Notes - Unit 1 - Psychology Approaches

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Psych Notes Unit 1 - Introduction to Psychology

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Psych in college...

This is a photo from a former student that is taking Psychology in college at Sam Houston University. :)

A little different from our cramped quarters in 1207, isn't it? A couple of those students might be out of dress code. :)

Survey Says, "Please fill out the student info form."

Isn't life just one big experiment?

In an effort to get to know you a little better and to assist me in helping you pass the AP Test (On Monday May 5, 2014 at Noon!), I'd like to get some information from you.

Please fill out this form by Friday. Doing so will earn you your first grade and a simple 100. A great way to start out the semester.

Student Information Survey Form

Looking forward to working with all of you this year.

Textbook Message

If you still have not gotten a textbook...  

The textbook room will be open every day after school for the first week for those students that did not attend Flight School.  We will open at 2:50 and close at 3:15.

 

If a student has early release then they must see Ms. Burton before school to fill out a textbook request form and we will have them pick them up the next morning.

 

Any student that has any lost textbook(s) from the previous year will not be allowed to check out textbooks until the books have been paid for.

Of course you could always purchase a book if you wished. 

I had several students do that last year. The book:
Textbook: Weiten, Wayne. Psychology: Themes & Variations. Wadsworth Thomson Learning; Fifth Edition, 2001.

However if you purchase newer versions you will be fine. The text isn't substantially different and I rarely even refer to the page numbers in our text. It is essential to do the reading because it gives you a baseline of understanding. Teamed with our notes and class work, you will be fine. We also use a healthy dose of PsycTrek 3.0 in class. That is a digital learning tool from the textbook. It's pretty awesome.

Notes - Unit 1 - Evolution of Psychology

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Greetings New Students (and former students who I will have the pleasure of seeing again)

Hope summer has treated you well. Flight school is this week and many students have been getting their schedules. I have heard from a few of you and your parents already. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about the course.

AP Psychology is really going to be a great class this year and I have been working all summer to make it better than ever. If you happen to have the course in the fall, do not despair. The AP Test will be in the spring, however my students typically perform the same whether they have taken the class in the fall or spring. The only difference is that in the past there have been less students who took the exam from the fall semester. Percentage wise scores were almost identical.

This year I am putting into place a new system that will make review for the exam even easier. So it is not a bad thing to have the course in the fall. You can do it. I have two AP Psychology classes in the fall and two in the spring. So it's even.

We will start learning Unit 1 which is the first two chapters PLUS chapter 14. The calendar on this site already has the Tests, Quizzes, and assignments pretty well up to date. So you can check ahead to see where that stands. (Obviously things can change and will change, especially when our administrators start changing the bell schedule around, but it is a schedule I plan to stick to as closely as possible.)

The first two chapters are introductory and set the stage for the rest of the course. The first is the History/Evolution of Psychology as a subject. The second chapter covers Research Methods, which is vital for the AP test and also the techniques used (even a little math!) will be helpful throughout the course. New this fall, I am adding Chapter 14 - Personality to the mix. The reason? In the past it has been a 'take home' test. I want to focus more on it this year. It is a small part of the AP test, but deals with some of the most interesting and fun discussions. Freud and Psycho-dynamic theory will be the focus there.

Looking forward to seeing some old faces of those of you who have had World History with me in the past. And I am really looking forward to meeting the new students. I am lucky and privileged to get to know you all.

Enjoy your last bit of summer. When Monday comes to start school, we'll be getting after it straight away.

DFTBA

Agenda: Last 2 weeks of the year May 28 - June 6, 2013

Advanced Placement Psychology

Review Week & Final Exam

WEEK at a Glance:

MON - No School - Memorial Day

TUE - Guest Speaker

WED/THU - Review for Final Exams

FRI - Extra Credit Due, Review for Final Exams

Last week of the school year...

MON & TUE - Review

WED - Finals 1, 2, 5

THU - Finals 3, 6

FRI - Finals 7, 4

DONE! 

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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Quote: "And we shall shine on, like the moon and the stars and the sun." - John Lennon
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: What question would you ask of a person who works in the field of psychology for a living?
2. Guest Speaker - Rebecca Jarrell, MA, LCP. Students will take notes, write down and ask questions, and they will reflect at the end about what they learned.

Rebecca Jarrell

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Wednesday, May 29, 2013 and Thursday, May 30, 2013
Quote: "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain and most fools do." - Benjamin Franklin 
Agenda:
1. Review for the final exam.

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Friday, May 31, 2013
Quote: "To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time." - Leonard Bernstein
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Prepare extra credit ~ both video project and review to turn in - This is the FINAL DAY.
2. Present Video Projects 
3. Review for the final exam.

