AP Psychology is a study of human and animal mental activities and behaviour. AP Psychology is a university course designed to offer high-achieving students an opportunity to attain first year credit.
AP Psychology 12
• The AP Psychology Exam is on May 3, 2022 at 11:45am.
• The AP Psychology Exam is on May 3, 2022 at 11:45am.
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SEMESTER ONE
UNIT 1 Scientific Foundations of Psychology (Introduction and chapter 1)
Wednesday September 8, 2021
1. Check out your text: David Myers Psychology
2. Create your apclassroom account. Register in either AP Psychology Block A or Block B. (Join code for Block A is 2VNJD2; Join code for Block B is DWWERQ)
3. What is psychology?
Thursday September 9, 2021
1. Due: Turn into Teams -by 4:00pm- a copy of AP Psychology Course Expectations with your and your parent's signature. (This assignment is in Teams).
2. Due: View the video "Is Psychology a Science?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zohkzd0MYiI
3. View the video Unit 1 (1.1): "Free Response Questions (FRQs, History of Psychology, and Perspectives of Psychology)": https://www.loom.com/share/84a5e5c66ff94ecb81333ef96ac2bade
4. Begin writing Unit 1 Notes on Prologue/Introduction (Unit 1 Notes are due September 13, 2021 -->400 words, including 4 personal connections).
5. Lesson on experiment hypotheses, operational definitions, and independent and dependent variables
6. Unit 1.1 Powerpoint: Lesson on perspectives of psychology.
7. Introduction to the scientific experiment. Select an experiment topic. Write an appropriate hypothesis.
Friday September 10, 2021
1. Due: View the video Unit 1.2 and 1.4 "FRQs, Experiment, Research methods, and Selecting Research Methods": https://www.loom.com/share/2a849cf342b54e1cb59dbe968becf86a
Please Note: In the video, I misspoke and said that Jane Goodall observed gorillas: Goodall's mentee Dian Fossey observed gorillas, and Jane Goodall observed chimpanzees!
2. Due: Typed psychology experiment Introduction. Answer these questions:
4. Lesson: The scientific experiment and research methods
Monday September 13, 2021
1. View the video Unit 1.3 and 1.6 "Experimental method and Ethical Guidelines": https://www.loom.com/share/613544a0beb24c1c8f8a51a6dcdaa96a
2. Due: Unit 1 -Introduction/Prologue- Notes (type a total of 400 words and include 4 personal connections)
3. Due: Typed psychology experiment Introduction (on your device)
5. M&M Data Collection lab
Tuesday September 14, 2021
1. View the video Unit 1.5 "Statistical analysis in Research":https://www.loom.com/share/388a03f4060d4c2a99c4206fa3333be9
2. Due: M&M Data Collection completed lab
3. Due: Typed rough Method (on your device)
5. Introduction to Andrea Yates and Psychological Perspectives FRQ
Wednesday September 15, 2021
1. Due: Add to Tuesday's typed rough Method (on your device)
3. In-class: The 7 Perspectives
Thursday September 16, 2021
1. Due: Unit 1 -Ch. 1 Scientific Method- Notes (type a total of 500 words and include 4 personal connections)
2. Due into Teams: Andrea Yates and Psychological Perspectives FRQ (three points are answered)
3. Due: Typed psychology experiment Method (on your device)
5. In-class: "Psychology statistical analysis"
6. Demonstrations to show how independent variables effect the outcome of the dependent variable
Friday September 17, 2021
1. Due: Experiment data collection sheet/chart, anxiety/depression scale, and/or consent form.
2. In-class: Review Unit 1 Notes (introduction and chapter 1)
Differentiate the perspectives of psychology activity
Recognize key individuals/researchers in psychology
Introduction and chapter 1 Kahoot review
3. Review Unit 1 website "Question and Answers"
Monday September 20, 2021
1. Due: Unit 1 multiple-choice 16-questions test (Scientific Foundations of Psychology: History, Perspectives, Research Methods, Experimental Method, Statistical Analysis, and Ethical Guidelines).
2. Experiment introduction and method are now complete. Due tomorrow in class.
3. In-class lesson: Introduction to Unit 2 Biological bases of behaviour
Introduction to the neuron
UNIT 2 Biological Psychology (chapters 2 and 3)
Tuesday September 21, 2021
1. View the video: Unit 2.3-2.4 "The Nervous system, neurons, and neural firing https://www.loom.com/share/6371544b5b5d43e8b10d58b8cf12d461
2. Due: Typed Experiment Introduction, Method, and consent, survey, and scale/s being used
3. In-class lesson: Biological bases of behaviour, the nervous system, the neuron, and neural firing
Neuron human demonstration (this is an object lesson using string, a rope, and a lufa)
Wednesday September 22, 2021
1. View the video: Unit 2.5, 2.7 "Drug influences and tools for studying the brain https://www.loom.com/share/53e0b49a3cfc4e598eec3e75ad6dee02
2. Due: Unit 2 Notes -Ch. 2 Biological Psychology- (type 4/500 words and include 4 personal connections)
3. Due: Typed Experiment Results data collection and graph
4. In-class lesson: The structures and functions of the neuron
Neural mural lab - begin work on your neural mural sketch/lab
Thursday September 23, 2021
1. Due: Typed Results explanation of the experiment's procedure (Explain whether the procedure went as planned, the problems arose, and present and discuss the data)
2. In-class lesson: The neuron, neurotransmitters, agonists (counterfeit key), and antagonists (broken key)
3. Work on your neural mural sketch/lab
Friday September 24, 2021
Professional-Day (you have a holiday!)
Monday September 27, 2021
1. View the video: Unit 2.6 "The brain anatomy, lateralization, and hemispheric specialization https://www.loom.com/share/9df33bef103b4c1db2a46750c522bb58
2. Due: Neural Mural sketch/lab
3. In-class lesson: Communication between neurons and the influence of drugs: agonists and antagonists
Structures and functions of the brain
4. In-class: Brain Dissection lab
Tuesday September 28, 2021
1. View the video: Unit 2.8 2.9 "The adaptable brain, neuroplasticity, and sleeping and dreaming" https://www.loom.com/share/dde309724a3648ab9ae1326b04651c63
2. Due: Brain Dissection lab
3. In-class lesson: methods for studying the brain (accidents and autopsy: Phineas Gage, Broca, and Wernicke), cortex convolutions, sensory homunculus,
4. Relevance for research of the spinal cord:
Wednesday September 29, 2021
1. Due: Unit 2 Notes -Ch. 3 Nature, Nurture, and Evolutionary Psychology - (type 4/500 words and include 4 personal connections)
2. Due: Biological Psychology FRQ first point - explain how the myelin sheath functions to support neural communication
3. In-class: Rosenzweig and Bennet's Enriched versus impoverished environment's influence on the brain and example situations that relate:
Thursday September 30, 2021
Truth and Reconciliation Day (holiday)
Friday October 1, 2021
1. In-class: Review Unit 2 Notes (chapters 2 and 3)
Click this link for a concise review of neurons: http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/synapse.html
2. Chapters 2 and 3 review: group presentations and quizzes
3. Genetic predisposition: Plomin's Identical twins studies with Alzheimers, 60% chance of inheriting the disease if the other identical twin develops it; fraternal twins have a 30% chance of inheriting the disease
4. Nature versus nurture: gender and nature
Monday October 4, 2021
1. Chapter 3 pre-quiz
2. Due: Unit 2 multiple-choice 16-questions test (neural and brain structures and functions, techniques that examine the brain, split brain, nature vs nurture, evolutionary psychology, and plasticity)
3. Methods to study the brain: Autopsy slides
4. In-class work: Neural Communication FRQ
Complete Section A (within the neuron) the second term
Section B, the first term (Remember: use the term-definition-application method)
5. Introduction to Sensation and Perception
UNIT 3 Sensation and Perception (chapters 5 and 6)
Tuesday October 5, 2021
1. Due: Experiment Conclusion
Neural Communication FRQ
2. View the video: Unit 3.1, 3.3 "Sensation and perception, principles of sensation, and Visual anatomy" https://www.loom.com/share/f98b4d7634b745489de0a836fcb05091
