AP Psychology Resources

• Review & AP Exam Resources 
• Unit 1 History & Approaches
• Unit 2 Research Methods
• Unit 3A Neural Processing & Endocrine System
• Unit 3B The Brain
• Unit 3C Genetics
• Unit 4 Sensation & Perception 
• Unit 5 States of Consciousness
• Unit 6 Learning
• Unit 7A Memory
• Unit 7B Thinking, Problem Solving, Creativity, Language
• Unit 8A Motivation
• Unit 8B Emotions, Stress, & Health
• Unit 9 Developmental Psychology
• Unit 10 Personality
• Unit 11 Testing & Individual Differences
• Unit 12 Abnormal Psychology
• Unit 13 Treatment of Psychological Disorders
• Unit 14 Social Psychology​

HW Due Everyday:

• Bring the Myers Study Guide and your text book

In Class Wednesday, May 22nd - Soundtrack to Your Life Project Presentations & Three Identical Strangers:

• Soundtrack to Your Life Project Presentations
• Begin viewing the documentary Three Identical Strangers
• Discuss key concepts from class that are tied to the film

HW Due Wednesday, May 22nd:

• Bring text book
• Soundtrack to Your Life Rubric
• Soundtrack to Your Life Album Cover printed
  Soundtrack to Your Life Liner Notes printed

In Class Monday, May 20th - Soundtrack to Your Life Project:

• Listen to another teacher's example for the Soundtrack to Your Life Project
• Review the requirements for the Soundtrack to Your Life Project
• Reflect on our lives and continue working on the project individually​

HW Due Monday, May 20th:

• Bring text book, laptop, and earbud / headphones
• Bring Soundtrack to Your Life packet

In Class Thursday, May 16th - Soundtrack to Your Life Project:

• Fill out the course survey
• Listen to another teacher's example for the Soundtrack to Your Life Project
• Reflect on our lives and continue working on the project individually
• Seniors that won't be here next week can give their presentations

HW Due Thursday, May 16th:

• Bring text book, laptop, and earbud / headphones
• Bring Soundtrack to Your Life packet

In Class Tuesday, May 14th - Soundtrack to Your Life Project:

• This is Your Brain on Music video & discussion
• Go over the requirements for the Soundtrack to Your Life Project
• Listen to a few of the teacher's examples
• Reflect on our lives and begin working on the project individually
• Senior that won't be here Friday can give their presentation

HW Due Tuesday, May 14th:

• Letter to Next Year's AP PSYCH Students writing assignment

In Class Friday, May 10th - Letter to Next Year's Students:

• Learn requirements for Letter to Next Year's AP PSYCH Students assignment
• Write Letter to Next Year's AP PSYCH Students

Thursday, May 9th, 11:45AM: College Board AP PSYCH Exam

HW Due Thursday, May 9th:

• Sleep 8 hours Wednesday night
• Eat breakfast and lunch on Thursday
• Stop by the classroom before school Thursday morning

In Class Wednesday, May 9th - AP Exam Review Session:

• Stress the importance of Appendix A, B, C, & D in the back of the text. Students should feel comfortable defining and applying all terms in bold print
• Remind students of difference between skipping lines between each line (kindergarten writing style) and skipping lines between terms in the prompt (CHUG SODAS)
• Continue to analyze our other MCQ and FRQ results from last classes, make note of most challenging concepts so we can study further on our own
• Study for the AP Psych exam individually in any format you choose. Teacher recommends one of the following:
  • 2017 MCQ or FRQ
  • 2016 MCQ or FRQ
  • 2015 MCQ or FRQ
  • 2014 MCQ or FRQ
  • Online quizzes
  • Barron's practice tests
  • Myers Study Guide practice tests
  • End-of-unit practice test questions from Myers text book
  • Challenge ourselves with the units we performed worst on this year 
    • Most common units: Biological 3, Sensation & Perception 4, & Development 9

HW Due Wednesday, May 8th:

• ​All AP Exam study materials: notebooks, vocab note cards, text book, laptop, study guide(s)
• Must complete 3 mandatory after school or weekend study sessions before the AP Exam. Talk to other students and teacher to schedule the sessions.

In Class Monday, May 6th - AP Exam Review Session:

• Stress the importance of Appendix A, B, C, & D in the back of the text. Students should feel comfortable defining and applying all terms in bold print
• Analogy for studying this week: Think of an athlete before the big game. They would not have marathon all night long practice the night before. (analogy from AP teacher FB community)
• Outrageous Abnormal Celebrity activity in pairs - get formative feedback from teacher before we move on
• Continue to analyze our other MCQ and FRQ results from last classes, make note of most challenging concepts so we can study further on our own
• Study for the AP Psych exam individually in any format you choose. Teacher recommends one of the following:
  • 2017 MCQ or FRQ
  • 2016 MCQ or FRQ
  • 2015 MCQ or FRQ
  • 2014 MCQ or FRQ
  • Online quizzes
  • Barron's practice tests
  • Myers Study Guide practice tests
  • End-of-unit practice test questions from Myers text book
  • Challenge ourselves with the units we performed worst on this year 
    • Most common units: Biological 3, Sensation & Perception 4, & Development 9

HW Due Monday, May 6th:

• ​All AP Exam study materials: notebooks, vocab note cards, text book, laptop, study guide(s)
• Must complete 3 mandatory after school or weekend study sessions before the AP Exam. Talk to other students and teacher to schedule the sessions.

In Class Thursday, May 2nd - AP Exam Review Session:

• Study for the AP Psych exam individually in any format you choose. Teacher recommends one of the following:
  • 2017 MCQ or FRQ
  • 2016 MCQ or FRQ
  • 2015 MCQ or FRQ
  • 2014 MCQ or FRQ
  • Online quizzes
  • Barron's practice tests
  • Myers Study Guide practice tests
  • End-of-unit practice test questions from Myers text book
  • Challenge ourselves with the units we performed worst on this year 
    • Most common units: Biological 3, Sensation & Perception 4, & Development 9
  • Active (not passive) studying - have notebooks next to us to make note of challenging concepts we need to restudy
• Reminder of FRQ tips - CHUG SODAS
• As a whole class, grade our FRQs with the Scoring Guidelines, and calculate what our score would be
• Continue to analyze our other MCQ and FRQ results from last classes, make note of most challenging concepts so we can study further on our own
• Distribute: Terms not in the book study guides sheets to any students that did not get them before

HW Due Thursday, May 2nd:

• ​All AP Exam study materials: notebooks, vocab note cards, text book, laptop, study guide(s)
• Must complete 3 mandatory after school or weekend study sessions before the AP Exam. Talk to other students and teacher to schedule the sessions.

In Class Tuesday, April 30th - AP Exam Review Session:

• MCQ & FRQ tips and techniques presentation - CHUG SODAS
• Take the 2018 Released AP Psych FRQ Exam
• Teacher will not help students taking released exams until they are finished, but call the teacher over any time we encounter brand new terms or concepts we never covered this year so the teacher can make note of it
• Grade our FRQs with the Scoring Guidelines, and calculate what our score would have been on the 2018 Exam by using the official 2018 AP PSYCH Scoring Worksheet
• Calculate our potential official AP Psych Exam scores with this link
• Continue to analyze our MCQ results from last class with the Question Descriptors & Performance Data sheet to make note of most challenging concepts so we can study further on our own
• Distribute: Terms not in the book study guides sheets to any students that did not get them before
• Study for the AP Psych exam individually in any format you choose with remaining time

HW Due Tuesday, April 30th:

• Futsal players must schedule a time to take the FRQ Monday or Wednesday
• ​All AP Exam study materials: notebooks, vocab note cards, text book, laptop, study guide(s)
• Must complete 3 mandatory after school or weekend study sessions before the AP Exam. Talk to other students and teacher to schedule the sessions.

