Agenda: Week of Dec. 2-6, 2019

Advanced Placement PSYCHOLOGY with Mr. Duez

Ch 7 - Memory & Ch 8 - Language & Thought ="Cognition"

MON: Introduction to Cognition: Language & Thought - Chapter 8; Video - Steven Pinker - Linguistics as a window to understanding the brain; Introduction: Cognition: Language & Thought 
TUE: How Language Impacts Thought
WED: ARTICLE: Is Texting Killing the English Language?; Cognition - Communication at Work
THU: Crash Course: Cognition: Mind Can Amaze & Betray; Cognition - Communication at Work
FRI: Quiz CH 8 - "Language & Thought"; Review Quiz
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ASSIGNMENTS:
Friday: QUIZ  - CH 8 "Language & Thought"
NEXT Tuesday: TEST - CH 7 & 8 "Cognition"
NEXT Wed/Thu - MOCK Exam "Fall AP Psychology Exam"
NEXT FRIDAY: EXTRA CREDIT DUE (corrections due by Tuesday, Dec. 17th)
FALL FINAL EXAMS - Dec 18, 19, 20

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Monday, December 2, 2019
Quote: "Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice." -
William James

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Copy questions down to help with the video we will watching introducing CH 8 "Language"

2. Video - Steven Pinker - Linguistics as a window to understanding the brain
Use the questions above to help you comprehend the video. Discussion. 

PINKER: Linguistics as a Window to Understanding Your Mind

3. Notes, Discussion: Duez Notes - Cognition: Language & Thought 

ASSIGNMENTS:
Friday: QUIZ  - CH 8 "Language & Thought"
NEXT Tuesday: TEST - CH 7 & 8 "Cognition"
NEXT Wed/Thu - MOCK Exam "Fall AP Psychology Exam"
NEXT FRIDAY: EXTRA CREDIT DUE (corrections due by Tuesday, Dec. 17th)
FALL FINAL EXAMS - Dec 18, 19, 20

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Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Quote: "The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny." - Albert Ellis

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: "Curious Blue Ideas Sleep Furiously" At what level is this statement AMBIGUOUS? 

2. Notes, Discussion, Video:  Duez Notes: How Language Impacts Thought

ASSIGNMENTS:
Friday: QUIZ  - CH 8 "Language & Thought"
NEXT Tuesday: TEST - CH 7 & 8 "Cognition"
NEXT Wed/Thu - MOCK Exam "Fall AP Psychology Exam"
NEXT FRIDAY: EXTRA CREDIT DUE (corrections due by Tuesday, Dec. 17th)
FALL FINAL EXAMS - Dec 18, 19, 20

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Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Quote: "Revolutions are the locomotives of history." - Karl Marx

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Pick up the article from the front table. 
ARTICLE: Is Texting Killing the English Language?

2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Duez Notes: Cognition - Communication at Work

ASSIGNMENTS:
Friday: QUIZ  - CH 8 "Language & Thought"
NEXT Tuesday: TEST - CH 7 & 8 "Cognition"
NEXT Wed/Thu - MOCK Exam "Fall AP Psychology Exam"
NEXT FRIDAY: EXTRA CREDIT DUE (corrections due by Tuesday, Dec. 17th)
FALL FINAL EXAMS - Dec 18, 19, 20

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Thursday, December 5, 2019
Quote: "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots." - Marcus Garvey

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: What is Metacognition?

2. Crash Course: Cognition: Mind Can Amaze & Betray

We used to think that the human brain was a lot like a computer; using logic to figure out complicated problems. It turns out, it's a lot more complex and, well, weird than that. In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank discusses thinking & communication, solving problems, creating problems, and a few ideas about what our brains are doing up there. (Thinking & Communicating, Solving Problems, Creating Problems)

3. Finish Notes, Video, Discussion: Duez Notes: Cognition - Communication at Work

ASSIGNMENTS:
Friday: QUIZ  - CH 8 "Language & Thought"
NEXT Tuesday: TEST - CH 7 & 8 "Cognition"
NEXT Wed/Thu - MOCK Exam "Fall AP Psychology Exam"
NEXT FRIDAY: EXTRA CREDIT DUE (corrections due by Tuesday, Dec. 17th)
FALL FINAL EXAMS - Dec 18, 19, 20
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Friday, December 6, 2019
Quote: "The past changes a little every time we retell it." - Hilary Mantel

