12/18 Personality

Behaviorist view points on Personality

Testing in Personality

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.

12/16 Personality

Freudian Viewpoint on Personality

12/14 Unit 5 Test

12/9 Endocrine System

Ch. 6 Body and Behavior

Sec. 1 –  The Nervous System

1.      What is the Central Nervous System and the Peripheral Nervous System?  What is the difference between the two?

2.      What are Neurons?  Draw and label the anatomy of a neuron using the figure on p. 157.

3.      What is a synapse?  How are messages passed in the synapse?

4.      What is the somatic nervous system and the autonomic nervous system?  How are they different?

5.      Explain the two parts of the autonomic nervous system?

Sec. 2 – Studying the Brain

 What are the parts of the hindbrain, the midbrain and the forebrain?

6.      Using the figure on p. 161 draw and label the parts of the brain.

7.      What is the corpus callosum?

8.      What are the lobes of the brain?

9.      Under HOW PSYCHOLOGISTS STUDY THE BRAIN, what is an EEG?  What does it measure?

10.    What are lesions?

11.    How are accidents beneficial to psychological study?

12.    What is a CAT?  What does it show?

13.    What is a PET?  What does it show?

14.    What is an MRI?  What does it show?  How is fMRI different than just a regular MRI?

Sec 3.

15.    What is the endocrine system?

16.    How do hormones effect the body?  How do they influence your mood?

17.    Explain what each of the following are:

a. pituitary gland  b. thyroid gland     c. adrenal gland   d. sex glands

            18. What is the difference between a hormone and a neurotransmitter?

Sec 4.

19.    What is heredity?

20.    What is the Nature vs. Nurture debate?

21.    What are genes?

22.    How are identical twins different from fraternal twins?

 + the Brain Wkst.

12/9 Nervous System

Intro to the Nervous System

12/7 Project Presentations

12/2-4 Ch. 7 Consciousness--Intro to Group Projects

11/30 Unit 4 Exam--Development

11/13 Stages--Morality and Psychosocial Development

Kohlberg’s Moral Development

I. Match each situation with the stage of Kohlberg’s Moral Development

A) Preconventional Morality

·      Self-Interest (Looking out for #1).  Obey rules to avoid punishment or gain Positive Rewards.(Respect for power & punishment)

B) Conventional Morality

·      Uphold laws and rules to gain social approval. (Seeking approval of important orders).   Or Laws are upheld to maintain social order.(Belief in Law & Order)

C) Postconventional Morality

·      Actions reflect belief in basic rights (Justice through Democracy) and self-defined ethical principles. (Universal Moral Principles)

                       1.___Stealing is wrong period. We are obligated to obey laws if we want to live in a civilized world.     

          2.___Stealing from family is not so bad. What are they going to do, lock you up?

                                3.___ I once stole something from a store to impress my friends.

                               4.___Why shouldn’t people steal from stores? They rip people off with their high prices.

5. ___I don’t think stealing is right, but in certain emergencies, or life and death situations, I might

      steal something.

6. ___ I’m not going to skip class because I might get a detention and won’t be able to play in the   

      game.

7. ___ I’ve had near perfect attendance for four years. I’ll skip class because my friend is 

                  having some problems and needs someone to talk to. Sorry, but people matter more than     

                  rules.

     8.___Skip class? No problem. I’m hungry. Besides, it’s only wrong if you get caught.

     9.___Skip class? I don’t think so. I’d lose my teachers and coaches’ respect.

   10.___ Sometimes students just need to miss school; work, stress, or just need a day off.  It’s just  

                different than it used to be.

Intro to Erikson----Social Development

Adolescence Notes

Childcare---Read for Homework---Come ready to take a position in favor or against sending your own child to daycare

11/9 Ch. 3 S2 Wkst.

Stages Wkst.

Ch. 3 S2-3 Wkst.

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.

11/6 Language and Basics of Development

10/14-11/4 Learning Unit

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.

Memory Wksts.

Operant Conditioning Wkst.

Reinforcement vs. Punishment

Instructions

For each example presented below, identify whether positive reinforcement (PR), negative reinforcement (NR), or punishment (PUN) is illustrated by placing the appropriate abbreviation in the blank next to the item.

         1. Police pulling drivers over and giving prizes for buckling up

2. Suspending a basketball player for committing a flagrant foul

  3. A soccer player rolls her eyes at a teammate who delivered a bad pass

         4. A child snaps her fingers until her teacher calls on her
         5. A hospital patient is allowed extra visiting time after eating a complete meal
         6. Receiving a city utility discount for participating in a recycling program
         7. Grounding a teenager until his or her homework is finished
         8. Scolding a child for playing in the street

9. A prisoner loses TV privileges for one week for a rule violation

         10. A parent nagging a child to clean up her room
          11. A rat presses a lever to terminate a shock or a loud tone
         12. A professor gives extra credit to students with perfect attendance

  13. A dog is banished to his doghouse after soiling the living room carpet

         14. A defendant is harassed and tortured until he confesses
         15. A young child receives $5 for earning good grades in school
         16. A mother smiles when her child utters "Mama"

  17. A child is put into "time out" for misbehaving

         18. Employee of the month gets a reserved parking space
         19. At a party, a husband becomes sullen when his wife flirts with a colleague
         20. A woman watching a football game offers her child candy to play quietly

10/12 Unit 2 EXAM

Unit 2 Exam

Intro Ch. 9 and Learning

10/7 Lies ....and Statistics

Statistics--
Measures of Central Tendency
Measures of Variance
Statistically Significant

10/5 Past Experiments

Past Experiments Group Activity

9/30 Simple Experiment

Inside Out Video on Research


How to Conduct a Simple Experiment:

Basic Vocab:
Random Assignment
Representative Sample
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Blind and Double Blind Studies
Placebo Effect
Independent and Dependent Variable
Control and Experimental Group

9/28 Unit 2 Intro

Unit 2 Intro

Wkst. Ch. 2 S1

Types of Research in Psychology

9/9-9/25 Unit I

Intro to Psychology

Psychology Skits on Approaches
Psych Skits on types of Psychology


Intro to Notebooks and How the Class Runs