In Class Friday, April 26th - AP Exam Review Session:

• Take the 2018 Released AP Psych MCQ Exam
• Teacher will not help students taking released exams until they are finished, but call the teacher over any time we encounter brand new terms or concepts we never covered this year so the teacher can make note of it
• Grade the MCQ Exam when we finish
• Use the Question Descriptors & Performance Data sheet to make note of most challenging concepts so we can study further on our own
• Calculate our potential official AP Psych Exam scores with this link
• Distribute the AP Psych Study Guide Cheat Sheet
• Study for the AP Psych exam individually in any format you choose with remaining time

HW Due Friday, April 26th:

• ​All AP Exam study materials: notebooks, vocab note cards, text book, laptop, study guide(s)
• Must complete 3 mandatory after school or weekend study sessions before the AP Exam. Talk to other students and teacher to schedule the sessions.

In Class Wednesday, April 24th - AP Exam Review Session:

• Distribute Brain Games, Myers' Practice Test Answers, Confusing Pairs, Famous Names, FRQ Terms from 2010-2018, and Changes from DSM IV to V sheet
• Study for the AP Psych exam individually in any format you choose
• Students are encouraged to use Barron's study guides, confusing pairs and famous names & studies flashcards, view review videos and take notes, review old PPTs, play online quiz games, etc.

HW Due Wednesday, April 24th:

• ​All AP Exam study materials: notebooks, vocab note cards, text book, laptop, study guide(s)
• Must complete 3 mandatory after school or weekend study sessions before the AP Exam. Talk to other students and teacher to schedule the sessions.

In Class Monday, April 22nd - Unit 14 Project Violating Social Norms Presentations & AP Exam Review Session:

• Present our Unit 14 Projects to each other
• Study for the AP Psych exam individually in any format you choose

HW Due Monday, April 22nd:

• Unit 14 Violating Social Norms Project
  • ​Essay printed & presentation emailed to teacher before class
• ​All AP Exam study materials: notebooks, vocab note cards, text book, laptop, study guide(s)
• Must complete 3 mandatory after school or weekend study sessions before the AP Exam. Talk to other students and teacher to schedule the sessions.

In Class Thursday, April 18th - Unit 14 Test:

• Reminder of our FRQ Tips
• Take the Unit 14 Test
• Check completion of Unit 14 Vocab, checking that students brought all old Vocab, & give individual feedback​​
• Time to work on our Unit 14 Project essays

HW Due Thursday, April 18th:

• Unit 14 Vocab
  • ​MUST bring back Unit 1-13 Vocab, too
• Unit 14 Test
  • ​There will be some Unit 1-13 review questions, too​

In Class Tuesday, April 16th - Unit 14 Review:

• ​FRQ Practice - use the directions and rubric handed out in class to answer an FRQ on the Holocaust and Social Psychology
• Conduct any of the following activities after we finish the FRQ:
  • Finish Unit 14 Activities packets
  • Finish Unit 14 Vocab Note Cards
  • Review Unit 14 Notes
  • Review Unit 14 in the Study Guide
  • Answer practice test questions from the text book
  • Ask questions for clarity on terms or concepts
  • Play online quiz review games
  • View Crash Course or other review videos from the class website
• ​Cognitive dissonance video & discussion
• Violating Social Norm prank video & discussion
• Racial preferences, dating, implicit bias video & discussion

HW Due Tuesday, April 16th:

• Bring the Myers Study Guide and your text book
• All Unit 14 Activity packets (incomplete is okay)
• Unit 14 Vocab note cards (incomplete is okay)

In Class Friday, April 12th - Unit 14.5 Love, Altruism, Conflict, & Peacemaking:

• Just Survive Somehow social experiment. All directions given out in class
• Just Survive Somehow debrief in assigned groups
• Self-Disclosure survey, in assigned pairs (people should not be friends or peers beforehand), discuss answers, then alone answer debrief questions on back of surveys. Can all be verbal, don't have to write.
• Unit 14.5 Activities packet in assigned groups
• Share out our real world examples, demonstrations, and experiments that we plan and write about
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 14.5​

HW Due Friday, April 12th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 14.5 p683-end

In Class Wednesday, April 10th - Unit 14.4 Aggression & Attraction:

• Unit 14.4 Activities packet in assigned groups
• Scatter share our answers to Brain Break questions, then share out
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 14.4
• Attractiveness & stereotypes demo
• Time to work on practice test questions in the text book and in the study guide
• Exit Slip

HW Due Wednesday, April 10th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 14.4 p672-683

In Class Monday, April 8th - Unit 14.3 Social Relations, Prejudice, & Aggression:

• Just-World Phenomenon / Blame the Victim / Attribution Error Demo & Discussion
• Unit 14.3 Activities packet in assigned pairs
• Share our real world examples of stories of prejudice, ingroups-outgroups, and the Brain Break questions with other groups
• Share out our real world examples that we write about through the day
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 14.3​
• ​Harvard Project Implicit interactive online activity

HW Due Monday, April 8th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 14.3 p664-672
• Report the norm you will violate for the Unit 14 Project

In Class Thursday, March 28th - Unit 14.2 Obedience & Group Influence:

• Quiz
• Share critical thinking responses from Unit 14.1 Activities packet from last class
• Milgram experiment video & discussion
• Stanford Prison experiment and Milgram experiment video & discussion
• Compliance - true story - video & discussion
• ​Unit 14.2 Activities packet in assigned pairs
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 14.2
• Share out our real world examples, demonstrations, and experiments that we plan and write about in a scatter share
• Deindividuation survey, discuss results
• Group polarization demo & discussion:
  1. Write down how we feel about opposite grade level individually
  2. Split into 11th & 12th grade groups, prompt them to discuss why your group is better than the other
  3. Then discuss results of our "echo chambers" and if we have changed our thoughts on the other group and become more negative toward them - discuss the graph depicting group polarization growth
• Unit 14 Violating Social Norms Project intro and student examples
• Brainstorm Unit 14 Project ideas

HW Due Thursday, March 28th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 14.2 p654-664
• Finish Unit 14.1 Activities Packet

In Class Tuesday, March 26th - Unit 14.1 Social Thinking & Social Influence:

• Share our Guest Speaker refleections. Choose our favorite parts from the last class and discuss them in small groups
• Quiz
• Asch Conformity Experiment video & discussion
• Elevator conformity experiment video & discussion​
• ​Unit 14.1 Activities packet, share out our answers to discussion questions and then work on text book questions
• Share out our real world examples, demonstrations, and experiments that we plan and write about
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 14.1

HW Due Tuesday, March 26th:

• Guest Speaker reflection writing PRINTED before class starts

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 14.1 p643-654

HW Due Friday, March 22nd:

• Minimum 5 (no maximum) high-level questions for our guest speaker, shared with teacher before class
• You must print or handwrite your questions and have them on your desk (no phones or laptops out during presentation)
• Be an active listener and be able to improvise new questions and follow-up questions
• Bring back the guest speaker reflection rubric

In Class Wednesday, March 20th - Unit 12 & 13 Test:

• Reminder of our FRQ Tips
• Take the Unit 12 & 13 Test
• Check completion of Unit 12 & 13 Vocab, checking that students brought all old Vocab, & give individual feedback​​
• Learn requirements for our guest speaker for next class
• Get started writing our questions for the guest speaker

HW Due Wednesday, March 20th:

• Unit 12 & 13 Vocab
  • ​MUST bring back Unit 1-11 Vocab, too
• Unit 12 & 13 Test
  • ​There will be some Unit 1-11 review questions, too​

In Class Monday, March 18th - Unit 13.3 Biomedical Therapies:

• Quiz
• ​Unit 13.3 Activities sheet in assigned pairs
• Zoloft TV commercial video & discussion
• Share Brain Break answers through Speed Dating
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 13.3
• SSRI video & discussion
• Lithium video & discussion
• Tardive Dyskinesia video & discussion
• rTMS video & discussion
• ECT video & discussion
• Lobotomy video & discussion
• Take Your Pills scenes from film & discussion
• ​FRQ Practice - use the directions and rubric handed out in class to answer an FRQ - describe symptoms of 3 disorders and describe drug treatment for all 3

HW Due Monday, March 18th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 13.3 p628-end​

In Class Thursday, March 14th - Unit 13.2 Evaluating the Psychotherapies:

• ​FRQ Practice - use the directions and rubric handed out in class to answer an FRQ - describe symptoms of 3 disorders and describe therapy for all 3
• Unit 13.2 Activities sheet with assigned partner
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 13.2
• Finish up Unit 13.1 Activities packet and interactive lecture once we're finished with 13.2 Activities and interactive lecture
• Phobia treated with exposure therapy/systematic desensitization video & discussion
• Simpsons family therapy and aversive conditioning video & discussion

HW Due Thursday, March 14th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 13.2 p619-628
• ​Bring back the Unit 13.1 Activities Packet

In Class Tuesday, March 12th - Unit 13.1 The Psychotherapies:

• Unit 13.1 Activities packet with assigned partners
• Share the psychoanalytic therapy dialogues we wrote with new partners
• Share the psychodynamic therapy dialogues we wrote with a new round of partners
• Share the client-centered therapy dialogues we wrote with another round of partners
• Share out some of our behavior therapies we created with the whole class
• Share out our ideas for the Brain Break question
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 13.1
• Cognitive-behavioral demo & discussion

HW Due Tuesday, March 12th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 13.1 p605-618

In Class Friday, March 8th - Unit 12.3 Schizophrenia & Personality Disorders:

• Quiz
• Pair up and share responses for selected questions on Unit 12.2 Activities packet, help each other learn confusing material, ask teacher for clarification, then turn in packets
• Unit 12.3 Activities sheet in pairs
• Disorganized thinking video & discussion
• Paranoid delusions video & discussion
• Catatonia video & discussion​
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 12.3
• Answer case study diagnosis questions on last page of Unit 12.3 Activities sheet

HW Due Friday, March 8th:

• Unit 12.2 Activities Packet
• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 12.3 p589-end

In Class Wednesday, March 6th - Unit 12.2 Somatoform, Dissociative, & Mood Disorders:

• Glass half full or half empty? ...Not exactly. Depression demo & discussion
• Quiz
• Pair up and share responses for selected questions on Unit 12.1 Activities packet, help each other learn confusing material, ask teacher for clarification, then turn in packets
• Unit 12.2 Activities sheet, share out our answers to Brain Break questions and then work on text book questions in pairs
• Conversion Disorder video & discussion
• Hypochondriasis video & discussion
• Body Dysmorphia video & discussion
• Dissociative Fugue video & discussion
• Dissociative Identity Disorder video & discussion
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 12.2
• Answer case study diagnosis questions on last page of Unit 12.2 Activities sheet

HW Due Wednesday, March 6th:

• Unit 12.1 Activities Packet
• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 12.2 p576-589

In Class Monday, March 4th - Unit 12.1 Abnormal Psychology & Anxiety Disorders:

• How has mental health / mental illness affected you? Students will fill out a sticky note or two with personal anecdotes and place them on the wall. Then conduct a gallery walk. Read other students' sticky notes and fill out a few sticky notes with words of encouragement (different color). Continue the gallery walk, continue to read all the sticky notes and all the responses.
• GAD video & discussion
• Panic disorder videos & discussion
• Phobia videos & discussion
• OCD videos & discussion
• PTSD video & discussion
• Unit 12.1 Activities packet, share out our answers to discussion questions aloud and work on text book questions with partners
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 12.1
• Answer case study diagnosis questions on last page of Unit 12.1 Activities sheet

HW Due Monday, March 4th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 12.1 p561-576

In Class Wednesday, February 27th - Unit 8A & 8B Test:

• Skunk Bear Neuroscience Love Song video
• Reminder of our FRQ Tips
• Take the Unit 8A & 8B Test
• Check completion of Unit 8A & 8B Vocab, checking that students brought all old Vocab, & give individual feedback​
• Intro to Unit 12 Abnormal Psychology - "Koreans rank near bottom in antidepressant consumption" & "Suicide Rescue Team" - videos and discussion​

HW Due Wednesday, February 27th:

• Unit 8A & 8B Vocab
  • ​MUST bring back Unit 1-7B, 9-11 Vocab, too
• Unit 8A & 8B Test
  • ​There will be some Unit 1-7B, 9-11 review questions, too​

In Class Monday, February 25th - Unit 8B.3 Happiness & Stress:

• Random act of kindness: before the bell rings go out and give someone you know or a stranger a compliment, help someone, or give something away, then come back and connect to the feel-good, do-good phenomenon.
• Skunk Bear Neuroscience Love Song video
• Unit 8B.3 Activities packet, share out Brain Break questions
• Stress score assessment survey and discussion
• South Koreans Work Excessive Hours video & discussion
• Facebook Envy video & discussion
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 8B.3​
• Time to work on practice test questions in the text book and in the study guide

HW Due Monday, February 25th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 8B.3 p389-end

​In Class Monday, February 26th - Unit 8B.2 Expressed & Experienced Emotion:

• Skunk Bear Neuroscience Love Song music video
• Science of Having a Crush video & discussion
• Quiz
• Unit 8B.2 Activities sheet in assigned groups
• Quirkology spot a fake smile video & discussion
• Fake Smile online quiz with partner
• Detect emotions through only viewing eyes online quiz with partner
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 8B.2
• Skunk Bear Neuroscience Love Song music video

HW Due Thursday, February 21st:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 8B.2 p377-389

​In Class Tuesday, February 19th - Unit 8B.1 Theories of Emotion & Embodies Emotions:

• Skunk Bear Neuroscience Love Song music video
• Unit 8B.1 Activities sheet in assigned groups, answer discussion questions alone then get into groups and discuss responses, then complete rest of packet
• Balloon pop demo & discussion: pop balloons 3 times. First time w/ no warning - discuss how that reaction might fit into a theory of emotion. Second pop w/ warning - discuss how that reaction might also fit into a theory. Last balloon - tell them the pop won't hurt and to stay calm (or opposite, tell them it will be painful) and how that reaction might fit into a theory.
• Spillover Effect in movies & TV videos and discussion
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 8B.1
• Time to work on practice test questions in the text book and in the study guide
• Skunk Bear Neuroscience Love Song music video

HW Due Tuesday, February 19th:

• Finish Unit 8A.3 Activities Packet (Harkness discussion questions)
• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 8B.1 p366-376

​In Class Friday, February 15th - Unit 8A.3 Sexual Motivation & The Need to Belong:

• Sexual Motivation survey. Discuss survey results in assigned small groups
• Unit 8A.3 Harkness Table research activity. Research alone then conduct the Harkness Table in assigned groups
• If needed: Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 8A.3 - if students have any questions, otherwise this is minimal today

HW Due Friday, February 15th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 8A.3 p352-end

In Class Friday, February 9th - Unit 8A.2 Obesity & Sexual Motivation:

• Quiz
• Finish the Unit 8A.1 Discussion questions from last class in assigned groups
• Social effects of a day in a fat suit video & discussion
• Biggest Loser Winners Re-gain Weight video & discussion
• Unit 8A.2 Activities sheet in assigned groups
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 8A.2
• Unit 8A.2 Discussion questions in assigned groups

HW Due Wednesday, February 13th:

• Complete the Unit 8A.1 Activities packet
• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 8A.2 p340-352

In Class  Monday, February 11th - Unit 8A.1 Motivation Concepts & Hunger:

• 127 Hours trailer video & discussion
• Unit 8A.1 Activities sheet in assigned groups
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 8A.1
• Lateral and Ventromedial Hypothalamus mnemonic device - LH & VMH
• Unit 8A.1 Discussion Questions in assigned groups

HW Due Monday, February 11th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 8A.1 p327-339

In Class Thursday, January 31st - Unit 10 Test:

• Dagnabbit Defense Mechanisms song
• Perform Defense Mechanism Review Skits
• Reminder of our FRQ Tips
• Take the Unit 10 Test
• Check completion of Unit 10 Vocab, checking that students brought all old Vocab, & give individual feedback​
• Intro to Unit 8A Motivation - Read the letters to future AP Psych students that the students wrote to you from last year

HW Due Thursday, January 31st:

• Defense Mechanisms Review Skit Performances (2 skits per group)
• Unit 10 Vocab
  • ​MUST bring back Unit 1-7B, 9, & 11 Vocab, too
• Unit 7B & 11 Test
  • ​There will be some Unit 1-7B, 9, & 11 review questions, too​

In Class Tuesday, January 29th - Unit 10.3 Social-Cognitive Theory of Personality & The Self:

• Dagnabbit Defense Mechanisms song
• Reaction formation & projection defense mechanisms review - Boy Erased trailer and discussion
• Quiz​
• Unit 10.3 Activities sheet with assigned partner
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 10.3​
• Locus of control survey and discussion​
• Self-concept / multiple selfs survey and discussion
• Defense Mechanisms review skits - get started on planning these and we will preform them at the beginning of next class
• Dagnabbit Defense Mechanisms song

HW Due Tuesday, January 29th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 10.3 p503-end

In Class Tuesday January 30th - Unit 10.2 Humanistic & Trait Theories of Personality:

• Dagnabbit Defense Mechanisms song
• Quiz​
• Unit 10.2 Activities sheet, work on discussion questions alone then share in assigned groups and then work on text book questions together
• Pig Drawing Personality Test, hand out results interpretation sheet then discuss results
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 10.2
• Ideal vs. actual self humanistic theory demo questionnaire and discussion
• Share Freud's psychosexual stages of development mnemonic devices for review: Only Adults Play Love Games & Old And Pale Large Guy
• Unit 10.1 Defense Mechanisms review worksheet
• Dagnabbit Defense Mechanisms song

HW Due Friday, January 25th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 10.2 p490-503​

In Class Wednesday, January 23rd - Unit 10.1 Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality:

• Dagnabbit Defense Mechanisms song
• Free Association with volunteer and then discuss results and conclusion
• Unit 10.1 Activities sheet, work on discussion questions alone then share in assigned groups and then work on text book questions together
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 10.1
• Freudian Slips video & discussion
• Defense Mechanisms - Rationalization - social farter video & discussion
• Defense Mechanisms - Projection & Reaction Formation - videos and discussion of Ted Haggard​
• Rorschach Inkblot Tests demo & discussion
• Dagnabbit Defense Mechanisms song

HW Due Wednesday, January 23rd:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 10.1 p479-490

In Class Monday, January 21st - Unit 7B & 11 Test:

• Reminder of our FRQ Tips
• Take the Unit 7B & 11 Test
• Check completion of Unit 7B & 11 Vocab, checking that students brought all old Vocab, & give individual feedback​

HW Due Monday, January 21st:

• Unit 7B & 11 Vocab
  • ​MUST bring back Unit 1-7A & 9 Vocab, too
• Unit 7B & 11 Test
  • ​There will be some Unit 1-7A & 9 review questions, too​

In Class Thursday, January 17th - Unit 11.3 Genetic & Environmental Influences on Education:

• Genetic & Environmental Influences on Education demo - paper with statements are distributed to students, share our statements, then take our "test" - crumple paper into balls and throw into trash can near people with best statements. Then talk with our neighbors and determine why we did this demo, share out with class. More detailed instructions given out in class.
• Unit 11.3 Activities sheet in assigned pairs
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 11.3
• ​Review for test, split into new pairs and design FRQ questions on specific sections. When finished, trade with other pairs and answer their questions, then get feedback from original pairs

HW Due Thursday, January 17th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 11.3 p544-end

In Class Tuesday, January 15th - Unit 11.2 Assessing Intelligence:

• Unit 11.2 Activities sheet, share out our answers to Brain Break questions and work on text book questions
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 11.2
• Get in order of shortest to tallest and discuss the normal curve and percentiles
• Time to take the WAIS test, multiple intelligences assessments, and more on the class website
• Kim Peek video and discussion on savants and extremes of low and high intelligence
• Time to work on practice test questions in the text book and in the study guide

HW Due Tuesday, January 15th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 11.2 p532-544

In Class Friday, January 11th - Unit 11.1 Intelligence:

• Quiz
• Unit 11.1 Activities sheet, share our answers to discussion questions
• Discuss the people we placed into Gardner's Multiple Intelligences categories on our Activities sheet
• Time to debate Brain Break questions at the end of the class
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 11.1
• Time to work on practice test questions in the text book and in the study guide

HW Due Friday, January 11th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 11.1 p523-532

In Class Wednesday, January 9th - Unit 7B.3 Language & Thinking:

• Quiz
• Unit 7B.3 Activities sheet, share our answers to discussion questions
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 7B.3
• Twin babies babbling video & discussion
• View many video examples of teacher's daughter in the various stages of language development
• Finish the Genie the Wild Child video & discussion
• The Benefits of a Bilingual Brain (TED Ed) video & discussion
• How Language Shapes the Way We Think (TED Talk) video & discussion
• Time to work on practice test questions in the text book and in the study guide

