AP TEST SIGNUP DEADLINE - Monday, April 2nd

Last year we had 90% sign up for the test.

At this point, with just a few days left we had 74% signed up. This year we aren't really close to that. I'm not sure why this is, but hopefully people have just waited to the end. Please do not forget to sign up. I know you can do it!

We had great success last year.

And we have been getting better and better every year. Let's make 2018 the best yet!

2017 Test Signup - just before the deadline with less than a week remaining.

Last year's AP Banner celebrating the very best scores in AP World History - a RECORD NUMBER of Top Scores!

We have seen great growth in the AP Program. Very proud of the students and the work they have done.

Agenda: Week of March 26-March 30, 2018

Advanced Placement Psychology w/Mr. Duez
CH 15: Abnormal Behavior/Psych Disorders 
and
CH 16: Treatment for Abnormal Behavior/Psych Disorders

WEEK AT A GLANCE:

MON: Quiz CH 15; Review Quiz
TUE: OCD; Depressive & Bipolar disorder categories
WED: Schizophrenia & Dissociative Disorders compared
THU: The 10 Personality Disorders; Difference between OCD & OCPD
FRI: Good Friday, no school
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ASSIGNMENTS:
Monday, March 26 - Quiz CH 15 "Psychological Disorders" 
Thu, April 5th & 6th - FRQ Timed Writing
Monday, April 9th - Quiz CH 16 "Treatments for Psych Disorders"
Tuesday, April 17th - TEST CH 15 & 16

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Monday, March 26, 2018
Quote: "At the root of this dilemma is the way we view mental health in this country. Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it's still an illness, and there should be no distinction." - Michelle Obama

Agenda:
1. Quiz CH 15 - Psych Disorders

2. Quiz Review - Name the 2 contemporary perspectives used by psychologists to understand anxiety disorders. Then explain how or what psychologists study within each perspective.

ASSIGNMENTS:
Monday, March 26 - Quiz CH 15 "Psychological Disorders" 
Wed/Thu, April 5th & 6th - FRQ Timed Writing
Monday, April 9th - Quiz CH 16 "Treatments for Psych Disorders"
Tuesday, April 17th - TEST CH 15 & 16

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Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Quote: "There is no difference between acute schizophrenia and a world at war." - Gary Zukav

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Pick up the FRQ Flip Choices for next week's Timed Writing
Thu, April 5th & 6th - FRQ Timed Writing

 

Discuss both questions quickly
2017 Question #1 - Scoring Guidelines

2014 Question #2 - Scoring Guidelines

2. Notes, Discussion, Video Examples: OCD

3. Notes, Discussion, Video Examples: Depressive & Bipolar disorder categories

ASSIGNMENTS:
Monday, March 26 - Quiz CH 15 "Psychological Disorders" 
Wed/Thu, April 5th & 6th - FRQ Timed Writing
Monday, April 9th - Quiz CH 16 "Treatments for Psych Disorders"
Tuesday, April 17th - TEST CH 15 & 16

The Aviator depicted Howard Hughes and his battle with OCD

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Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Quote: "Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair." - R.D. Laing

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: What is the difference between Schizophrenia & DID (Multiple Personality Disorder)? Why do you think people confuse them?


2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Comparing Schizophrenia & DID

ASSIGNMENTS:
Monday, March 26 - Quiz CH 15 "Psychological Disorders" 
Wed/Thu, April 5th & 6th - FRQ Timed Writing
Monday, April 9th - Quiz CH 16 "Treatments for Psych Disorders"
Tuesday, April 17th - TEST CH 15 & 16

Is this a promising therapeutic treatment? Or junk science?

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Thursday, March 29, 2018

Quote: "The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare." - Elyn Saks

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Which psych disorder is the most probable to have a person 

2. Notes, Video, Discussion: The 10 Personality Disorders; Difference between OCD & OCPD

ASSIGNMENTS:
Monday, March 26 - Quiz CH 15 "Psychological Disorders" 
Wed/Thu, April 5th & 6th - FRQ Timed Writing
Monday, April 9th - Quiz CH 16 "Treatments for Psych Disorders"
Tuesday, April 17th - TEST CH 15 & 16

Next week - Treatment of Psych Disorders

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Friday, March 30, 2018
NO SCHOOL - GOOD FRIDAY