3. In-class: Understanding the difference between sensation and perception, theories and definitions.
View the video "Sensation and Perception" from 0:00-3:15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unWnZvXJH2o
4. Review student examples of experiment Conclusion and Abstract
Wednesday October 6, 2021
1. Due: Unit 3 -Chapter 5- Sensation Notes (4/500 words including 4 personal connections)
2. Due: homework check for experiment -raw- data chart and graph
Due Experiment Conclusion
3. In-class: Measuring sensation (absolute threshold, difference threshold, signal detection theory, sensory adaptation), stroboscopic movement, phi phenomenon, moon illusion, and perceptual set
Thursday October 7, 2021
1. Due: (BRING THIS TO CLASS) Typed and printed experiment Abstract, Introduction, Method, Results, and Conclusion
2. View the video: View the video Unit 3.2, 3.4 "Principles of sensation and visual perception" https://www.loom.com/share/02a9963fa4db4d8c878c3455e329cee0
3. In-class: Peer editing
Perception, Just Noticeable Difference (JND), and Ernst Weber's Law
Friday October 8, 2021
1. Due: Experiment References
2. In-class: Perception, Gestalt principles of organization: proximity, similarity, continuity, closure
Olfactory lab
Turn in completed lab
Tuesday October 12, 2021
1. Due: Turn into Teams Psychology Experiment by 11:59pm (APA title page, Abstract, Introduction, Method, Results, Conclusion, References)
2. View the video Unit 3.5-3.7 "Auditory sensation, chemical senses, and body senses" https://www.loom.com/share/e04ca285c8e749ce949c842cf954b680
3. Due: Chapter 6 -Sensation- Notes (4/500 words including 4 personal connections)
4. In-class: The anatomy of the eye, colour vision and blindness
5. In-class: "Gestalt Principles of Grouping" discussion; FRQ writing and FRQ submission
6. FRQ
Wednesday October 13, 2021
1. Due: Unit 3 multiple-choice test review
2. In-class: The anatomy of the ear and optical and auditory illusions
UNIT 4 Behaviouristic Learning (chapter 8)
Thursday October 14, 2021
1. Due: Unit 3 multiple-choice 16-questions test
2. Introduction to Behaviouristic learning: Classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational learning
3. Balloon demonstration and discussion
Friday October 15, 2021
1. Introduction to Learning: Classical conditioning and Operant conditioning
2. Due: Chapter 8 Notes (and 5 personal connections)
3. View the video: Unit 4.1, 4.4 "Social factors in learning cognitive factors" https://www.loom.com/share/d5db8eb6312a4b33be76f73c1838806c
4. Discussion: Connect the Gestalt idea to your life The whole is greater than the sum of the parts (think about psychological perspectives and sensation and perception units). How might people who are focussed on the parts (detail oriented) become stereotyped? Conversely, how might people who are focussed on the whole (visionaries) become stereotyped?
5. In-class: Ivan Pavlov and John Watson and the Little Albert experiment, Garcia and Koelling radiation and sweetened water experiment
Vocabulary: Unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, neutral stimulus, conditioned stimulus, and conditioned response; generalization, discrimination, and extinguishing conditioning; counter conditioning
Monday October 18, 2021
1. View the video: Unit 4.2 "Classical conditioning and a comparison between classical and operant conditioning" https://www.loom.com/share/b9c7adf7fb7c46fa94819fd28ae45ce2
2. Due: Chapter 8 Notes (and 5 personal connections)
3. In-class: Classical conditioning compared with Operant conditioning; B.F. Skinner and Thorndike's experiments
spontaneous recovery, generalization,
4. Thorndike's experimentation of trial and error https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDujDOLre-8
5. Thorndike's experimentation with animals and puzzle boxes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-g2OmRXb0g
Operant conditioning vocabulary: puzzle box, reward, punishment, shaping, reinforcement, extinction, spontaneous recovery
Tuesday October 19, 2021
1. View the video: Unit 4.3 Operant Conditioning https://www.loom.com/share/2638425de6b5442b9eeac974d014f81f
2. In-class: Reinforcement schedule: variable and fixed, interval and ratio; reinforcement schedule: positive and negative punishment, positive and negative reinforcement
3. B.F. Skinner's pigeon experiments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_ctJqjlrHA
4. Discussion topic: B.F. Skinner believed a person does not have free will. Skinner believed a person is a compilation of learning responses that have been reinforced, conditioned, and/or mimicked. Discuss whether humans do or do not have free will to make choices and choose to think and behave a certain way.
Wednesday October 20, 2021
1. Comparing classical conditioning (CC), operant conditioning (OC), and observational learning (OL)
2. In-class: CC, OC, and OL vocabulary similarities and differences
Albert Bandura's Observational Learning (also known as Social Learning Theory)
Thursday October 21, 2021
1. A synthesis of biological bases of behaviour and behaviouristic learning
2. Cold Case and biological bases of behaviour
3. Exit ticket: Turn in Cold Case answers
Friday October 22, 2021
Professional Day for teachers (no school for students)
Monday October 25, 2021
1. Mid semester assessment of curricular competencies: One-on-one discussions
2. Unit 4 review:
Operant conditioning: Reinforcement and punishment schedule
Observational learning: the relevance of the model, their success, and personal meaning
Tuesday October 26, 2021
1. Unit 4 FRQ:
Tim has experienced war and developed a fear response for the sound of gunshots. One day he heard the jackhammer from a nearby construction site and it triggered the same innate fear response. Use the following psychology concept to explain why the noise of the jackhammer triggered this reaction.
3. Introduction to Unit 5: Memory, Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
Wednesday October 27, 2021
1. Unit 4 Kahoot Pre-test
2. Due: Unit 4 multiple-choice 14-questions test
3. In-class: Unit 5 Memory, encoding, storage, and retrieval; mnemonics - memory aids (ROY G. BIV, BEDMAS, Never Eat Soggy Wieners...)
UNIT 5 Cognition, Memory, Thinking, and Language (chapters 9, 10, and 11)
Thursday October 28, 2021
1. View the video Unit 5 .1-5.3 Cognitive psychology: Memory, Encoding, and Storage https://www.loom.com/share/29bc5bc085f84eca8efe8b2017a2c48e
2. In-class learning: Memory encoding process and reasons for failure
Effortful and automatic processing (Stroop effect)
Memory and metacognition; types and levels of processing (Visual, Acoustic, and Semantic encoding)
How do we encode? Retrieval codes: Personal meaning, Serial Position Effect, Von Restoff Effect
Friday October 29, 2021
1. View the video Unit 5.4-5.6 Cognitive psychology: Memory, Retrieving, Forgetting, and Biological Bases for Memory https://www.loom.com/share/296bf0ece73a40f79754c20a6d047fc6
2. Due: Chapter 9 Notes (400 words with 5 personal connections)
3. In-class learning: Memory storage,
How do we encode? Retrieval cues: Chunking, Method of Loci (Cicero)
Storage process and reasons for failure; short (STM) and long-term memory (LTM);
STM Traditional and George Miller theories
LTM Atkinson-Shiffrin theory
Monday November 1, 2021
1. View the video Unit 5.7-5.8, 5.11 Cognitive Psychology: Thinking, Problem Solving, Biases, and Language https://www.loom.com/share/309768eaa02248ecb2b6d753c9367f90
2. In-class learning: STM and LTM
Storage: George Miller's LTM theory https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4486516/
Memory errors: Proactive and retro-active interference;
Three parts of Memory storage: Episodic, Semantic, and Procedural;
LTM types and processing - The case of H.M. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkaXNvzE4pk
Tuesday November 2, 2021
1. View the video Unit 5.9-5.10 Cognitive Psychology: Intelligence and Intelligence Testing https://www.loom.com/share/35ecd3f478ef4a5cb28a6f376f00da02
2. Notes Due: Chapter 10 - Thinking and Problem Solving (400 words and 5 personal connections)
3. In-class learning: Herman Ebbinghaus' Forgetting Curve
Forgetting, Rehearsal, and Retrieval
Amnesia: The case of Clive Wearing
Type a discussion question on the topic of Memory: post that in Teams Post with the student discussion questions
Wednesday November 3, 2021
1. In-class learning: Thinking and Problem Solving circuit.
Turn in Problem Solving circuit worksheets
Thinking and Problem Solving circuit vocabulary:
Thursday November 4, 2021
1. Notes Due: Chapter 11 - Intelligence (400 words and 5 personal connections)
2. In-class learning: Type an answer to a student question posted on Tuesday. Post your answer in Teams Post with the student discussion question answers posted today, Thursday
3. What are heuristics and algorithms? How do we distinguish between them?
Friday November 5, 2021
1. Memory, the Case of Clive Wearing, and amnesia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhrmsK6jtjc
Déjà vu, memory processing, and tip-of-the-tongue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSf8i8bHIns
2. Cognitive Biases: anchoring, availability, hindsight, overconfidence, and self serving biases
Monday November 8, 2021
1. Notes Due: Chapter 11 - Intelligence (400 words and 5 personal connections)
2. Memory review: https://create.kahoot.it/details/f2208b73-68f3-41c1-b8b8-d0ea4e7a6f08
3. In-class learning: Language: Nature and Nurture - How do biological and cultural factors facilitate language?
Linguistic determinism and linguistic relativism
Critical language period:
Feral Child: The case of Victor of Aveyron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMYcUXNUChs
The Case of Genie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjZolHCrC8E
Whorf and Vygotsky's theories of language
Intelligence: Binet, Terman; Thurstone, Wechsler, Gardner, Sternberg, and Spearman
Tuesday November 9, 2021
1. Mid-Semester 1 Self Assessment
2. Thinking and Language review: https://create.kahoot.it/details/d1338911-5e91-44db-b4b1-e33656de78c4
3. Create a Unit 5 Cognitive Psychology FRQ (Unit 5 FRQ is Wednesday Nov 10)
4. Discussion:
What is intelligence?
