Stress and Health

Today's Agenda:

• Progressive relaxation techniques
• How to Make Stress Your Friend
• Unit Review

Stress and Health

Today's Agenda:

Analyze: Types of Conflict
Assess: Conflict Management Styles
Introduce: Defense Mechanisms Activity

Unit-Stress and Health

Today's Agenda:

Share: Stress articles
Due: Ch. 17/14 Terms and Concepts
Analyze: Major Life Changes

Unit-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:

• 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:

• Unit 6 Test Corrections
• Intro: Stress and Health
• Terms and Concepts (Ch. 17/14)
• Reminder: Do not wait until the last minute to start writing your Lifeline Paper!

Unit 6-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

Unit-Cognition

Today's Agenda:

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

Unit-Cognition

Today's Agenda:

• Activity: Learning scenarios
• Review Terms: Different types of Memory
• Memory Processes
• Create: Practical examples

Chapter 7 terms are due tomorrow

Optional: Innocence Project

Unit 6-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:

• Write: Human Development Summaries
• Finish: Ch. 12 Terms and Concepts
• Prep: for the Summative Assessment (Review the 5 theorists that we covered) 

Piaget, Erikson, Marcia, Kohlberg, and Kubler-Ross

Human Development

Today's Agenda:

• Group Share: Human Development Projects
• Write: Final Conclusions
• Due: Ch. 11 Adolescence Terms
• Finish: Ch. 12 Adulthood Terms

Human Development

Today's Agenda:

• Ch. 10 Terms and Concepts
• Prepare: the Group portion of the Project
• View: the Teenage Brain
• Finish: Chapter 11 Terms and Concepts
• Lifeline Papers (An outline activity)

Human Development

Today's Agenda:

Share: individual case studies
Finish: Terms and Concepts for Childhood (Ch. 10)

Human Development

Today's Agenda:


Need to Know theories!

• Piaget/Cognitive Development
• Kohlberg/Moral Development

Jean Piaget

Unit: Human Development

Today's Agenda:

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

Unit 4 Summative/New Unit

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 Chapter 5 Attack (Open Note)
• Finish: Drug Presentations/Last Chance
• View: Intervention

Unit 4-Consciousness

Today's Agenda:

• Chapter 5 Attack
• Case Studies: Drug Use/Abuse
• Chapter 5 pdf

Unit 4-Consciousness

Today's Agenda:

• Research: Problems Commonly Associated with Sleep
• Technology today
• Extra time: Chapter 5 Attack still needs to be completed and Unit 3 Test Corrections

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

Unit 3 Summative Assessment/Unit 4 intro (Consciousness)

Today's Agenda:

• Complete: the Chapter 3 Summative Assessment
• Intro: Unit 4-Consciousness (Ch. 5)
• Chapter 5 Attack

Unit 3-Biology and Behavior

Today's Agenda:

• Review: the Hormone articles from Friday
• 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 Visual

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:

• Brain Notes
• New York Times: Aaron Hernandez and Brain Injury (Read the article and respond in the comment section of this blog)
• Construct: a visual representation of the Endocrine System

Unit 3-Biology and Behavior

Today's Agenda:

• Share: Articles from yesterday
• Complete: Chapter 3 Attack (Open Note quiz)
• Brain Notes
• Construct: a visual representation of the Endocrine System

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
• Finish: the Chapter 3 Attack (Open Note quiz on Thursday)
• Unit 2 Test Corrections can be done as well
• Brain Notes
• Construct: a visual representation of the Endocrine System

Infographic: Why our Brains Love Visual Content

Unit 3-Biology and Behavior

Today's Agenda:

• Reconstruct: the Brain
• Finish: the Chapter 3 Attack (Open Note quiz on Thursday)
• Unit 2 Test Corrections can be done as well

Unit 3-Biology and Behavior

Today's Agenda:

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

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

Unit 2-Psych. Methods

Today's Agenda:

• Discuss: the Divorce article and questions
• Review: Unit 2 Summative Assessment is tomorrow
• View: the video clip from yesterday (did not get to)

Unit 2-Psych. Methods

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: the Research Discussion from yesterday
• Read: Divorce article
• Complete: the Divorce article questions
• View: Why We Make Bad Decisions?

