a+semester


 * Welcome to Psychology! **


 * Week of 5/28 **
 * Monday: ** we are not in school.
 * Tuesday: ** p7 Diozzi visit. P 2 begin group diagnosis project.
 * Wednesday: ** p2 Diozzi visit.
 * Thursday: ** Movie project due by beginning of your class period. HW for those still in hs, bring in 4 questions for your essay topic.
 * Friday: ** p2 case study activity/sr exam. Last day for extra credit project.


 * Week of 5/21 **
 * Monday: ** My apologies for being out. Here is the ppt on therapy: therapy! Please skim through and come up with ** 3 solid questions ** that you have about any of the therapeutic schools of thought ** . ** Email them to me ** before the end of your class ** this is worth 30pts ** . ** The book notes and packet on mental illness are both due tomorrow and are fair game for Tuesday's quiz. Do remember that your movie project is coming up and that there is an extra credit opportunity for you that is pretty interesting.
 * Tuesday: ** Questions about therapy disucssion. P2 quiz delayed, P7 quiz will happen.
 * Wednesday: ** Receive your case study. Turn in completed packets and be prepared P2 for rescheduled quiz.
 * Thursday: ** Work on case study.
 * Friday: ** 5 days till movie project is due

Extra Credit assignment on sociopathic children: Sociopathic kids? // **News Flash:** For this semester Aspen was calculating your grades giving each category equal weight, (ex. all quizzes = to all projects) this was not my intention as I want all points to be equal (ex a 10pt quiz = 1/10th of a 100pt project) so many recalculated grades are a bit higher now. My apologies for the confusion. I don't know how one of you didn't catch that glitch this term! Six people went up a grade and 2 down in 2nd since quizzes were given too much value. //
 * Week of 5/14 **
 * Monday: ** ppt on DSM-IV, depression, mania, and schizophrenia (no hw)
 * Tuesday: ** reminder about mental illness movie project due May 31st.
 * Wednesday: ** personality disorder dinner party partner activity. HW (or in class) reading in book on personality disorders 536-8 or link.
 * Thursday: ** in class notes on Schizophrenia types. [|ppt notes on Depression, Mania, Schizophrenia]
 * Friday: ** Use text and internet to complete chart on major mental illnesses by group with HW reading in book about therapy, 548-564 notes due Tuesday.

Honors: Email me 5 questions that you want to see asked in the round table on personality. Something that your person would have lots to say about and that others would as well. (so not specifically directed to you) If your question is picked you will get extra credit.
 * Week of 5/7 **
 * Monday: ** work on projects due TH.
 * Tuesday: ** CP look at questionnaire (link School Design Questionnaire and School Design Checklist ) to make sure you are on track.
 * Wednesday: ** last day of working on projects! hopefully CP will have some BHS schedule options to look at!
 * Thursday: ** honors round table discussion in long block. CP: begin looking at/presenting schools.
 * Friday: ** begin abnormal psychology unit. HW read:


 * Week of 4/30 (20 days till senior exams if you have to take them) **
 * Monday: CP: Begin school design project. ** Honors please take this personality quiz. and have the results sent to you (it works with safari...) Remember notes from weekend? be prepared for [|quiz.] [|Rorschach] test we did in class if you want to try on parents, friends, etc. Results (typical) found on wikipedia.
 * Tuesday: CP: Physical Plant ** Honors notes on personality Traits. HW [|5 test.]read and 479-484.
 * Wednesday: CP: Schedule ** Honors personality project begins. Personality Project
 * Thursday: CP: Schedule ** Honors personality project.
 * Friday: CP: How does your school make learning more relevant, fun, and effective?, Please go to lower library and sit next to the Mac Lab with Mr. Parkin's class in order to work on your project. ** Honors you have a discussion Personality test group discussion then you can work on your personality project. Everyone please be safe this weekend.


 * Week of 4/23 **
 * Monday: ** Training your friends due at start of class. HW read and notes on memory 235-241 (stop with amnesia unless you play a contact sport, then continue). Link to ted talk for 7th personalized learning.
 * Tuesday: ** Determine which "intelligence" you are. Use the handout in class to do this and respond here multiple intelligences.
 * Wednesday: ** HW read and notes on 244-246 and 248-249 on how memory works and how to improve it.
 * Thursday: ** In class memory stuff. no hw.
 * Friday ** : CP: in class notes on memory. your memory hw is read and notes 219-227. School design project for CP begins M.
 * Honors: ** What is intelligence? Discussion and test in class. Personality reading and notes for hw (skipping Freud as we did Id/Ego/Superego) so 468-470+ 473-477. Begin personality project T in class for Honors.

