Fall+2016

Welcome to Psychology, room 401, honors and CP! This wiki is the place to find all links, hw, etc. Please bookmark it! Please feel free to email me at any time, gould@bpsk12.org Online APA bibliography creating websites: link Our textbook: link


 * Week of 1/9/2017 ** Please go through grades on aspen and turn in anything missing. Missing grades will turn into 0s Friday the 13th (doesn't that sound ominous?) Do check M, not F. Documentary link
 * Monday: ** documentary and hw: read midyear exam come in with questions
 * Tuesday: ** finish doc and begin case studies.
 * Wednesday: ** work on case studies in class. (not final exam ones) Receive final exam case studies today.
 * Thursday: ** finish up case studies in class, ask questions about final exam.
 * Friday: ** stress free day.


 * Week of 1/3/2017 ** Therapies! Many types, used to treat different disorders, [|link to prezi]
 * Tuesday: ** Behavioral therapy and Cognitive therapy, together they are CBT!
 * Wednesday: ** Psychoanalysis=Freud Psychodynamic= today and Humanistic
 * Thursday: [|Documentary] ** notes by individual. hw: work on movie project!
 * Friday: ** movie project due today.


 * 12/12/2016 **
 * Monday: ** disociative disorder finish up [|Dr. Phil]
 * Tuesday: ** schizophrenia [|MTV real life]
 * Wednesday: ** personality disorders review. Keep up in your notes for open notes quiz!
 * Thursday: ** Therapies
 * Friday: ** movie day!

These will be available for people to pick up in guidance so be accurate and clear.
 * Week of 12/12/2016 **
 * Monday: ** Depression [|link to black dog]
 * Tuesday: ** Depression
 * Wednesday: ** Brochure, pick an anxiety disorder or depressive disorder with your partner Mental health brochure.
 * Thursday: ** Somatoform Disorders: LeRoy, NY [|news link] movie project (due after break for honors)
 * Friday: ** continued, w discussion.

screening tool for depression (not how, just informational)
 * Week of 12/4/2016 **
 * Monday: ** bring in dream writing. Personality Portfolio due W.
 * Tuesday: ** quiz on personality.
 * Wednesday: ** begin abnormal psychology. What is neurotypical, what is the DSMV? and why do we need it?
 * Thursday: **
 * Friday: ** ppt link cognitive distortions

2. Were the various test results accurate for you or inaccurate, explain your reasoning. (This is going to be the foundation of your project so pay attention to your answers here). 3. Has your personality changed over time (since childhood), in what ways? Explain. If there have been no changes give an example of how you have maintained the same traits. (No you cannot answer any of these questions with one sentence only). hw [|dream interpretation according to Freud] Try to remember one of your dreams and look up the meaning according to Freud. Yes, they are odd, look for the symbols that appear and write it down. For 5 pts.
 * Week of 11/28/2016 **
 * Monday: ** Read the personality traits section of our etext take notes on anything you find confusing and take the 5 factor test. Screenshot results for your project! Then take and score the Mini IPIP assessment. This takes a little focus. Please read the instructions. Some of you will skip the instructions and interrupt the person next to you to ask them to explain it to you. You can do it on your own! I have faith in you!!!!
 * Classwork due to be turned in on paper on T ** : 1. How do your 5 factor personality test results compare to the results from your friends? If you took two different 5 factor tests, were there any differences? Please try to explain the differences. Please try not to focus on the random outliers.
 * Tuesday: **
 * Wednesday: ** Rorschach test, defense mechanisms defense mechanisms
 * Thursday: ** no school
 * Friday: ** Personality disorder cocktail party.


 * Week of 11/21/2016 **
 * Monday: ** training manuals due, boxes due. [|Personalityppt] personality test for hw and Myers Briggs if you don't already know it from Naviance.
 * Tuesday: ** personality continued!
 * Wednesday: [|inkblot] **


 * Week of 11/14/2016 **
 * Monday: ** schedules of reinforcement!
 * Tuesday: ** practice choosing classical or operant. HW: bring in box for personality project!
 * Wednesday: ** begin personality project, with personality box! "Please describe MY PERSONALITY with one adjective"
 * Thursday: ** check in on your training manual! [|Link to Personality ppt]
 * Friday: ** Quiz on operant and classical conditioning! Training manual due!


 * Week of 11/8/2016 **
 * Monday: ** Operant Conditioning, big bang OC Training a human!
 * Tuesday: ** no school, vote if you can. -sketch out your plan for training a human, begin if you want.
 * Wednesday: ** discuss your plan for training a human in class, tell your parents to see me tonight!
 * Thursday: ** no school, parent teacher conferences. my email is gould@bpsk12.org if they want to meet face to face, or they can just email me to chat at any time.
 * Friday: ** Veteran's day.

