Extra Credit Over Break

Extra Credit for over Christmas Break looks like this:

Extra Credit Project:

* Research a person, place or thing that is important to the study of Psychology. After researching, for 25 pts. you may do one of the following:

A. Write a two-three page paper explaining what this topic is about. Explain why knowledge of this topic is important to the study of psychology.

B. Do a 15 slide PPT.

C. Make a poster or diorama of the topic.

A bibliography is necessary to validate your research. (2 Sources Minimum)
An informal presentation to the class on the date which we return

For 15 pts. you may do one of the following:

1. Watch a psychology movie or documentary about a topic relevant to psych (do not use a movie from the class) and write up a review (1-2 pages typed).
2. Read an article from a newspaper or periodical that is significant and write up a summary (with article attached)---1 to 2 pages typed.

12/19 Personality Quiz

12/18 Humanism and Trait Theory

Humanism--Maslow and Rogers

Trait Theory---OCEAN

Review for EXAM

Personality Exam—Review Sheet

Importance of theories
Know these psychologists:
Maslow Rogers Allport Sullivan Bandura Freud Skinner
Jung
Psychoanalytic Theory—Main Ideas
c. id d. ego ce. Superego . defense mechanisms
a. rationalization b. regression c. displacement de. Sublimation
Social Psychoanalytic-Main Ideas b. inferiority complex e. persona ab. archetypes
Behaviorism and Personality—Main Ideas
Humanism- Main Ideas a. positive regard b. self actualization
Traits of Self-Actualized People
Traits—The Robust Five

12/16-17 Psychoanalytic and Behaviorist Theories

Experts Watched.

Psychoanalytics and Freud---
Behaviorists and Bandura

12/13 Personality Activity and Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality

If you are finished with the Personality Activity, begin researching psychoanalytic theory of Personality.

Explain what the basic principles of Freud's theory is. Also, come up with definitions of his major defense mechanisms are:

rationalization
intellectualization
identification with the aggressor
repression
denial
projection
reaction formula
regression
displacement
sublimation

12/11-12 Personality Internet Activity

We are fast forwarding into Personality Trait Theory---we will look at Freud's theory of personality and others in class next week.

For the next 3 days, you will have a chance to encounter Personality, different types of testing for personality and the ways to use personality typing for practical matters (employers/jobs).

Find the Personality Activity -----on the all assignment links.

Click on the link and answer the questions (similar to last time with dreams). Do the tests and answer the questions. Assignments are due in class by Monday--either electronically to charles_brent@salkeiz.k12.or.us; or by a hard copy in class.

12/10 Ch. 6 & 7 Quiz

Quiz in class.

Notebooks due next class meeting

12/9 Sleep in Cultures

Sleep and Dreams from the Internet Due.

Sleep in Different Cultures Article and Q's


We will have a test over Ch. 6 and 7 during our next class meeting. A notesheet is okay for the test.

Notes/+ Sleep Log will be turned in then also.

12/4-6 Dreams on the Internet

After moving to the library; find the Dreams on the Internet Link.
Open the link in a new tab and begin working on the assignment. The assignment is due in class on Monday 12/9. Electronic submission to my email--charles_brent@salkeiz.k12.or.us, or a hard copy are ways to turn in the assignment. Dream/Sleep Journal is also due then.

12/2-3 Group Projects--Consciousness/Nervous System

Students will be broken up into groups and given 1 period to design a presentation on a designated area.

Projects will be presented on 12/3.

Extra time will be spent on dream interpretation and the purpose of dreaming.

Thanksgiving Break/12/2-6

Keep a sleep and dreams Journal for 5 consecutive days.

The Method:

Keep a Notebook next to your bed. Have 4 columns on your pages. Column 1---Bedtime; Column 2---Wake up Time; Column 3---Hours Slept; Column 4---Dream Summary


In Columns 1-3 put down the times spent sleeping in order to find the average over the 5 day period.

In Column 4 put down a summation of a remembered dream.

