Wednesday, October 26, 2016

AGENDA: Week of Oct 31 - Nov 4, 2016

Advanced Placement Psychology with Mr. Duez
Chapter 6: Learning
WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON: Learning - Classical Conditioning Part I
; Pavlov’s Demonstration: “Psychic Reflexes”
Terminology and Procedures, Classical Conditioning in Everyday Life, Basic Processes in Classical Conditioning
TUE: Learning - Comparing Classical & Operant Conditioning; Classical Conditioning Part II - Acquisition, Extinction; Spontaneous Recovery, Generalization; Discrimination. 
WED/THU: Learning - Operant Conditioning, Part I - Thorndike, Watson, Skinner;
FRI: Learning - Operant Conditioning, Part II - Reinforcement SchedulesObservational Learning

ASSESSMENTS AT A GLANCE:

MON: Quiz - CH 6 LEARNING
Next Wed/Thu - Test over CH 6 - "Learning", Plus FRQ
How do dogs learn a new trick? Operant Conditioning... that's how.
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Monday, Oct. 31, 2016
Quote:  “The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others wish to join us.” - Hubert Humphrey
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Label the Lightning and Thunder example that we discussed on Friday as:
Lightning - Thunder = Fear
Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS) and Unconditioned Response (UCR)
Neutral Stimulus (NS) and Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Conditioned Response

2. Notes, Discussion, & Video: Learning - Classical Conditioning
Learning - Classical Conditioning Part IPavlov’s Demonstration: “Psychic Reflexes”
Terminology and Procedures, Classical Conditioning in Everyday Life, Basic Processes in Classical Conditioning

ASSESSMENTS:
MON: Quiz - CH 6 LEARNING
Next Wed/Thu - Test over CH 6 - "Learning", Plus FRQ
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Tuesday, Nov 1, 2016
Quote:  “An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.” - Pope John Paul I

Agenda:
1. DO NOW:  Label the Attachment example that we discussed last Friday as:
Food, Mother, Baby = Attachment
Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS) and Unconditioned Response (UCR)
Neutral Stimulus (NS) and Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Conditioned Response

2. Notes, Discussion, & VideoLearning - Comparing Classical & Operant ConditioningClassical Conditioning Part II - Acquisition, Extinction; Spontaneous Recovery, Generalization; Discrimination. 

ASSESSMENTS:
MON: Quiz - CH 6 LEARNING
Next Wed/Thu - Test over CH 6 - "Learning", Plus FRQ
Yep, it's kind of like that.
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Wednesday, Nov 2, 2016 & Thursday Nov 3, 2016
Quote: “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” - Waldo Emerson
Agenda:
1. Do Now: Compare Classical & Operant Conditioning

2. Video: Crash Course Psychology - How To Train a Brain 
I'm sure you've heard of Pavlov's Bell (and I'm not talking about the Aimee Mann song), but what was Ivan Pavlov up to, exactly? And how are our brains trained? And what is a "Skinner Box"? All those questions and more are answered in today's Crash Course Psychology, in which Hank talks about some of the aspects of learning. 


3. Notes, Discussion, & VideoOperant Conditioning, Part II

ASSESSMENTS:
MON: Quiz - CH 6 LEARNING
Next Wed/Thu - Test over CH 6 - "Learning", Plus FRQ
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Friday, Nov 4, 2016
Quote: “Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.” - Earl Shoaf

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Pick up Reinforcement Schedules Worksheet; Complete as many as possible. We will discuss and go over the answers.

2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Learning - Operant Conditioning, Part II - Reinforcement SchedulesObservational Learning

3. Video: Crash Course Psychology - The Bobo Beatdown In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank talks about how we learn by observation... and how that can mean beating the tar out of an inanimate clown named Bobo. 
Limitations of Classical and Operant Conditioning; Basics of Learning; Mirror Neurons; Bobo Doll & Bandura


ASSESSMENTS:
MON: Quiz - CH 6 LEARNING
Next Wed/Thu - Test over CH 6 - "Learning", Plus FRQ