What is learning? link choose someone to train... [|ppt on learning!] [|hw for honors crash course!] If you prefer to read a textbook, learning ch.
 * Week of 10/31/2016 **
 * Monday: ** in library, work on sleep project, due at end of class please.
 * Tuesday: ** finish up stages of sleep chart and sleep hygiene plan. due W if not finished in class.
 * Wednesday: ** sleep and memory quiz
 * Thursday: ** begin learning! Jim trains Dwight using CC. the diff b/w classical and operant conditioning link
 * Friday: ** Both classes, You will pick an animal and train it using classical conditioning, (that is association, not rewards and punishments)! animal training activity, log into the wiki to post your answer on the animal training activity page. Honors, you will also go to this article on Little Albert and take notes, on what happened to Albert and what happened to him and why it was so unethical. This topic is confusing, take this opportunity, take notes. You will be earning 10 points on M. or 0 points. Have a great weekend!


 * Week of 10/24/2016sleep!!!!! **
 * Monday: ** Why should school be started later? link linkwork with groups to problem solve and come up with your proposal for later start time. Working slowly through M to create poster or letter to school committee. School Sleep Project video link
 * Tuesday: ** sleep deprivation video
 * Wednesday: ** crash course cycles notes.
 * Thursday: ** sleep article letter from Middlesex Supts to start schools later sleep stages
 * Friday: ** sleep poster or letter due. 50pts.

Your choice for hw: 1. Which type of memory issue would be the worst, anteriograde amnesia, retrograde amnesia, or never forgetting anything. Explain your reasoning. 2. What are the flaws with eyewitness testimony and why? How are police departments working to treat memory "like a crime scene itself."
 * Week of 10/17/2016 **
 * Monday: ** begin amnesia: what is amnesia, what happens when the cortex is damaged? anteriograde Retrograde ** hw ** : [|watch Mr. Green] and write down your answer to this question: Why do you (teenager specifically) need to sleep more and differently than adults? Include actual scientific facts that he mentions! Then write down a list of differences between the teen and adult brain, this will be collected so please do on a separate sheet of paper.
 * Tuesday: ** memory palace TED talk hw: bring something to class that you need to learn/remember (your ss# if you don't know it yet, a phone number, some vocab terms, an inspirational quote, whatever)
 * Wednesday: how we forget... ** [|Reading] The woman who never forgets The tragedy of memory, p1
 * Thursday: [|incredible brains] Youtuber guy **
 * Friday: ** Your sleep data is due! bring it in and we will try to chart out your sleep cycles.

**Thursday:** How are sleep and memory connected? .[|Sleep notes]
 * Tuesday: ** begin sleep journals crash course cycles notes. sleep notes! sleep article
 * Wednesday **** : ** in class Infographic on how memory works or go to my [|pinterest page] read/watch/listen to any 2 articles/podcasts/videos on MEMORY and take some notes and come up with three burning questions that you have about memory. You must have these notes and questions ready in hard copy for TH
 * Friday: **


 * Week of 10/3/2016 **
 * Monday: ** work on zombie brain menus! zombie menu ! use the chart paper, markers in the box, 3D brain ap! worth 25pts.
 * Tuesday: ** [|Broca's Aphasia] and [|Wernicke's Aphasia] through studying what goes wrong...we see the amazing amazing power of what is happening when things are working just fine.
 * Wednesday: ** split brain, corpus callosum and neuroplasticity [|video]
 * Thursday: **
 * Friday: ** brain quiz!

**Plan of the week 9/26/2016** **Monday:** CP: brain notes brain ppt H: neurotransmitter trading card **Tuesday:** CP labeling lobes H: neuron quiz **Wednesday:** H: begin brain for real! hw: download 3D brain app (FREEEEEEE! **Thursday:** H: hw labeling lobes selfie!  **Friday:** Zombie Menu


 * Plan of the week 9/19/2016 **
 * Monday: ** finish presenting groups and begin Brains!!! talk about brain questions
 * Tuesday: ** begin neuron notes neuron ppt
 * Wednesday: ** neuron candy for honors!
 * Thursday: ** ppt neuron video
 * Friday: ** candy neuron for honors, brain for cp.


 * Plan of the week 9/12/2016 **
 * Monday: CP reading honors reading ** What is psych? For our first group exercise we will be investigating some of the most compelling psychological studies in the field of psychology, blog. Your group will be posting herePsychology Studies which is why you created a login for wikispaces. Please follow the instructions located here. Please prepare to share your findings with the entire class.
 * Tuesday: ** continue to work on your findings.
 * Wednesday: ** share findings! discussion of research ethics.
 * Thursday: Phineas Gage ** What do you know about the brain? Crash Course on the brain 3 questions.
 * Friday: ** in class neuron ppt neuron activity **hw for honors** What do you know about the brain? Crash Course on the brain 3 questions.

next week in class in class build a neuron. remind me to ask you about allergies...
 * brain ppt **

**Tuesday:** names **Wednesdy:** what is psychology link for honors HW please bring in three questions you have about psych -what we are going to learn, etc written down. To join, active join code 9HMH7QM **Thursday:** discussion, T/F what do you think about psych research?
 * Friday: ** finish. no hw.