October 1, 2019

Tuesday October 1, 2019

Homework Assignment Sheet  for Unit 3

Circle: $10,000 dollars today or 100,000 in 10 years?

Unit 3: The Brain-Everything Psychological is simultaneously Biological

Learning Targets:

What are neurons, and how do they transmit information?

How do nerve cells communicate with other nerve cells?

How do neurotransmitters influence behavior, and how do drugs and other chemicals affect neurotransmission?

What are the functions of the nervous system’s main divisions?

How does the endocrine system – the body’s slower information system – transmit its messages?

How do neuroscientists study the brain’s connections to behavior and mind?

What are the functions of important lower-level brain structures?

What functions are served by the various cerebral cortex regions?

What do split brains reveal about the functions of our two brain hemispheres?

Activity: Introduction to the brain and neuroscience. David Eagleman.

Activity: Reaction Time

Activity: Cross hands and confuse brain

Very useful video's about the Brain:

1.Crash Course- The Chemical Mind

2.Crash Course- Meet Your Master


3.Neurons- How They Work

4.Pinky and the Brain

5.What is an fMRI

6.Stabbed in the brain- Phineas Gage

7.Expressive Aphasia- Sarah Scott

8.The Phenomenon of Neuroplasticity

9. Do you have the addiction gene?

September 27, 2019

Friday September 27, 2019

Circle: TBA

Check SQ3R Notes: Remember if you did the SQ3R notes and completed the notecards on Wednesday the lowest grade you can get is a 78.
1) Check

Unit 1 and 2 Test
1) Please write down at top of test how you studied.  Example: Watched Crash Courses, took online practice test...
2)When you finish the test begin SQ3Ring Unit 3a in textbook pages 50-58.  Please follow the format:
1)Survey pages 50-58
2)Diagram(Bubbles and lines) 50-58
3) Create questions for each heading
4) Read and take notes
5) Answer question in your own words using note from text.


Exit Ticket: How do you think the test went?

Textbook: The reading of the text is essential.  If you want to do good in this class and the AP exam you must read it.

September 25, 2019

Wednesday September 25, 2019

Circle:

Check SQ3R Notes:
1) Check
2) Compare
3) Review SQ3R

Check notecards: These are due on Wednesday September 25th.

Period 2: Scatterplot activity

Unit 2 Research Methods: Learning Targets
1. I can identify and apply the Scientific Method
2. I can identify and explain research methods
3. I can recognize problems and solutions in psychological research
4. I understand ethics in psychology

Introduce Ethics: 

Research Methods: Zimbardo Video

Activity: Ethics in psychological research. Zimbardo Video 8 minute mark.

Psychology Quiz online

Practice Test and Test taking.  Understand question, answer before answering, and POE.

Reading assignment:  Unit 1 and 2 Assignments 

Exit Ticket: How are you going to study for the test on Friday?

Textbook: The reading of the text is essential.  If you want to do good in this class and the AP exam you must read it.

September 23, 2019

Monday September 23, 2019

Circle: One item you use to beg your parent to buy if you went food shopping with them as a kid.

Check SQ3R Notes:
1) Check
2) Compare
3) Review SQ3R

Unit 2 Research Methods: Learning Targets
1. I can identify and apply the Scientific Method
2. I can identify and explain research methods
3. I can recognize problems and solutions in psychological research
4. I understand ethics in psychology

Activity: Can we identify criminals by the age of three?
1. What conclusion does this article imply?
2. Is this conclusion warranted by the study described? Why or why not?
3. Is the title an accurate summary of the study described? Why or why not?
4. Can this study prove that "you can predict if someone is going to be a criminal"? Why or why not?
5. What questions do you have after reading this article?
6. If you had the power to create guidelines for the press's reporting of a research study, what would you recommend?

Using the article above use the vocabulary words from text to identify terms and how they would apply to the article.  Example: Theory-an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events.  The authors of the study are working with the theory that criminal behavior is biological and that criminals might be born that way.

Correlation vs. Causation: Firemen and fires, Ice cream and drowning, Shoes and headaches.

Research Methods: Zimbardo Video

Monday Activity:  Screen time and GPA- you will be setting up an experiment and naming all the parts to determine if the amount of screen time can affect your GPA.  You will need to develop thesis, operationally define the experiment,  replication, population,  random sampling, correlation, causation, correlation co-efficent, and scatterplots.  Then you will design an experiment that will try to determine how much a new medication for concentrating  can impact GPA by creating an experiment and all its parts. Your experiment must address the following, random assignment, double blind procedure, placebo effect, experimental group, control group, independent variable, confounding variable and dependent variable.

Activity: Ethics in psychological research. Zimbardo Video 8 minute mark.

Psychology Quiz online

Reading assignment:  Unit 1 and 2 Assignments 

Exit Ticket:  Something you would like me to know.

Textbook: The reading of the text is essential.  If you want to do good in this class and the AP exam you must read it.

September 19, 2019

Thursday September 19, 2019

Circle:

Check SQ3R Notes:
1) Check
2) Compare
3) Review SQ3R

Unit 2 Research Methods: Learning Targets
1. I can identify and apply the Scientific Method
2. I can identify and explain research methods
3. I can recognize problems and solutions in psychological research
4. I understand ethics in psychology

Activity: Can we identify criminals by the age of three?
1. What conclusion does this article imply?
2. Is this conclusion warranted by the study described? Why or why not?
3. Is the title an accurate summary of the study described? Why or why not?
4. Can this study prove that "you can predict if someone is going to be a criminal"? Why or why not?
5. What questions do you have after reading this article?
6. If you had the power to create guidelines for the press's reporting of a research study, what would you recommend?