11/21-22 Sleep and Psychology

Read “How Much Sleep Does a Body Need?”
1. According to the article, how much sleep do teenagers need?
2. What does the article say about the adolescent circadian rhythm?
Read “Drowsy America”
3. What does Harvey Bass claim?
4. What does Dr. Charles Pollak state?
5. What statistic does David Dinges claim?
6. What is “perhaps the most insidious consequence of skimping on sleep”?
7. Why does Mary Carskadon say that “driving home on Friday is a greater risk than on Monday”?
8. How does alcohol effect a sleep deprived person?
9. What did Carskadon find about adolescents and sleep?
10. According to the author, who created the dilemma of sleep loss?
11. What is nocturnal myoclonus?
12. What is sleep apnea?
13. What is insomnia?
14. How can government and business help the sleep loss problem?
Read “Backgrounder: Later School Start Times”
15. What did Carskadon’s Multiple Sleep Latency Test show about adolescents?
16. What did the study show about melatonin and adolescents? Could this be changed?
17. What did the initial research show on the change from 9th to 10th grade?
18. What were the results when Minnesota changed the high school start times?
19. How did Kentucky’s change effect the safety on the road?
20. Given this data, why haven’t all schools changed their start times? Who is involved in the decision?

11/18-20 Consciousness

Experts Video

Theories of Sleep---

States of Sleep---

Stages of Sleep--

Problems w/ Sleep--

Ch. 7—p. 190
1. What are some theories about what purpose dreams have?
2. What are daydreams? Why are they useful?
S2 p. 191-196
3. What is hypnosis?
4. Does hypnosis put the participant to sleep? What does it do?
5. What are the theories of hypnosis?
6. What is a posthypnotic suggestion?
7. What is hypnotic analgesia?
8. What is biofeedback?
9. What is meditation?

11/13-15 Nervous System and Endocrine System

Notes from Ch. 6 and Questions

Experts on the Nervous System

Diagram of a Neuron and the Brain

11/12 Unit IV EXAM and Notebook Check

11/8 Review of Unit IV

Unit IV Notes and Review

Notes should have the following:
Experts Videos and Notes---Infancy to Adolescence / Adolescence to Adulthood
Ch. 3 RG and Notes
Language Lessons
Parenting Notes
Kohlberg Moral Development and Notes
Ch. 5 /5 questions
Thanatology---Kubler Ross and Grief Notes
Bucket List---Rationalizations

Review
Maturation
Maturational Readiness
Attachment--Harlow's Research/ Ainsworth
Piaget---Conservation
Eriksen Social
Adolescence--Identity Crisis
Parenting Styles
Adult Stages
Myths on Aging
Grief and Dying

The Essay for the Unit is due on Wednesday 11/13

Short Essay (5 paragraphs) Dev. Psy.
After reading the handout on Advantages and
Disadvantages of Childcare, explain what these
advantages and disadvantages are.
Finally, explain what option you are planning
on pursuing and why you would choose that.

11/7 Philosophical Chairs---Childcare

Using the childcare article---philosophical chairs about childcare.

Unit Essay Assigned---Due in class on Wed. 11/13--after Unit IV Exam

Short Essay (5 paragraphs) Dev. Psy.
After reading the handout on Advantages and Disadvantages of Childcare, explain what these advantages and disadvantages are. Finally, explain what option you are planning on pursuing and why you would choose that.

11/6 Thanatology

Elisabeth Kubler Ross and the 5 Stages of the Grieving Process Notes

Myths about Aging

1. What are two theories about why we age?
2. What are some of the effects of aging?
3. What is menopause?
4. What are two factors that decide whether marriages will succeed or fail?
5. What are misconceptions and myths about aging?

11/4-5 Experts--Adolescence and Adulthood

Adolescence
Eriksen's Social Theory and the Identity Crisis---Eriksen and Marcia

4 areas of Identity for decision making.

Parenting Roles in the Modern Times Article

11/1 Kohlberg's Moral Development

Take notes on the Stages of Moral Development as per Kohlberg.

Adolescence Notes--Ch. 4

10/31 Eriksen--Social Development

10/30 Language Lessons

Handout in Class on Language Lessons.

Erikson and Social Dev. Intro

10/28-29 Intro to Developmental Psychology

PSY I—Developmental Psychology
p. 71-84
Define the following:
1. schemas 2. assimilation 3. accommodation
4. object permanence
5. representational thought 6. conservation 7. egocentric 8. imprinting
9. critical period 10. attachment 11. authoritarian families
12. authoritative families
13. permissive families

14. Explain Harlow’s research with Rhesus monkeys on the issue of attachment.
15. Draw and explain Erikson’s stage of Psychosocial Development.