Are AI's intelligent?
Wednesday November 10, 2021
1. Unit 5 Cognitive Psychology FRQ
3. Differentiate between Binet, Terman, Gardner, Sternberg, and Spearman's definitions of intelligence
4. Discussion: What is an indication or measurement of intelligence?
Does a person's high school GPA define their intelligence?
Describe a scenario to differentiate between IQ and EQ?
Thursday November 11, 2021 Remembrance Day
Friday November 12, 2021 Design and Assessment Day (non school day for students)
Monday November 15, 2021
1. Thinking and Language review quiz
2. Unit 5 multiple-choice test
3. Intelligence: J. Bennett https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR36jrx_L44
4. Pairs activity: Intelligence play-with-INTELLIGENCE words
UNIT 6 - Developmental Psychology
Tuesday November 16, 2021
1. View the video: Unit 6.1-6.3 Physical, Social, and Cognitive Development in Childhood https://www.loom.com/share/2a9abef625574de49727db6db06b071a
2. Lesson: Introduction to developmental psychology
Conception and gestation; nature versus nurture
Temperament and socialization
Wednesday November 17, 2021
1. Lesson: Developmental Psychology Research:
Social development in childhood
Diana Baumrind's Parenting Styles: What style yields the more confident child?
Thursday November 18, 2021
1. View the video: Unit 6.4-6.7 Adolescence, Adulthood, Moral Development, and Gender https://www.loom.com/share/6220b612f3da44b19d047b4f3b64c395
2. Lesson: Jean Piaget's research on Children's Cognitive development
Observation and Case Study lab
Friday November 19, 2021
1. Due: Chapter 4 Developmental Psychology Notes (500 words plus 5 personal connections)
2. Cold Case and Cognitive Psychology activity
Exit ticket: Turn in the Cold Case worksheets with complete answers
Monday November 22, 2021
1.Quick Piaget's Cognitive Development Quiz
2. Lesson: Erik Erikson's Psycho-Social Stages of development
Tuesday November 23, 2021
1. Jean Piaget Quiz
2. Lesson: Lawrence Kohlberg's Moral Development
Sex and gender development
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross' Stages of Grief
3. Review Unit 6: Developmental Psychology Quiz
Wednesday November 24, 2021
1. Unit 6 Development review quiz
2. Due: Unit 6 multiple-choice test
3. Introduction to Unit 7: Motivation, Emotions, and Personality
What is motivation? How does it connect with a human need, drive, set point, homeostasis, and arousal?
Mischel experiment and delayed gratification
What do you think you'll be doing in 5 years? 10 years?
Unit 7 - Motivation, Emotion, and Personality
Thursday November 25, 2021
1. Motivation Quiz
2. View the video Unit 7.1-7.2 "Theories of Motivation and Topics of Motivation" (Please Note: I misspoke and incorrectly labeled it Unit 6.4-6.7) https://www.loom.com/share/6d507f2aaaf345869389767fbf24cc3d
3. Lesson: Motivation Theories
Yerkes-Dodson Law; Evolutionary; Drive-reduction; Optimal arousal; Cognitive approach; Maslow's Hierarchy/Affiliation
4. Exit ticket: Create a motivation theory quiz question
Friday November 26, 2021
1. Motivation theories and concepts Quiz
2. Due: Chapter 12 Motivation Notes (500 words plus 5 personal connections)
3. Lesson: Psychologically and sociocultural based motivation concepts:
Incentive theory; extrinsic and intrinsic; overjustification effect; self-efficacy; locus of control; cognitive dissonance
Monday November 29, 2021
1. View the video Unit 7.3-7.4 "Theories of Emotions, Stress, and Coping" https://www.loom.com/share/596d1c59ed1441b683555f3d9a998af7
2. Conclusion to the sub unit: Motivation
Lesson: Four approaches to Hunger motivation
Biopsychosocial; Cannon-Washburn; Biopsychosocial hormone; Lateral hypothalamus and ventromedial hypothalamus
Motivation and sexuality
Tuesday November 30, 2021
1. Introduction to Emotions
2. Theories of emotions
Bandura's Observational learning; Three-part emotion definition; James-Lange theory; Facial Feedback hypothesis; Cannon-Bard theory; LeDoux's Dual Pathway; Schachter-Singer Two-Factory; Lazarus' Cognitive appraisal
Wednesday December 1, 2021
1. Due: Emotions Notes (with 5 personal connections)
2. View the video: Unit 7.5-7.10 "Introduction to Personality, Theories of Personality, and Measuring Personality https://www.loom.com/share/544401b7c1ab4feab9a7c69e38e41784
3. Emotion expression and manipulation
Physiological states - polygraph
Universal emotions; emotion display; Paul Ekman's Micro-facial expressions; Hans Selye General Adaptation Syndrome
4. Exit ticket: Create an emotion theory quiz question
Thursday December 2, 2021
1. Emotions Theories' Quiz
2. Create a motivation or emotion FRQ
3. Lesson: Personality theories
4. Begin Personality assessment of the Grinch: Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Trait, and PsychoSocial perspectives
Friday December 3, 2021
1. Introduction to Personality theories:
Cultural influence; Trait theory/OCEAN; Psychodynamic; Humanistic; Erikson's PsychoSocial; Cognitive
2. Assess the Grinch's personality through the lens of the psychological perspectives/theories
3. Defense Mechanisms: Repression, Regression, Reaction formation, Rationalization, Displacement, Sublimation, and Projection
4. Discussion: How does using the Grinch as a case study help us understand the Personality Theories?
5. Exit ticket: Turn in the Grinch Personality Assessment
Monday December 6, 2021
1. Due: Personality Notes (with 5 personal connections)
2. Due: Complete the Myer's-Brigg's Personality at the top of the Personality drop down menu: https://bryant-taneda.weebly.com/personality-motivation-emotion-and-stress.html
4. Motivation and Emotions Review
5. Create your Unit 7 FRQ
Tuesday December 7, 2021
1. Personality Review
2. Due: Unit 7 FRQ
Grace always tends to have one way of studying for all her tests by making handwritten notes for each subject. However, this results in her sleep deprivation and lack of adequate exercise time despite her getting good grades at school. She insists on making notes each class although she does not have the time to make all these notes. Using the psychological concept, explain how Grace is limited to thinking from one perspective in this situation solving the dilemma of finding a balance between good grades and her well-being.
•Mental Set
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UNIT 8 - Clinical Disorders and Treatment
Wednesday December 8, 2021
1. Due: Unit 7 Motivation, Emotions, and Personality multiple-choice test
2. Introduction to Unit 8: Clinical Psychology
Definition of Mental Illness
DSM: Diagnostic tool
Categories of Clinical Disorders
Thursday December 9, 2021
1. View the video: Unit 8.1, 8.4-8.5 Mental Illness, Diagnosis, DSM-5, Categories, Depression, Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, Trauma, Dissociative, and Somatic Disorders https://www.loom.com/share/6a8d918b71404e5fbb4c38b23849bcb0
2. Due: Type a 6-sentence summary of the article (Click "Clinical Disorders" drop down menu. Scroll to Palo, Alto, CA The Atlantic Daily)
3. Due: Chapter 14/15 Clinical Disorders Notes (with 5 personal connections)
4. Categories of Clinical Disorders (continued)
Friday December 10, 2021
1. What is "normal"?
2. Are labels like "normal" and "outside of the norm" helpful?
3. Is there a standard deviation across cultures? How do we define, diagnose, and classify mental illnesses? What are the risks and benefits of diagnosing?