Using the article above use the vocabulary words from text to identify terms and how they would apply to the article.  Example: Theory-an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events.  The authors of the study are working with the theory that criminal behavior is biological and that criminals might be born that way.

Correlation vs. Causation: Firemen and fires, Ice cream and drowning, Shoes and headaches.

Research Methods: Zimbardo Video

Thursday Activity:  Screen time and GPA- you will be setting up an experiment and naming all the parts to determine if the amount of screen time can affect your GPA.  You will need to develop thesis, operationally define the experiment,  replication, population,  random sampling, correlation, causation, correlation co-efficent, and scatterplots.  Then you will design an experiment that will try to determine how much a new medication for concentrating  can impact GPA by creating an experiment and all its parts. Your experiment must address the following, random assignment, double blind procedure, placebo effect, experimental group, control group, independent variable, confounding variable and dependent variable.

Activity: Ethics in psychological research.

Psychology Quiz online

Reading assignment:  Unit 1 and 2 Assignments 

Exit Ticket:  Something you would like me to know.

Textbook: The reading of the text is essential.  If you want to do good in this class and the AP exam you must read it.

September 17, 2019

Monday September 17, 2019

Syllabus

Definition of Psychology: The study of behavior and the mind (mental process).

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

Activity 1:  At your table, read about Nicki Manaj.  Using the six major psychological perspectives, what might explain her behavior.

Activity 2: Transcript Activity:  Why so different?

Circle: What is your favorite thing to do at the fair?

Check SQ3R Notes:
1) Check
2) Compare
3) Review SQ3R

Unit 2 Research Methods: Learning Targets
1. I can identify and apply the Scientific Method
2. I can identify and explain research methods
3. I can recognize problems and solutions in psychological research
4. I understand ethics in psychology

Video: Why it is important to understand scientific studies.
John Oliver and scientific studies

Research Method:  Is your child going to be a criminal? 
1. What conclusion does this article imply?
2. Is this conclusion warranted by the study described? Why or why not?
3. Is the title an accurate summary of the study described? Why or why not?
4. Can this study prove that "you can predict if someone is going to be a criminal"? Why or why not?
5. What questions do you have after reading this article?

6. If you had the power to create guidelines for the press's reporting of a research study, what would you recommend?

Correlation vs. Causation: Firemen and fires, Ice cream and drowning, Shoes and headaches.

Research Methods: Zimbardo Video

Thursday Activity:  Screen time and GPA- you will be setting up an experiment and naming all the parts to determine if the amount of screen time can affect your GPA.  You will need to develop thesis, operationally define the experiment,  replication, population,  random sampling, correlation, causation, correlation co-efficent, and scatterplots.  Then you will design an experiment that will try to determine how much a new medication for concentrating  can impact GPA by creating an experiment and all its parts. Your experiment must address the following, random assignment, double blind procedure, placebo effect, experimental group, control group, independent variable, confounding variable and dependent variable.

Activity: Ethics in psychological research.

Psychology Quiz online

Reading assignment:  Unit 1 and 2 Assignments 

Exit Ticket:  Something you would like me to know.

Textbook: The reading of the text is essential.  If you want to do good in this class and the AP exam you must read it.

September 13, 2019

Friday September 13, 2019

Syllabus

Commitment Contract

Unit 1 Learning Targets:
When and how did psychological science begin?
How did psychology continue to develop from the 1920’s through today?
What is psychology’s historic big issue?
What are psychology’s levels of analysis and related perspectives?
What are psychology’s main subfields?

Definition of Psychology: The study of behavior and the mind (mental process).

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

Circle: One person, place or thing you use to hate and now really enjoy?

Check SQ3R Notes:
1) Check
2) Compare
3) Review SQ3R

The Hand: We will finish this in class

Activity: Celebrity Diagnosis and presentations

Celebrity Exercise: And by extension the Bio-Psych-Social Model.

Unit 2 Research Methods:
1.Understanding Scientific Method
2. Identify Research Methods
5. Ethics in Psychological Research
3. Recognize problems and solutions in research
4. Statistics

Video: Why it is important to understand scientific studies.
John Oliver and scientific studies

Activity: Looking at article about criminals

Correlation vs. Causation: Firemen and fires, Ice cream and drowning, Shoes and headaches.

Ethics in psychological research.

Research Methods: Zimbardo Video

Activity:  TV and GPA- you will be setting up an experiment and naming all the parts to determine if the amount of TV watched can affect your GPA.  You will need to develop thesis, operationally define the experiment,  replication, population,  random sampling, correlation, causation, correlation co-efficent, and scatterplots.  Then you will design an experiment that will try to determine how much a new medication for concentrating  can impact GPA by creating an experiment and all its parts. Your experiment must address the following, random assignment, double blind procedure, placebo effect, experimental group, control group, independent variable, confounding variable and dependent variable.

Psychology Quiz online

Reading assignment:  Unit 1 and 2 Assignments 

Exit Ticket:  Something you would like me to know.

Textbook: The reading of the text is essential.  If you want to do good in this class and the AP exam you must read it.