Inside Out ---Experts Video on Developmental Psychology---Conception to Childhood.

10/25 Unit III (Ch.9&10) TEST/Notebook Check Unit III

Also Intro to Developmental Psychology--Ch. 3

10/24 Review

Review Memory Retrieval and Retrieval Problems--Forgetting.


Unit III Notes should have the following:
Ch. 9 S1--Lecture Notes on Classical Conditioning.10/7
Classical Conditioning Skits---Notes on this.10/7-8
Ch. 9 S2--Operant Conditioning Lecture Notes10/9
Schedules of Reinforcement Wkst. 10/9
Silent Partner Experiment--Page taped or glued into notes 10/10
Aversive Control--Punishment/Neg. Reinforcement/Pos. Reinforcement Wkst and Lecture Notes 10/15
Group Operant Conditioning Skits 10/16-18
Social Learning--Mental Maps/ Modeling---Map and Lecture Notes 10/18
Memory Storage Lecture Notes/Video Notes 10/21-22
Memory Retrieval--Ch. 10 S2 10/23-24
Schedule of Reinforcement Wkst. 10/24

10/23 Retrieval Processes

Ch. 10 S2 --Cornell Notes on Retrieval Processes

Ch. 10 S2 –Retrieval
Define the following:
1. Recognition?2. Recall?3. reconstructive processes?
4. confabulation?5. schemas
6. eidetic memory?7. Relearning?
8. Forgetting 9. Decay?10. Interference

Sentence Answers
11.?What about state-dependent learning would make studying with headphones not worth your time?
12.?Why is distributed practice better than cramming?
13.?What are forms of elaborate rehearsal that you use to help you study?
14.?Why are mnemonic devices useful?
15.?Using p. 279, what are the four types of Long-Term memory? Describe each one.

10/22 Storage Processes

Ch. 10 S1---3 Stage Model---Storage

10/21 Memory--Experts

Inside Out---The Mind's Storehouse

10/16-18 Operant Conditioning Skits

10/15 Aversive Control

Aversive Control Explanation---Into Notes

Wkst. on Aversive Control or Positive Reinforcement---Into Notes and done in Class

Organize for the Group Skit---Operant Conditioning used to learn a new skill

10/10 Operant Conditioning--Simple Task based on Reinforcement

10/9 Schedules of Reinforcement

Schedules Worksheet--In Class---Put into Notes for Unit III

10/8 Operant Conditioning Introduction

Classical Conditioning Skits

Intro to Operant Conditioning---Intermittent Reinforcement is best.

Ch. 9 S2 P. 250-256
*operant conditioning
** Compare and Contrast operant conditioning and classical conditioning
* Reinforcement---What’s the difference between a positive and a negative reinforcer?
* Describe and Diagram the 4 different schedules of reinforcement
* Shaping
* Response Chains

10/7 Classical Conditioning Skits

The Differences Between Classical and Operant Conditioning
One of the simplest ways to remember the differences between classical and operant conditioning is to focus on whether the behavior is involuntary or voluntary. Classical conditioning involves making an association between an involuntary response and a stimulus, while operant conditioning is about making an association between a voluntary behavior and a consequence.
In operant conditioning, the learner is also rewarded with incentives, while classical conditioning involves no such enticements. Also remember that classical conditioning is passive on the part of the learner, while operant conditioning requires the learner to actively participate and perform some type of action in order to be rewarded or punished.
Today, both classical and operant conditioning are utilized for a variety of purposes by teachers, parents, psychologists, animal trainers and many others. In animal training, a trainer might utilize classical conditioning by repeatedly pairing the sound of a clicker with the taste of food. Eventually, the sound of the clicker alone will begin to produce the same response that the taste of food would.
In a classroom setting, a teacher might utilize operant conditioning by offering tokens as rewards for good behavior. Students can then turn in these tokens to receive some type of reward such as treat or extra play time.

