Wednesday, September 30, 2009

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 28, 2009

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.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

  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 22, 2009

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 18, 2009

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 16, 2009

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.

Friday, September 11, 2009

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.