Stress and Health

Today's Agenda:

Share: Stress Articles from Friday

• Seniors: Prep for the final exam tomorrow
• Juniors: Defensive Coping Mechanisms Activity

Stress and Health

Today's Agenda:

• Technology today (Library)
• Find an article/study that addresses the following question:  What are some of the effects of stress on our physical or emotional well being?
• Cite your source
• Be ready to share with the rest of the class
• Ch. 17 and 14 Terms and Concepts are due tomorrow.

Stress and Health

Today's Agenda:

• Complete: the Holmes-Rahe Inventory
• Discuss: Active versus Defensive Coping Methods
• View: Ted Talk on stress

Stress and Health

Today's Agenda:

• Discuss: Holmes and Rahe Social Readjustment Scale
• Activity: Adapt for adolescents
• Finish: Terms and Concepts for 17/14

Stress and Health

Today's Agenda:

• Due today: Lifeline Papers for the Seniors
• Intro: Stress and Health
• Terms and Concepts (Ch. 17/14)

Cognition

Today's Agenda:

Opening Discussion: What is intelligence?
Discuss: the History of Intelligence Testing
Analyze: 4 Different Intelligence Theories

• Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences
• Louis Thurstone's Primary Mental Abilities
• Robert Sternbergs's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
• Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence

Cognition

Today's Agenda:

• Basic Elements of Language
• Stages of language Development
• Language and Critical Periods
• Video: Babies and Sign Language
• Contemporary Research: Learning, Memory, and Language (Cite your work, MLA)

Cognition

Today's Agenda:

• 3 Types of Memory Processes
• Different Types of memory (see diagram below)
• Examples of Memory Activity

Unit -Cognition

Today's Agenda:

• Analyze: Classical vs. Operant Conditioning
• Compare: Latent vs. Observational Learning
• Activity: Develop 4 scenarios/examples on your own

Terms and Concepts for chapters 6-9

Human Development

Today's Agenda:

Review: Elizabeth Kubler-Ross On Death and Dying
Complete: Infancy and Childhood Terms
Finish: Individual Case Studies and the Group Project

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Human Development

Today's Agenda:


Need to Know theories!

• Piaget/Cognitive Development
• Kohlberg/Moral Development

Jean Piaget

Human Development

Today's Agenda:

• Answer: the Adulthood Questions
• Lifeline paper/Handouts
• Begin: Terms and Concepts for Infancy
• Intro: the Human Development Project

Human Development

Today's Agenda:

Complete: the Unit 4 Summative Assessment
Intro the New Unit (Human Development 10-12)

• Answer the Development Questions
• Note: this Unit covers chapters 10-12
• Work on: the Terms and Concepts

Unit 4-Consciousness

Today's Agenda:

• Complete: the Unit 4 Review
• Finish: Drug Presentations/Last Chance
• View: Intervention

Unit 4-Consciousness

Today's Agenda:

• Research: Problems Commonly Associated with Sleep
• Technology Wed. and Thurs.
• Case Studies: Drug Use/Abuse
• Chapter 5 pdf

Frontline: Adolescents and Sleep. 

Unit 4-Consciousness

Today's Agenda:

• Altered States of Consciousness
• Sleep Cycles/Quality Sleep vs. Sleep Quantity
• Dream Content and Interpretation
• Chapter Attack for Chapter 5
• View: PBS Dreams

Unit 3-Biology and Behavior

Today's Agenda:

• Review: the Hormone articles from yesterday
• Genetics Powerpoint
• Intro: Genetics (Nature) Self assessment
• Nature vs. Nurture debate
• Kinship Studies: What do they tell us?

Unit 3-Biology and Behavior

Today's Agenda:

Finish: Endocrine System

Article #1: Hormones and Desire
Article #2: Growth Hormone and Athletic Performance and Aging
Article #3: Hormones, Stress, and Aggression

Read all 3 articles. Choose 1 and respond to in the comment section of the blog.

Optional/Fun: Personality Traits Quiz

Unit 3-Biology and Behavior

Today's Agenda:

• Contemporary Research: The Endocrine system, Genetics, Heredity, etc. (Same format as the Nervous System research/articles)
• New York Times: Aaron Hernandez and Brain Injury 
• Scientific American article: Transgender Brains

Choose one of the articles and leave a response(paragraph) in the comment section of this blog. 

Finish: Terms and Concepts for Chapter 3

Unit 3-Biology and Behavior

Today's Agenda:

• Research: Contemporary Research 
• Finish: Chapter 3 Attack (Open note quiz tomorrow) Block 4 only
• Transgender Brains

Unit 3-Biology and Behavior

Today's Agenda:

• Reconstruct: the Brain
• Brain Notes
• Construct: a visual representation of the Endocrine System
• Optional: Innocence Project

Infographic: Why our Brains Love Visual Content

New Unit-Biology and Behavior (3)

Today's Agenda:

• Intro: the Nervous System (the basics)
• Examine: Neurons/Mirror Neurons
• Chapter 3 Attack 
• View: Our Brains and Perception
• The Nervous System Overview

From the Atlantic: Social and Emotional Intelligence is the key to college success 

Unit 2-Psychological Methods

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Small Group Activity and Individual Summary
• Complete: Terms and Concepts Quiz for Chapter 2
• Answer: the Divorce Article Questions (posted on the previous blog)

Unit 2-Psych. Methods

Today's Agenda:

• Procedural Steps 4 and 5: What still needs to be done?
• Read: Divorce article
• Complete: the Divorce article questions
• View: Why We Make Bad Decisions?

