Advanced Placement Psychology
Unit 6 Development & Personality
MON - Child Development
Week at a Glance:
TUE - Article Discussion: Family Size - Finish Child Development Theories
WED/TH - Finish Development & Personality
FRI - Take Home Test Due. - Video The Teen Brain
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Monday, November 12, 2012
Quote of the Day: "A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues." - Cicero
Learning Targets:
PART 1 - DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
1. Cognitive development refers to the ways in which our ability to think and reason change over our life spans.
2. Two theorists important in the area of cognitive development are Jean Piaget & Lev Vygotsky.
3. Social development refers to the changes in our ability to interact with others as we age.
4. Our primary caregiver provides us with our earliest social cues.
5. The stages of prenatal development.
Part II: PERSONALITY
1. Personality refers to patterns of behavior that remain constant across situations.
2. There are different approaches to personality, including psychoanalytic, trait, humanistic, and learning theories.
3. Sigmund Freud is responsible for the psychoanalytic approach, which states that we are controlled by unconscious conflicts.
4. Trait theorists argue that our personality is simply a collection of traits.
5. Humanistic theorists argue that humans are basically good and strive for perfection.
6. Learning theorists argue that personality is nothing more than a shorthand description for clusters of behavior.
Essential Questions:
1. How do Piaget & Vygotsky differ in their theories about development?
2. How do researchers conclude: For girls early maturation is particularly difficult, while for boys late maturation is especially hard.
2. Can you match the statement with the correct Theorist and Theory?
Theorists: Hans Eysenck, Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Albert Bandura, B.F. Skinner, Alfred Adler, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, Abraham Maslow, Walter Mischel, Paul Costa.
Theory: Humanistic Perspective, Biological Perspective, Behavioral Perspective, Psychoanalytic Perspective.
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Pick up Take Home Test for Friday.
2. Discuss Test and FRQs. Tips on writing the FRQ.
3. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Infant to Child Development.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Quote of the Day: "Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies." - Charles E. Jefferson
Learning Targets:
PART 1 - DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
1. Cognitive development refers to the ways in which our ability to think and reason change over our life spans.
2. Two theorists important in the area of cognitive development are Jean Piaget & Lev Vygotsky.
3. Social development refers to the changes in our ability to interact with others as we age.
4. Our primary caregiver provides us with our earliest social cues.
5. The stages of prenatal development.
Part II: PERSONALITY
Essential Questions:
1. How do Piaget & Vygotsky differ in their theories about development?
Agenda:
1. DO NOW QUESTION: How much impact does a child's primary care giver provide in their development?
2. Notes, Discussion, and Video: Child Development & Adolescent Development
3. Video: The Developing Child
The Developing Child is the fifth program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. This program introduces examples of cognitive, perceptual, and behavioral development in children. You'll explore the roles of heredity and environment in child development, and children's incremental understanding of such phenomena as object permanence, symbolic reasoning, and perception of visual depth.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012 & Thursday, November 15, 2012
Quote of the Day:
Not what we give,
But what we share,
For the gift
without the giver
Is bare.
~James Russell Lowell
Learning Targets:
PART 1 - DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
1. Cognitive development refers to the ways in which our ability to think and reason change over our life spans.
2. Two theorists important in the area of cognitive development are Jean Piaget & Lev Vygotsky.
3. Social development refers to the changes in our ability to interact with others as we age.
4. Our primary caregiver provides us with our earliest social cues.
5. The stages of prenatal development.
Part II: PERSONALITY
Essential Questions:
1. How do Piaget & Vygotsky differ in their theories about development?
Agenda:
1. Do Now Question: Define and describe how assimilation, accommodation, and schema work in Piaget's theory of development.
2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Development & Personality
3. Video on Personality: The Self
The Self is the fifteenth program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. In this program, you'll explore how psychologists study the origins of self-identity, self-esteem, and the social determinants of self-concepts. You'll also learn about some of the emotional and motivational consequences of self-esteem.
