Monday, May 3, 2021

Test on Tuesday May 11th

Social Psychology

Circle: Do you think you could be convinced to kill another human being who has done nothing wrong and there was no penalty to you if you refused(meaning you could just say no)?

Activity: The Power of the Situation (6:45 mark)

Activity: True or False

FRQ's...Released Items

Thursday, April 15, 2021

 Circle: At what point would you seek psychological help?  What would have to happen?  How would you know?


Activity: What do you imagine having depression is like?
What is it like to have depression?

Activity: Organize note cards at table and be prepared to defend you choices.

                   Treatment of Psychological Disorders

Disorder Questions:
What are the aims and methods of psychoanalysis, and how have they been adapted in psychodynamic therapy?
What are the basic themes of humanistic therapy, such as Rogers’ client-centered approach?
What are the assumptions and techniques of the behavior therapies?
What are the goals and techniques of the cognitive therapies?
What are the aims and benefits of group and family therapy?
Are some therapies more effective than others?
How do culture and values influence the therapist-client relationship?
What are the drug therapies?  What criticisms have been leveled against drug therapies?
How, by caring for their bodies with a healthy life-style, might people find some relief from depression?
What is the rationale for preventive mental health programs?

Turn and Talk  Why?


Activity: Revised Suicide Quiz

Activity: T or F

Activity: Personality Inventory

Activity: Self-Concealment Scale

Note Cards: 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.  These are due on Tuesday.  They will go in the grade book.

  • Psychotherapy
  • Free association
  • Resistance
  • Transference
  • Insight therapies
  • Client-centered therapy
  • Active listening
  • Exposure therapies
  • Systematic desensitization
  • Cognitive-behavior therapy
  • Family therapy
  • Drug therapy
  • Anti-anxiety drugs
  • Antidepressant drugs
  • Electroconvulsive therapy
  • Psychosurgery

  Circle: How many people do you know who suffer from a mental illness?


Introduce Abnormal Psychology:

How should we draw the line between normality and disorder?
What perspectives can help us understand psychological disorders?
How and why do clinicians classify psychological disorders?
What are anxiety disorders, and how do they differ from ordinary worries and fears?
What produces the thoughts and feelings that mark anxiety disorders?
What are somatoform disorders?
What are dissociative disorders, and why are they controversial?
What are mood disorders, and what forms do they take?
What patterns of thinking, perceiving, feeling, and behaving characterize schizophrenia?
What causes schizophrenia?
What characteristics are typical of personality disorders?

How many people suffer, or have suffered, from a psychological disorder?


What is it like to have depression?

Activity: Look up rates of mental illness;
In America
Worldwide
In Maine
In Men
In Women
In Teenagers
What are the most prevalent mental illnesses?
What are the rarest mental illnesses?

If we have time:

Activity: Revised Suicide Quiz

Activity: Social Anxiety Thoughts

Activity: Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale

Activity: Measuring Fear



Note cards: We are doing note cards a little differently for this section.  Each one is a disorder - name of the disorder on the front; definition and/or symptoms on the back.  There are 25 (some are not listed in our book – internet research will be required).  Note cards completed are worth a test grade so do them well.  This grade will be posted in Application and Process. Meaning that if your grade is low this will have impact. These are due on Friday, April 26th.  If you aren't in class on Friday the expectation is that you will show them to me before Friday or if not possible take pictures and share them with me.  No exceptions.


  • Phobias
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Panic Disorder
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
  • Somatization Disorders
  • Hypochondriasis
  • Conversion Disorders
  • Somatoform Pain Disorders
  • Depersonalization
  • Dissociative Amnesia
  • Dissociative fugue states
  • Dissociative Identity Disorder
  • Major Depression
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Schizophrenia
  • Delusional Disorder
  • Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Schizoid Personality Disorder
  • Antisocial Personality Disorder
  • Anorexia
  • Bulimia
  • Tourette Syndrome
  • Munchausen's Syndrome
  • Impulse Control Disorders

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Thursday April 1, 2021


Circle: Something you are embarrassed about  having done to fit in?  

Turn and Talk


The Responsive Brain  14 minute mark


Big Picture- Looking at the diversity of needs that underlie our thoughts, behaviors, and the choices we make.

Discussion: What motivates people to action? Pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain generally promotes our survival and explains much of what we do.  However sometimes the principal is counterproductive.  In your group generate a list of things we do that confirm the seek pleasure and avoid pain principal and a list that but also a list that goes against the principal.  

Can you explain the motivation behind these two eating disorders?
Image 1
Image 2

Where does the behaviorist, evolutionary, cognitive, social cultural, psychoanalytic, biological and humanistic perspective fit into the conversation around motivation?  Is poverty a choice?  Why would anyone want to be poor? Cape Elizabeth versus Rumford? Generational poverty

Activity: T or F


Activity: Sensation-Seeking Scale


Activity: Self Actualization Survey

Activity: Desirability of Control Scale

Research: How to motivate yourself


  • Abraham Maslow
  • Cannon-Bard Theory
  • Drive-Reduction theory
  • Emotion
  • General adaptation syndrome
  • Hierarchy of needs
  • Homeostasis
  • Incentive
  • Instinct
  • James-Lange theory
  • Motivation
  • Stress

Thursday, March 25, 2021

Thursday March 25th- everyone including the teacher is remote.