Agenda:
1. QUIZ  - CH 8 "Language & Thought"

2. Review Quiz

ASSIGNMENTS:
Friday: QUIZ  - CH 8 "Language & Thought"
NEXT Tuesday: TEST - CH 7 & 8 "Cognition"
NEXT Wed/Thu - MOCK Exam "Fall AP Psychology Exam"
NEXT FRIDAY: EXTRA CREDIT DUE (corrections due by Tuesday, Dec. 17th)
FALL FINAL EXAMS - Dec 18, 19, 20

AGENDA: Week of Nov. 18-22, 2019

Advanced Placement Psychology with Mr. Duez

Ch 7 - Memory; Ch 8 - Language & Thought

WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON: Finish (HSAM) Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory; Memory Models: Encoding, Storage, & Retrieval. Focus on Encoding & Storage: Attention; Levels of Processing; Enriching Encoding. Sensory/Short-Term/Long-Term Memory.Atkinson-Shifrin Model of Memory Stores
TUE: Retrieval: Getting info out of memory; Cues; Context; Reconstruction & Misinformation; Monitoring
WED: FRQ Flip - FRQ Timed Writing - Research Methods 2014 & 2015
THU: Forgetting: Ebbinghaus Curve; Recovered memory controversy; In Search of Memory - the physiology of memory; Systems & Types of Memory: Declarative/Procedural; Semantic/Episodic; Prospective/Retrospective Memory.
FRI: Quiz CH. 7 Memory; Review Quiz

ASSIGNMENTS:
WEDNESDAY - FRQ Flip - FRQ Timed Writing - Research Methods 2014 & 2015
Friday - Quiz CH 7 Memory
Enjoy Thanksgiving Break!
 --- NO ASSIGNMENTS! 
DO NOT WORK ON PSYCH. 
Get ready for the sprint to the finish line this semester.

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Monday, November 18, 2019
Quote of the Day: "Sometimes you never really the importance of a moment until it becomes a memory." - Anon

1. DO NOW: What might explain why musicians have a memory edge?

2. Memory Wizards - Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (video 13 minutes) & Discussion. What can be learned from HSAM persons?

3. Notes & Discussion: Memory Models: Encoding, Storage, & Retrieval.
Focus on Encoding & Storage: Attention; Levels of Processing; Enriching Encoding. Sensory/Short-Term/Long-Term Memory.

ASSIGNMENTS:
WEDNESDAY - FRQ Flip - FRQ Timed Writing - Research Methods 2014 & 2015
Friday - Quiz CH 7 Memory
Enjoy Thanksgiving Break!

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Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Quote of the Day: “Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.” ―Doris Day

1. DO NOW: Explain the Theory - Model of Information Processing (Atkinson-Shiffrin).  

2. Notes & Discussion: Retrieval: Getting info out of memory; Cues; Context; Reconstruction & Misinformation; Monitoring

ASSIGNMENTS:
WEDNESDAY - FRQ Flip - FRQ Timed Writing - Research Methods 2014 & 2015
Friday - Quiz CH 7 Memory
Enjoy Thanksgiving Break!

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Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Quote of the Day: “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”  - William Arthur Ward

1. FRQ Flip - FRQ Timed Writing - Research Methods 2014 & 2015
Mr. Duez will flip a coin for each class period. 
Heads is 2014 Question. 
Tails is 2015 Question. 

ASSIGNMENTS:
WEDNESDAY - FRQ Flip - FRQ Timed Writing - Research Methods 2014 & 2015
Friday - Quiz CH 7 Memory
Enjoy Thanksgiving Break!

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Thursday, November 21, 2019
Quote of the Day: “If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.”  - W. Clement Stone

1. DO NOW: Differences between Proactive & Retroactive Interference.

3. Notes & Discussion: Forgetting: Ebbinghaus Curve; Recovered memory controversy; In Search of Memory - the physiology of memory; Systems & Types of Memory: Declarative/Procedural; Semantic/Episodic; Prospective/Retrospective 

ASSIGNMENTS:
WEDNESDAY - FRQ Flip - FRQ Timed Writing - Research Methods 2014 & 2015
Friday - Quiz CH 7 Memory
Enjoy Thanksgiving Break!