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Friday, November 16, 2012
Quote of the Day: “Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow.” - Edward Sandford Martin
Learning Targets:
PART 1 - DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
1. Cognitive development refers to the ways in which our ability to think and reason change over our life spans.
2. Two theorists important in the area of cognitive development are Jean Piaget & Lev Vygotsky.
3. Social development refers to the changes in our ability to interact with others as we age.
4. Our primary caregiver provides us with our earliest social cues.
5. The stages of prenatal development.
Part II: PERSONALITY
Essential Questions:
1. How do Piaget & Vygotsky differ in their theories about development?
Agenda:
1. Take Home Test due for Development & Personality: Bubble in Scranton.
2. Video: The Teen Brain (15 min clip) We will discuss it afterward.
Why are teens so impulsive, thoughtless, even stupid? Scientists used to blame hormones, while society blamed the parents. But, stunning new research is overturning everything we used to think and believe about the teen brain.
HAVE A GREAT THANKSGIVING!
Go Texans... Beat the Lions on Thanksgiving Day.
Next Unit is our LAST UNIT! Abnormal Psychology, Treatment, and Social Psychology.
Remember the extra credit movie review. Might be a great time to do it over the break.
Theory: Humanistic Perspective, Biological Perspective, Behavioral Perspective, Psychoanalytic Perspective.
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Pick up Take Home Test for Friday.
2. Discuss Test and FRQs. Tips on writing the FRQ.
3. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Infant to Child Development.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Quote of the Day: "Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies." - Charles E. Jefferson
Learning Targets:
PART 1 - DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
1. Cognitive development refers to the ways in which our ability to think and reason change over our life spans.
2. Two theorists important in the area of cognitive development are Jean Piaget & Lev Vygotsky.
3. Social development refers to the changes in our ability to interact with others as we age.
4. Our primary caregiver provides us with our earliest social cues.
5. The stages of prenatal development.
Part II: PERSONALITY
1. Personality refers to patterns of behavior that remain constant across situations.
2. There are different approaches to personality, including psychoanalytic, trait, humanistic, and learning theories.
3. Sigmund Freud is responsible for the psychoanalytic approach, which states that we are controlled by unconscious conflicts.
4. Trait theorists argue that our personality is simply a collection of traits.
5. Humanistic theorists argue that humans are basically good and strive for perfection.
6. Learning theorists argue that personality is nothing more than a shorthand description for clusters of behavior.
Essential Questions:
1. How do Piaget & Vygotsky differ in their theories about development?
2. How do researchers conclude: For girls early maturation is particularly difficult, while for boys late maturation is especially hard.
2. Can you match the statement with the correct Theorist and Theory?
Theorists: Hans Eysenck, Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Albert Bandura, B.F. Skinner, Alfred Adler, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, Abraham Maslow, Walter Mischel, Paul Costa.
Theory: Humanistic Perspective, Biological Perspective, Behavioral Perspective, Psychoanalytic Perspective.
Theory: Humanistic Perspective, Biological Perspective, Behavioral Perspective, Psychoanalytic Perspective.
Agenda:
1. DO NOW QUESTION: How much impact does a child's primary care giver provide in their development?
2. Notes, Discussion, and Video: Child Development & Adolescent Development
3. Video: The Developing Child
The Developing Child is the fifth program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. This program introduces examples of cognitive, perceptual, and behavioral development in children. You'll explore the roles of heredity and environment in child development, and children's incremental understanding of such phenomena as object permanence, symbolic reasoning, and perception of visual depth.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012 & Thursday, November 15, 2012
Quote of the Day:
Not what we give,
But what we share,For the gift
without the giver
Is bare.
