Week of Oct. 29 - Nov. 2, 2018

Advanced Placement PSYCHOLOGY with Mr. Duez

Chapter 4 - Sensation/Perception & Chapter 5 - Consciousness

WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON - Stages of Sleep: Consciousness, Sleep Cycles, Sleep Disorders; Including Crash Course: Sleep & Dreaming (first half); Pass out the FRQ Questions for Next Friday: FRQ Timed Writing - Research Methods 2014 & 2015
TUE - Dreams, & Hypnosis; Including Crash Course: Sleep & Dreaming; Including Crash Course: Sleep & Dreaming (second half)
WED/THU - Article Go To Sleep - read & discuss in class; Video: Crash Course Psychology - Altered States; Video: What is Consciousness?
FRI - Pick up CHART - DRUGS ~ Effect on Consciousness & The Second handout - Drugs to Know; Notes: Drugs & Altered Consciousness

ASSIGNMENTS:

Wed/Thu Article due Go To Sleep
Next Monday: Quiz CH 4 - Consciousness
Next Wed/Thu: TEST CH 3 Sensation/Perception & Consciousness
Next Friday: FRQ Timed Writing - Research Methods 2014 & 2015

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Monday, October 29, 2018
Quote: "History is philosophy teaching by examples."  - Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Explain the states of sleep.

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

ASSIGNMENTS:

Wed/Thu Article due Go To Sleep
Next Monday: Quiz CH 4 - Consciousness
Next Wed/Thu: TEST CH 3 Sensation/Perception & Consciousness
Next Friday: FRQ Timed Writing - Research Methods 2014 & 2015

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Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Quote: "People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."  - James Baldwin

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Why do we dream?

2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Consciousness, Sleep, Cycles, Sleep Disorders, Dreams, & Hypnosis
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 Article due Go To Sleep
Next Monday: Quiz CH 4 - Consciousness
Next Wed/Thu: TEST CH 3 Sensation/Perception & Consciousness
Next Friday: FRQ Timed Writing - Research Methods 2014 & 2015

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Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Thursday, November 1, 2018
Quote: "History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days."  - Winston Churchill

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Pick up article: Go To Sleep

2. Socratic Discussion: Article Go To Sleep

3. Video & Discussion: Crash Course Psychology - Altered States 

4. Video & Discussion: What is Consciousness?
Understanding what consciousness is, and why and how it evolved, is perhaps the greatest mystery known to science.

ASSIGNMENTS:

Wed/Thu Article due Go To Sleep
Next Monday: Quiz CH 4 - Consciousness
Next Wed/Thu: TEST CH 3 Sensation/Perception & Consciousness
Next Friday: FRQ Timed Writing - Research Methods 2014 & 2015

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Friday, November 2, 2018
Quote: "History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up."  - Voltaire

Agenda: 
1. DO NOW: Pick up CHART - DRUGS ~ Effect on Consciousness
The Second handout - Drugs to Know

Compare these drugs and their effects: Alcohol, Caffeine, Marijuana, LSD
How do drugs work?

2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Consciousness: 
Notes: Drugs & Altered Consciousness

ASSIGNMENTS:
Next Monday: Quiz CH 4 - Consciousness
Next Wed/Thu: TEST CH 3 Sensation/Perception & Consciousness
Next Friday: FRQ Timed Writing - Research Methods 2014 & 2015

Kudos to these great students!

Such an incredible nine week period and these students were the best of the best. Great job! 

Agenda: Week of Oct. 22 - 26, 2018

Advanced Placement PSYCHOLOGY with Mr. Duez

Chapter 4 - Sensation & Perception
and - Chapter 5 - Consciousness

WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON: Parts of the Ear; Psychophysics: Weights/Measures, Just Noticeable Difference; Gestalt Principles 
TUE: Quiz CH 4 - Sensation/Perception; Crash Course - Perceiving is Believing; QUESTIONS FOR CRASH COURSE #7 PERCEIVING IS BELIEVING
WED/THU: Visual system; Hearing system; Taste, Touch, & Pain; Introduction to Consciousness - Sleep & Dreams

FRI: *pep rally* Sleep Deprivation: The story of Peter Tripp; Sleep Disorders

ASSESSMENTS AT A GLANCE:
Tue: Quiz on CH 4 - Sensation & Perception
Next Mon: Quiz on CH 5 - Consciousness
Next Wed/Thu: TEST - CH 4 & CH 5 Sensation & Perception and Consciousness

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Monday, October 22, 2018

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: Draw & Label the parts of the ear

2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Psychophysics: Weights/Measures, Just Noticeable Difference; Gestalt Principles 

ASSESSMENTS AT A GLANCE:
Tue: Quiz on CH 4 - Sensation & Perception
Next Mon: Quiz on CH 5 - Consciousness
Next Wed/Thu: TEST - CH 4 & CH 5 Sensation & Perception and Consciousness

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Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Quote:  “An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.” - Pope John Paul I

Agenda:
1. QUIZ CH 4 - Sensation & Perception

2. Crash Course - Perceiving is Believing

Crash Course #7 - Perceiving is Believing

So what does perception even mean? What's the difference between seeing something and making sense of it? In today's episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank gives us some insight into the differences between sensing and perceiving.