Designing and implementing your own "conditioning experience" assignment explained. How to train your friends, pets, etc... (50pts) Write up will be due Monday after vacay.
 * Week of 4/9 **
 * Monday: ** assembly/discussion ** hw:182-187 read and notes ** on classical conditioning
 * Tue: ** classical conditioning terms, with a partner define, give an original example, and illustrate your term so that others can take notes from your work
 * Wed: ** classical conditioning exercise for p2 (long!) p7 notes CC and OC Notes on CC [|test your vocab knowledge!] there is a link on that page for OC quiz.
 * Th: ** Operant conditioning ** hw 193-198 read and notes ** continue notes in class.
 * Friday: ** animal training manual due. Discussion about [| positive reinforcement.] applying CC/OC in your life.


 * Week of 4/2 **
 * Monday: ** research
 * Tuesday: ** research
 * Wednesday: ** Drug debate begins p 2.
 * Thursday: ** Drug project due p 7.


 * Week of 3/26 **
 * Monday: ** video in class. For class Tuesday, based on the video and your general knowledge please write out three questions that you have about addiction and the brain, two questions that you have about what the different types of drugs, and one question about what drugs do in/to the brain.
 * Tuesday: ** drugs on the brain.
 * Wednesday: ** project assigned.
 * Thursday: ** begin research. Post on Drug Resources Wiki
 * Friday: ** Bring in current event on your drug and the brain in the news.


 * Week of 3/19 **
 * Monday: ** sleep journals continue for all. Sleep hygiene. HW: technique to remember dreams: 148
 * Tuesday: ** sleep journals continue for all.
 * Wednesday: ** sleep journals continue for all. [|pptdreams.]
 * Thursday: ** sleep journals continue for all.
 * Friday: ** sleep journals due for all. We will try to determine sleep cycle lengths in class. HW read and notes 158-164 Monday starts the drug unit.


 * Week of 3/12 **
 * Monday: ** honors sense presentations. CP consciousness.
 * Tuesday: ** honors sense presentations. CP begin sleep/dream unit and charting. HW p143-147 by TH (sleep stages).
 * Wednesday: ** honors begins consciousness after open-note sense quiz. CP sleep/dream news.
 * Thursday: ** continue sleep journals. 143-147 due today for all.
 * Friday: ** continue sleep journals. HW 148-152 (dreams and sleep disorders)

CP, writing assignment, write it to hand in F or email to me. Using either the text section on vision p 97-100, or link. and the video from yesterday, explain your position on why eyewitness testimony should or should not be used. Please answer the following questions: What is recognition memory? How does visual information get into the brain? Your written response is due Friday at the start of class. You must include both information on how the eye works and why the information provided by eyewitnesses is good or faulty. CP, begin unit on consciousness, HW read and notes p. 138-142. If you didn't like your last quiz grade, take notes this time!
 * Week of 3/5 **
 * Monday: ** Senses discussion. HW read and notes on your section. You will be assigned one of the senses.
 * Tuesday: ** CP, in class optical illusions! for honors, in class group project. (This week the two classes are doing totally different work, Honors is not responsible for CP assignments this week. But optical illusions are fun, so you might want to check it out.)
 * Wednesday: ** Eyewitness Testimony for CP news. . Group project for honors.
 * Thursday: ** Continue working on group project for honors.
 * Friday: ** Group project for honors due M.CP in class finish up visual perception ted talk. and consciousness video.