Monday December 13, 2021
1. View the vidco: Unit 8.2, 8.6, 8.7 Etiology of Disorders, Psychological Approaches, Feeding and Eating Disorders, Substance and Addictive Disorders, Personality Disorders, and Introduction to Treatments https://www.loom.com/share/bc91719deed74822a43463bb9683ff59
2. Clinical psychology categories (continued) and sub-categories
3. What is the difference between clinical signs and symptoms?
Tuesday December 14, 2021
1. Due: Ch. 16/17 Clinical Disorder Treatments Notes (with 5 personal connections)
2. Clinical psychology categories (continued)
Wednesday December 15, 2021
1. View the vidco: Unit 8.8-8.10 Neurodevelopment and Schizophrenia, Treatment of Disorders, Evaluating Empirical support and Treatment of Disorders https://www.loom.com/share/59d87345b591460c920fb47fb8f9c67f
2. Rosenhan's Study; the legal system and "insanity"; perspectives of treatments and therapy
Thursday December 16, 2021
1. Due: FRQ in-class
3. Case study: Cinderella and clinical treatments and therapy
Friday December 17, 2021
1. Debrief: Cinderella as a Case study
2. In-class: Schizophrenia and Dissociative Identity Disorder FRQ
rough outline
Tuesday - Friday, January 4-7, 2022 (Students are not attending school)
1. Students may review Unit 8 Clinical Disorders and Treatment content and online "Questions and Answers"
2. Students may review for the Unit 8 multiple-choice test on Tuesday, January 11, 2022
3. Students may begin the outline for the Schizophrenia and DID FRQ. See the resources on this website: https://bryant-taneda.weebly.com/ap-psychology-free-response-essays.html
4. Students may review Unit 9 material uploaded on Teams
Monday, January 10, 2022
1. Due: Rough beginning of your Schizophrenia and DID outline
2. In-class: Complete Schizophrenia and DID outline
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
1. Due: Unit 8 multiple choice test
2. Due: Complete - rough - Schizophrenia and DID outline (see Teams screenshot of class notes)
UNIT 8 - Social Psychology
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
1. View the video Unit 9.1 9.3. 9.5 Social Psychology: Attribution theory; Conformity, compliance, and obedience; Bias, prejudice, and discrimination: https://www.loom.com/share/bb3ae7712bdb42e8b2372afb1eb9acf4
2. Review Schizophrenia and DID FRQ outline - FRQ due Monday (January 17)
3. In-class: Top Social Psychology studies/experiments
3. Cognitive dissonance: attitude change and behaviour
Based on Milgram, Asch, and Zimbardo's key experiments/studies, assess how a person's attitude affects their behaviour?
4. Deindividuation, Bystander effect and the case of Kitty Genovese, Social loafing (p. 8), Group think, (p. 9)
Thursday, January 13, 2022
1. In-class: Social Psychology, Diffusion of responsibility, Deindividuation, Bystander effect, Social loafing, Group think, and Group polarization
2. Top Social Psychology experiments/studies
Friday, January 14, 2022
1. Review Social Psychology, social influence, chameleon effect (yawn challenge - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv2wQvn6Wxc)
2. Review Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience
Monday, January 17, 2022
1. Due: Turn into Teams Schizophrenia and DID FRQ by 11:59pm Jan. 17'22
2. Top Social Psychology experiments/studies
4. Social relations leading toward aggression: Stereotype, prejudice, discrimination Racism, stereotype threat, self-fulfilling prophecy, scapegoat theory, in-group, out-group, ethnocentrism, out-group homogeneity, contact hypothesis
5. Oprah's 1992 recreation of Blue eyes vs Brown eyes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebPoSMULI5U
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
1. Due: Social Psychology completed Notes booklet pages 3-9 (Conformity and Group)
2. Prejudice and Discrimination: Superordinate goals. See the Heineken ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etIqln7vT4w
3. Aggression and altruism: physical, verbal, and relational aggression; genetic and gender influences: view this Aggression Scale https://psychology-tools.com/buss-perry-aggression-questionnaire
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
1. Due: Social Psychology completed Notes booklet pages 10-11 (Prejudice)
2. Altruism, prosocial behaviour, reciprocity, social responsibility norm, the helper's high,
View this link on prosocial behaviour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYCWT3CU0RE
View this link on social responsibility norm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxuv1QZZbYw
3. Interpersonal attraction, rules of attraction:
Thursday, January 20, 2022
1. In-class: Social Psychology Notes booklet review pages 12-19 (specific terms within these lessons Aggression, Altruism, Attraction, and Attribution theory)
2. Interpersonal attraction: similarity, reciprocity of liking, Sternberg's components of love
3. Attribution theory: social cognition and bias,
Friday, January 21, 2022
1. Due: Unit 9 Social Psychology m/c test
2. Due: Social Psychology Notes booklet is complete
3. Introduction to the Psychology Memes project
4. Due: Select your Memes Project psychology topic and term
5. Think: What is one topic or assignment that you enjoyed? What is one skill that you developed or improved upon?
Monday, January 24, 2022
1. Due: Unit 9 FRQMatthew is an actor for a highly anticipated action movie. In order to shape his physique for his character, his nutritionist assigned him a strict diet and exercise regime to follow weeks prior to the beginning of the movie shoot. However, Matthew recently received his brother’s wedding invitation. He knows his brother will have the finest chefs preparing an irresistible buffet of exquisite drinks, entrees, and desserts. Using the psychological concept, explain Matthew’s discomfort and how he deals with the tension of his desire to eat at the wedding and his desire to maintain his physique.
•Cognitive dissonance
2. Due: Show one psychology meme (See Teams Files "Psychology Memes Project")
3. Self assessment: State two psychology topics you enjoyed and two skills you developed. Write in third person. Edit for clarity.
4. Discussion questions: Select your first three choices
5. Answer the "top three" discussion questions
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
1. Due: Show two psychology memes
2. Discussion
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
1. Due: Show three psychology memes
2. Psychology memes presentations (select your best one)
3. Discussion
SEMESTER ONE
UNIT 1 Scientific Foundations of Psychology (Introduction and chapter 1)
Wednesday September 8, 2021
1. Check out your text: David Myers Psychology
2. Create your apclassroom account. Register in either AP Psychology Block A or Block B. (Join code for Block A is 2VNJD2; Join code for Block B is DWWERQ)
3. What is psychology?
Thursday September 9, 2021
1. Due: Turn into Teams -by 4:00pm- a copy of AP Psychology Course Expectations with your and your parent's signature. (This assignment is in Teams).
2. Due: View the video "Is Psychology a Science?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zohkzd0MYiI
3. View the video Unit 1 (1.1): "Free Response Questions (FRQs, History of Psychology, and Perspectives of Psychology)": https://www.loom.com/share/84a5e5c66ff94ecb81333ef96ac2bade
4. Begin writing Unit 1 Notes on Prologue/Introduction (Unit 1 Notes are due September 13, 2021 -->400 words, including 4 personal connections).
5. Lesson on experiment hypotheses, operational definitions, and independent and dependent variables
6. Unit 1.1 Powerpoint: Lesson on perspectives of psychology.
7. Introduction to the scientific experiment. Select an experiment topic. Write an appropriate hypothesis.
Friday September 10, 2021
1. Due: View the video Unit 1.2 and 1.4 "FRQs, Experiment, Research methods, and Selecting Research Methods": https://www.loom.com/share/2a849cf342b54e1cb59dbe968becf86a
Please Note: In the video, I misspoke and said that Jane Goodall observed gorillas: Goodall's mentee Dian Fossey observed gorillas, and Jane Goodall observed chimpanzees!
2. Due: Typed psychology experiment Introduction. Answer these questions:
- The topic of interest
- Your theory or belief about that topic
- The hypothesis (the "If..., then..." predictive statement)
4. Lesson: The scientific experiment and research methods
Monday September 13, 2021
1. View the video Unit 1.3 and 1.6 "Experimental method and Ethical Guidelines": https://www.loom.com/share/613544a0beb24c1c8f8a51a6dcdaa96a
2. Due: Unit 1 -Introduction/Prologue- Notes (type a total of 400 words and include 4 personal connections)
3. Due: Typed psychology experiment Introduction (on your device)
- Introduction to the researcher (you)
- Experiment topic of interest
- Theory or belief about the topic
- Hypothesis (the "If..., then..." predictive statement)
- Subjects who will participate in the experiment
5. M&M Data Collection lab
Tuesday September 14, 2021
1. View the video Unit 1.5 "Statistical analysis in Research":https://www.loom.com/share/388a03f4060d4c2a99c4206fa3333be9
2. Due: M&M Data Collection completed lab
3. Due: Typed rough Method (on your device)
- Restate the topic and hypothesis
- Provide the operational definition for the independent and dependent variable
- State who are the subjects
- State from where the subjects are obtained and when/the schedule for executing the experiment
5. Introduction to Andrea Yates and Psychological Perspectives FRQ
Wednesday September 15, 2021
1. Due: Add to Tuesday's typed rough Method (on your device)
- State the first three bullets on Tuesday September 14.