10/3-4 Learning Introduction--Classical Conditioning

Experts on Learning---Inside out: The Learning Machine

Ch. 9 S1 Notes--Cornell Style

Classical Conditiong p. 240-249 Ch. 9 S1

define the Following in your Cornell Notes

*classical conditioning * learning * acquisition * generalization * discrimination
*extinction * behaviorism * behaviorists
**Study the Figure 9.1 on pg. 243. Briefly explain what Pavlov did and the importance of his discovery?
** Read the case study on pg. 249. How was this study using “Baby Albert” unethical by today’s standards?

10/2 Unit II Exam--Intro to Learning

Unit II Exam.

Written Portion Due on 10/3--Write on One of the following:

Answer on a separate sheet of paper.

I. You are asked to design a simple experiment to find out if caffeine effects memory. (A) Devise a hypothesis. Be sure to clearly define all your terms: How much caffeine? What type of memory? (B) Indentify the independent and dependent variables. (C) Briefly describe the procedure you will follow. (D) Identify the experimental and control groups. (E) Finally, what would be the last steps you would follow using the scientific method.


II. You are a psychologist who reads about the benefits of a stimulating environment on the development of children. You have the following methods of research at your disposal: survey, naturalistic observation, case study, longitudinal study, cross-sectional method. Select one method you would definitely use to study this issue. Then (a) briefly describe the method; (b) discuss the general advantages and disadvantages of using that method; and (c) discuss why you selected the method in this case and how you would conduct your research. Be as specific as possible.


Notebooks turned in:

Unit 2 Notes--

Ch. 2 S1--Types of Research
Ch. 2 S2-- (Milgram)--Blinds--Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Ch. 2 S3--Statistics
Davidson Clinic

Intro to Unit III--Learning and Memory

10/1 Project Presentations--Davidson Clinic

Projects Presented.


Davidson Clinic---Walk through an actual experiment

The Davidson Clinic Experiment

You are the personnel director of the Davidson Pediatric Clinic, a rather large facility which employs over 50 persons, including pediatricians, nurses, secretaries, receptionists, and housekeeping and maintenance personnel.

At the center of the clinic is a large waiting room where the parents and babies wait to see the doctors. The babies in that waiting room cry so much that many employees are unable to concentrate on their work. As a result, morale among the employees is very low, and several persons have reported headaches and other-related symptoms. The executive director of the clinic has come to you with this problem and has asked you to do something about it.

You have observed the interactions among all persons in the waiting room and have determined that the crying almost always begins when the babies see a nurse. The nurses in the clinics always wear white caps, white uniforms, white hose, and white shoes. You wonder if the sight of a nurse dressed this way is frightening to the babies. Perhaps the babies would cry less at the sight of a woman wearing more colorful clothes. You decide to do an experiment to determine if that is indeed the case.

1. Identify the problem

2. Review the literature. (What past research would you want to review?)

3. Formulate the hypothesis.

3a. Identify the variables in your hypothesis.

Independent Variable______________________________________________________

Dependent Variable ______________________________________________________

4. Chose the research design. (In this case, the experimental method.)
4a. Which group of babies will be in the control group?

4b. Which group of babies will be in the experimental group?

5. Collect the data. (Actually conduct the experiment.)

6. Analyze the data.

7. Draw conclusions and report findings.

Review for Exam

9/26-10/1 Research Project

Design an Experiment and Write it up in your groups.

Introduction and Method--presented to the class and turned in.


Ch. 2 S3 “Lies……& Statistics”

1.?What is a frequency distribution chart? How is it ?useful? How can percentage comparisons be useful?
2.?What is a frequency polygon or frequency curve?
3.?What is a normal or bell shaped curve?
4.?In looking at central tendency, what are the mode, ?median, and mean? Find the mode, median and mean for the ?data from the following data: 12, 23, 25, 18, 17, 16, 15, 20, 21, ?20, 13, 19, 22, 24, 11.
5.?What is the range? How do you figure out the range?

1.?What is the standard deviation? What does it ?mean if the number for the standard deviation is big or ?small?
2.?What is a correlation coefficient?
3.?What is positive and negative correlation?
4.?What is a scatterplot? What are inferential ?statistics?
5.?What makes something statistically significant?

10/1---Present your projects

9/25 Ethics in Experimentation---Problems with Human Studies

Go over Section 1.

Explain the Hawthorne Study and the issues of Ethics in Experimentation.