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Friday, November 22, 2019
Quote of the Day: “Gratitude doesn’t change the scenery. It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors.”  - Richelle E. Goodrich

1. Quiz - CH 7 "Learning"

2. Review Quiz

ASSIGNMENTS:
WEDNESDAY - FRQ Flip - FRQ Timed Writing - Research Methods 2014 & 2015
Friday - Quiz CH 7 Memory
Enjoy Thanksgiving Break!

Agenda: Week of Nov. 11 - 15, 2019

Advanced Placement Psychology with Mr. Duez

Ch 6 - Learning - TEST THIS WEEK
COGNITION: Ch 7 - Memory; Ch 8 - Language & Thought

WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON: Quiz - CH 6 - Learning; Review Quiz
TUE: Taste Aversion; Observational/Biological-Evolutionary/Latent/Cognitive Learning; How is Cognitive Learning the new wave? 
WED/THU: TEST - CHAPTER 6 - Learning; After test - Pick up & work on the FRQ Timed Writing - Research Methods 2014 & 2015; Introduction to Memory
FRI: Introduction to Memory; SAM - Superior Autobiographical Memory Wizards; How memory works and functions - sensory, short-term, long-term stores

ASSIGNMENTS:
Monday - Quiz - CH 6 - Learning
Wed/Thu this week - TEST - CHAPTER 6 - Learning
Tuesday Next Week - FRQ Flip - FRQ Timed Writing - Research Methods 2014 & 2015

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Monday, November 11, 2019
Quote of the Day: "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." Lao Tzu

1. DO NOW: Define Observational Learning. Do video games cause violence?

2. Review Quiz Answers 

ASSIGNMENTS:
Monday - Quiz - CH 6 - Learning
Wed/Thu this week - TEST - CHAPTER 6 - Learning
Tuesday Next Week - FRQ Flip - FRQ Timed Writing - Research Methods 2014 & 2015

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Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Quote of the Day: "The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection." Thomas Paine

1. DO NOW: Why do we develop a taste aversion to certain foods?

2. Notes, Discussion, Video: Observational/Biological-Evolutionary/Latent/Cognitive Learning

ASSIGNMENTS:
Monday - Quiz - CH 6 - Learning
Wed/Thu this week - TEST - CHAPTER 6 - Learning
Tuesday Next Week - FRQ Flip - FRQ Timed Writing - Research Methods 2014 & 2015

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Wednesday, November 13, 2019
& Thursday, November 14, 2019
Quote of the Day: "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller

1. TEST - CH 6 LEARNING

2. Pick up the FRQ: FRQ Timed Writing - Research Methods 2014 & 2015
Timed-Writing Flip next Tuesday in class. 

3. Introduction to Memory

ASSIGNMENTS:
Monday - Quiz - CH 6 - Learning
Wed/Thu this week - TEST - CHAPTER 6 - Learning
Tuesday Next Week - FRQ Flip - FRQ Timed Writing - Research Methods 2014 & 2015

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Friday, November 15, 2019
Quote of the Day: "A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." - Christopher Reeve

1. DO NOW: Studies show that musicians tend to have a better memory than non-musicians, not just for music, but for words & pictures too. What might explain the reason why musicians have an edge?

2. Notes, Video, & Discussion: 
Memory Wizards - Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (video 13 minutes) & Discussion. What can be learned from HSAM persons?

3. Notes & Discussion: 

Memory Models: Encoding, Storage, & Retrieval.
Focus on Encoding & Storage: Attention; Levels of Processing; Enriching Encoding. Sensory/Short-Term/Long-Term Memory.

ASSIGNMENTS:
Monday - Quiz - CH 6 - Learning
Wed/Thu this week - TEST - CHAPTER 6 - Learning
Tuesday Next Week - FRQ Flip - FRQ Timed Writing - Research Methods 2014 & 2015

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