Agenda: Week of March 19-23, 2018

Advanced Placement Psychology with Mr. Duez

CH 15. Psychological Disorders & CH 16. Treatment 

WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON: Introduction to Mental Disorders & the DSM-5 (handout); Crash Course Psychological Disorders
TUE: Psych Disorders: Anxiety, Trauma/Stress
Crash Course: Trauma & Addiction
THU: Psych Disorders: Depressive, Bipolar; Personality; Obsessive-Compulsive 
Crash Course: OCD & Anxiety; Crash Course: Depressive/Bipolar
FRI: Psych Disorders: Schizophrenia; Dissociative; Somatic Symptom; Feeding & Eating
Crash Course: Schizophrenia/Dissociative; Crash Course: Eating & Body Dysmorphic Disorders
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Assignments:
Monday, March 26 - Quiz CH 15 "Psychological Disorders" 
Monday, April 2nd - Quiz CH 16 "Treatments for Psych Disorders"
Tuesday, April 10th - TEST CH 15 & 16
Wed/Thu, April 5th & 6th - FRQ Timed Writing

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Learning Targets:
1. The (DSM) Diagnosis and Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders is the handbook used by mental health professionals to diagnose psychiatric disorders.
2. There are many types of disorders, but they all involve debilitation that makes routine life situations difficult.
3. Schizophrenia is not dissociate identity disorder. It is a disorder that involves a break with reality and auditory hallucinations.
4. Personality disorders are the most difficult disorders to diagnose and treat. The most common treatment is anti-psychotic medication (most have side effects).
5. Medication is effective as a treatment, but it is often combined with a form of “talk therapy” to provide a more complete therapeutic technique.
6. Behavioral & cognitive therapists are very popular forms of “talk therapy.”
7. Original Freudian therapy, though well known, is not utilized much anymore. However, psycho-dynamic techniques are combined with many methods to help patients and can be very helpful. 

Essential Questions:
- What are the various approaches to dealing with abnormal behavior, psychological disorders?
- Is all psych disorder caused by biological issues? Can they be solved medically?

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Monday, March 19, 2018
Quote: "We are masters of the unsaid words, and slaves to those we let slip out." - Winston Churchill

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: New Seats
True or False? - People with psychological disorders typically exhibit highly bizarre behavior.

Crash Course: Psychological Disorders

2. Pass out handout for disorders: Introduction to Mental Disorders & the DSM-5 (handout)

3. Notes, Video, Discussion: Introduction to Unit 6 - Psych Disorders & Abnormal Behavior. Discuss the Case of Royce White

Assignments:
Monday, March 27 Quiz CH 15 "Psychological Disorders" 
Monday, April 3rd Quiz CH 16 "Treatments for Psych Disorders"
Wed/Thu, April 5th & 6th - FRQ Timed Writing

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Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Quote: "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." - Adolf Hitler

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: What makes up a psychological disorder?

Crash Course: OCD & Anxiety Disorders

2. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Psych Disorders: Anxiety, Trauma/Stress

Assignments:
Monday, March 27 Quiz CH 15 "Psychological Disorders" 
Monday, April 3rd Quiz CH 16 "Treatments for Psych Disorders"
Wed/Thu, April 5th & 6th - FRQ Timed Writing

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Thursday, March 22, 2018
Quote: "We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender... " - Winston Churchill

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: The fact that people acquire phobias of ancient sources of threat (such as snakes) much more readily than modern sources of threat (such as electrical outlets) - What approach to psychology might best explain this?

2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Psych Disorders: Depressive, Bipolar; Personality; Obsessive-Compulsive 
Crash Course: OCD & Anxiety; Crash Course: Depressive/Bipolar

Assignments:
Monday, March 27 Quiz CH 15 "Psychological Disorders" 
Monday, April 3rd Quiz CH 16 "Treatments for Psych Disorders"
Wed/Thu, April 5th & 6th - FRQ Timed Writing

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Friday, March 23, 2018
Quote: "Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds." - J. Robert Oppenheimer, Hindu Scripture, the Bhagavad Gita

1. DO NOW: Mood Disorder or Schizophrenia?

2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Psych Disorders: Schizophrenia; Dissociative; Somatic Symptom; Feeding & Eating
Crash Course: Schizophrenia/Dissociative; Crash Course: Eating & Body Dysmorphic Disorders