~James Russell Lowell
Learning Targets:
PART 1 - DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
1. Cognitive development refers to the ways in which our ability to think and reason change over our life spans.
2. Two theorists important in the area of cognitive development are Jean Piaget & Lev Vygotsky.
3. Social development refers to the changes in our ability to interact with others as we age.
4. Our primary caregiver provides us with our earliest social cues.
5. The stages of prenatal development.
Part II: PERSONALITY
1. Personality refers to patterns of behavior that remain constant across situations.
2. There are different approaches to personality, including psychoanalytic, trait, humanistic, and learning theories.
3. Sigmund Freud is responsible for the psychoanalytic approach, which states that we are controlled by unconscious conflicts.
4. Trait theorists argue that our personality is simply a collection of traits.
5. Humanistic theorists argue that humans are basically good and strive for perfection.
6. Learning theorists argue that personality is nothing more than a shorthand description for clusters of behavior.
Essential Questions:
1. How do Piaget & Vygotsky differ in their theories about development?
2. How do researchers conclude: For girls early maturation is particularly difficult, while for boys late maturation is especially hard.
2. Can you match the statement with the correct Theorist and Theory?
Theorists: Hans Eysenck, Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Albert Bandura, B.F. Skinner, Alfred Adler, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, Abraham Maslow, Walter Mischel, Paul Costa.
Theory: Humanistic Perspective, Biological Perspective, Behavioral Perspective, Psychoanalytic Perspective.
Theory: Humanistic Perspective, Biological Perspective, Behavioral Perspective, Psychoanalytic Perspective.
Agenda:
1. Do Now Question: Define and describe how assimilation, accommodation, and schema work in Piaget's theory of development.
2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Development & Personality
3. Video on Personality: The Self
The Self is the fifteenth program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. In this program, you'll explore how psychologists study the origins of self-identity, self-esteem, and the social determinants of self-concepts. You'll also learn about some of the emotional and motivational consequences of self-esteem.
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Friday, November 16, 2012
Quote of the Day: “Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow.” - Edward Sandford Martin
Learning Targets:PART 1 - DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
1. Cognitive development refers to the ways in which our ability to think and reason change over our life spans.
2. Two theorists important in the area of cognitive development are Jean Piaget & Lev Vygotsky.
3. Social development refers to the changes in our ability to interact with others as we age.
4. Our primary caregiver provides us with our earliest social cues.
5. The stages of prenatal development.
Part II: PERSONALITY
1. Personality refers to patterns of behavior that remain constant across situations.
2. There are different approaches to personality, including psychoanalytic, trait, humanistic, and learning theories.
3. Sigmund Freud is responsible for the psychoanalytic approach, which states that we are controlled by unconscious conflicts.
4. Trait theorists argue that our personality is simply a collection of traits.
5. Humanistic theorists argue that humans are basically good and strive for perfection.
6. Learning theorists argue that personality is nothing more than a shorthand description for clusters of behavior.
Essential Questions:
1. How do Piaget & Vygotsky differ in their theories about development?
2. How do researchers conclude: For girls early maturation is particularly difficult, while for boys late maturation is especially hard.
2. Can you match the statement with the correct Theorist and Theory?
Theorists: Hans Eysenck, Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Albert Bandura, B.F. Skinner, Alfred Adler, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, Abraham Maslow, Walter Mischel, Paul Costa.
Theory: Humanistic Perspective, Biological Perspective, Behavioral Perspective, Psychoanalytic Perspective.
Theory: Humanistic Perspective, Biological Perspective, Behavioral Perspective, Psychoanalytic Perspective.
Agenda:
1. Take Home Test due for Development & Personality: Bubble in Scranton.
2. Video: The Teen Brain (15 min clip) We will discuss it afterward.
Why are teens so impulsive, thoughtless, even stupid? Scientists used to blame hormones, while society blamed the parents. But, stunning new research is overturning everything we used to think and believe about the teen brain.
HAVE A GREAT THANKSGIVING!
Go Texans... Beat the Lions on Thanksgiving Day.
Next Unit is our LAST UNIT! Abnormal Psychology, Treatment, and Social Psychology.
Remember the extra credit movie review. Might be a great time to do it over the break.