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Monday, June 3, 2013

Quote: "Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them." - Dalai Lama

Agenda:

1. Present any last Video Projects

2. Review for the final exam.

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Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Quote: “People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.” - George Carlin

Agenda:

1. Present any last Video Projects

2. Review for the final exam.

My boy Gryff knows how to have a good time.

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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Quote: “DFTBA - Don't Forget To Be Awesome." - John Green 

Thanks for a GREAT SEMESTER! 

Agenda:

1. Final Exam.

FINAL EXAM SCHEDULE:

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Beginning in July, students will get AP scores online! Since we'll no longer be sending reports in the mail, there are a few things students will want to do to get ready.

Also, you could follow Trevor Packer, Senior Vice President, AP and College Readiness on TWITTER:
Trevor Packer is responsible for leading, developing and managing the College Board's Advanced Placement Program and associated College Readiness (K-12) programs and services. This involves providing executive direction for all programs, activities, products and services related to helping students prepare for and be successful in college. In addition to AP, these programs and services include ReadiStep™, PSAT/NMSQT, and SpringBoard®. The division's core competencies are focused on curriculum development, teacher professional development, creation of instructional resources, and the design and management of high stakes assessment programs designed to yield instructionally relevant feedback for educators and students.

AP_Trevor provides great information regarding each of the tests, including statistics, chronology of when to expect scores, and general AP Info.

Agenda: Week of May 20 - May 24, 2013

Advanced Placement Psychology with Mr. Duez

AP Psych Party - Review for Finals - Senior Finals

Week at a Glance:
MON - Project/Extra Credit Discussion; College Lectures/Review; Final Party Prep
TUE - PARTY
WED - Finals for Seniors Period 2; Catch up on topics that we could not delve into completely this semester, there were many because of State Testing.
FRI - Present Video Projects; The Psychology of Evil

Crazy Schedule for the Week:

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Monday, May 20, 2013
Quote: "There will be no rescue, no intervention for us. We can only save ourselves. Many of you know influential people abroad, you must call these people. You must tell them what will happen to us... say goodbye. But when you say goodbye, say it as if you are reaching through the phone and holding their hand. Let them know that if they let go of that hand, you will die. We must shame them into sending help." - Paul Rusesabagina

Discuss the following items:
1. Book return is happening during English class.
2. Discuss the Video Project. We went over proposals Friday. Any final questions? They are due Friday for Seniors and the following Friday for Juniors.
3. Final Exam - Our final will be an AP Test for Psychology -or- one of our Practice AP Tests. Study those and prepare. The FRQ questions will be extra credit for your final exam grade.
4. College Lectures over advanced Psych topics.
5. Party Prep.

Chocolate is a need.

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Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
Quote: "I am the person I am today because of the choices I made yesterday." Elanor Roosevelt

1. PARTY - celebrate AP Test! 

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Wednesday May, 2013
Quote: “In this jersey I pledge to play for the logo on the front, not the name on the back.” - Sidney Crosby
1. Final Exams for Seniors.
2. Catch up on topics that we could not delve into completely this semester, there were many because of State Testing.

Hmmmm.

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Friday, May 24th, 2013
Quote: "Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."- Ralph Waldo Emerson

1. Present Video Projects.
2. The Psychology of Evil.

Agenda: Week of May 13 - May 17, 2013

Advanced Placement Psychology with Mr. Duez

Preparation for the Final Exam

Week at a Glance:
MON- Review the Video Project; Video w/discussion: TedTalks - Brain more than a bag of chemicals
TUE- Placebo Effect
WED/THU- Cooperative time for Video Project; Psychology College Lectures
FRI- Guest Speaker
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Monday, May 13, 2013
Quote: "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden

Agenda:
DO NOW QUESTION: What project would you choose at this point for a video project presentation?
- Bystander Effect
- Asche Conformity Experiment
- Classical Conditioning
- Operant Conditioning
- Piaget - Conservation
- Selective Attention
- Awareness Test - Who Cheated?
- Invisible Rope Trick

Memory and Gender
Conduct an investigation to see whether there are links between gender and the ability to remember. Devise a set of 20 flashcards, 10 of which should have single-word nouns, such as "ball" or "cloud," and 10 with numerals, such as 10 or 68. Compile a sample with equal numbers of girls and boys before sitting participants down individually and showing them the flashcards one-by-one. After you have shown a participant all the cards, engage him with a distraction task, such as a two-minute conversation with you. Then get him to write down as many of the words and numbers as he can recall. Mark the results pages clearly to show whether it was a male or female respondent before comparing the performance across genders.

