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