HW Due Wednesday, January 9th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 7B.3 p313-end

In Class Monday, January 7th - Unit 7B.2 Making Decisions & Forming Judgments:

• Unit 7B.2 Activities sheet, share our answers to discussion questions
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 7B.2
• ​Framing Effect survey, discuss results
• Time to work on practice test questions in the text book and in the study guide
• Intro to language development: Genie the Wild Child video & discussion

HW Due Monday, January 7th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 7B.2 p303-312

In Class Thursday, December 13th - Unit 7B.1 Concepts & Problem Solving:

• Check results of Midterm Exam
• Quiz
• Unit 7B.1 Activities sheet in assigned pairs
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 7B.1
• ​Intro to cognition: list as many uses as possible for a paper clip, pair up, share out
• Brain teaser games
• Heuristics vs. algorithm demos and discussions with brain teasers and math problems
• Concepts vs. Prototypes Q&A, survey, and discussion
• Time to work on practice test questions in the text book and in the study guide

HW Due Thursday, December 13th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 7B.1 p298-303

In Class Tuesday, December 12th - Semester 1 Midterm Exam:

• Reminder of our FRQ Tips
• Take the Midterm Exam
• Check completion of Unit 7A Vocab, checking that students brought all old Vocab, & give individual feedback

HW Due Tuesday, December 11th:

• Unit 1-7A & Unit 9 Vocab in a box
• Midterm Exam over Units 1-7A & Unit 9

In Class Friday, December 7th - Unit 7A.4 Memory Construction:

• Quiz
• Unit 7A.4 Memory Construction Telephone Game / Rumor Chain demo, free-write, pair, share discussion
• Testing effect discussion - remind students to complete Myers Study Guide questions for each unit to study for tests (practice tests)
• Share Unit 7A.3 final questions that we finished as HW through Speed Dating
• Unit 7A.4 Activities sheet, discussion questions individually, speed dating activity to share, then share out
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 7A.4
• False eyewitness testimony video and discussion

HW Due Friday, December 7th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 7A.4 p285-end
• Finish the Unit 7A.3 Activities packet

In Class Wednesday December 5th - Unit 7A.3 Retrieval & Forgetting:

• iPhone keyboard demo - implicit vs. explicit memory, recall, encoding vs. retreival failure, context cues, etc, discussion
• Quiz
• Unit 7A.3 Activities sheet in assigned pairs
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 7A.3
• Snow White & the 7 Dwarfs Recall vs. Recognition demo
• ​Total Recall Jill Price memory video & discussion

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HW Due Wednesday, December 5th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 7A.3 p274-284

In Class Monday, December 3rd - Unit 7A.2 Storage, Retaining Information:

• List: our earliest life memories, and our age at the time. Share out. Find repeats and connections. View online collection of peoples' earliest memories. Discuss infantile amnesia, hippocampus, cerebellum, explicit and implicit memory. 
• Unit 7A.2 Activities sheet in assigned pairs
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 7A.2
• Memory Capacity Demo 1: Flash images and gauge iconic memory. Discuss results.
• Memory Capacity Demo 2: Teacher reads list of numbers, students write numbers. Grade, list results, discuss results, discuss the terms chunking, echoic memory, recall for digits is better than for random letters.
• Memory Capacity Demo 3: List a number on the board, tell students to look at it and try to memorize it. Then test them. If they are good at chunking and finding patterns, they'll know the numbers just go up by 3 and 4 and 3 and 4, over and over and will actually be able to get the number. Discuss limits and advantages of working memory and chunking.​

HW Due Monday, December 3rd:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 7A.2 p265-274

In Class Thursday, November 29th - Unit 7A.1 Memory, Information Processing, Encoding:

• Unit 7A.1 Activities sheet in assigned pairs
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 7A.1
• All-purpose Memory Demo. Teacher reads a list of words, kids write from memory.
  • The following vocab terms will be discussed after: primacy effect, recency effect, false memory / memory construction, semantic distinctiveness, chunking​

HW Due Thursday, November 29th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 7A.1 p255-265

In Class Tuesday, November 27th - Unit 6 Review Activities & Unit 6 Test:

• Review Classical Conditioning by sharing our Unit 6.1 Posters
• Review Operant Conditioning by sharing our Unit 6.2 New School Rules Writing Activity
• Reminder of our FRQ Tips
• Take the Unit 6 Test
• Check completion of Unit 6 Vocab, checking that students brought all old Vocab, & give individual feedback

HW Due Tuesday, November 27th:

• Unit 6 Classical Conditioning Poster Project
• Unit 6 Operant Conditioning School Rules Project
• Unit 6 Vocab
  • ​MUST bring back Unit 1-5 & 9 Vocab, too
• Unit 6 Test
  • ​There will be some Unit 1-5 & 9 review questions, too

In Class Wednesday, November 21st - Unit 6 Wrap-up, Review, & Exam Prep:

• Conduct Q&A on any unclear concepts from Unit 6
• Share all Unit 6 Brain Break responses with new partners we haven't worked with
• Share answers to Unit 6.2 operant conditioning exercises / application questions with new partners
• The Office Classical Conditioning video & discussion
• Caddyshack Secondary Disgust video & discussion
• Distribute operant conditioning examples of reinforcement, punishment, and schedules of reinforcement real world examples 
• Intro to Unit 6 Classical Conditioning and Operant Conditioning short projects. Get started on those in class.

HW Due Wednesday, November 21st:

• All Unit 6 Activity Packets

In Class Monday, November 19th - Unit 6.3 Learning By Observation:

• Children See, Children Do video & discussion
• Unit 6.3 Activities sheet in assigned groups.
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 6.3
• Review major concepts from all of Unit 6 that we still need to cover, conduct Q&A on the major concepts
• Work on Unit 6.2 & 6.1 Activities packets while we wrap up all major concepts from Unit 6
• Bandura's Bobo Doll video & discussion
• Pigeons playing pingpong video & discussion
• Learned helplessness survey/demo & discussion

HW Due Monday, November 19th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 6.3 p242-end

In Class Thursday, November 15th - Unit 6.2 Operant Conditioning:

• Operant conditioning activity with student volunteer - hot or cold game to train a student to perform an odd task
• Quiz
• Unit 6.2 Activities packet with assigned partner
• Interactive lecture, discussion, Q&A on Unit 6.2
• Nana the Border Collie (shaping & successive approximations) video & discussion
• Porter, the world's first driving dog (shaping & successive approximations) video & discussion
• Intrinsic vs. extrinsic survey and discussion
• Interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A on Unit 6.2
• Unit 6.2 Operant Conditioning Worksheet in assigned pairs

HW Due Thursday, November 15th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 6.2 p228-241

In Class Tuesday, November 13th - Unit 6.1 Learning & Classical Conditioning:

• Intro to Classical Conditioning: Jaws Theme Song - audio and discussion
• Unit 6.1 Activities packet with assigned partner
• Interactive lecture, discussion, Q&A on Unit 6.1
• Classically condition the class: US: lights off, UR: pupils dilate. NS: knock 3 times. CS: knock 3 times. CR: pupils dilate. Try it over and over until it works, then discuss the demo
• Classical Conditioning CAN spray demo with student volunteer. Fill out worksheet while demo occurs, discuss responses
• Exit Slip