QUESTIONS FOR CRASH COURSE #7 PERCEIVING IS BELIEVING

ASSESSMENTS AT A GLANCE:
Tue: Quiz on CH 4 - Sensation & Perception
Next Mon: Quiz on CH 5 - Consciousness
Next Wed/Thu: TEST - CH 4 & CH 5 Sensation & Perception and Consciousness

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Wednesday, October 24, 2018
and Thursday, October 25, 2018
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 QUESTION: What properties of sound would be the most similar to the color or hue of light? Explain how this functions in both hearing and vision.

2. Review Quiz for CH 4 - Sensation & Perception

4. Notes, Video, Discussion: Visual system; Hearing system; Taste, Touch, & Pain; Introduction to Consciousness - Sleep & Dreams

ASSESSMENTS AT A GLANCE:

Next Mon: Quiz on CH 5 - Consciousness
Next Wed/Thu: TEST - CH 4 & CH 5 Sensation & Perception and Consciousness

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Friday, October 26, 2018
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

*PEP RALLY SCHEDULE*

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: What is consciousness?

2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Sleep Deprivation: The story of Peter Tripp; Sleep Disorders

ASSESSMENTS AT A GLANCE:
Next Mon: Quiz on CH 5 - Consciousness
Next Wed/Thu: TEST - CH 4 & CH 5 Sensation & Perception and Consciousness

Agenda: Week of October 15 - 19, 2018

Advanced Placement PSYCHOLOGY with Mr. Duez

Chapter 3 - Biological Bases of Behavior 

WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON: Confusing Pairs Biological Bases of Behavior; Duez Notes: Heredity & Evolutionary Psych; Review of Neuroanatomy
TUE: TEST CH 3. - BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
WED/THU: Introduction to Sensation/Perception, 
FRI: Parts of the eye; Crash Course #5 - Sensation & Perception

ASSIGNMENTS AT A GLANCE:
TEST TUESDAY - CH 3. - BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
EXTRA CREDIT DUE ON FRIDAY
Next Tuesday - Quiz CH 4 - Sensation & Perception

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Monday, Oct. 15, 2018
Quote: "He Who Knows Others Is Wise. He Who Knows Himself Is Enlightened." - Tao Te Ching

Agenda:

1. DO NOW: Confusing Pairs Biological Bases of Behavior

2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Duez Notes: Heredity & Evolutionary Psych

3. Review of Neuroanatomy

ASSIGNMENTS:
TEST TUESDAY - CH 3. - BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
EXTRA CREDIT DUE ON FRIDAY

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Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018
Quote: "I haven’t failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” - Thomas Edison

Agenda:

1. TEST - CH 3. Biological Bases of Behavior
50 M/CH questions

ASSIGNMENTS:

TEST TUESDAY - CH 3. - BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
EXTRA CREDIT DUE ON FRIDAY

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Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018
and Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018
Quote: ”It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” - Aristotle

Agenda:

1. DO NOW: How much are you swayed by advertisements, commercials, or internet ads? 

2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Duez Notes: Sensation & Perception - Intro

3. Video: Derren Brown's Toy Story

ASSIGNMENTS:

EXTRA CREDIT DUE ON FRIDAY

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Friday, Nov. 19, 2018
Quote: “If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.” - Milton Berle

Agenda:
Friday-We will be on Pep Rally Schedule
1. DO NOW: Prepare Extra Credit to turn in... 
Draw and label the parts of the eye

2. Notes, Discussion, Video: Crash Course #5 - Sensation & Perception 

ASSIGNMENTS:
Tuesday - Quiz CH 4 - Sensation & Perception

AGENDA: Week of Oct. 8-12, 2018

Advanced Placement PSYCHOLOGY with Mr. Duez

Chapter 3 - Biological Bases of Behavior

WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON - NO SCHOOL - BUILDING CLOSED
TUE -  NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS - TEACHERS ONLY
WED - (4th Period Only) Documentary Video - David Eagleman - "What is Reality?"
THU - Afferent & Efferent nerves; The Nervous System; Brain Scenarios worksheet; Crash Course - The Brain (if time)
FRI - QUIZ CH 3 - Biological Bases of Behavior; Review Quiz

ASSIGNMENTS AT A GLANCE:
FRI - QUIZ CH 3 - Biological Bases of Behavior
Next TUESDAY - TEST CH 3 Biological Bases of Behavior

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Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018
Quote: “Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.” - Daniel Kahneman

1. DO NOW: The Somatic Nervous System (SNS) has two types of nerves - Afferent & Efferent - Explain them and the difference between the two. 

2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Neuroscience - The Nervous System

3. Brain Scenarios worksheet

4. Crash Course - The Brain (if time)

ASSIGNMENTS AT A GLANCE:
FRI - QUIZ CH 3 - Biological Bases of Behavior
Next TUESDAY - TEST CH 3 Biological Bases of Behavior

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Friday, Oct. 12, 2018
Quote: "I am learning all the time.  The tombstone will be my diploma."  - Eartha Kitt

Agenda:
1. QUIZ OVER CH 3 - BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR

2. Review Quiz

ASSIGNMENTS AT A GLANCE:
FRI - QUIZ CH 3 - Biological Bases of Behavior
Next TUESDAY - TEST CH 3 Biological Bases of Behavior