- State who are the experiment subjects,
- Explain what type of permission is needed,
- Explain where the experiment will be located and when the experiment will begin
3. In-class: The 7 Perspectives
- Psychodynamic - thumb - points to the past and how it has affected us
Cognitive - index finger - points to the temple/thinking
Behavioural - middle finger - we've learned that is a bad gesture
Humanistic - ring finger - we need help to lift up the finger/reach our full potential
Biological - pinky - our physiology and behaviour
Sociocultural - palm - the group/culture helps us understand others - Evolutionary - sixth finger - significant traits develop
Thursday September 16, 2021
1. Due: Unit 1 -Ch. 1 Scientific Method- Notes (type a total of 500 words and include 4 personal connections)
2. Due into Teams: Andrea Yates and Psychological Perspectives FRQ (three points are answered)
3. Due: Typed psychology experiment Method (on your device)
- State the first four bullets on Wednesday September 15.
- State the schedule for executing the experiment
- State the step-by-step procedure for the experiment (you may set it up like a recipe)
5. In-class: "Psychology statistical analysis"
6. Demonstrations to show how independent variables effect the outcome of the dependent variable
Friday September 17, 2021
1. Due: Experiment data collection sheet/chart, anxiety/depression scale, and/or consent form.
2. In-class: Review Unit 1 Notes (introduction and chapter 1)
Differentiate the perspectives of psychology activity
Recognize key individuals/researchers in psychology
Introduction and chapter 1 Kahoot review
3. Review Unit 1 website "Question and Answers"
Monday September 20, 2021
1. Due: Unit 1 multiple-choice 16-questions test (Scientific Foundations of Psychology: History, Perspectives, Research Methods, Experimental Method, Statistical Analysis, and Ethical Guidelines).
2. Experiment introduction and method are now complete. Due tomorrow in class.
3. In-class lesson: Introduction to Unit 2 Biological bases of behaviour
Introduction to the neuron
UNIT 2 Biological Psychology (chapters 2 and 3)
Tuesday September 21, 2021
1. View the video: Unit 2.3-2.4 "The Nervous system, neurons, and neural firing https://www.loom.com/share/6371544b5b5d43e8b10d58b8cf12d461
2. Due: Typed Experiment Introduction, Method, and consent, survey, and scale/s being used
3. In-class lesson: Biological bases of behaviour, the nervous system, the neuron, and neural firing
Neuron human demonstration (this is an object lesson using string, a rope, and a lufa)
Wednesday September 22, 2021
1. View the video: Unit 2.5, 2.7 "Drug influences and tools for studying the brain https://www.loom.com/share/53e0b49a3cfc4e598eec3e75ad6dee02
2. Due: Unit 2 Notes -Ch. 2 Biological Psychology- (type 4/500 words and include 4 personal connections)
3. Due: Typed Experiment Results data collection and graph
4. In-class lesson: The structures and functions of the neuron
Neural mural lab - begin work on your neural mural sketch/lab
Thursday September 23, 2021
1. Due: Typed Results explanation of the experiment's procedure (Explain whether the procedure went as planned, the problems arose, and present and discuss the data)
2. In-class lesson: The neuron, neurotransmitters, agonists (counterfeit key), and antagonists (broken key)
3. Work on your neural mural sketch/lab
Friday September 24, 2021
Professional-Day (you have a holiday!)
Monday September 27, 2021
1. View the video: Unit 2.6 "The brain anatomy, lateralization, and hemispheric specialization https://www.loom.com/share/9df33bef103b4c1db2a46750c522bb58
2. Due: Neural Mural sketch/lab
3. In-class lesson: Communication between neurons and the influence of drugs: agonists and antagonists
Structures and functions of the brain
4. In-class: Brain Dissection lab
Tuesday September 28, 2021
1. View the video: Unit 2.8 2.9 "The adaptable brain, neuroplasticity, and sleeping and dreaming" https://www.loom.com/share/dde309724a3648ab9ae1326b04651c63
2. Due: Brain Dissection lab
3. In-class lesson: methods for studying the brain (accidents and autopsy: Phineas Gage, Broca, and Wernicke), cortex convolutions, sensory homunculus,
4. Relevance for research of the spinal cord:
- UBC case study of spinal cord implants: https://www.med.ubc.ca/news/electrical-implant-reduces-invisible-symptoms-of-mans-spinal-cord-injury/
- Vancouver's deep brain stimulation with patients with Parkinsons: https://globalnews.ca/video/4119231/long-waits-for-effective-treatment-of-movement-disorders
- Lara Boyd's brain plasticity research: https://brain.rehab.med.ubc.ca/research/current/exercise-and-motor-learning/
Wednesday September 29, 2021
1. Due: Unit 2 Notes -Ch. 3 Nature, Nurture, and Evolutionary Psychology - (type 4/500 words and include 4 personal connections)
2. Due: Biological Psychology FRQ first point - explain how the myelin sheath functions to support neural communication
3. In-class: Rosenzweig and Bennet's Enriched versus impoverished environment's influence on the brain and example situations that relate:
- Solitary confinement
- Children in orphanages
- The case of Genie the feral child
Thursday September 30, 2021
Truth and Reconciliation Day (holiday)
Friday October 1, 2021
1. In-class: Review Unit 2 Notes (chapters 2 and 3)
Click this link for a concise review of neurons: http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/synapse.html
2. Chapters 2 and 3 review: group presentations and quizzes
3. Genetic predisposition: Plomin's Identical twins studies with Alzheimers, 60% chance of inheriting the disease if the other identical twin develops it; fraternal twins have a 30% chance of inheriting the disease
4. Nature versus nurture: gender and nature
Monday October 4, 2021
1. Chapter 3 pre-quiz
2. Due: Unit 2 multiple-choice 16-questions test (neural and brain structures and functions, techniques that examine the brain, split brain, nature vs nurture, evolutionary psychology, and plasticity)
3. Methods to study the brain: Autopsy slides
4. In-class work: Neural Communication FRQ
Complete Section A (within the neuron) the second term
Section B, the first term (Remember: use the term-definition-application method)
5. Introduction to Sensation and Perception
UNIT 3 Sensation and Perception (chapters 5 and 6)
Tuesday October 5, 2021
1. Due: Experiment Conclusion
Neural Communication FRQ
2. View the video: Unit 3.1, 3.3 "Sensation and perception, principles of sensation, and Visual anatomy" https://www.loom.com/share/f98b4d7634b745489de0a836fcb05091
