For Wednesday

Good Luck to all those who are taking APs!!

homework is as follows...
1) write a one page reflection on all those personality tests you took. Watch the Barnum Effect video if you weren't here for class. Make sure to answer the following in your reflection:
- do you feeling the personality assessments were accurate? to what extent?
- what part of your understanding and appeal of the personality assessments could be attributed to the Barnum Effect?
- did you learn anything about yourself through these or are they a bunch of malarkey? How would you describe your personality - write a haiku perhaps....

2) Go through the PowerPoint!!!

On Wednesday and Friday - we will be watching Inside Out
Friday: breakfast to celebrate our seniors - I'm bringing bagels...bring what you will!

Personality Unit

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B70CqffnD7R1cHpVR1VGdkFFdG9zWXRubXRlOEdmNmVOLS1V/view?usp=sharing

For Friday's test...

...you may write notes on a 4x6 index card, both sides, for help during the test.
if you have any questions, let me know.

quiz

http://psychology.about.com/qz/How-Well-Do-You-Know-Piagets-Stages-of-Development

Wednesday

Complete your review sheet!!

for Monday 4/11/16

1) Finish up your Baby book, completing the sections on Kohlberg and Erikson.
2) read the text p 378-380
3) Read about BIRTH ORDER and TWINS/SINGLETONS
4) Write your reflection - typed (2 pages)  . How do you see yourself as a parent? What are your thoughts on other parenting? How you find the project - easy? difficult?

Over the Weekend

Today we got our eggs for our Egg Baby Project.
Make sure you read the directions and expectations   - especially the point system on the 2nd page (see below).
We also went over Attachment and Parenting Style section sin the PowerPoint.

For homework, you are to:
1) Read the article "Raising Successful Children" and "The Rise of American Authoritarian"
2) Complete the parenting style handout
3) Complete Days 1, 2, and 3 in your baby book.  Some area will not be able to be completed because we have not gone over Kohlberg or Erikson, but do the best you can.
4) Make sure you have filled out the appropriate areas in our Developmental Unit PowerPoint guide

Make sure you have completed the Piaget Handout.

If you were not in class on Friday and did not receive an egg, please read the Egg Baby Project and obtain your baby from your family's refrigerator. It is up to you if your egg will be hard-boiled or not.

Expectations for the Egg Baby Project

 

Responsibility

• You are responsible for the well-being of your egg at all times. This means, among other things, protecting them from harm and harmful environments.
• If your egg cracks or there is other damage to the egg, you must report it
• An incident report must be filed including the following information:
• Name of parent/name of egg
• Date of incident
• Condition of egg and circumstances surrounding the incident
• While it is understandable that you won’t be able to “parent” your egg at all times, it is expected that you make a concerted effort to spend as much time as possible with your egg. Therefore, you may not have other people egg-sit for more than 4 hours at a time. If you are at work, an activity, etc… you are expected to make arrangements to keep your egg with you.

Point Breakdown

• Decoration of egg (face only):                        5
• Egg Carrier:                                     5
• Parent Signature acknowledging their notification of this project:         5
• Egg attendance in class/morning check-in:                     15
• Crack or other damage to the egg caused by you and reported:         -3
• Crack or other damage to the egg caused by someone else and reported: -2
• Crack or damage to the egg that goes unreported:                 -6
• Reports of ill-care that do not result in bodily harm:                -1
• Leaving egg alone at any point:                        -5

On the Due Date, you will turn in the following items,

1. The attendance signature sheet        (3pts for each day = 21)
2. Your Baby Book                (7pts each day = 49 )
3. Your response essay                (20 pts)

Any loss of points will then be deducted. The total points = 90 (A-) and that is because doing the minimum is really only A- parenting. You will be awarded 10 points for going above and beyond (with proof of a photo or note from parent). This included but is not limited to:

• Reading books to your egg   
• Having play dates
• Making a “lullaby” mix
• Showing off a new crib
• Take your egg to the park/playground
• Feed your egg
• Teach your egg how to drive
• Egg’s First Pet!

 

For Friday 4/1

Can you believe it is going to be April on Friday? I can't.

Today we started our Developmental Unit, learning about Piaget's theory on cognitive development and Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development. Tonight, complete the handout I gave you.

long weekend homework

We are going to be starting the Development Unit. So to prepare you for learning all about stages of life, the different theories, we are going to do some investigation.

Identity Crisis in Song Project

Find a song that demonstrate some of the emotions and conflicts that occur during one's lifetime (teen angst, getting older, becoming a parent/widow, leaving home)

Explain what the song means to you and why you chose it.

Create a list of emotions/conflicts/experiences reflected in the song, (such as apathy, self-doubt, self-confidence…). Might be helpful to bring lyrics.

Here's my contribution:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mZUS5KGjzE

Studying for Thursday's test

Today in class, we went over terms and concepts for the Consciousness Unit (link found to the right to the "I have..who has?" cards).

We also drew brain lobes and parts on our swim caps. Make sure to watch the Preston video to your right, or recall the film, The Crash Reel, with Kevin Pearce.