HW Due Tuesday, November 13th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 6.1 p215-227

In Class Friday, November 9th - Unit 5 Test:

• CHUG SODAS FRQ Tips
• Take the Unit 5 Test
• Check completion of Unit 5 Vocab, checking that students brought all old Vocab, & give individual feedback​​

HW Due Friday, November 9th:

• Unit 5 Vocab
  • ​MUST bring back Unit 1-4, & Unit 9 Vocab, too
• Unit 5 Test
  • ​There will be some Unit 1-4, & Unit 9 review questions, too

In Class Wednesday, November 7th - Unit 5 Wrap-up, Review, & Exam Prep:

• Dream journal analysis & discussion in small groups, discuss manifest vs. latent content
• Play Mouse Party in small groups
• Sleep Debt Quiz from text p183, discuss our results
• Wrap-up Unit 5.1 Activities packet with quick interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A
• Skeeter the Narcoleptic Poodle video & discussion
• Wrap-up Unit 5.2 Activities packet with quick interactive lecture, discussion, and Q&A
• Buzzfeed extra hour of sleep video & discussion
• Buzzfeed why we dream video & discussion
• Buzzfeed tips for falling asleep easier video & discussion
• Hypnosis scene from "Get Out" video & discussion
• Hypnotic suggestion (lemons) demo & discussion
• Share Unit 5.3 Brain Break discussion questions in assigned small groups

HW Due Wednesday, November 7th:

• Unit 5.1, 5.2, &5.3 Activities Packets entirely completed.

In Class Monday, November 5th - Unit 5.3 Drugs & Influences on Drugs:

• Quiz on all 3 sections of Unit 5
• Unit 5.1 & Unit 5.2 Activities packet Brain Break and other critical thinking questions - share through Speed Dating activity
• Unit 5.3 Activities packet with assigned partner
• ​Q&A on Unit 5.3 - no interactive lecture, no PPT, just answer student questions as they will be able to hunt and peck for answers and play Mouse Party
• View Mouse Party interactive drug demo website. Go over a few of the drugs, encourage students to try all the rest on their own later to study

HW Due Monday, November 5th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 5.3 p196-end 
• All Activity packets that you do in class on Tuesday and Thursday are due Monday, the entire packets
• Open note quiz on all 3 sections of Unit 5
• Keep a dream journal each morning when you wake up

In Class Thursday, November 1st - Unit 5.2 Dreams & Hypnosis:

• Unit 5.2 Activities packet with assigned partner
• Once finished, you may choose any of the following:
  • ​Watch the videos Unit 5 posted on the class website
  • Start reading and taking notes on the next day's reading
  • Continue making Vocab Note Cards for Unit 5

HW Due Thursday, November 1st:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 5.2 p187-196
• Bring latpops, chargers, and earbuds
• Keep a dream journal each morning when you wake up

In Class Tuesday, October 30th - Unit 5.1 Stages of Sleep, Sleep Disorders:

• Unit 5.1 Activities packet with assigned partner
• Once finished, you may choose any of the following:
  • ​Watch the videos Unit 5 posted on the class website
  • Start reading and taking notes on the next day's reading
  • Continue making Vocab Note Cards for Unit 5

HW Due Tuesday, October 30th: 

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 5.1 p175-187
• Bring laptops, chargers, and earbuds
• Keep a dream journal each morning when you wake up

In Class Friday, October 26th - Unit 4 Test:

• CHUG SODAS FRQ Tips
• Take the Unit 4 Test
• Check completion of Unit 4 Vocab, checking that students brought all old Vocab, & give individual feedback​
• Review Unit 4: Face blindness video & discussion

HW Due Friday, October 26th:

• Unit 4 Vocab
  • ​MUST bring back Unit 1&2, Unit 3ABC, & Unit 9 Vocab, too
• Unit 4 Test
  • ​There will be some Unit 1&2, Unit 3ABC, & Unit 9 review questions, too

In Class Wednesday, October 24th - Unit 4.5 Perceptual Interpretation & ESP:

• Quiz
• Lightness & Color Constancy - teacher clothes - lights on and off - demo & discussion
• Lightness Constancy illusion video & discussion
• Color Constancy illusion video & discussion
• What color is this dress? video & discussion
• Unit 4.5 Activities packet with assigned partner
• Interactive lecture, discussion, Q&A on Unit 4.5
• Inversion Goggles - perceptual interpretation - activity & discussion
• ESP telepathy demo & discussion
• Perceptual Set experiment & discussion
• Go over Unit 4.1 through 4.4 Activities packets and make sure we understand all major concepts. Discuss any remaining questions students have
• Absolute threshold, difference threshold, jnd, Weber's Law video & discussion
• Weber's Law - coins in envelopes vs. coins in shoes demo & discussion
• McGurk Effect - sensory interaction - video & discussion
• Perceptual constancy - shape and size constancy & monocular cues - relative size, lack of linear perspective - spider attacking cop - video & discussion
• Perceptual Constancy - Aimes Room - video & discussion

HW Due Wednesday, October 24th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 4.5 p159-end

In Class Monday, October 22nd - Unit 4.4 Smell & Perceptual Organization:

• Share our Unit 4.3 Brain Break and critical thinking answers in assigned small group discussions
• Go over Unit 4.3 Brain Break and critical thinking questions as a whole class to make sure we understand all major concepts. Discuss any remaining questions students have
• Go over answers for Quiz 4.2 to make sure we understand all major concepts
• Quiz
• Unit 4.4 Activities packet with assigned partner
• Interactive lecture, discussion, Q&A on Unit 4.4
• Rubber Hand Illusion, sensory interaction (vision & touch) illusion demo & discussion
• Supertaster testing strip demo & discussion
• Netflix Ask the Doctor - Sense - Smell - video & discussion
• ​Visual cliff & depth perception video & discussion
• Touching 2 pens from side to center, binocular vs. monocular demo & discussion
• Finger sausage binocular vs. monocular demo & discussion
• Playing catch with an eyepatch on, binocular vs. monocular demo & discussion

HW Due Monday, October 22nd:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 4.4 p148-159
• Unit 4.3 Activities packet, numbers 22, 26, 33, 36, & 37

In Class Thursday, October 18th - Unit 4.3 Hearing, Taste, Touch:

• Sensory Interaction - taste & smell - demo & discussion
• Sensory Interaction - kinesthetics & vision - demo & discussion
• Unit 4.3 Activities packet with assigned partner
• Interactive lecture, discussion, Q&A on Unit 4.3
• Bone-conducted sound - demo & discussion
• Audio localization - stereophonic hearing - demo & discussion
• Cochlear implant simulation & discussion

HW Due Thursday, October 18th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 4.3 p133-148

In Class Tuesday, October 16th - Unit 4.2 Vision:

• Color blindness test (dichromatic and monochromatic vision) demo and discussion
• Quiz
• Unit 4.2 Activities packet with assigned partner
• Interactive lecture, discussion, Q&A on Unit 4.2
• Secondary Pupillary Response demo and discussion
• Rods, cones, peripheral vision student volunteer demo and discussion
• Blind spot demo and discussion
• Afterimage effect (Opponent-process theory) demo and discussion