The Psychology of Feeling Watched
Compile a random sample of your classmates to participate in this study, which examines the feeling people get when they are being watched. Take the names of your participants and divide them into two equal groups: A and B. Designate group A as the one that you will watch during the experiment. Find an area where you can ask your participants to stand with their backs to you, such as at the bottom of a staircase. Instruct group A to stand at that spot and face the wall for 30 seconds. Watch them from a concealed spot near the top of the staircase. Then instruct group B to stand with their backs to you, but do not watch them. Have the participants verbally report to you whether they felt as if they were being watched. Study your results to see whether your sample could correctly identify whether they were being watched.

Music and Heart Rate
Look for how different styles of music are reflected in the participants' heart rates and consider whether certain styles or tempos of music lead to faster or slower heart rates. Find a separate area where you can carry out your experiment with respondents one by one in isolation. Sit your participant down in a chair before strapping him up with a heart rate monitor and a set of headphones. Play different styles of music at the same volume for two-minute bursts, noting the effect of each style on the respondent's heart rate. Expose the respondent to two minutes of silence or low white noise in between music segments to allow the heart rate to normalize. Examine your results for any patterns.

Optical Illusions
Carry out a study to see how different people initially interpret optical illusions. Seat your sample as a group, but instruct them not to speak for the duration of the experiment. Project or hold up posters of optical illusions and get each participant to write down what he sees in the optical illusion. Collect the answer sheets before allowing participants to discuss the illusions. Mark up the scores for each of the illusions to see if one image prevails over the other or to detect any patterns, such as by gender, for witnessing one aspect of an illusion over the other.
Read more: Easy Psychology Experiments You Can Do in Class | eHow http://www.ehow.com/info_12003039_easy-psychology-experiments-can-class.html#ixzz2T7QMjQeq

1. Discuss the Video Project. Proposal for your project is due by the end of the week. Write up an explanation of the project, participants, and your inital hypothesis.
2. TedTalks - Your brain is more than a bag of chemicals - by David Anderson.
Modern psychiatric drugs treat the chemistry of the whole brain, but neurobiologist David Anderson believes in a more nuanced view of how the brain functions. He illuminates new research that could lead to targeted psychiatric medications -- that work better and avoid side effects. How's he doing it? For a start, by making a bunch of fruit flies angry. (Filmed at TEDxCaltech.) 

Good luck on the rest of your AP Tests!

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Quote:  "Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day." - Polish Proverb

Agenda:
1. Review Video Project & Review Extra Credit opportunities. *Some students will miss class this week due to AP Tests in the morning.
2. Documentary: Derren Brown: Faith and Fear, Part I: The Placebo Effect
3. We will discuss the documentary after it ends.
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013 & Thursday, May 16, 2013
Quote: “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”  - Albert Einstein

Agenda:
DO NOW: What question would you ask of a practicing counselor that works in the field of psychology daily? You will have that chance on Friday!
1. Review Video Project & Review Extra Credit opportunities. *Some students will miss class this week due to AP Tests in the morning.
2. Cooperative work in groups on Video Project: Time to work in groups on your video project.
3. College Psychology Lectures:
Introduction to Abnormal Behavior, Part I  -- Part II -- Part III -- Part IV -- Part V -- Part VI
- University of London. Psychology Lecture Taster Series: Short highlight clips of Prof Tamar Pincus lecture on Introduction to Abnormal Psychology
A Person in the World of People, Self and Other, Part I (Yale University, Professor Paul Bloom)

This is the first of two lectures on social psychology, the study of how we think about ourselves, other people, and social groups. Students will hear about the famous "six degrees of separation" phenomenon and how it illuminates important individual differences in social connectedness. This lecture also reviews a number of important biases that greatly influence how we think of ourselves as well as other people.
00:00 - Chapter 1. Social Psychology and Connections Between People 
15:56 - Chapter 2. Aspects of the Self: The Spotlight and Transparency Effects
22:39 - Chapter 3. Aspects of the Self: You're Terrific!
27:00 - Chapter 4. Aspects of the Self: Cognitive Dissonance
40:00 - Chapter 5. Self and the Other
50:03 - Chapter 6. How We Think About Other People
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Friday, May 17, 2013
Quote: "Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. Courage is what counts." - Sir Winston Churchill

Agenda:
1. Review Video Project & Review Extra Credit opportunities. *Some students will miss class this week due to AP Tests in the morning.

Guest Speaker - Rebecca Jarrell, MA, LCP. Students will take notes, write down and ask questions, and they will reflect at the end about what they learned.

Rebecca Jarrell