3. In-class: Understanding the difference between sensation and perception, theories and definitions.
View the video "Sensation and Perception" from 0:00-3:15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unWnZvXJH2o
4. Review student examples of experiment Conclusion and Abstract
Wednesday October 6, 2021
1. Due: Unit 3 -Chapter 5- Sensation Notes (4/500 words including 4 personal connections)
2. Due: homework check for experiment -raw- data chart and graph
Due Experiment Conclusion
3. In-class: Measuring sensation (absolute threshold, difference threshold, signal detection theory, sensory adaptation), stroboscopic movement, phi phenomenon, moon illusion, and perceptual set
Thursday October 7, 2021
1. Due: (BRING THIS TO CLASS) Typed and printed experiment Abstract, Introduction, Method, Results, and Conclusion
2. View the video: View the video Unit 3.2, 3.4 "Principles of sensation and visual perception" https://www.loom.com/share/02a9963fa4db4d8c878c3455e329cee0
3. In-class: Peer editing
Perception, Just Noticeable Difference (JND), and Ernst Weber's Law
Friday October 8, 2021
1. Due: Experiment References
2. In-class: Perception, Gestalt principles of organization: proximity, similarity, continuity, closure
Olfactory lab
Turn in completed lab
Tuesday October 12, 2021
1. Due: Turn into Teams Psychology Experiment by 11:59pm (APA title page, Abstract, Introduction, Method, Results, Conclusion, References)
2. View the video Unit 3.5-3.7 "Auditory sensation, chemical senses, and body senses" https://www.loom.com/share/e04ca285c8e749ce949c842cf954b680
3. Due: Chapter 6 -Sensation- Notes (4/500 words including 4 personal connections)
4. In-class: The anatomy of the eye, colour vision and blindness
5. In-class: "Gestalt Principles of Grouping" discussion; FRQ writing and FRQ submission
6. FRQ
- James is reading an old book. Some of the words are worn out, and he can only see parts or bits of the letters. Explain how James can still understand and read the words according to the Gestalt principle:
- Closure
Wednesday October 13, 2021
1. Due: Unit 3 multiple-choice test review
2. In-class: The anatomy of the ear and optical and auditory illusions
UNIT 4 Behaviouristic Learning (chapter 8)
Thursday October 14, 2021
1. Due: Unit 3 multiple-choice 16-questions test
2. Introduction to Behaviouristic learning: Classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational learning
3. Balloon demonstration and discussion
Friday October 15, 2021
1. Introduction to Learning: Classical conditioning and Operant conditioning
2. Due: Chapter 8 Notes (and 5 personal connections)
3. View the video: Unit 4.1, 4.4 "Social factors in learning cognitive factors" https://www.loom.com/share/d5db8eb6312a4b33be76f73c1838806c
4. Discussion: Connect the Gestalt idea to your life The whole is greater than the sum of the parts (think about psychological perspectives and sensation and perception units). How might people who are focussed on the parts (detail oriented) become stereotyped? Conversely, how might people who are focussed on the whole (visionaries) become stereotyped?
5. In-class: Ivan Pavlov and John Watson and the Little Albert experiment, Garcia and Koelling radiation and sweetened water experiment
Vocabulary: Unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, neutral stimulus, conditioned stimulus, and conditioned response; generalization, discrimination, and extinguishing conditioning; counter conditioning
Monday October 18, 2021
1. View the video: Unit 4.2 "Classical conditioning and a comparison between classical and operant conditioning" https://www.loom.com/share/b9c7adf7fb7c46fa94819fd28ae45ce2
2. Due: Chapter 8 Notes (and 5 personal connections)
3. In-class: Classical conditioning compared with Operant conditioning; B.F. Skinner and Thorndike's experiments
spontaneous recovery, generalization,
4. Thorndike's experimentation of trial and error https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDujDOLre-8
5. Thorndike's experimentation with animals and puzzle boxes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-g2OmRXb0g
Operant conditioning vocabulary: puzzle box, reward, punishment, shaping, reinforcement, extinction, spontaneous recovery
Tuesday October 19, 2021
1. View the video: Unit 4.3 Operant Conditioning https://www.loom.com/share/2638425de6b5442b9eeac974d014f81f
2. In-class: Reinforcement schedule: variable and fixed, interval and ratio; reinforcement schedule: positive and negative punishment, positive and negative reinforcement
3. B.F. Skinner's pigeon experiments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_ctJqjlrHA
4. Discussion topic: B.F. Skinner believed a person does not have free will. Skinner believed a person is a compilation of learning responses that have been reinforced, conditioned, and/or mimicked. Discuss whether humans do or do not have free will to make choices and choose to think and behave a certain way.
Wednesday October 20, 2021
1. Comparing classical conditioning (CC), operant conditioning (OC), and observational learning (OL)
2. In-class: CC, OC, and OL vocabulary similarities and differences
Albert Bandura's Observational Learning (also known as Social Learning Theory)
Thursday October 21, 2021
1. A synthesis of biological bases of behaviour and behaviouristic learning
2. Cold Case and biological bases of behaviour
3. Exit ticket: Turn in Cold Case answers
Friday October 22, 2021
Professional Day for teachers (no school for students)
Monday October 25, 2021
1. Mid semester assessment of curricular competencies: One-on-one discussions
2. Unit 4 review:
Operant conditioning: Reinforcement and punishment schedule
Observational learning: the relevance of the model, their success, and personal meaning
- Ivan Pavlov and John Watson's Classical conditioning
- Edward Thorndike and B.F. Skinner's Operant conditioning
- Albert Bandura's Observational learning (aka Social learning and Vicarious learning)
Tuesday October 26, 2021
1. Unit 4 FRQ:
Tim has experienced war and developed a fear response for the sound of gunshots. One day he heard the jackhammer from a nearby construction site and it triggered the same innate fear response. Use the following psychology concept to explain why the noise of the jackhammer triggered this reaction.
- Generalization
3. Introduction to Unit 5: Memory, Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
Wednesday October 27, 2021
1. Unit 4 Kahoot Pre-test
2. Due: Unit 4 multiple-choice 14-questions test
3. In-class: Unit 5 Memory, encoding, storage, and retrieval; mnemonics - memory aids (ROY G. BIV, BEDMAS, Never Eat Soggy Wieners...)
UNIT 5 Cognition, Memory, Thinking, and Language (chapters 9, 10, and 11)
Thursday October 28, 2021
1. View the video Unit 5 .1-5.3 Cognitive psychology: Memory, Encoding, and Storage https://www.loom.com/share/29bc5bc085f84eca8efe8b2017a2c48e
2. In-class learning: Memory encoding process and reasons for failure
Effortful and automatic processing (Stroop effect)
Memory and metacognition; types and levels of processing (Visual, Acoustic, and Semantic encoding)
How do we encode? Retrieval codes: Personal meaning, Serial Position Effect, Von Restoff Effect
Friday October 29, 2021
1. View the video Unit 5.4-5.6 Cognitive psychology: Memory, Retrieving, Forgetting, and Biological Bases for Memory https://www.loom.com/share/296bf0ece73a40f79754c20a6d047fc6
2. Due: Chapter 9 Notes (400 words with 5 personal connections)
3. In-class learning: Memory storage,
How do we encode? Retrieval cues: Chunking, Method of Loci (Cicero)
Storage process and reasons for failure; short (STM) and long-term memory (LTM);
STM Traditional and George Miller theories
LTM Atkinson-Shiffrin theory
Monday November 1, 2021
1. View the video Unit 5.7-5.8, 5.11 Cognitive Psychology: Thinking, Problem Solving, Biases, and Language https://www.loom.com/share/309768eaa02248ecb2b6d753c9367f90
2. In-class learning: STM and LTM
Storage: George Miller's LTM theory https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4486516/
Memory errors: Proactive and retro-active interference;
Three parts of Memory storage: Episodic, Semantic, and Procedural;
LTM types and processing - The case of H.M. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkaXNvzE4pk
Tuesday November 2, 2021
1. View the video Unit 5.9-5.10 Cognitive Psychology: Intelligence and Intelligence Testing https://www.loom.com/share/35ecd3f478ef4a5cb28a6f376f00da02
2. Notes Due: Chapter 10 - Thinking and Problem Solving (400 words and 5 personal connections)
3. In-class learning: Herman Ebbinghaus' Forgetting Curve
Forgetting, Rehearsal, and Retrieval
Amnesia: The case of Clive Wearing
Type a discussion question on the topic of Memory: post that in Teams Post with the student discussion questions
Wednesday November 3, 2021
1. In-class learning: Thinking and Problem Solving circuit.
Turn in Problem Solving circuit worksheets
Thinking and Problem Solving circuit vocabulary:
- Semantics – set of rules by which we derive meaning
- Insight – sudden realization
- Algorithm – simple thinking strategy
- Heuristic – a simple thinking strategy that allows us to make judgements
- Mental set – tendency to approach a problem in a particular way
- Belief bias – one’s pre-existing beliefs distort logical reasoning
- Fixation – inability to see a problem from a new perspective
- Confidence bias – tendency to search for info that confirms preconception
- Overconfidence – tendency to overestimate accuracy of one’s beliefs
- Representativeness heuristic – judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent prototypes
- Availability heuristic – judging the likelihood based on how readily or vividly they come to mind
Thursday November 4, 2021
1. Notes Due: Chapter 11 - Intelligence (400 words and 5 personal connections)
2. In-class learning: Type an answer to a student question posted on Tuesday. Post your answer in Teams Post with the student discussion question answers posted today, Thursday
3. What are heuristics and algorithms? How do we distinguish between them?
Friday November 5, 2021
1. Memory, the Case of Clive Wearing, and amnesia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhrmsK6jtjc
Déjà vu, memory processing, and tip-of-the-tongue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSf8i8bHIns
2. Cognitive Biases: anchoring, availability, hindsight, overconfidence, and self serving biases
Monday November 8, 2021
1. Notes Due: Chapter 11 - Intelligence (400 words and 5 personal connections)
2. Memory review: https://create.kahoot.it/details/f2208b73-68f3-41c1-b8b8-d0ea4e7a6f08
3. In-class learning: Language: Nature and Nurture - How do biological and cultural factors facilitate language?
Linguistic determinism and linguistic relativism
Critical language period:
Feral Child: The case of Victor of Aveyron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMYcUXNUChs
The Case of Genie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjZolHCrC8E
Whorf and Vygotsky's theories of language
Intelligence: Binet, Terman; Thurstone, Wechsler, Gardner, Sternberg, and Spearman
Tuesday November 9, 2021
1. Mid-Semester 1 Self Assessment
2. Thinking and Language review: https://create.kahoot.it/details/d1338911-5e91-44db-b4b1-e33656de78c4
3. Create a Unit 5 Cognitive Psychology FRQ (Unit 5 FRQ is Wednesday Nov 10)
4. Discussion:
What is intelligence?