HW Due Tuesday, October 16th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 4.2 p124-133

In Class Friday, October 12th - Unit 4.1 Selective Attention & Thresholds:

• ​Intro to Sensation & Perception - shocking illusion celebrity faces video & discussion
• Intro to Sensation & Perception - "this will really freak out you" color constancy illusion video & discussion
• Unit 4.1 Activities sheet in assigned groups
• Interactive lecture, discussion, Q&A on Unit 4.1
• Inattentional Blindness - Monkey Business - video & discussion
• Change Blindness person swap video & discussion
• Volunteer performs ticking clock absolute threshold demo
• Mosquito tone audio & discussion
• Priming and subliminal messages Stairway to Heaven backwards audio & discussion​

HW Due Friday, October 12th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 4.1 p115-124

In Class Wednesday, October 10th - Unit 9 Test:

• CHUG SODAS FRQ Tips
• Take the Unit 9 Test
• Check completion of Unit 9 Vocab, checking that students brought all old Vocab, & give individual feedback​

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HW Due Wednesday October 10th:

• Unit 9 Vocab
  • ​MUST bring back Unit 1&2, Unit 3ABC Vocab, too
• Unit 9 Test
  • ​There will be some Unit 1&2, Unit 3ABC review questions, too
• Unit 9 Erikson Review Project

In Class Monday, October 8th - Unit 9 Review:

• Share our Unit 9.5 Brain Break and critical thinking answers through Speed Dating
• Share our Unit 9.4 Brain Break and critical thinking answers with assigned partners, then share out
• Go over Unit 9.1 through 9.3 Activities packets and make sure we understand all major concepts. Discuss any remaining questions students have
• NPR Invisibilia - personality fixed - marshmallow test reflection video & discussion
• Intro to Unit 9.3 Erikson Review Project
• Time to work on Erikson Review Project in small groups

HW Due Monday, October 8th:

• Unit 9.4 Activities packet, numbers 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 17, 18, & 19
• Unit 9.5 Activities packet, numbers 2 & 13

In Class Thursday, October 4th - Unit 9.5 Social Development of Adulthood & Reflections on Development:

• ​​Review our tips and techniques for conducting our demonstrations today
• Go to the 5th grade classroom and conduct our Concrete Operational / Formal Operational stages Piaget demonstrations
• Robot Chicken stages of grief video & discussion
• Unit 9.5 Activities discussion questions in assigned pairs and then share out
• Unit 9.5 Activities packets in assigned pairs
  • ​Connect our 2 drawings from last class to discussions of old age
• Interactive lecture, discussion, Q&A on Unit 9.5
• Get out our Unit 9.4 Activities packet from last class and go over important items that will be due next class

HW Due Thursday, October 4th:

• All props, materials, items, liquids, etc. for Piaget Demonstration Field Trips to t5th grade for the Concrete Operatonal Stage
• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 9.5 p465-end

In Class Tuesday, October 2nd - Unit 9.4 Adulthood:

• ​​Review our tips and techniques for conducting our demonstrations today
• Go to the ECC and conduct our Preoperational stage Piaget demonstrations
• Come back to our class and check preparation for Piaget Field Trip 2 for next class
• Quiz

• Unit 9.4 Activities discussion questions in assigned pairs and then share out
• Unit 9.4 Activities packets in assigned pairs
• Interactive lecture, discussion, Q&A on Unit 9.4

• Share our 2 drawings (one is our's, one is an old person's) day in the life of an old person and share out connections we make during our conversations​

HW Due Tuesday, October 2nd:

• All props, materials, items, liquids, etc. for Piaget Demonstration Field Trips to the ECC for the Preoperational stage
• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 9.4 p455-465
• Piaget Demonstration Field Trip 2 Plan/List for the Concrete Operational Stage
• 2nd drawing: ask an old person to draw a scene or scenes from a day in their life
• 1st drawing you started in class - your personal drawing of what you think a scene is like in the day of an old person

In Class Thursday, September 20th - Unit 9.3 Parents & Peers, Adolescence:

• Trolly dillema image, Heinz' Dillema video, and Kohlberg's stages of moral development discussion
• Check preparation for Piaget demonstrations
• Draw a scene from the day in the life of an old person
• Unit 9.3 Activities discussion questions in assigned pairs and then share out
• Unit 9.3 Activities packets in assigned pairs
• Interactive lecture, discussion, Q&A on Unit 9.3
• Marshmallow Test (delayed gratification) video & discussion
• Intro to Piaget Demonstration Field Trip 2 Concrete Operational Stage, discuss requirements for next class and then for the field trips

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HW Due Thursday, September 20th:

• Piaget Demonstration Field Trip 1 Plan/List for the Preoperational Stage
• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 9.3 p441-455

In Class Tuesday, September 18th - Unit 9.2 Social & Gender Development

• The Strange Situation video & discussion of stranger anxiety and secure attachment
• Harlow's Monkeys video & discussion of attachment and critical periods of social development
• The Rouge Test video & discussion of self-concept
• Unit 9.2 Activities Packet in assigned groups
• Share our Brain Break answers in assigned groups
• Interactive lecture, discussion, Q&A on Unit 9.2
• Intro to Piaget Demonstration Field Trip 1 Preoperational Stage, discuss requirements for next class and then for the field trips
• Piaget video and review discussion to prepare for the Piaget Demonstration Field Trip 1 Preoperational Stage

HW Due Tuesday, September 18th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 9.2 p426-441

In Class Friday, September 14th - Unit 9.1 Prenatal, Infant, & Child Development:
Quiz

• Quiz
• Unit 9.1 Activities Packet in assigned groups
• Share our Brain Break answers in assigned groups
• Interactive lecture, discussion, Q&A on Unit 9.1
• Q&A on our first ever life memories, the content of the memories, the age level, and infantile amnesia
• Egocentrism Letter E forehead demo and discussion
• Assimilation Accommodation mnemonic device
• Piaget video & discussion

 
HW Due Friday, September 14th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 9.1 p411-426

In Class Wednesday, September 12th - Unit 3ABC Test:

• Brain Part Songs by Aaron
• CHUG SODAS FRQ Tips
• Take the Unit 3ABC Test
• Check completion of Unit 3ABC Vocab, checking that students brought all old Vocab, & give individual feedback​
• Brain Part Songs by Aaron

HW Due Wednesday, September 12th:

• Unit 3ABC Vocab
  • ​MUST bring back Unit 1&2 Vocab, too
• Unit 3ABC Test
  • ​There will be some Unit 1&2 review questions, too

In Class Monday, September 10th - Unit 3C.3 Evolutionary Psychology, Nature vs. Nurture:

• Brain Part Songs by Aaron

• Share our Br​ain Superhero Projects
• Quiz
• Unit 3C.3 Activities packet in assigned pairs
• Share out some of our real world examples from the Activities packet and our Brain Break discussions
• Interactive lecture, discussion, Q&A on Unit 3C.3
• Get out all of our Unit 3 Activities packets and go over missing material, relearn key concepts, finish up all of Unit 3AB&C lectures and discussions, etc.
• The Unfixed Brain video & discussion
• Split corpus callosum video & discussion
• Brain Part Songs by Aaron

HW Due Monday, September 10th:

• Unit 3B Brain Superhero Project
• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 3C.3 p105-110
• ​Bring back all Activities packets for all of Unit 3

In Class Thursday, September 6th - Unit 3C.2 Heritability & Evolutionary Psychology:

• Brain Part Songs by Aaron

• Brain parts and functions quiz
• Time to work on Unit 3B Br​ain Superhero Projects
• Unit 3C.2 Activities packet in assigned pairs
• Interactive lecture, discussion, Q&A on Unit 3C.2
• Twinsters movie trailer - review Unit 3C.1 twin and adoption studies with video and discussion - and complete more of the Activities packet from last class while discussing
• Three Identical Strangers trailer - review Unit 3C.1 twin and adoption studies with video and discussion - and complete more of the Activities packet from last class while discussing
• Heritability and height differences between the Koreas - discussion and fill out today's Activities packet
• Brain Part Songs by Aaron

HW Due Thursday, September 6th:

• Closed-note quiz - label & describe functions of parts of brain
• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 3C.2 p100-105
• Materials for building Unit 3B Brain Superheroes Project 

In Class Tuesday, September 4th - Unit 3B.3 & Unit 3C.1 Consciousness & Behavior Genetics:

• Brain Parts Song by Aaron
• Quiz 
• Unit 3B.3 & Unit 3C.1 Activities packet in assigned pairs
• High Five Hustle to share our Unit 3C.1 Activities packet Brain Breaks
• Interactive lecture, discussion, Q&A on Unit 3B.3 & 3C.1
• Time to work on Unit 3B Brain Superhero Projects
• Review parts & functions of the brain: draw concept maps of the brain, without any resources, in assigned groups. Once we can't label any more parts or functions, use the book or notes to help finish.
• Review of language from Unit 3B.2:
  • Broca's aphasia video & discussion
  • Broca's aphasia recovery (plasticity & neurogenesis) video & discussion
  • Wernicke's aphasia video & discussion
• Review of the split brain from Unit 3B.2:
  • Split brain demo: draw a square with the left hand and a circle with the right hand, then discuss the results
  • Joe the split brain patient video & discussion
• Brain Parts Song by Aaron

HW Due Tuesday, September 4th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 3B.3 p88-91 & Unit 3C.1 p94-100
• Materials for building Unit 3B Brain Superheroes Project 

​In Class Friday, August 31st - Unit 3B.2 Cerebral Cortex & Divided Brain:

• Brain Parts Song by Aaron
• Quiz
• Speed Dating: Share unique responses on Unit 3B.1 Activities Packet answer #7
• Learn requirements for Unit 3B Brain Superheroes Project
• Time to work on project alone or in pairs
• Monkey neural prosthetic video & discussion
• Unit 3B.2 Activities packet in assigned pairs
• Interactive lecture, discussion, Q&A on Unit 3B.2
• Cerebral Cortex paper wrinkling demo & discussion
• Brain Parts Song by Aaron

HW Due Friday, August 31st:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 3B.2 p74-88
• Unit 3B.1 Activities Packet answer #7

In Class Wednesday, August 29th - Unit 3B.1 Methods of Studying the Brain & Older Brain Structures:

• Brain Parts Song by Aaron
• Peer grade the Unit 3A Neuron quiz from last class
• Unit 3B.1 Activities packet in assigned pairs
• Brain Breaks small group discussions then share out
• Interactive lecture, discussion, Q&A on Unit 3B.1
• Exit Slip
• Brain Parts Song by Aaron​

HW Due Wednesday, August 29th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 3B.1 p66-73

In Class Monday, August 27th - Unit 3A Neural Processing & The Endocrine System Day 2:

• Neuron parts and functions quiz
• Candy Neuron small group activity - directions & rubric given out in class
• Candy Neuron Gallery Walk - go around, takes pictures, ask questions, enjoy our neurons
• Continue interactive lecture, discussion, & Q&A on Unit 3A
• Share mnemonic device for sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems
• Neuron and nervous system Conga Line activity and discussion

HW Due Monday, August 27th:

• Closed-note quiz - label & describe functions of nervous & endocrine system
• Bring a wide variety of many pieces of candy that resemble neurons (p53 & p56) to build candy neurons

In Class Thursday, August 23rd - Unit 3A Neural Processing & The Endocrine System:

• Learn requirements for Test Correction & Retake policy
• Discuss Unit 1&2 Test Results
• Unit 3A Activities Packet in assigned groups
• Phrenology on a volunteer
• Interactive lecture, discussion, & Q&A on Unit 3A
• Ana Axon & David Dendrite mnemonic device
• Hand, arm, shirt, sleeve, elbow, & hand neuron mnemonic device
• Neurons & Toilets demo & discussion

HW Due Thursday, August 23rd:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 3A p51-63

In Class Tuesday, August 21st - Unit 1&2 Test:

• Go over FRQ Tips
• Take the Unit 1&2 Test
• Check completion of Unit 1&2 Vocab & give individual feedback

HW Due Tuesday, August 21st:

• Unit 1&2 Vocab​
• Unit 1&2 Test

In Class Friday, August 17th - Unit 2.3 Statistics & Ethics:

• Check for completion and understanding of #11 on Unit 2.2 Activities Packet and give individual feedback while students are working on Unit 2.3 Activities Packet
• Quiz
• Unit 2.3 Activities Packet in assigned groups

• Interactive lecture, discussion, Q&A on Unit 2.3
• Human standard deviation of height demo and discussion (line up based on height from shortest to tallest and discuss the deviation we witness)
• Uni1 Review - 7 Approaches to Psychology mnemonic device

HW Due Friday, August 17th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 2.3 p37-end
• #11 on Unit 2.2 Activities Packet

In Class Wednesday, August 15th - Unit 2.2 Correlation & Experimentation

• Quiz
• Unit 2.2 Activities packets in assigned groups

• Interactive lecture, discussion, Q&A on Unit 2.2
• Chocolate memory experiment demo & discussion

HW Due Wednesday, August 15th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 2.2 p29-37

In Class Monday, August 13th - Unit 2.1 Research Methods & Descriptive Methods:

• Unit 2.1 Activities sheet in assigned groups

• Operational Definition demo and discussion- Yearbook smiles - directions given out in class
• Random Sampling - coin flip demo & discussion
• Interactive lecture, discussion, Q&A on Unit 2.1
• Continue Unit 1 Interactive lecture & discussion

HW Due Monday, August 13th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 2.1 p19-29

In Class Thursday, August 9th - Unit 1 History & Approaches to Psychology:

• Finish going over Syllabus
• Finish explaining requirements for reading, note taking, and note cards
• Reminder of AP Exam date
• Intro to Psychology True False Questionnaire with partner. Discuss results.
• Unit 1 Quiz in assigned pairs
• Unit 1 Activities sheet in assigned pairs
• Interactive lecture, discussion, Q&A on Unit 1
• Experiment demo and discussion on student conformity

HW Due Thursday, August 9th:

• Read, take notes, and make Vocab Note Cards for Unit 1 p1-15​ ​

​In Class Tuesday, August 7th - Course Intro:

• Questionnaire
• Books
• Emails
• Syllabus
• Preview mrlipsky.com
• Explain reading, note taking, and note cards
• AP Exam date
• Intro to Psychology True False Questionnaire with partner. Discuss results.