Unit 2-Psych. Methods

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-Psych. Methods

Today's Agenda:

• Share: Contemporary research
• Review: Psychology Experiments (linked on Friday' blog)
• Complete: Sections 2-4 of Chapter 2

Unit 2-Psych. 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-Psych. Methods

Today's Agenda:

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

Unit 2-Psych. 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 1-Summative 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: 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:

Review: The Founding Fathers of Psychology (linked on the blog days ago)
Complete: Chapter 1 review

Unit 1-What is Psychology?

Today's Agenda:

• Share: the articles that you found on Contemporary Research
• Discuss: the Bias/Prejudice Questionnaire
• Review: the Founding Fathers of Psychology

Unit 1-What is Psychology

Today's Agenda:

Research: Using technology, find an article, a study, or psychology related information that you think is interesting. Summarize it for us, tell us where you got it, and bring to class tomorrow. Cite your source.

Here is the "official" assignment.

Finish: the Chapter 1 Textbook work (Quiz tomorrow)

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

Time permitting: Finish the Chapter 1 Textbook Work

Unit 1-What is Psychology?

Today's Agenda:

• Introductions: Did not get to yesterday.
• 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

Tuesday August 29, 2017

• 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-Stress and Health

Today's Agenda:

• Share: Stress Articles
• Complete: the Terms and Concepts Quiz
• Discuss: Active vs. Defensive Coping

Unit-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
• Begin/Finish your Lifeline Paper

Unit-Stress and Health

Today's Agenda:

• Intro: Stress and Health
• Terms and Concepts (Ch. 17/14)
• Reminder: Do not wait until the last minute to start writing your Lifeline Paper!

Unit 6-Cognition

Today's Agenda:

Complete: the Unit 6 Summative assessment
Begin: Test Corrections

Have fun at the Prom tonight!

Unit-Cognition

Today's Agenda:

• Language Development
• View: Genie the Wild Child
• Complete: Chapter 8 Terms and Concepts

Unit 6-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

Unit 6-Cognition

Today's Agenda:

• Activity: Learning scenarios
• Review Terms: Different types of Memory
• Create: Practical examples

Chapter 7 terms are due tomorrow

Optional: Innocence Project

Unit 6-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

Unit-Human Development

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: presenting group interactive activities
• Complete: the final assignment for Human Development
• Review: Summative Assessment is tomorrow

Unit-Human Development

Today's Agenda:

• Recap/Review: Chapters 10-12 Terms and Concepts
• Finish: Interactive Group Project
• Tomorrow: Present the Interactive activities

Unit-Human Development

Today's Agenda:

• Prepare: the Group portion of the Project
• View: the Teenage Brain
• Finish: Chapter 11 Terms and Concepts
• Lifeline Papers (An outline activity)

Unit-Human Development

Today's Agenda:

• Watch: John Q/Apply Kohlberg's theory to 3 of the characters
• Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
• Intro: the Human Development Project

Unit 5-Human Development

Today's Agenda:


Need to Know theories!

• Piaget/Cognitive Development
• Kohlberg/Moral Development

Jean Piaget

Unit 5-Human Development

Today's Agenda:

• Answer: the Adulthood Questions
• Lifeline paper/Handouts
• Finish: Terms and Concepts for Infancy

• 

Unit 5-Human Development

Today's Agenda

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

Unit 4-Consciousness

Today's Agenda:

Block 1: Finish the Drug Projects (Library)

For those that are done:

1. Watch an episode of Intervention and summarize
2. Fill out the Human Development Questionnaire

Block 4;

1. Finish the Drug presentation/Discussion
2. Watch an episode of Intervention and summarize

Unit 4-Consciousness

Today's Agenda:

• Chapter 5 Attack
• Case Studies: Drug Use/Abuse
• Juniors: SAT testing today, good luck!

Unit 4-Consciousness

Today's Agenda:

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

Frontline: Adolescents and Sleep. Read and comment on the blog below by Friday.

