10/31 Ch. 6 & 7 Quiz

Cornell Notes Summary A. Using your notes, create an short essay describing the purpose of sleep and dreams as it relates to overall health and mental stability.

10/29-30 Sleep Handout Q's

Ch. 7—Sleep and Dreams---Handouts 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? 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? S3p. 197-199 10. What are psychoactive drugs? 11. How do drugs work? 12. Recreate the chart on p. 198 in your work. Explain the different drug categories and how they work. 13. How is marijuana addictive psychologically and not physically? 14. How does marijuana affect IQ tests? 15. What is the linkage between marijuana use and lung cancer?

10/26 Inside Out--Altered States of Consciousness

10/25 Dreams Follow Up

Go over the Dreams Internet Activity--Due in Class Today. Theories of why we Dream.

10/22-24 Dreams on the Internet

Click on the Dreams on the Internet Link in the All Assignments--Right Side of Page. Read the Selected material and answer the questions from internet research. A hard copy or electronic submission (email to charles_brent@salkeiz.k12.or.us)is due in class on 10/25.

10/19 The Endocrine System

Ch. 6 S3 for your notes

10/17-18 The Brain

Ch. 6 S2 Notes Study of the Brain Inside Out Video on the Brain

10/16 The Nervous System

Turn in Parent Visit and Daycare Essay. Set up Notes for Unit Notebook Check---Due at the end of the Unit. Ch. 6 S1--CNS + PNS

10/11 Developmental Quiz

Quiz and Written Responses Day Care--Advantages and Disadvantages 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. Plus the Short Answers from the Quiz Structured Paragraphs 17. What does effective parenting accomplish? 18. Discuss the different parenting styles and what you feel is the best style to create well adapted adults/citizens. 19. Identify possible conflicts adolescents may face. 20. Using the table in Figure 4-1, explain the four ways that an adolescent may approach the decision of which college to attend. Exploring issues Not yet exploring issues Decisions already made Identity Achievement Identity Foreclosure Decisions not yet made Identity Moratorium Identity Diffusion Figure 4-1

10/8-10 Adolescence and Adulthood

Adolescence and Adulthood Inside/Out Adult Stages Identity Crisis Stages of Grief

10/2-5 Developmental Psych

Ch. 3 and 4 Theories of Development Social/Cognitive/Physical/Language/ Moral Attachment and Parenting Styles

10/1 Ch. 2 Exam

Entrance for Tuesday--Write on 1 of the following: III. Short Answer 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