopath? Anti-Social Personality Forum Online Test
Activity: In groups of two describe the three Theories of Emotion and how they would help explain Anti-Social Personality Disorder.
If we have time Activities:
Dispositional Envy Scale
Fear Survey
Emotional Expressivity Scale
The Disgust Scale
Mood Awareness Scale
Tuesday April 14, 2016
Bring AP Study Guide to class on Wednesday!
Circle 1: What do you hope to score on the AP Exam and how much work are you going to put in to achieve that goal?
Circle 2: What is the highest you have ever jumped from?
Activity: 10 Meter Tower Documentary
Activity: Personality Scenarios
Activity: Yerkes Dodson
Activity: Are you a sociopath? Anti-Social Personality Forum Online Test
Activity: In groups of two describe the three Theories of Emotion and how they would help explain Anti-Social Personality Disorder.
If we have time Activities:
Dispositional Envy Scale
Fear Survey
Emotional Expressivity Scale
The Disgust Scale
Mood Awareness Scale
Friday April 10, 2026
Homework: Motivation on Page 258 and we will have a quick quiz on Monday over the terms.
Traits: consistent patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that make a person unique.
Trait theory: the idea that personality is made up of stable traits that can be identified and measured to describe and predict behavior.
Circle: A trait you think you inherited from a parent?
Sigmund Freud...Id, Ego and Superego
Video's you should watch!
Crash Course: Rorschach and the Freudians
Crash Course: Measuring Personality
Mr. Burns High School Freud Video
Zimbardo: The Mind, Hidden and Divided
Draw Hand:
Biological perspective
Traits come from genetics and brain chemistry
You are born with certain tendencies (like being more anxious or outgoing)
Behavioral (learning) perspective
Traits are learned through experience
Rewards and punishments shape your habits over time (you “learn” to be a certain way)
Social-cognitive perspective
Traits come from the interaction between you and your environment
Your thinking (beliefs, expectations) and situations work together to shape behavior
Psychodynamic perspective
Traits are influenced by unconscious conflicts and early childhood experiences
Your personality develops from how you dealt with early relationships and inner struggles
Humanistic perspective
Traits come from your drive to grow and become your best self
You develop traits based on your self-concept and need for personal growth
Trait perspective (bonus for comparison)
Traits are stable characteristics you have
Focuses more on describing traits than explaining where they come from
How to Study... 1. Read Unit 2. Make Notecards 3. Watch Crash Course 4. Make practice quiz on ChatGPT 5. Review!!!
Tuesday April 7, 2026
New Seating Chart
Circle: To be answered after activity?
Johari's Window
Activity: Social Anxiety Scale
Activity: Obsessive Compulsive Scale
Tuesday April 7, 2026
Circle: After Johari's Window
New Seating Chart and Activity
Homework:
Monday April 6, 2026
Social Cultural Psychology
Circle: Have you ever gotten away with something that you should have gotten in trouble for? How did it make you feel?
Activity: Deindividuation-If you could do anything humanly possible with complete assurance that you would not be detected or held responsible for what would you do? Write it down.
Deindividuation is a psychological state where individuals in a group or crowd lose their self-awareness, personal identity, and sense of individual responsibility.
aggression, charity, academic dishonesty, crime, escapism, political activities, sexual behavior, social disruption, interpersonal spying, and eavesdropping, travel, and a catch-all other.
Criminal 26%
Sexual 11%
Spying 11%
Most common...robbing a bank at 15%
36% in total were considered anti-social.
Demonstration Activity: Blank piece of paper, write down how much time went by. Then again, how much time went by. Written variations will have a much greater variation in time then spoken times. Why?
Survey Time...How many students and teachers fall prey to the Fundamental Attribution Error
Friday April 3, 2026
Social Cultural Psychology
Circle: Have you ever gotten away with something that you should have gotten in trouble for? How did it make you feel?
Activity: Deindividuation-If you could do anything humanly possible with complete assurance that you would not be detected or held responsible for what would you do? Write it down.
Deindividuation is a psychological state where individuals in a group or crowd lose their self-awareness, personal identity, and sense of individual responsibility.
aggression, charity, academic dishonesty, crime, escapism, political activities, sexual behavior, social disruption, interpersonal spying, and eavesdropping, travel, and a catch-all other.
Criminal 26%
Sexual 11%
Spying 11%
Most common...robbing a bank at 15%
36% in total were considered anti-social.
Demonstration Activity: Blank piece of paper, write down how much time went by. Then again, how much time went by. Written variations will have a much greater variation in time then spoken times. Why?
Survey Time...How many students and teachers fall prey to the Fundamental Attribution Error
Thursday April 2, 2026
Circle: Superpower you would like to have.
Fundamental Attribution Error- A time you made the wrong judgement about someone. It could be a friend, coworker, parent, teacher coach stranger etc..
Notecard- Write the Fundamental Attribution Error on one side and a definition you understand on the other.
FAE Explanation
Video: Fundamental Attribution Error
Activity: Karen Clips.
Wednesday April 1, 2026
Circle: A time you felt like you were being judged.
Notecard- Write the Fundamental Attribution Error on one side and a definition you understand on the other.
FAE Explanation
Video: Fundamental Attribution Error
Activity: Karen Clips.