Here's a review sheet for the BRAIN
Parts of the brain, you should know:

           Frontal lobe       

Parietal Lobe

Occipital Lobe       

Temporal Lobe

Wernicke’s Area   

Broca’s Area

Sensory Cortex   

Motor Cortex

Thalamus       

Hypothalamus

Cerebellum       

Medulla

Brain Stem       

Limbic system

Corpus Callosum   

Cerebral Cortex

 

for Friday 3/18

We finished our Brain Projects and have spent a couple of days on consciousness.

We are going to review how the drugs have an effect on our consciousness by disrupting the natural action of the neurotransmitters at the synapse, and each drug has a different way of disrupting the synapse.

For Friday, please do the following tasks
1) Print out the "Mouse Party" handout - found HERE and fill in in!
2) Go through the "Drugs and Consciousness" PowerPoint (HERE)
2) Peruse the Mouse Party website (HERE) - go through each mouse and see how its brain is affected by its drug of choice.
3) Use this interactive slide show to learn why monkeys self-administered cocaine HERE
3) You may also use the textbook pages 159-165

Do you LOVE psychology? If so, check out these...

...summer opportunities.
http://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/psn/2016/01/summer-programs.aspx

Long Weekend homework 3/11-3/14

This weekend - work on your brain projects which are due on WEDNESDAY!

Also, Jasmine, in response to your question regarding prisoners and solitary confinement and the effects on their circadian rhythm - check this out: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/science-solitary-confinement-180949793/?no-ist

Weekend Homework

NO homework this weekend - work on your brain project!

Interesting Article to Read

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-all-psychotherapies-created-equal/

Homework for March 1

YEAY! You finished Unit One: History & Approaches of Psychology! Now we are moving onto the Brain. This weekend, please complete the following:

1. Watch Crash Course: Meet Your Brain and complete the worksheet (received in class on Friday, but there is also a link to your right)
2. Read Chapter 4 "The Brain" from the Norton Psychology Reader (also found to the right)
3. BRING BRAIN HAT TO CLASS

Why Being Miserable is literally killing you

Why Being Miserable is literally killing you

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/literally-psyched/the-man-who-couldnt-speakand-how-he-revolutionized-psychology/

Freud takes on the Presidential election

http://blog.timesunion.com/hoffmanfiles/a-freudian-take-on-trump-vs-bernie/3737/

Homework for Thursday, 2/11

for those who missed class today (Tuesday), you are to read the following article and answer questions on the sheet attached: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B70CqffnD7R1VTlQRXprLWZZX19tUDdzRlJ6T2VrTUpYdTJ3/view?usp=sharing

Shared Post: Portrayal of Serial Killers in Movies

Savannah shared this link: http://moviepilot.com/posts/3764338

Yes, I think I'm from around here...Results of Dialect Quiz

Hey Yous guys...

Take this dialect quiz, Emily shared with us: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html

For Friday

I have moved up the writing reflection assignment to be due on Friday (2/5) and that way you will have no homework over the weekend!

For the Writing Reflection, I would like you to:
Write one page on which psychological approach (humanistic, cognitive, behavioral, biological, socio-cultural, evolutionary, psychoanalytic) you feel explains human behavior the best? Which would you use as a psychologist with your client? Why?

Most Eminent Psychologist assignment

When completing (d) where you are to "write a question about your psychologist's contribution to psychology," I want you to think about a broad question that would reflect on what you are going to present to the class. In other words, think about a question (and answer) that you would write about your psychologist for others to answer.

Crash Course: episode #1

Syllabus

Introduction to Psychology

Ms. Strickland

Spring 2015

jstrickland@mph.net

315-882-5475 – cell: call or text

Materials :            Essentials of Psychology 5th Edition

Course Description:
This is a semester course that introduces the basic concepts of psychology such as the basis of behavior, child growth and development, learning, personality development and personality disorders.
The Plan
During our semester together, we will examine the following essential questions:

-        How is human personality shaped and/or influenced? How much free will do humans have?

-        How can we apply this knowledge to better understand ourselves as well as the world around us?

UNIT:	TOPICS INCLUDE:
Unit 1: Introduction to Psychology	Subfields in Psychology Research Methods of Psychology Multiple Approaches to Psychology Ethical Issues
Unit 2: Biology and Behavior	Basic Functions of the Brain The Teenage Brain Gender Differences Impact on behavior
Unit 3: Human Development & Personality	Nature vs. Nurture Freud’s Stages of Development Erikson’s 8 Stages Marcia’s Identity States Kohlberg’s Moral Development Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Impact of Gender on Development
Unit 5: Abnormal Psychology	History of the DSM-IV (Diagnostic Criteria) Specific Disorders: Mental Somatoform Dissociative Mood Schizophrenic Personality Psychotherapy/Treatment
Unit 5: Learning and Intelligence	Learning: Classical Conditioning Operant Conditioning Social Learning Cognitive Approach Intelligence: History of the Intelligence Movement Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence Theory

Distribution of quarterly grading components:
Tests/Projects: 35%
Quizzes/Minor Projects/Writing Assignments: 15%
Class Participation: 35%
Homework: 15%