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-Summative/Intro Unit 4 (Consciousness)

Today's Agenda:

• Complete: the Chapter 3 Summative Assessment
• Intro: Unit 4-Consciousness (Ch. 5)
• Chapter 5 Attack

Unit 3-Biology and Behavior

Today's Agenda:

Block 1: Contemporary research

1. Find a study/article
2. Summarize
3. Cite
4. Share with the group tomorrow

Block 4: Unit review

Unit 3 Summative assessment is on Wednesday

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
• Finish: the Chapter 3 Attack (Open Note quiz on Thursday)
• Unit 2 Test Corrections can be done as well
• Brain Notes
• Construct: a visual representation of the Endocrine System

Infographic: Why our Brains Love Visual Content

Unit 3-Biology and Behavior

Today's Agenda:

• Intro: the Nervous System (the basics)
• Examine: Neurons/Mirror Neurons
• Chapter 3 Attack 

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

Unit 2-Research Methods

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Procedural Steps #4 and #5
• Monday: Discuss the process
• Tuesday: Unit 2 Summative Assessment

Unit 2-Psychological Methods

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Hypothesis, Variables, and Ethics (handouts)
• Continue: the group research project (Do we have an original idea?)
• Address: Procedural Step #3 (gathering our data)

Unit 2-Psych. Research

Today's Agenda:

• Complete: the Chapter 2 Review (Open Note)
• Begin: the Research Proposal Worksheet (Try to answer as many as you can, but you should at least get through the first 3)
• Read and comment below: Is Divorce Bad for Children?

• Research: Contemporary Research in the field

Unit 2-Psych. Methods

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Methods of Observation, Independent/Dependent Variables, and Ethics 
• Prepare our small group research projects
• Continue: Chapter 2 Attack
• Check this out and comment below: Twitter, 10 Psychological Insights

Unit 2-Psych. Research

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 1 Summative Assessment/Intro. Unit 2

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/Mental Illness?

Today's Agenda:

Finish: A Beautiful Mind
Review: Chapters 1 and 18
Prepare: for the Unit 1 Summative Assessment

Unit 1-What is Psychology/Mental Illness?

Today's Agenda:

Complete: open note quiz on Ch. 18
View: A Beautiful Mind

Unit 1-What is Psychology/Mental Illness?

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: the Chapter 18 attack
• Read: recent article in the Union Leader calling out NH in our response to mental illness.
• Leave a response in the comments section of this blog post.

Announcement: SHS is hosting a speaker on Emotional Distress on Wednesday night from 6:30-7:30

Unit 1-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 1-What is Psychology/Mental Illness?

Today's Agenda:

• Discuss: Contemporary Psychological Perspectives
• Intro: Mental Illness Opening Lecture
• Choose: What disorder do you want to study?
• Read: Famous People with Mental Illness

Unit 1-What is Psychology/Mental Illness?

Today's Agenda:

• Share: the articles that we found yesterday
• Complete: open note quiz on chapter 1
• Discuss: Contemporary Psychological Perspectives

Unit 1-What is Psychology and Mental Illness

Today's Agenda:

Research: Using technology, find an article, a study, or psychology related information that you think is interesting. Summarize it for us, tell us where you got it, and bring to class tomorrow. Cite your source.

Here is the "official" assignment.

Finish: the Chapter 1 Textbook work (Quiz tomorrow)

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

Time permitting: Finish the Chapter 1 Textbook Work

Unit 1-What is Psychology?

Today's Agenda:

• Introductions: Did not get to yesterday.
• 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

Tuesday January 24, 2016

• 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 8-Mental Illness

Today's Agenda:

Present: Mental illness research
Distribute: the Mental Illness unit exam (use it as a review of the final exam)
Read: recent article in the Union Leader calling out NH in our response to mental illness

Unit 8-Mental Illness

Today's Agenda:

• Linked: Mental Illness Project
• Research: Today and Tomorrow we are in the library

Unit 8-Mental Illness

Today's Agenda:

Assess: Chapter 18 Attack and Yellow Wallpaper
Begin: Mental Illness Project (Choose an illness)

Unit 8-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 8-Mental Illness

Today's Agenda:

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