Are AI's intelligent?
Wednesday November 10, 2021
1. Unit 5 Cognitive Psychology FRQ
- After sustaining a concussion from a car accident, Amy is having plenty of trouble forming new memories. Using the psychological concept, describe what Amy is experiencing.
- • Anterograde amnesia
3. Differentiate between Binet, Terman, Gardner, Sternberg, and Spearman's definitions of intelligence
4. Discussion: What is an indication or measurement of intelligence?
Does a person's high school GPA define their intelligence?
Describe a scenario to differentiate between IQ and EQ?
Thursday November 11, 2021 Remembrance Day
Friday November 12, 2021 Design and Assessment Day (non school day for students)
Monday November 15, 2021
1. Thinking and Language review quiz
2. Unit 5 multiple-choice test
3. Intelligence: J. Bennett https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR36jrx_L44
4. Pairs activity: Intelligence play-with-INTELLIGENCE words
UNIT 6 - Developmental Psychology
Tuesday November 16, 2021
1. View the video: Unit 6.1-6.3 Physical, Social, and Cognitive Development in Childhood https://www.loom.com/share/2a9abef625574de49727db6db06b071a
2. Lesson: Introduction to developmental psychology
Conception and gestation; nature versus nurture
Temperament and socialization
- Mary Ainsworth and the Strange Situation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRejV6f-Y3c
- Gibson and Walk's Visual Cliff and socialization
- Harry Harlow and the Rhesus monkey study https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbEdNJ-e-Yc
Wednesday November 17, 2021
1. Lesson: Developmental Psychology Research:
Social development in childhood
Diana Baumrind's Parenting Styles: What style yields the more confident child?
Thursday November 18, 2021
1. View the video: Unit 6.4-6.7 Adolescence, Adulthood, Moral Development, and Gender https://www.loom.com/share/6220b612f3da44b19d047b4f3b64c395
2. Lesson: Jean Piaget's research on Children's Cognitive development
Observation and Case Study lab
- Children playing with Thomas the Train https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7R7pv-4-P0
- Interview with Landon https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/474496510715766421/
Friday November 19, 2021
1. Due: Chapter 4 Developmental Psychology Notes (500 words plus 5 personal connections)
2. Cold Case and Cognitive Psychology activity
Exit ticket: Turn in the Cold Case worksheets with complete answers
Monday November 22, 2021
1.Quick Piaget's Cognitive Development Quiz
2. Lesson: Erik Erikson's Psycho-Social Stages of development
Tuesday November 23, 2021
1. Jean Piaget Quiz
2. Lesson: Lawrence Kohlberg's Moral Development
Sex and gender development
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross' Stages of Grief
3. Review Unit 6: Developmental Psychology Quiz
Wednesday November 24, 2021
1. Unit 6 Development review quiz
2. Due: Unit 6 multiple-choice test
3. Introduction to Unit 7: Motivation, Emotions, and Personality
What is motivation? How does it connect with a human need, drive, set point, homeostasis, and arousal?
Mischel experiment and delayed gratification
What do you think you'll be doing in 5 years? 10 years?
Unit 7 - Motivation, Emotion, and Personality
Thursday November 25, 2021
1. Motivation Quiz
2. View the video Unit 7.1-7.2 "Theories of Motivation and Topics of Motivation" (Please Note: I misspoke and incorrectly labeled it Unit 6.4-6.7) https://www.loom.com/share/6d507f2aaaf345869389767fbf24cc3d
3. Lesson: Motivation Theories
Yerkes-Dodson Law; Evolutionary; Drive-reduction; Optimal arousal; Cognitive approach; Maslow's Hierarchy/Affiliation
4. Exit ticket: Create a motivation theory quiz question
Friday November 26, 2021
1. Motivation theories and concepts Quiz
2. Due: Chapter 12 Motivation Notes (500 words plus 5 personal connections)
3. Lesson: Psychologically and sociocultural based motivation concepts:
Incentive theory; extrinsic and intrinsic; overjustification effect; self-efficacy; locus of control; cognitive dissonance
Monday November 29, 2021
1. View the video Unit 7.3-7.4 "Theories of Emotions, Stress, and Coping" https://www.loom.com/share/596d1c59ed1441b683555f3d9a998af7
2. Conclusion to the sub unit: Motivation
Lesson: Four approaches to Hunger motivation
Biopsychosocial; Cannon-Washburn; Biopsychosocial hormone; Lateral hypothalamus and ventromedial hypothalamus
Motivation and sexuality
Tuesday November 30, 2021
1. Introduction to Emotions
2. Theories of emotions
Bandura's Observational learning; Three-part emotion definition; James-Lange theory; Facial Feedback hypothesis; Cannon-Bard theory; LeDoux's Dual Pathway; Schachter-Singer Two-Factory; Lazarus' Cognitive appraisal
Wednesday December 1, 2021
1. Due: Emotions Notes (with 5 personal connections)
2. View the video: Unit 7.5-7.10 "Introduction to Personality, Theories of Personality, and Measuring Personality https://www.loom.com/share/544401b7c1ab4feab9a7c69e38e41784
3. Emotion expression and manipulation
Physiological states - polygraph
Universal emotions; emotion display; Paul Ekman's Micro-facial expressions; Hans Selye General Adaptation Syndrome
4. Exit ticket: Create an emotion theory quiz question
Thursday December 2, 2021
1. Emotions Theories' Quiz
2. Create a motivation or emotion FRQ
3. Lesson: Personality theories
4. Begin Personality assessment of the Grinch: Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Trait, and PsychoSocial perspectives
Friday December 3, 2021
1. Introduction to Personality theories:
Cultural influence; Trait theory/OCEAN; Psychodynamic; Humanistic; Erikson's PsychoSocial; Cognitive
2. Assess the Grinch's personality through the lens of the psychological perspectives/theories
3. Defense Mechanisms: Repression, Regression, Reaction formation, Rationalization, Displacement, Sublimation, and Projection
4. Discussion: How does using the Grinch as a case study help us understand the Personality Theories?
5. Exit ticket: Turn in the Grinch Personality Assessment
Monday December 6, 2021
1. Due: Personality Notes (with 5 personal connections)
2. Due: Complete the Myer's-Brigg's Personality at the top of the Personality drop down menu: https://bryant-taneda.weebly.com/personality-motivation-emotion-and-stress.html
- Know your 4-letter personality code and a few ideas about your personality type
4. Motivation and Emotions Review
5. Create your Unit 7 FRQ
Tuesday December 7, 2021
1. Personality Review
2. Due: Unit 7 FRQ
Grace always tends to have one way of studying for all her tests by making handwritten notes for each subject. However, this results in her sleep deprivation and lack of adequate exercise time despite her getting good grades at school. She insists on making notes each class although she does not have the time to make all these notes. Using the psychological concept, explain how Grace is limited to thinking from one perspective in this situation solving the dilemma of finding a balance between good grades and her well-being.
•Mental Set
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UNIT 8 - Clinical Disorders and Treatment
Wednesday December 8, 2021
1. Due: Unit 7 Motivation, Emotions, and Personality multiple-choice test
2. Introduction to Unit 8: Clinical Psychology
Definition of Mental Illness
DSM: Diagnostic tool
Categories of Clinical Disorders
Thursday December 9, 2021
1. View the video: Unit 8.1, 8.4-8.5 Mental Illness, Diagnosis, DSM-5, Categories, Depression, Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, Trauma, Dissociative, and Somatic Disorders https://www.loom.com/share/6a8d918b71404e5fbb4c38b23849bcb0
2. Due: Type a 6-sentence summary of the article (Click "Clinical Disorders" drop down menu. Scroll to Palo, Alto, CA The Atlantic Daily)
3. Due: Chapter 14/15 Clinical Disorders Notes (with 5 personal connections)
4. Categories of Clinical Disorders (continued)
Friday December 10, 2021
1. What is "normal"?
2. Are labels like "normal" and "outside of the norm" helpful?
3. Is there a standard deviation across cultures? How do we define, diagnose, and classify mental illnesses? What are the risks and benefits of diagnosing?