Watch the Milgram Experiment and Bandura's Experiment w/ the Bobo Doll

Discuss the effects of the Milgram Experiment

Ch. 2 S2 RG

1.What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?
2.Explain what a single-blind experiment and what a double-blind experiment are.
Copy the chart on p. 44 for your notes.
3.Provide a summation of the Milgram experiment. What ethical issues came up from this experiment? How were the professors at Swarthmore wrong about why Milgram’s subjects complied with their orders?
4.What is the placebo effect?
5.How does the case study of Hans show the self-fulfilling prophecy?

9/23-24 Experts and Notes

Experts speak about experimentation in the modern field of psychology---Inside Out Critical Research.

Students take notes on Ch. 2 S1--the following questions:

Psychology
Ch. 2 S1 RG

1. What is a sample?
2. What are two ways to avoid a nonrepresentative sample? Explain both of those ways.
3. What is naturalistic observation?
4. What is a case study?
5. What is a survey?
6. What are longitudinal and cross-sectional studies?
7. What is correlation? What does positive and negative correlation mean?
8. How does a positive correlation not give a total explanation?
9. What are the 6 steps that all experiments must have?
10. What does a hypothesis mean?
11. What are two types of variables? Explain how these interact.
12. What is the experimental group? What is the control group?
13. What are the seven main ethical standards/principles established by the APA in 1992?
14. On page 38 in the “Did You Know”, what error was made in polling?
15. On page 43, the “More About…” discusses The Hawthorne Study. Read this and explain another issue with experimentation.

9/19-20 Intro to Research--Past Experiments

Joining a group, the students will look at an experiment done in the past in psychology and explain what the experiment was about, how it was executed, and what the results were.

9/18 Unit I Exam---Intro to Unit II

9/17 Skits on professions in Psychology

Review for Unit 1 Exam

9/12-16 Skits on Modern Approaches

Joe Case Study and the way in which different approaches in Psychology would handle the issue

9/11 Experts on the Story of Psychology

What is Psychology?

The early days of the discipline. The modern approaches.

9/5 Intro to Text

Understanding Psychology
Text Search

1. What is the definition of somatoform disorder? What part of the text would you find that answer?
2. What does the chart on page 621 depict? What is the correlation on the chart?
3. Each section of the book has a Reader’s Guide. What are the three headings in the Reader’s Guide?
4. What are the vocabulary words for Ch. 16 Section 4?
5. On what page would I learn about Prozac and other SSRIs? How did you arrive at this answer?
6. What are the bolded skills that explain how you should read informational texts for Before you Read, As you Read and After you Read on pages xii and xiii of your text?
7. Using page1, what are the 5 parts of the Scientific Method?
8. Using the table of contents on page vi, find the Profiles in Psychology on Abraham Maslow. How did Maslow contradict behaviorists?
9. Using the chart 7.1, what were Freud’s three levels of consciousness?
10. On the Ch. 9 Section 3 Exploring Psychology, how did the children’s actions to the Bobo doll prove the existence of social learning?

9/4 Opening Day--Welcome to Psychology

Welcome to Psychology.



1st intro question.

What is psychology?

1/29-30 FINAL EXAM

FINAL EXAM Turn in Ch. 16 Wkst.

1/25-28 Personality Disorders

Personality Disorders Drug Abuse/Addiction and Mental Disorders Therapy for Both Review--Complete Ch. 16 Wkst.

1/23-24 Mood Disorders--Suicide Threat

Inside Out Video Mood Disorders Lecture and Notes Suicide Discussion--What to do???

1/17-23 Schizophrenia

“A Beautiful Mind” In a short answer, explain the following: How did John Nash’s experience display the classic characteristics of schizophrenia? From the follow-up reading, how did the movie accurately portray Nash’s experience? What were the inaccuracies in the movie?What is the prognosis for schizophrenia? Is it curable? Can a person live a "normal" life with schizophrenia?

1/16 Quiz

1/15 Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders

Ch. 16 S3 in Book

1/9-14 Anxiety Disorders---OCD

Anxiety Disorders and OCD- How did Melvin Udall exhibit the classic symptoms of OCD? How did his symptoms lessen throughout the video? What is the prognosis for OCD?