 Thursday March 25th


Target: Understanding Human Development


How does life develop before birth?
What are some newborn abilities, and how do researchers explore infants’ mental abilities?
During infancy and childhood, how do the brain and motor skills develop?
From the perspective of Piaget and today’s researchers, how does a child’s mind develop?
How do parent-infant attachment bonds form?
What physical changes mark adolescence?
How did Piaget, Kohlberg, and later researchers describe adolescent cognitive and moral development?
What are the social tasks and challenges of adolescence?
What is emerging adulthood?
What physical changes occur during middle and late adulthood?
How do memory and intelligence change with age?
What themes and influences mark our social journey from early adulthood to death?


Kick off question: What do you think will be the most difficult part of being an adult and why?

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

Temperament Survey: Take the survey yourself and then give the other copy to your parent(s) and have the fill it out but ask them to fill it out for what your personality was like when you were two years old.  Then have a conversation about what has changed about your personality and what has remained the same.

Activity: Landmarks

Activity: True or False

Homework: You should be reading the unit on Developmental Psychology in the Study Guide.  I would recommend reading the unit in the text book too if you want to supplement your knowledge.


Supplemental Video: Please 
Kohlberg's Six Steps to Morality
The Trolley Problem
Harlow's Monkeys
Harlow's Study on Monkeys' Attachment
The Strange Situation-Mary Ainsworth
Gender Roles
Crash Course: 19 Monkeys and Morality
Crash Course: 18  The Growth of Knowledge
Crash Course: 20 Adolescence
Inside the Teenage Brain


Kahoot


Note Cards:  Below is a list of terms that you will need to know for the AP Psych Exam.  These are due the day of the 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.  





  • Erik Erikson
  • Carol Gilligan
  • Harry Harlow
  • Lawrence Kohlberg
  • Jean Piaget
  • Lev Vygotsky
  • Habituation
  • Maturation
  • Assimilation
  • Accommodation
  • Object permanence
  • Conservation
  • Egocentrism
  • Attachment
  • Imprinting
  • Temperament
  • Self-concept
  • Gender role
  • Gender identity
  • Social identity

Thursday, March 11, 2021

March 15 and 18th, 2021

March 15 and 18th In Person

Target: Understanding Human Development

How does life develop before birth?
What are some newborn abilities, and how do researchers explore infants’ mental abilities?
During infancy and childhood, how do the brain and motor skills develop?
From the perspective of Piaget and today’s researchers, how does a child’s mind develop?
How do parent-infant attachment bonds form?
What physical changes mark adolescence?
How did Piaget, Kohlberg, and later researchers describe adolescent cognitive and moral development?
What are the social tasks and challenges of adolescence?
What is emerging adulthood?
What physical changes occur during middle and late adulthood?
How do memory and intelligence change with age?
What themes and influences mark our social journey from early adulthood to death?


Kick off question: What do you think will be the most difficult part of being an adult and why?

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

Temperament Survey: Take the survey yourself and then give the other copy to your parent(s) and have the fill it out but ask them to fill it out for what your personality was like when you were two years old.  Then have a conversation about what has changed about your personality and what has remained the same.

Activity: Landmarks

Activity: True or False

Homework: You should be reading the unit on Developmental Psychology in the Study Guide.  I would recommend reading the unit in the text book too if you want to supplement your knowledge.


Supplemental Video: Please 
Kohlberg's Six Steps to Morality
The Trolley Problem
Harlow's Monkeys
Harlow's Study on Monkeys' Attachment
The Strange Situation-Mary Ainsworth
Gender Roles
Crash Course: 19 Monkeys and Morality
Crash Course: 18  The Growth of Knowledge
Crash Course: 20 Adolescence
Inside the Teenage Brain



Note Cards:  Below is a list of terms that you will need to know for the AP Psych Exam.  These are due the day of the 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.  





  • Erik Erikson
  • Carol Gilligan
  • Harry Harlow
  • Lawrence Kohlberg
  • Jean Piaget
  • Lev Vygotsky
  • Habituation
  • Maturation
  • Assimilation
  • Accommodation
  • Object permanence
  • Conservation
  • Egocentrism
  • Attachment
  • Imprinting
  • Temperament
  • Self-concept
  • Gender role
  • Gender identity
  • Social identity

Monday, March 1, 2021

March 1, 2021

 Monday March 1, 2021


1)Circle: Who is the most intelligent person you know?  What makes them so intelligent?

2)Circle: If you could choose an area of your life to be more intelligent about what would it be.  Examples: Picture

Learning Target: Understanding what intelligence is; How it is assessed; How much do our genes and environment matter; What do test score, differences among individuals and groups really mean? How should we use testing of intelligence in schools, college and the workplace?

Working definition of Intelligence: The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.


Activity: What is intelligence? The question on each of these; Is this intelligence?

Kim Peek
Stephen Wilshire
Kelvin Doe 

Are you a genius?

Crash Course Intelligence

Activity: Intelligence Test

Activity: Online IQ Test

Howard Gardener's Multiple Intelligences

Kahoot

Crash Course: Controversy of Intelligence

Terms to know for test:
  • Intelligence
  • g
  • Factor Analysis
  • Howard Gardner
  • Robert Sternberg
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Alfred Binet
  • Stanford-Binet & Wechsler
  • IQ
  • Validity
  • Reliability
  • Standardization
  • Normal distribution
  • Stereotype Threat