April 21/22

Journal: How would your mom/dad describe your personality? How would your best friend?

Activities:
-Rorschach inkblots
-Personality powerpoint
-Personality tests

April 19/20

Journal: What is your favorite season? Why?

Activities:
Review read
Review for test
Test
Turn in packets

"Learning" Test Review

-What is Classical Conditioning (UCS, UCR, NS, CS, CR)

-What is Operant Conditioning (acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization, discrimination, shaping)

-Reinforcement
Positive: Adding something = behavior increasing
Negative: Taking away something aversive = behavior increasing


-Punishment
Positive: Adding something = behavior decreasing
Negative: Taking way something = behavior decreasing

-Schedules of reinforcement (continuous vs partial)
fixed interval (3 min, 3 min, 3 min)
fixed ration (1:3, 1:3, 1:3)
variable interval (4 min, 2 min, 9 min, 1 min)
variable ration (1:5, 1:9, 1:1)

Albert Bandura:
Ivan Pavlov:
BF Skinner:
John B. Watson:

Operant and classical conditioning ignore cognitive processes

Modeling:
Pro-social behavior:
Latent Learning:

Look over the rest of your notes, but these are the main ideas. If you have any questions leave a comment and I'll get back to you. Good luck!!!!!

April 15/16

Journal:

Activities:
-pg 212
-Complete handouts
-Test Review

April 12/13

Journal: None

Activities:
Officer Robison

If you were absent write a half-page description of how you would use operant conditioning to train an animal.

April 2

Journal: How do you learn new information? Explain

Activities:
-Observational learning (smoothies)
-Learning styles quiz

March 31/April 1

Journal: What is the funnest thing (education-wise) that you ahve learned in school?

Activities:
Lab 2
Social learning/cognitive learning notes
Learning handout
pg 212

March 29/30

Journal: Describe the difference between positive and negative reinforcement and positive and negative punishment.

Activities:
Reinforcement/interval handout
Learning video

March 25/26

Journal: Do you think classical conditioning works? Why or why not?

Activities:
Finished classical conditioning drawings
Operant conditioning notes
Group reinforcement/punishment exercise

March 23/24

Journal: How would you train somebody to do what you wanted them to? Describe

Activities:
Preassessment questions
Chapter 7 free read
Classical conditioning notes
Lemonade lab
Classical conditioning drawings

March 18/19

Journal: Why do you think it's important to learn about consciousness/dreaming? How does it apply to your life?

Activities:
-Chapter 6 review read/write
-Consciousness test
-Correct test
-Turn in packets

March 16/17

Journal: Do you believe hypnosis works? Why or why not?

Activities:
pg 494-495-Drugs
Sleep disorder notes
pg 178-179-Hypnosis
Hypnosis/Other states of consciousness notes

Test on Thursday/Friday!!!!!!!!


Test Study Guide: All of these answers will be in your notes, along with everything else on the test.

Stages of sleep and brain waves associated with them (Stages 1, 2, 3, 4, and REM)

The brain waves found in an awake and alert person are called ________________

What is REM rebound?

Freud:manifest and latent content, dream analysis

What is NREM?

Sleep disorders: Narcelopsy, nightmares, nightterrors,

Hypnosis

Cycles: entrained, free running, biological clocks

Alcohol is a depressant
Cocaine is a stimulant
Marijuana has THC in it

The difference between subconscious, unconscious and conscious

Know the three reasons why we sleep and dream and be able to explain them.

Good luck!!!!

March 12/15

Journal: None

Activities:
Finish drug presentations
Sleep lab

Test on Thursday/Friday

March 10/11

Journal: Do you drink a lot of caffeine? How do you feel when you drink it?

Activities:
Drug presentation
Caffeine lab

March 8/9

Journal: What do you most often dream about?

Activities:
Dream Analysis
Drugs
Computer Lab-for drug presentation

March 4/5

Journal: What was your worst dream? Describe how you felt. What you saw. etc

Activities:
Sleep Notes
Dream Notes
pg 174

March 2/3

Journal: How has your attitude toward sleep changed since childhood?

Activities:
Consciousness notes
pg 98-99-subliminal messages
Sleep notes

Feb 26/March 1

Journal: What is your favorite book? Why?

Activities:
Chapter 3 Review Read
Unit 2 test/turn in packets

Study Guide for Brain Test

-Know the four lobes of the brain and what they do. (Parietal lobe, frontal lobe, occipital lobe, and temporal lobe)

-Know the parts of the neurons and what they do. (axons, dendrites, synapse, cell body, vesicles, and neurotransmitters)

-Vesicles are the storage part of the neuron. Dopamine is involved in Parkinson's

-Know what the pituitary gland and thyroid do.

-What is the "master gland"

-What are male hormones called (not testosterone) and female hormones called?

-What the outermost layer of the brain is called

You'll do wonderfully on the test, thanks for studying!!!

Feb 24/25

Journal: Describe what you've learned about the brain so far.
Activities:
Phantom limb pg 78 questions 1 and 2
Hempispheric differences pg 62-63, critical thinking questions
Limbic system notes
Endocrine system notes

Test next class!!!!!!!!!

Feb 22/23

Journal: If you could switch brains with anyone, whose brain would you take? Why?

Activities:
Brain notes
Phineas Gage Video
Brain Dominance

Feb18/19

Journal: None
Activitiy: Cyberbrain packet

Feb 16/17

Journal: What makes you angry?

Activities:
Nueron notes
Chapter 3 free read
Nervous system notes

February 11/12

Journal: When you eat chocolate how do you feel? What thoughts go through your mind?

Activity:
"Love" Notes
Valentines

Feb 9/10

Journal: If you could put one question on the test what would it be?

Activities:
pg 44 bias
review for test
test

Feb 5/8

Journal:
If you could conduct any survey at Bountiful High, what would you ask? Why?

Activities:
Correlation
Chapter 2 Free Read
Notes
Write Survey

Feb 3/4

Journal: Should boundries be placed on scientific experiments?

Activities:
Research help
Stanley Milgrim video

February 1/2

Journal:
If you could conduct any psychological experiment what would it be?

Acitivites:
pg 14-15 critical thinking (write one paragraph)
Present psychological perspectives
pg 16 "Before Psychology" (write one paragraph)
notes

January 28/29

Journal:
Which type of psychological work do you find most interesting? why?

Activities:
Free read chapter 1
Notes
psychological perspective group work

January 26/27

Journal: What do you think psychologists do?

Activity:
1. Present shields (if you were absent on a piece of paper without using numbers or words represent: longterm goal, talent/hobby, an animal that represents you, and your prized possessions)
2. Unit outline
3. Handwriting analysis
3. Notes

Welcome!

Welcome to Introductory Psychology. Every day I will update this blog with the day's journal and activities. Leave a comment if you have any questions and I will try to get back to you before next class period.
Ms. Jensen