Unit 7-Stress and Health

Today's Agenda:

• Technology today (Room 260)
• 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
• Begin your Lifeline Paper

Unit 7-Stress and Health

Today's Agenda:

• Analyze/Discuss: Active vs. Defensive Coping
• Defensive Coping Mechanisms
• Activity: Defense mechanisms skits

Unit 7-Stress and Health

Today's agenda:

• Analyze: 4 Types of Conflict
• Create: 4 different scenarios
• Finish: Terms and Concepts for 17/14 (Quiz tomorrow)

Unit 7-Stress and Health

Today's Agenda:

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

Unit 7-Stress and health

Today's Agenda:

• Transition: finish/turn in Unit 6 summative assessment
• Intro: Stress and Health
• Terms and Concepts (Ch. 17/14)

Unit 6-Cognition

Today's Agenda:

• Quiz:terms and Concepts for Chapters 8 and 9
• Sample: Stanford-Binet IQ test
• Compare: the NFL Wonderlic test

What do these types of tests tell us about intelligence?

Unit 6-The Cognition

Today's Agenda:

• Practice: recognizing the elements of classical conditioning
• Finish: terms and Concepts for Chapters 8 and 9
• Discuss: the History of Intelligence Testing

Unit-Cognition

Today's Agenda:

• Quiz: Terms and Concepts (Chapters 6 and 7)
• Demonstrations: Each pair will execute their activities (6-8)
• Terms and Concepts for 8 and 9 (Done for Wednesday) 

Unit-Cognition

Today's Agenda:

• Organize: small group project on major concepts from Chapters 6-8
• Assign: Group note taker
• Brainstorm: How will we demonstrate the concept?
• Plan: What do we need to do to prepare?

Unit 6-Cognition

Today's Agenda:

• Pass Back: Human Development Exams and Projects
• Intro: New Unit on Cognition (Chapters 6-9)
• Opening Activity: Who is the smartest person you know? Specifically, what makes them "smart?"
• Terms and Concepts (6-9)
• Unit Overview

Unit 5-Human Development

Today's Agenda:

Human Development Projects:

Individual Portion: due today by the end of the Block
Group Portion: should be done for tomorrow

Tomorrow: Groups will share their finding and we will review for the Unit Exam

Human Development

Today's Agenda:

• Intro: the Human Development Project
• Form groups/Brainstorm ideas
• Finish: Human Development Terms and Concepts (Open-Note Quiz tomorrow)

Unit-Human Development

Today's Agenda:

Need to Know theories!

Piaget/Cognitive Development
Kohlberg/Moral Development

Unit-Human Development

Today's Agenda:

Discuss: the Human Development Questions
Work on: the Terms and Concepts

Unit 5-Human Development

Today's Agenda:

• Take the Consciousness Exam
• Begin the Human Development Unit 
• Answer the Development Questions
• Note: this Unit covers chapters 10-12

Unit 4-Consciousness

Today's Agenda:

Finish: the Drug Case Studies
Review: the Unit Exam is tomorrow

Unit 4-Consciousness

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Drug Case Studies
• Share with the group
• Other: Altered States of Consciousness

Unit 4-Consciousness

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Intervention video
• Case Studies: Drug Use/Abuse
• We have technology today.

Unit 4-Consciousness

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Major classification of Drugs
• Quiz: Chapter 5 Attack (Open Note)
• Activity: Drug Case Studies

Check out this podcast from Slate on college application

Unit 4-Consciousness

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Chapter 5 Attack
• Inside the Teenage Brain
• Altered States: "Just Say No To Drugs"

Unit 4-Consciousness

Today's Agenda:

• Continue: Discussion of Sleep Disorders
• Finish: Chapter 5 Attack
• Test Corrections Are Due

Unit 4-Consciousness

Today's Agenda:

• Reminder: Early release today (We have an hour)
• Review research: Problems Commonly Associated with Sleep
• Finish: Chapter 5 Attack

Unit 4-Consciousness

Today's Agenda:

• Research: Problems Commonly Associated with Sleep
• Library today/Present tomorrow
• Extra time: Chapter 5 Attack still needs to be completed

Unit 4-Consciousness

Today's Agenda:

• Dream Content and Interpretation
• Sleep Disorders: Organize the Activity
• Work on/Finish: the Chapter 5 Attack
• Inside the Teenage Brain

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

Unit 3-Biology and Behavior

Today's Agenda:

Proctor: the Unit 3 Exam
Intro: Unit 4-Consciousness (Chapter 5)


 

Unit 3-Biology and Behavior

Today's Agenda:

Finish: any loose ends?
Review: Unit 3 Exam is tomorrow

Unit 3-Biology and Behavior

Today's Agenda:

Intro: Genetics (Nature) Self assessment
Nature vs. Nurture debate
Kinship Studies: What do they tell us?

