Tuesday, December 8th

Here is a link to a practice quiz for tomorrow's test:

Learning Theories

Click on "Test"

Monday, December 7th

1. Daily Opener
2. Watched Video- Inside Out: Thinking and Language
3. Handed out study guide for Wednesday's test and discussed it
4. Turned in B level task.

*Test and A level due Wednesday.
**Tomorrow there will be a link to a practice quiz for the test!

Thursday, December 3rd

• I was gone and I understand that the sub could not find my lesson plans :(
• We were going to do an activity based on Harlow's attachement experiment. If you would like to complete it for extra credit see me!
• B level is due Monday and A level/unit test is Wednesday!

Tuesday, December 1st

1. Daily Opener
2. Activity- Created a 3 circle Venn Diagram on theories of motivation- incentive, cognitive, and drive-reduction using the 12 statements I provided.
3. Discussed the venn diagrams.
4. Oral defenses on C levels.

Unit test will be December 9th.
B level task is due on the 7th.
A level task is due on the 9th.

Friday, November 20th

1. Daily Opener
2. Video- The Minds Storehouse: Memory
3. Worked on C level tasks- due today

Wednesday, November 18th

1. Daily Opener
2. Storyline Activity- wrote a story using 11 words from Chapter 10 on Memory, shared stories.
3. Pictionary- created a drawing of one of the words from the storyline activity
4. Worked on C level tasks.

Monday, November 16th

1. Daily Opener
2. Activity- Modeling. List 10 behaviors/activities/skills, for each identify if it was learned through modeling, and if so, who was the model. Discussed lists and modeling.
3. Activity- Learning the Alphabet Backwards. 10 separate trials, 30 seconds each, write the alphabet backwards, covering up each previous attempt. Made a bar graph of individual results. Discussed how repetition and practice can help you learn a skill quickly.
4. Worked on C level tasks and did oral defenses

Thursday, November 12th

1. Daily Opener
2. Activity- Reinforcement vs Punishment
3. Activity- Schedules of Reinforcement
4. Assignment- Reinforcement Activity- observe each class once in the next week, share results on Friday the 20th.

***I posted grades today. Remember that all missing work from this 6 week grading period is due Monday the 16th by 3 p.m. If you have been absent due to illness please come and talk to me about making other arrangements.

Monday, November 9th

1. Daily Opener
2. Activity- Operant Conditioning
3. Worked on C level tasks.

Thursday, Novebmer 5th

1. Daily Opener
2. Classical Conditioning Experiment Activity
3. Worked on C level tasks.

Tuesday, November 3rd

1. Daily Opener- None
   
2. Video- Responding to Stimuli
3. Beginning next unit- Learning and Cognitive Processes
4. Assigned Journal Entry #5- pg. 240 (Chapter 9)
   
5. Picked C level tasks and began working on them

Friday, October 30th

1. Daily Opener
2. Theories of Personality Unit Test
3. A level due Today!!
4. Journal Entry #4- pg. 407
   

Wednesday, October 28th

1. Daily Opener
2. Activity- Persona Masks. Made masks of different "personas" and shared them with the class. Discussed what 2 physical features on a persons face identify the persona.
3. Reviewed for test.
4. Worked on A level task- due Friday.

Test on Friday!

Monday, October 26th

1. Daily Opener
2. Discussed the personality test activity from last Tuesday.
3. Activity- Source vs. Surface trait. Made a list of traits and categorized them.
4. Discussed using physical appearance as a judge of personality.
5. Activity- Extravert vs Introvert. Looked at characteristics of each, discussed situations in which you could be both, do we each have some of both as part of our personality.
6. Worked on B level task- due on Wednesday.

A level now due on Friday, unit test on Friday.

Thursday, October 22nd

I was gone today so here is what the sub was supposed to do with you:

1. Daily Opener
2. Application Activity: Self-Actualization (see me to get the activity)
3. Worked on B level task. Turn in next class.

A level is due October 28th and unit test will be the 30th.

Tuesday, October 20th

1. Daily Opener
2. Activity- Are You in Control?
3. Activity- Personality Tests
4. Worked on C level tasks and did Oral Defenses- due TODAY.

Thursday, October 16th

1. Daily Opener
2. Skits on Defense Mechanisms
3. Worked on C level tasks

Tuesday, October 13th

1. Daily Opener
2. Notes- Personality Theory- Psychoanalytic
3. Work on C level tasks, oral defenses

Psychology Journal is due on Thursday, should have 3 entries. Pages 6, 31, and 374 have the prompts.

Thursday, October 8th

1. Daily Opener
2. Video- The Enduring Self: Personality (see me to get access to the video)
3. Worked on C level tasks.

All missing work from this 6 Weeks grading period is
DUE TODAY!!

Tuesday, October 6th

1. Daily Opener
2. Assigned Psychology Journal prompt pg. 374
   
3. Activity/Notes- What is Personality?, Purpose of Theories, Major Schools
4. Began next layered unit- Theories of Personality

Friday, October 2nd

1. Daily Opener
2. Introducing Psychology Unit Test
3. Completed tasks for unit. A level due today.
4. Assigned- Journal activities pg. 31 and pg. 374

Wednesday, September 30th

1. Daily Opener
2. PPT- A Short History of Psychology
3. Reviewed for unit test on Friday
4. Oral defenses
5. B level due Today!

Terms to know for the test:

• psychobiologist
  functionalist/functionalism
  hypothesis
  behaviorist/behaviorism
  structuralist
  theory
  developmental psychologist
  Clinical psychologist
  experimental psychology
  Industrial/organizational psychology
  4 goals of psychology
  Wilhelm Wundt
  Sigmund Freud
  Scientific method
  Sir Francis Galton
  Humanists
  Basic science
  Applied science
  Greeks role in early psychology

Monday, September 28th

1. Daily Opener
2. Activity- Psychology career skits
3. Worked on C level tasks and did oral defenses. Due today!

B level due on Wednesday and A level due Friday. Unit test on Friday.

1. Daily Opener
2. M&M Sample Activity- nothing to make up
3. Worked on C level tasks- due Monday the 28th.

Introducing Psychology Unit Test on Friday, October 2nd!

Tuesday, September 22nd

1. Daily Opener
2. Notes- The Scientific Method
3. Activity- Chain Reaction Time: Measuring the Speed of Thought
4. Worked on C level tasks.

Friday, September 18th

1. Daily Opener
2. Notes- The Goals of Psychology
3. Activity- How would a psychologist use the 4 goals to answer the following question: Why are you sitting here in psychology class when there are other things you could be doing?
4. Worked on C level tasks.

Wednesday, September 16th

1. Daily Opener: "A psychologist is a person who ______."
2. Watched video- Inside Out: The Magic of the Mind- The Story of Psychology. To access the video go to www.learn360.com. Login- ID: sprague Password: olys
3. Introduced Layered Learning- went over handout the explained the basics of how it works.
4. Began 1st layered unit- Introducing Psychology. Due dates are included in the packet.

Tuesday, September 14th

1. Daily Opener
2. Checked out textbooks
3. Cruise Through Psychology Land Activity- nothing to make up.
   
4. Assigned: Journal entery #1, see page 6 of your textbook for guidelines.

Thursday, September 10th

Welcome to Psychology!

Each day of class I will post information about what we did that day and whenever possible links to the work.

1. Syllabus- went over it and will handout copies on Monday.
2. For the rest of the period we did several get to know each other activities and took some "what do you know" type quizes, nothing that needs to be made up.
3. Task- Before leaving class everyone answered two questions- why are you taking this class and what do you hope to learn- and turned them in.