Saturday, October 22, 2016

Agenda: Week of Oct. 24-28, 2016

Advanced Placement Psychology with Mr. Duez
Chapter 4 & 5: Sensation & Perception & Consciousness
WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON: Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 5 - Consciousness; Review Quiz
Because of the stupid schedule last week where sixth period didn't meet, we'll be cancelling the quiz for Chapter 5 (Although I will be asking questions and calling on students on Monday/Tuesday to review the questions we would have done on the quiz)
Circadian Rythms; Sleep Cycles; Sleep Disorders
TUE: Dreams; Altered Consciousness - drugs; Drug Chart
Pick up CHART - DRUGS ~ Effect on Consciousness
Compare these drugs and their effects: Alcohol, Caffeine, Marijuana, LSD
WED/THU: TEST CH 4 & 5; Article: Sleep
FRI: Intro to Learning - Ch 6: Classical Conditioning
Friday, October 28, We will be on Pep Rally Schedule for the Senior Panoramic Picture.

Assignments at a Glance:
WED/THU: TEST CH 4 & 5 Sensation & Perception -and- Consciousness
Due Friday: Article: Sleep
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Monday, Oct. 24, 2016
Quote: "He Who Knows Others Is Wise. He Who Knows Himself Is Enlightened." - Tao Te Ching
Agenda:
Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 5 - Consciousness; Review Quiz

Because of the stupid schedule last week where sixth period didn't meet, we'll be cancelling the quiz for Chapter 5 (Although I will be asking questions and calling on students on Monday/Tuesday to review the questions we would have done on the quiz)
1. Reading Check Quiz Chapter #5 - Consciousness
2. Review Quiz

1. DO NOW: Explain the states of sleep.

2. Notes & Discussion: Stages of Sleep and Sleep Disorders
Including Crash Course: Sleep & Dreaming


3. Which theory of dreaming do you subscribe to?
Notes & Discussion: Dreaming

Freud: Dreams as wish fulfillment - The day residue shapes dreams that satisfy unconscious needs in a disguised fashion.
Cartwright: The problem-solving view - We mull over major problems in our lives with reduced logical constraints.
Hobson: Activation-synthesis model - The cortex constructs a story to make sense of internal signals from lower brain centers.
Assignments:
WED/THU: TEST CH 4 & 5
Due Friday: Article: Sleep
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Tuesday, Oct 25, 2016
Quote: "I haven’t failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” - Thomas Edison
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Pick up CHART - DRUGS ~ Effect on Consciousness
Compare these drugs and their effects: Alcohol, Caffeine, Marijuana, LSD

2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Consciousness: 
Notes: Dreams & Dream Theory 
Notes: Drugs & Altered Consciousness

Assignments:
WED/THU: TEST CH 4 & 5
Due Friday: Article: Sleep
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Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016 - and - Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016
Quote: ”It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” - Aristotle
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Prep for the Test - Need a Pencil

2. TEST OVER CH. 4 & 5 - SENSATION & PERCEPTION & CONSCIOUSNESS

3. ARTICLE: Begin working on the article that is Due Friday: Article: Sleep

Assignments:
Begin Reading Weiten Ch 6: Learning; Study the target sheet, notes, and PsychTrek
Due Friday: Article: Sleep
This man was REALLY "Trippin"
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Friday, Oct. 28, 2016
Quote: “If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.” - Milton Berle
Agenda:
Friday, October 28, We will be on Pep Rally Schedule for the Senior Panoramic Picture.

1. DO NOW: How do you learn? What happens in the brain? What is learning?

2. Notes, Video, Discussion:  Intro to Learning - Ch 6: Classical Conditioning


Sunday, October 16, 2016

Agenda: Week of Oct. 17-21, 2016

Advanced Placement Psychology with Mr. Duez
Unit 3 - Weiten Ch. 4 - Sensation & Perception
Ch. 5 - Consciousness
WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON - Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 4 -- Sensation & Perception
TUE - Review of senses: Sight, Hearing, Taste/Smell, Touch/Pain; Intro to Consciousness
WED/THU - Consciousness: Sleep, Cycles, Disorders, Dreams, & Hypnosis. 
FRI - Pick up CHART - DRUGS ~ Effect on ConsciousnessConsciousness: The Effects of Drugs on Consciousness

ASSIGNMENTS AT A GLANCE: QUIZ - NEXT MON. OVER CH. 5 - Consciousness
TEST NEXT WED/THU OVER CH 4 & 5 - Sensation & Perception & Consciousness
Color is an illusion, but a really cool one! 
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Monday, Oct. 17, 2016
Quote: "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein

Learning Targets:

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Prep for Reading Check Quiz - Ch 4

2. Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 4 - Sensation & Perception

3. Review the Quiz.
Question for after the quiz:

Assignments:
Study Notes for next week's Quiz & Test
Quiz over CH 5: Consciousness is next Monday.
Test is next week -> Next Wed/Thu
Intensity in RED
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Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016
Quote: "Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language." - Steven Pinker

Learning Targets
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: While listening to the orchestra as she dances the lead role in Swan Lake, a ballerina concludes her perofrmance with a pirouette, spinning around several times before leaping into the arms of her dance partner. 
Discuss how the ballerina relied upon the following and how each is important.
* Kinesthetic sense
* Vestibular sense
* Semicircular canals
* Hearing

2. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Review of Vision, Hearing, Taste/Smell, Touch/Pain sensations. What do you definitely need to know on the AP Test?

3. Notes, Video, Discussion: Duez Notes: Psycho-physics

Assignments:
Study Notes for next week's Quiz & Test
Quiz over CH 5: Consciousness is next Monday.
Test is next week -> Next Wed/Thu
Not a very big part of the AP Test, but it can be tricky.
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Wednesday, Oct. 19 & Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016
Quote: “Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.” - Daniel Kahneman

Learning Targets:
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: How does hypnosis work?

2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Consciousness, Sleep, Cycles, Sleep Disorders, Dreams, & Hypnosis
This man was REALLY "Trippin"
Assignments:
Study Notes for next week's Quiz & Test
Quiz over CH 5: Consciousness is next Monday.
Test is next week -> Next Wed/Thu
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Friday, Oct. 21, 2016
Quote: "I am learning all the time.  The tombstone will be my diploma."  - Eartha Kitt

Learning Targets:
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Pick up CHART - DRUGS ~ Effect on Consciousness
Compare these drugs and their effects: Alcohol, Caffeine, Marijuana, LSD

2. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Drugs impact on consciousness

3. Crash Course: Consciousness
Video: Crash Course Psychology - Consciousness What exactly is Consciousness? Well... that's kind of a gray area. In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank gives you the basic ideas of what Consciousness is, how our attention works, and why we shouldn't text and drive... ever... no, really, NEVER!

Assignments:
Study Notes for next week's Quiz & Test
Quiz over CH 5: Consciousness is next Monday.
Test is next week -> Next Wed/Thu

Friday, October 7, 2016

Thursday, October 6, 2016

AGENDA: Week of Oct. 10-14, 2016

Advanced Placement PSYCHOLOGY with Mr. Duez
CH. 4: Sensation & Perception & CH. 5: Consciousness
WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON - No School - "Indigenous Americans Day" link
TUE - Sensation & Perception introduction, Bottom-up & Top-down Processing; Thresholds & Signal Detection Theory
WED/THU - FRQ Timed Writing Essay: Flip a coin between 2 questions from Research Methods - 30 minutes; Crash Course Psychology: Sensation & PerceptionVision
FRI: Crash Course Psychology: HomunculusHearing; Taste/Smell; Touch/Pain

ASSIGNMENTS:
The world is cruel & the only 
morality in a cruel world is chance.
WED/THU: FRQ Timed Writing Essay: Flip a coin between 2 questions from Research Methods - 30 minutes
QUIZ ON SENSATION & PERCEPTION is next MONDAY, OCT 17th
QUIZ ON CONSCIOUSNESS is the following MONDAY, OCT 24th
TEST is the Following Week, Wed/Thu, Oct 28th & 29th
Study the NOTES, Targets, Video over both units
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Monday, Oct 10, 2016 - NO SCHOOL
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Tuesday, Oct 11, 2016
Quote: "The purpose of life is a life of purpose." - Attributed to both Ludwig Wittgenstein and Robert Byrne

If you learn only 4 things from this chapter for the AP Test...
1. Perception is the interpretation of sensory information; it relies on experience.
2. The difference between sensation & perception
3. The structure & function of the eye
4. The structure & function of the ear
Sensation and perception are areas that have been of interest to psychologists for most of the history of psychology. As we sit here, our senses receive literally thousands of messages. We need to make sense of this information. Our senses take in the information, and they do so from birth. Yet the interpretive part -perception- requires knowledge.

