Thursday December 17th and Monday December 21st, 2020

Test: Sensation and Perception-Please look at list of vocabulary words posted in the classroom

Circle: On average, how many hours of sleep do you get on a school night?

Unit Test 4 Sensation and Perception

Take this quiz.

Unit 5 Assignment Sheet

Unit Topics: Sleep and Dreams, Hypnosis, Drugs and Consciousness

Dates for Unit: December 17th- January 14th

Exam Dates: January 11th Pod A January 15th Pod B – 25 multiple choice questions - 2 pts each, 1 ten point FRQ.                                                                                                      

Assigned reading (35 pages): 

Note cards: Below is a list of terms that you will need to know for the AP Psych exam.  These are due before the exam (12/11).  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
• manifest content
• latent content
• hypnosis
• dissociation
• physical dependence
• psychological dependence
• depressants
• barbiturates
• opiates
• stimulants
• hallucinogens

Exit Ticket

Thursday December 10, 2020

Thursday December 10, 2020 Pod A Pod B 

Circle: Which sense would you give up if you had to?

Unit 4 Assignment Sheet

Learning Targets: Understand the following-

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

What are the absolute and difference thresholds, and do stimuli below the absolute threshold have any influence?

What is the function of sensory adaptation?

What is the energy that we see as visual light?

What are the characteristics of air pressure waves that we hear as sound?

How do the eye and ear transform light and sound energy into neural messages?

How do we experience each of the body’s senses?

How do Gestalt psychologists understand perceptual organization?

How adaptable is our ability to perceive?

How do our expectations, contexts, and emotions influence our perceptions?

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

Synthesize the following:  Why doesn't our brain try to make sense of everything that is happening around us?

Activity:  Create and share your mnemonic device for light passing through the eye.  Vote on which one is the best.

Activity: Synthesize the following:  What do the following tell us about the world YOU live in?

What's the point?:
Make a chart for each person to record answers.
1) A common smell you cannot stand?
2) A type of clothing you cannot wear because of how it feels?
3) A common sound that really bothers you?
4) Do you usually feel hot or cold?
5) What flavor of food do you prefer given a choice? Sweet, sour, salty or bland? Ex. If had to choose between chips and a cupcake, which would you choose a majority of the time.


Activity: As a class, you will be watching series of brief videos relating to Sensation and Perception. Your job will be as a small group to connect what you have watched to what we are studying. You will have one person who is leading the discussion, i.e. restating the question and keep the group focused, another will be the reporter who will explain to the class what specifically this connects to and how it connects once everyone in your group understands. You will be taking notes that you can add to your unit 4 notes. Please bring your book to class!

Understanding the Senses

1. Video

2.Video
3.Video
4.Video
5.Video
6.Video
7. Video
8. Video

9. Video
10. Video

11. Video

12. Video

Crash Course 

Kahoot

Monday November 30, 2020 Pod A Pod B 

Pod A Homework: Read and SQ3R pages 115-119

Circle: A smell that brings back a memory?

Unit 4 Assignment Sheet

Sensation and Perception Assignment Sheet


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


Zimbardo Video: Discovering Psychology-Sensation and Perception


David Eagleman Ted Talk


The Invisible Gorilla Experiment


Synthesize the following:  What do the following tell us about the world YOU live in?


Test Strips: Do you have the gene?

Sodium Benzoate has different taste perceptions than the other papers. A different pair of alleles determines the ability to taste Sodium Benzoate. It can taste sweet, salty, sour, bitter or tasteless, so this paper is often used in conjunction with another taste test, such as PTC, to characterize taste perception, and break tasters/non-taters into subgroups.

The point is, PTC in genetics has been studied for quite some time, and there is quite a bit of information on it. There are several known alleles for the PTC gene, but PTC sensitivity is really controlled by two major alleles in humans. PTC paper either tastes bitter or it doesn’t taste like anything at all. Some tasters can taste a very strong bitter taste, while other tasters can taste a mildly bitter taste. Thus, there can be three classifications of phenotypes in a PTC study (strong tasters, mild tasters, and no taste).

Our Taste

Optical Illusions

Pheromones

Man on a horse picture from text

Color Blindness Test


Introduce Sensation and Perception


Have you ever been under anesthesia?


Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality/TEDtalk


Eye-witness Accounts

Monday November 23, 2020 Pod A and Pod B

Explain Assessment

What test is going to look like if we are remote or back in school

Short Answer example question: Explain how an evolutionary psychologist might explain why humans developed into omnivores, eating both meat and plants.

SQ3R and the test

Pass in a picture of your notes

Note Cards

Fan out your note cards and place them in picture of SQ3R notes

Debrief ACE's score 

Homework:Homework Assignment Sheet Unit 3

Circle: If were to guess a percentage of Nurture to Nature, what percent of who you are(likes, dislikes, personality, habits, temperament) are because of how/where you raised as opposed to your genes?

Learning Targets:  At your table discuss the learning targets.  Be ready to report out.