Unit 2-Psychological Methods

Today's Agenda:

Procedural Step #3
Library today for access to technology.

Unit 2-Psychological Research

Today's Agenda:

Conducting Research

1. Procedural Steps 1 and 2
2. Here is a link to Chapter 2 on line
3. Chapter 2 Terms and Concepts on Quizlet

Unit 2-Psychological Research

Today's Agenda:

Design your own psychological research:

1. Form a small group
2. Brainstorm questions (Pick 1 that you could do)
3. Formulate a hypothesis
4. Choose a method of observation/experimentation.
5. Could you actually complete this research?

Unit 2-Research Methods

Today's Agenda:

• Research: Contemporary Research in the field (Summarize the article and include a proper citation)
• When you are done: Finish the Chapter 2 handout
• Finish/Turn in: Unit 1 Test Corrections

Unit 2-Research Methods

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Opening Lecture Notes
• Discuss: Research Ethics Questions
• View: Research with animals
• Analyze: Psychology Experiments

Unit-Psychological methods

Today's Agenda:

View: the film adaptation of the Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment
Discuss: Opening Lecture Notes
Chapter 2 Attack

View: Bias and Prejudice: Can they be good?

Unit i Summative Assessment

Today's Agenda:

Take the Unit 1 Exam
Intro: Unit 2-Psychological Methods
10 Psych. Studies that will Blow Your Mind

Unit-What is Psychology and Mental Illness?

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Mommy Dead and Dearest
• Finish: the Chapter 18 attack
• Read: recent article in the Union Leader calling out NH in our response to mental illness.
• GMA interview of former QB Johnny Manziel on Alcoholism and Bipolar

Unit-What is Psychology/Mental Illness?

Today's Agenda:

• Begin: the Chapter Attack for 18
• Linked: Mental Illness Project
• Present: Begin on Monday
• Read Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Unit-What is Psychology/Mental Illness?

Today's Agenda:

• Intro: Diagnosing Mental Illness
• Intro: Mental Illness Opening Lecture
• Choose: What disorder do you want to study?
• Read: Famous People with Mental Illness
• Finish: Chapter 1 Attack

Unit-What is Psychology and Mental Illness?

Today's Agenda:

View: Intro. to Psychology
Begin: Vocab and Textbook questions for Chapter 1

Contemporary Schools of Psychology
Application: How would each perspective explain aggression?

Unit 1-What is Psychology?

Today's Agenda:

Psychological Organizations:

• American Psychological Association
• National Institute of Mental Health
• American Mental Health Counselors Association
• Psychology Today
• American Psychiatric Association

Lecture Notes: The Founding Fathers of Psychology

Powerpoint of the Founding Fathers

Unit 1-What is Psychology/Mental Illness?

Today's Agenda:

• Introductions: 
• What is Psychology? Notes
• Careers in Psychology (if you are interested read this article)
• U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics on Careers in Psychology

Define: Key terms and Concepts for Chapter 1 (Vocab quiz)

Video: 10 Myths about psychology Debunked

Welcome to Psychology

Thursday January 25, 2018

• Meet and Greet Activity
• Course Expectations and Sign Off sheet
• Careers in Psychology (if you are interested read this article)
• U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics on Careers in Psychology
• Activity: Challenging Assumptions

Unit-Mental Illness

Today's Agenda:

Review: the Yellow Wallpaper (What was wrong with her?)
Complete: the Unit 8 Summative assessment

Unit-Mental Illness

Today's Agenda:

Begin: Mental Illness Project Presentations
Finish: Ch. 18 Attack and Yellow Wallpaper (Quiz tomorrow)
Read: The Guardian has a recent article on Depression 

Unit-Mental Illness

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Mental Illness Projects
• Finish: Ch. 18 Attack
• Read: the Yellow WallPaper
• Due Friday: Lifeline Paper

Unit- Mental Illness

Today's Agenda:

We are in the library today working on our mental illness projects. Let's just meet in the library today and not in Portable 4.

Unit-Mental Illness

Today's Agenda:

• Begin: the Chapter Attack for 18
• Linked: Mental Illness Project
• Present: Begin on Monday
• Read Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Welcome Back!

Today's Agenda:

• Collect: Unit 7: Stress and Health Summative Assessment
• Intro: Unit 8: Mental Illness (Chapter 18)
• Intro: Mental Illness Opening Lecture
• Choose: What disorder do you want to study?
• Read: Famous People with Mental Illness
• Begin: the Chapter Attack for 18