Essential Questions:
* How do we convert light into images?
* How does the ear responds to sound waves?
* How do we taste or smell?
* How does the somatic sensory system function?

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: To what extent and you persuaded by advertisements, commercials, billboards, & online ads?

2. Notes, Video, and Discussion - Introduction to Sensation.
Sensation & Perception introduction, Bottom-up & Top-down Processing; Thresholds & Signal Detection Theory; Weber's Law; Subliminal & Selective Attention.

ASSIGNMENTS:
WED/THU: FRQ Timed Writing Essay: Flip a coin between 2 questions from Research Methods
QUIZ ON SENSATION & PERCEPTION is next MONDAY, OCT 17th
QUIZ ON CONSCIOUSNESS is the following MONDAY, OCT 24th
TEST is the Following Week, Wed/Thu, Oct 28th & 29th
Study the NOTES, Targets, Video over both units
What would you say if we told you these two boxes were the exact same shade of gray? Gradients & shadows give your brain clues based on your past experiences with shadows. But shadows can lie to you.
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Wednesday, Oct 12, 2016 and Thursday, Oct 13, 2016
Quote"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." - Emily Dickinson


If you learn only 4 things from this chapter for the AP Test...
1. Perception is the interpretation of sensory information; it relies on experience.
2. The difference between sensation & perception
3. The structure & function of the eye
4. The structure & function of the ear
Sensation and perception are areas that have been of interest to psychologists for most of the history of psychology. As we sit here, our senses receive literally thousands of messages. We need to make sense of this information. Our senses take in the information, and they do so from birth. Yet the interpretive part -perception- requires knowledge.

Essential Questions:
* How do we convert light into images?
* How does the ear responds to sound waves?
* How do we taste or smell?
* How does the somatic sensory system function?

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Prepare for the FRQ Timed Writing Essay: Flip a coin between 2 questions from Research Methods

FRQ: Flip a coin between the 2 choices - 2015 & 2016 Research Methods Questions

2. Crash Course Psychology: Sensation & Perception
Quiz in-Formatively over concepts in Crash Course; students will write notes from it as teacher directed.

Explain how bottom-up & top-down processing work together to help us decipher the world around us.
Vision - Structure of the eye; color; feature detection; parallel processing; 2 theories of color - Tri-chromatic & Opponent Processing; Optical Illusions

ASSIGNMENTS:

QUIZ ON SENSATION & PERCEPTION is next MONDAY, OCT 17th
QUIZ ON CONSCIOUSNESS is the following MONDAY, OCT 24th
TEST is the Following Week, Wed/Thu, Oct 28th & 29th
Study the NOTES, Targets, Video over both units
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Friday, Oct 14, 2016
Quote: "If you are struck between two options, just flip a coin in the air! It works. Not because it solves the problem . . . but because while the coin is in the air, You will get to know what your heart is really hoping for." - Anonymous


If you learn only 4 things from this chapter for the AP Test...
1. Perception is the interpretation of sensory information; it relies on experience.
2. The difference between sensation & perception
3. The structure & function of the eye
4. The structure & function of the ear
Sensation and perception are areas that have been of interest to psychologists for most of the history of psychology. As we sit here, our senses receive literally thousands of messages. We need to make sense of this information. Our senses take in the information, and they do so from birth. Yet the interpretive part -perception- requires knowledge.

Essential Questions:
* How do we convert light into images?
* How does the ear responds to sound waves?
* How do we taste or smell?
* How does the somatic sensory system function?

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Explain vision by using these terms: 
wavelengths, saturation, purity, rods, cones, retina & transduction

2. Crash Course Psychology: Homunculus

HOMUNCULUS! 
It's a big and weird word that you may or may not have heard before, but do you know what it means? In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank gives us a deeper understanding of this weird model of human sensation. 

3. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Hearing
How does hearing and vision compare? Wavelengths? 

ASSIGNMENTS:

QUIZ ON SENSATION & PERCEPTION is next MONDAY, OCT 17th
QUIZ ON CONSCIOUSNESS is the following MONDAY, OCT 24th
TEST is the Following Week, Wed/Thu, Oct 28th & 29th
Study the NOTES, Targets, Video over both units