Unit 3-Biology and Behavior

Today's Agenda:

Forgot: Methods of Studying the Brain
Review: the Endocrine System
Examine: Hormonal changes
Intro: Genetics (Nature) Self assessment

Unit 3-Biology and Behavior

Today's Agenda:

Chapter 3 review
Discuss: the research that we did (Hand in your summaries)
Construct: a visual representation of the Endocrine System

Unit 3-Biology and Behavior

Today's Agenda:

Reconstruct: the Brain
Finish: the Chapter 3 Attack (Open Note quiz on Monday)
Infographic: Why our Brains Love Visual Content

Unit 3-Biology and Behavior

Today's Agenda:

Sorry I am unable to be with you today. Mr. Bujold will be in covering this class.
Complete the Chapter 3 Attack

Unit 3-Biology and Behavior

Today's Agenda:

Intro: the Nervous System (the basics)
Examine: Neurons/Mirror Neurons
Chapter 3 Attack (linked on yesterday's blog)

Unit 2 Assessment

Today's Agenda:

Take the Unit 2 Exam
Introduce Unit 3-Biology and Behavior
Chapter 3 Attack

Slate podcast on Getting Easy A's versus Tough B's

Unit 2-Psych. Methods

Today's Agenda:

• Share: the rest of the Research Projects
• Review: Unit 2 Quiz/Overview
• Study: for the Unit 2 Exam tomorrow

Unit 2-Psych. Methods

Today's Agenda:

• Present: the Research Projects (informal presentations)
• Complete: Chapter 2 Attack
• Review/Overview of the Unit 

Optional: Check out this link to the online test questions

Unit 2-Psych. Methods

Today's Agenda:

• Finish Procedural Steps 4 and 5
• Analyze data and make your conclusions
• Type the formal lab report
• Finish the Chapter 2 Attack (Quiz tomorrow)

Be prepared to discuss your work with the class.

Unit 2-Psychological Methods

Today's Agenda:

Research process: Procedural Steps 4 and 5
Analyze the data and draw conclusions
Does your data support or refute your hypothesis?

Optional: Slate article on the Top Mistakes College Students Make

Unit 2-Psych. Methods

Today's Agenda:

• Research Projects: Procedural Step #3 and #4
• Gather research and Analyze data
• Time Permitting: Finish Chapter 2 Attack

Unit 2-Psych. Methods

Today's Agenda:

• Research Project Step #3: How are we going to gather our information?
• Create/Print surveys
• Get pre-approval from teachers

Chapter 2 Attack

Unit 2-Psychological Methods

Today's Agenda:

• Teams: Design Your Own Experiment
• Chapter 2 Attack
• Question: What needs to happen to conduct our research next week?

Unit 2-Psych. Methods

Today's Agenda:

• Activity: Independent vs. Dependent variables
• Teams: Design Your Own Experiment
• Chapter 2 Attack

Unit 2-Psychological methods

Today's Agenda:

Good conversation yesterday! Did not get to:

• Activity: Design your own experiment
• Link: 10 Brilliant Social Experiments
• Ethics handout/questions

Unit 2-Psychological Methods

Today's Agenda:

Share: Contemporary Research Articles
Activity: Design your own experiment
Link: 10 Brilliant Social Experiments

Optional: Article on Slate about the federal government's ranking of colleges based on on price, and graduates future salaries!

Unit 2-Psychological Methods

Today's Agenda:

Research: Contemporary Research in the field
When you are done: Finish the Chapter 2 Attack

Unit 2-Psychological Methods

Today's Agenda:

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

Unit 1 Assessment

Today's Agenda:

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

 

Unit 1-What is Psychology?

Today's agenda:

Finish: Contemporary Psychological Perspectives
Activity: Case study application
Review: Unit 1/Prep for the first summative assessment (Unit Exam)

Unit Exam (Chapter 1) is tomorrow

Unit 1-What is Psychology?

Today's Agenda:

Quiz/Review: Vocab and Textbook questions
Contemporary Schools of Psychology

Unit 1-What is Psychology?

Today's Agenda:

Link to the textbook on-line (Let's look at it)
Finish: Chapter 1 Vocab and textbook work
Tomorrow: Chapter 1 Vocab/Textbook quiz (Open Note)