1. What are chromosomes, DNA, genes and the human genome?

2. How do twin and adoption studies help us understand the effects and interactions of nature and nurture?

3. What is heritability, and how does it relate to individuals and groups?

4. How is molecular genetics research changing our understanding of nature and nurture?


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

What is the conclusion of the article?

What are the implications of this?

Does the article point more towards Nature or Nurture as the determining factor in how you turn out?

Now Take the ACE's TEST

Regardless of your score, what does the ACE's test tell you about people?

Is your ACE's score going to determine the rest of your life?  Why or why not?

Why do you think that even though some people grow up in horrific household they turn out to be incredibly well functioning adults in spite of their upbringing?

Harlow's Monkeys
Parents matter but they don't make a difference

Nature:
Twin Studies
5 True Stories of Twins Separated at Birth
Gene Genies


1. Do you think personality traits are primarily inherited or influenced by environment? What is your evidence?


2. Why do you think nature versus nurture is debated? Do you think it is possible to answer this question definitively? Why or why not?


3. Who might be most interested in resolving the nature versus nurture debate? What effect might a resolution have on our society?



4. If you were raising identical twins, what might you do to make sure that they were unique individuals? Explain your answer.



5. Based on what you have learned, do you think it is possible to change your personality? Why or why not? If so, how would you go about making changes?



6. If you are not a twin, would you rather be an identical or a fraternal twin? Why? What do you think would be some of the challenges of being a twin? If you are a twin, write a couple of sentences about the experience. Is it fun? Difficult? If you have other siblings, is your relationship with your twin different from the relationship with your other siblings? If so, what makes it different?

Unit 3C Slides

Kahoot

Thursday November 19, 2020

Explain Quiz

SQ3R and the test

Note Cards

Assessment

Homework:Homework Assignment Sheet Unit 3

Circle: Would you like to have an identical twin?


Learning Targets:  At your table discuss the learning targets.  Be ready to report out.

1. What are chromosomes, DNA, genes and the human genome?

2. How do twin and adoption studies help us understand the effects and interactions of nature and nurture?

3. What is heritability, and how does it relate to individuals and groups?

4. How is molecular genetics research changing our understanding of nature and nurture?


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

What is the conclusion of the article?

What are the implications of this?

Does the article point more towards Nature or Nurture as the determining factor in how you turn out?

Now Take the ACE's TEST

Regardless of your score, what does the ACE's test tell you about people?

Is your ACE's score going to determine the rest of your life?  Why or why not?

Why do you think that even though some people grow up in horrific household they turn out to be incredibly well functioning adults in spite of their upbringing?

Harlow's Monkeys
Parents matter but they don't make a difference

Nature:
Twin Studies
5 True Stories of Twins Separated at Birth
Gene Genies


1. Do you think personality traits are primarily inherited or influenced by environment? What is your evidence?


2. Why do you think nature versus nurture is debated? Do you think it is possible to answer this question definitively? Why or why not?


3. Who might be most interested in resolving the nature versus nurture debate? What effect might a resolution have on our society?



4. If you were raising identical twins, what might you do to make sure that they were unique individuals? Explain your answer.



5. Based on what you have learned, do you think it is possible to change your personality? Why or why not? If so, how would you go about making changes?



6. If you are not a twin, would you rather be an identical or a fraternal twin? Why? What do you think would be some of the challenges of being a twin? If you are a twin, write a couple of sentences about the experience. Is it fun? Difficult? If you have other siblings, is your relationship with your twin different from the relationship with your other siblings? If so, what makes it different?

Unit 3C Slides

Kahoot

November 9th Pod A and 12th Pod B

November 9th and 12th Monday and Thursday 

Homework Assignment Sheet Unit 3

Circle Question: What is something you think will be easier about your life when you are an adult?

Questions from Unit 3A you need to know for the test:
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?

 

Questions from 3B you need to know for the test

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?

 

Confusing your brain

True or False?

Note Cards

Activity: You are going to become an expert on one of the brief videos listed below. After your group is assigned a video you will 1. Watch Video (you might want to watch it twice) 2. Take notes on important information 3. Put together key points your group believes are the most important things to know 4. Determine which of the above questions the video is addressing. 5. Share what you found for information.

Neurons- How They Work
What is an fMRI
Stabbed in the brain- Phineas Gage
Expressive Aphasia- Sarah Scott
Why we can't tickle ourselves
The Girl who can't feel pain
Worlds tallest man
Nature Nurture: The study of twins
Is it all in our genes?
Girl living with half her brain
Fright night: Fight or flight
Hemispherectomy 

Severed Corpus Collosum

 

Kahoots:
Neuron and Neurotransmitter Kahoot
Endocrine Kahoot
Brain and Behavior Kahoot

November 2, 2020 Pod A in-class B remote

Monday November 2, 2020 Pod A in person.   B remote.

Homework Assignment Sheet  for Unit 3

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

Hand back tests

AP Sign Ups

Importance of taking notes

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?