Assignments:
Monday, March 27 Quiz CH 15 "Psychological Disorders" 
Monday, April 3rd Quiz CH 16 "Treatments for Psych Disorders"
Wed/Thu, April 5th & 6th - FRQ Timed Writing

Agenda: Week of March 5 - March 9, 2018

Advanced Placement PSYCHOLOGY with Mr. Duez

Chapter 13: Social Psychology & Chapter 14: Stress, Health, & Coping

WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON - Reading Check Quiz CH 14 - Stress, Health, & Coping; Review Quiz CH 14
TUE -  TEST: CH 13 - Social Behavior & CH 14 - Stress, Health, & Coping; Pick up article: The Real Causes of Depression Have Been Discovered, due on Wednesday.
WED - Discuss Article: The Real Causes of Depression Have Been Discovered, collect; Introduction to Psych Disorders/Abnormal Behavior
THU - Watch the Documentary, A Brilliant Madness: John Nash with Questions
FRI - Watch the Documentary, A Brilliant Madness: John Nash with Questions
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Quiz Monday Ch 14 - Stress, Health, & Coping
TEST on Wed/Thu CH 13 - Social Behavior & CH 14 - Stress, Health, & Coping
The Real Causes of Depression Have Been Discovered, due on Wednesday.
FRIDAY: Documentary, "A Brilliant Madness: John Nash" with Questions.
Then Spring Break! No assignments. Enjoy your friends & family!

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Monday, March 5, 2018
Quote: "History is a myth that men agree to believe." - Napoleon

Agenda:
1. Quiz: Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 14: Stress, Health, & Coping

2. Review Quiz

Assignments:
TEST on Tues CH 13 - Social Behavior & CH 14 - Stress, Health, & Coping

The signature of stress -- the modern world creates much of it.

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Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Quote:  "Ongoing research continues to demonstrate conclusively that your IQ is an excellent predictor of your score on an IQ test." - Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

Agenda:

1. TEST CH 13 Social Behavior & CH 14 Stress, Health, & Coping

2. Pick up article: The Real Causes of Depression Have Been Discovered, due on Wednesday.

Assignments:
The Real Causes of Depression Have Been Discovered, due on Wednesday.

Well, after the test is over, anyway.

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Wednesday, March 09, 2018
Quote: "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

Agenda:

1. DO NOW: Prepare the article - The Real Causes of Depression Have Been Discovered

2. Notes, Discussion, Video: Introduction to Psych Disorders

ASSIGNMENTS:

The Real Causes of Depression Have Been Discovered, due on Wednesday.

John Forbes Nash - 1928-2015

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Thursday, March 8, 2018

Quote: "A life without love is like a year without spring." -Octavian Paller

Agenda:

1. DO NOW: Pick up the questions on the table for the documentary. 

2. Documentary: Watch the Documentary, "A Brilliant Madness: John Nash" with Questions.

ASSIGNMENTS: 

Have a Great Spring Break!

Enjoy your friends and family!

No Psych work assigned!!!

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Friday, March 9, 2018

Quote: "The war has ruined us for everything." - Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

Agenda:

1. DO NOW: Pick up the questions on the table for the documentary. 

2. Documentary: Watch the Documentary, "A Brilliant Madness: John Nash" with Questions.

ASSIGNMENTS: 

Have a Great Spring Break!
Enjoy your friends and family!
No Psych work assigned!!!

Sub Plans - Thursday

Duez is out today, he is sick. Should be back on Friday. 

Questions for The Brain with David Eagleman - Part 5 - Do I Need You?

LINK TO THE VIDEO: 
The Brain - Part 5 - DO I NEED YOU?

Additional Videos, if needed:

Crash Course Psychology: Aggression vs. Altruism
In our final episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank discusses the ideas of Aggression and Altruism. These two things are difficult to understand and explain so sit tight and get ready to run the gauntlet of human emotions. 
If you are currently in need of help: http://www.mentalhealth.gov/get-help/
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Table of Contents:
Robber's Cave Experiment 0:00
Realistic Conflict Theory 0:57
Physical & Environmental Triggers 3:23
Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis 4:24
Altruism 5:25
Bystander Effect 5:56
Social Exchange Theory 7:19

ASAP Science: Can Stress Actually Kill You? 

What does Stress do to your body?

Truth