Monday December 13, 2021
1. View the vidco: Unit 8.2, 8.6, 8.7 Etiology of Disorders, Psychological Approaches, Feeding and Eating Disorders, Substance and Addictive Disorders, Personality Disorders, and Introduction to Treatments https://www.loom.com/share/bc91719deed74822a43463bb9683ff59
2. Clinical psychology categories (continued) and sub-categories
3. What is the difference between clinical signs and symptoms?
Tuesday December 14, 2021
1. Due: Ch. 16/17 Clinical Disorder Treatments Notes (with 5 personal connections)
2. Clinical psychology categories (continued)
Wednesday December 15, 2021
1. View the vidco: Unit 8.8-8.10 Neurodevelopment and Schizophrenia, Treatment of Disorders, Evaluating Empirical support and Treatment of Disorders https://www.loom.com/share/59d87345b591460c920fb47fb8f9c67f
2. Rosenhan's Study; the legal system and "insanity"; perspectives of treatments and therapy
Thursday December 16, 2021
1. Due: FRQ in-class
- Linda, despite having a stable life, often finds herself having to cope with persistent feelings of sadness and loss of interest in things she usually finds interesting. Lately, Linda has found herself feeling a variety of confusing emotions: sudden irrational feelings of worry and strong feelings of fear. Explain how the psychological concept comes into play with her mental state.
- •Comorbidity
3. Case study: Cinderella and clinical treatments and therapy
Friday December 17, 2021
1. Debrief: Cinderella as a Case study
2. In-class: Schizophrenia and Dissociative Identity Disorder FRQ
rough outline
Tuesday - Friday, January 4-7, 2022 (Students are not attending school)
1. Students may review Unit 8 Clinical Disorders and Treatment content and online "Questions and Answers"
2. Students may review for the Unit 8 multiple-choice test on Tuesday, January 11, 2022
3. Students may begin the outline for the Schizophrenia and DID FRQ. See the resources on this website: https://bryant-taneda.weebly.com/ap-psychology-free-response-essays.html
4. Students may review Unit 9 material uploaded on Teams
- Please note: If students request information on Units 8 and 9, I will upload content onto Microsoft Teams
Monday, January 10, 2022
1. Due: Rough beginning of your Schizophrenia and DID outline
2. In-class: Complete Schizophrenia and DID outline
- Schizophrenia characteristics
- Genetics
- Dopamine hypothesis
- Glutamate hypthesis
- Anti-psychotic medication working/path
- Side effects of taking anti-psychotic medication
- Schizophrenia and DID difference
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
1. Due: Unit 8 multiple choice test
2. Due: Complete - rough - Schizophrenia and DID outline (see Teams screenshot of class notes)
UNIT 8 - Social Psychology
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
1. View the video Unit 9.1 9.3. 9.5 Social Psychology: Attribution theory; Conformity, compliance, and obedience; Bias, prejudice, and discrimination: https://www.loom.com/share/bb3ae7712bdb42e8b2372afb1eb9acf4
2. Review Schizophrenia and DID FRQ outline - FRQ due Monday (January 17)
3. In-class: Top Social Psychology studies/experiments
- J.Elliot's Racism (p. 11 Soc. Psych. Notes)
- S.Asch's Conformity (p. 5 Soc. Psych. Notes)
- A.Bandura's Bobo doll
- E.Loftus Reconstructive memory
- L.Festinger's Cognitive Dissonance (p. 20 Soc. Psych. Notes)
- R.Fantz Looking chamber
3. Cognitive dissonance: attitude change and behaviour
Based on Milgram, Asch, and Zimbardo's key experiments/studies, assess how a person's attitude affects their behaviour?
4. Deindividuation, Bystander effect and the case of Kitty Genovese, Social loafing (p. 8), Group think, (p. 9)
Thursday, January 13, 2022
1. In-class: Social Psychology, Diffusion of responsibility, Deindividuation, Bystander effect, Social loafing, Group think, and Group polarization
2. Top Social Psychology experiments/studies
- K.Genovese Bystander effect (compare Lord of the Flies)
- P.Zimbardo's Stanford prison study
Friday, January 14, 2022
1. Review Social Psychology, social influence, chameleon effect (yawn challenge - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv2wQvn6Wxc)
2. Review Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience
- Informational influence and Normative influence (social norm)
- Muzafer Sherif - conformity experiment
- Important factors of Stanley Milgram's obedience experiment (here is a link for Milgram's experiment: https://youtu.be/mOUEC5YXV8U)
Monday, January 17, 2022
1. Due: Turn into Teams Schizophrenia and DID FRQ by 11:59pm Jan. 17'22
2. Top Social Psychology experiments/studies
- Hawthorne effect (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4XX90lqT6E)
4. Social relations leading toward aggression: Stereotype, prejudice, discrimination Racism, stereotype threat, self-fulfilling prophecy, scapegoat theory, in-group, out-group, ethnocentrism, out-group homogeneity, contact hypothesis
5. Oprah's 1992 recreation of Blue eyes vs Brown eyes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebPoSMULI5U
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
1. Due: Social Psychology completed Notes booklet pages 3-9 (Conformity and Group)
2. Prejudice and Discrimination: Superordinate goals. See the Heineken ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etIqln7vT4w
3. Aggression and altruism: physical, verbal, and relational aggression; genetic and gender influences: view this Aggression Scale https://psychology-tools.com/buss-perry-aggression-questionnaire
- Social learning, alcohol and aggression
- Frustration-aggression principle, altruism, social exchange theory, reciprocity
- K.Genovese, diffusion of responsibility, bystander intervention,
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
1. Due: Social Psychology completed Notes booklet pages 10-11 (Prejudice)
2. Altruism, prosocial behaviour, reciprocity, social responsibility norm, the helper's high,
View this link on prosocial behaviour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYCWT3CU0RE
View this link on social responsibility norm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxuv1QZZbYw
3. Interpersonal attraction, rules of attraction:
- Proximity, familiarity "mere exposure effect", physical attractiveness, halo effect, evolutionary psychology (male-female), similarity, reciprocity of liking
Thursday, January 20, 2022
1. In-class: Social Psychology Notes booklet review pages 12-19 (specific terms within these lessons Aggression, Altruism, Attraction, and Attribution theory)
2. Interpersonal attraction: similarity, reciprocity of liking, Sternberg's components of love
3. Attribution theory: social cognition and bias,
- dispositional attributions, fundamental attribution error, self-serving bias, actor-observer bias, false consensus effect, just world phenomenon, rape culture, attribution and attitudes, central route to persuasion, peripheral route to persuasion,
Friday, January 21, 2022
1. Due: Unit 9 Social Psychology m/c test
2. Due: Social Psychology Notes booklet is complete
3. Introduction to the Psychology Memes project
4. Due: Select your Memes Project psychology topic and term
5. Think: What is one topic or assignment that you enjoyed? What is one skill that you developed or improved upon?
Monday, January 24, 2022
1. Due: Unit 9 FRQMatthew is an actor for a highly anticipated action movie. In order to shape his physique for his character, his nutritionist assigned him a strict diet and exercise regime to follow weeks prior to the beginning of the movie shoot. However, Matthew recently received his brother’s wedding invitation. He knows his brother will have the finest chefs preparing an irresistible buffet of exquisite drinks, entrees, and desserts. Using the psychological concept, explain Matthew’s discomfort and how he deals with the tension of his desire to eat at the wedding and his desire to maintain his physique.
•Cognitive dissonance
2. Due: Show one psychology meme (See Teams Files "Psychology Memes Project")
3. Self assessment: State two psychology topics you enjoyed and two skills you developed. Write in third person. Edit for clarity.
4. Discussion questions: Select your first three choices
5. Answer the "top three" discussion questions
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
1. Due: Show two psychology memes
2. Discussion
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
1. Due: Show three psychology memes
2. Psychology memes presentations (select your best one)
3. Discussion
Syllabus and Group Circle Discussions (GCD)
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