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 * Week of 2/27 ** welcome back!
 * Monday: ** homework 83-87. Nature vs Nurture in class, CP viewing twins . Honors MvF male vs female brain reading, post, discussion in class. If it isn't on the wiki, it doesn't get a grade. If your response is too long, break it into parts.
 * Tuesday: ** Nature vs Nurture discussion and writing here, due TH. In class viewing serial killer by Fallon, you have an iPad, you can watch a video.
 * Wednesday: ** Nature vs nurture writing due by the time you walk into class Thursday. Wild Child video Genie discussion in class. Honors hw for W: podcast
 * Thursday: ** Both classes, in the library, during class, work on your NvN response (link to page on the right) CP you will write your post, Honors will reply to two different posters from your class. Respectfully agree or disagree in a well defended paragraph or two. Both include where your evidence is from (Genie video, Fallon TED talk, text, etc). ** This assignment is due by classtime on Friday **, it is worth 45pts and must be posted on the wiki. DO NOT EMAIL IT TO ME! Other students will be replying to you and they don't have access to my email. If your response is too long for one post, break it into parts. Don't forget, for all students ** homework due Friday notes on pgs 94-96, intro to sensation **.
 * Friday: ** NvN response due. In class view and take notes on Ted Talk senses


 * Week of 2/13 **
 * Monday: ** continue brain stuff, finish up things from last week.
 * Tuesday: ** in class work on zombie brain project due Friday.
 * Wednesday: ** left vs right brain. Take the quiz here L or R (if that doesn't work for you, then click Left or Right? then click to post in the discussion section HERE! to post your response to if you are left or right and if you agree with that assessment. Use the rest of your class time to work on the zombie brain project due Friday.
 * Thursday: ** brain structure activity
 * Friday: ** zombie brain activity due at start of class, must be posted online before class starts. We will be viewing several and evaluating with the rubric in class, so your work must be online and on time to earn full credit.


 * Week of 2/5 **
 * Monday: ** vocabulary activity with 3D brain ap and hw notes done over the weekend on the brain (59-65) brain parts
 * Tuesday: ** finish and museum walk in class to label brain.
 * Wednesday: ** explain zombie brain project (100pts) GAH! SO sorry I am out 7th period, sick baby, hoping to be back soon, but in the meantime finish your brains using the posters and the 3D Brain and grab a textbook....see below!
 * Thursday: ** Apologies for my absence, in class you will pick a partner and together fill out one handout with questions about the brain. You may use notes and the textbook, but not the internet to search for answers. Do write down the part of the brain and explain why it is the correct answer. If you finish up quickly, check out the brain game it works in safari... sporkle brain.
 * Friday: ** Expect brain parts quiz on Friday.

Please go to the ap store and download the free 3D Brain or link here we will be using this a bunch so please get it done. Jill Bolte Taylor ted talk
 * Week of 1/30 Beginning the Brain **
 * Monday: ** CP video Le Roy HS. Honors, present your studies to the class including vocab terms. HW: read/notes pgs 46-52 by W. If you want to do your reading online check out neurotransmitters or [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png caption="external image pdf.png"]] . (note, on open note quizzes in CP, you must use notes you wrote yourself).
 * Tuesday: ** Neurotransmitter Jeopardy if you want to test yourself link.
 * Wednesday: ** Reading/notes due. Vocabulary activity
 * Thursday: ** vocab activity continued. neurons alive!
 * Friday: ** Pop Neuron quiz will take place by Friday. HW read and notes pgs 59-65.


 * Week of Jan 23 **
 * Monday: ** For your first night's work, your assignment is to please register as a user on wikispaces. Pick a username that I can quickly use to identify/grade you and that your group members will have a chance at figuring out. I suggest some variation of first initial last name or first name last initial. Honors students, please email me at gould@bpsk12 your three burning questions about psychology.
 * Tuesday: ** For our first group exercise we will be investigating some of the most compelling psychological studies in the field of psychology. Today your group will read about a studied phenomenon. After working together to create a detailed summary of the phenomenon and studies of it, determine what the research objectives were (what were they trying to determine?), what happened in the study, were there any design flaws, what were the findings, do you think that this experiment could be done today (why, why not?) and why was this study so important. Your source is blog. Your group will be posting in your class's Methods page which is why you created a login already for wikispaces. Please follow the instructions located within that link. Please prepare to share your findings with the entire class on Friday. HW research methods pgs 25-35 in your text, due Thursday.
 * Wednesday: ** continue to work in your groups on research methodology **, ** every member must post, please spellcheck! work together to answer all the questions, be prepared to share with the class ** . **
 * Thursday: ** continue to work in your groups on research methodology, and be prepared for a quiz.
 * Friday: ** CP be prepared to present your study to the class, H had the quiz ** . **