IB TEST!

Feel free to e-mail me any IB (or AP) questions.

Remember your CMKOMEGC outline to use for every essay! (Command term, Main point, Key theorist, other necessary info, method, ethics, gender, culture)

Also the you-tube videos from the learning unit (look to previous posts) are a good review of Pavlov and Skinner.

Be to the administration center by 11:50 just to be safe! GOOD LUCK!

PLAN YOUR WORK AND WORK YOUR PLAN :)

This week in IB/AP Psychology!

Review Time!

Please remember to come on Tuesday prepared to start reviewing! We will also be discussing how you will be able to earn the 200-250 points available in this final 6 weeks (combination of review assignments, testing, class participation, final book project, and miscellaneous assignments).

IB people: yellow sheets, notes, 40 studies, book

AP people (and those not taking either): notes/vocab, 1st semester review sheet, past tests and practice tests, 40 studies, book

THIS WEEK'S TUESDAY IB REVIEW SESSION IS CANCELLED AND RESCHEDULED FOR WEDNESDAY, SAME TIME, SAME PLACE.

Remember that Thursday's review session is at the Administration Center from 2:45-4.

A TON OF LINKS FOR IB REVIEW! (SOME AP TOO!)

http://www.cranepsych.com/Psych/index.html (THE BEST REVIEW SITE!)

http://www.internationalcounselor.org/Psych/ib_psychology_notes.htm (good reviews of the 3 main perspectives and theorists for each)

http://home.mindspring.com/~j-squared/index.html (Lowe’s IB psych page – teacher in North Carolina)

http://ibpsychology.blogspot.com/ (mostly cognitive)

http://www.learner.org/discoveringpsychology/index.html (Discovering Psychology video series)

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0335213480/student_view0/ (another textbooks review resources)

http://www.angelfire.com/wizard/ib-notes/#psychology (IB psychology notes)

http://www.ibpsychology.com/IB07/Biological.html (a good IB website)

http://www.geocities.com/jatwood1971/ (old IB site, not all links work)

http://missbrennan.wordpress.com/ (IB teacher’s site)

http://sspps.govoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7B3160EA08-5D8A-4628-975F-B0E7219D36B0%7D (IB teacher’s site)

http://teachers.saschinaonline.org/ibpsycpd/ (Shanghai teacher’s site)

http://www.simplypsychology.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ (general psych site)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gary.sturt/keystud2.htm (key studies)

http://del.icio.us/jcrane66?page=1 (LOTS of links to different psych sites)

Rest of Mental Disorders Unit!

Monday and Tuesday: Sybil
Wednesday: Overall diagnosing, Manifest Anxiety Disorders
Thursday: Inferred Anxiety Disorders, 2 videos, CHOICE PROJECT DUE
Friday: Other disorders (not covered in book)MOD 24 NOTES DUE
SPRING BREAK!
Monday: Mood disorders, 1 video
Tuesday: Personality disorders
Wednesday: Schizophrenia, 2 videos
Thursday: Out of the Shadow (documentary on schizophrenia), practice test
Friday: test

All lectures are covered through powerpoints. If you happen to miss, they will be put in the group share for the class you are in.

Mental Disorders Unit - week of March 17

Monday: Intro unit, begin Therapy powerpoint
Tuesday: Finish Therapy powerpoint, intro application project, mods 22 and 23 due
Wedesday: rewrites due, begin Sybil
Thursday and Friday: No school

AP TEST MONEY IS DUE BY THURSDAY, MARCH 20!

Week of February 19

Tuesday: finish Piaget, Freud, Erickson, and Kohlberg (yes, a busy day!)
Wednesday: prep for Kid Lab!
Thursday: Kid Lab
Friday: debrief lab, Stormy Childhood (read story and answer questions)

TEST POSTPONED!

Due to the wonderful snowstorm, the test will be Monday, not Friday. You should plan to turn in your application project on Friday. Go out and frollick in all that snow!!!

Daily psych review e-mailed to you!

If you register at this free site, Alleydog will e-mail you one term a day (with definition). It's great for reviewing lots of psych concepts!

Go to:

http://www.alleydog.com/

and sign yourself up now!

Choice Project Ideas!

WEBSITES:

Motivation:

http://www.motivateus.com/

http://www.motivational-inspirational-corner.com/getquote.html?authorid=30

Fear of Success:

http://www.coping.org/growth/success.htm

Eating Disorders:

google: Thin documentary (HBO special)

something-fishy.org

Nationaleatingdisordersassociation.org

mirror-mirror.org

Facial Expressions:

http://www.paulekman.com/

http://www.apa.org/monitor/jan00/sc1.html

Lie Detectors:

https://antipolygraph.org/

EXAM TIME!

Sorry for the delay in posting!

Exam review time!!! We have covered a lot of information this semester. Use the following tips to make your studying productive and manageable.

I would encourage you to get into the groupshare for psych and e-mail the review powerpoint home for your reference. I also will be going over it in class on Friday.

Also, somewhere on this site (October maybe?) there is a link to the textbook's website. I would recommend using that to do practice questions and flashcards and other review stuff.

Old practice and real tests will be very useful to go over. Pay attention to rewrites!

Using the review sheet: Go over it first and somehow mark everything you know, kind of know, and do not at all remember. Use this as your guide. Don't spend time on what you already know... focus on the other two areas!

Study in different ways: old tests, vocab and notes, review sheet, powerpoint, flashcards, etc. Think of examples, use mnemonic devices...

OVERLEARN BY AT LEAST 100%! Meaning, if you feel like you know everything after studying for 3 hours...study for another 3 hours (break it up remember! I would recommend no more than 1/2 hour to 45 minutes without a break. Set goals!)

This week in PSYCH!

Monday: Choice Project due, CEC for working on lab report
Tuesday: Memory Model
Wednesday: Final draft due (pay attention to grading rubric for this! plan on attaching it to the front of the paper), Forgetting
Thursday: Mnemonics
Friday: Test (changed from original syllabus- if you won't be here this day, I highly recommend taking it early.), notebook due

Have a great break!

Calendar for the week of Dec. 10-14

Monday: Essays and discussion section tips

Tuesday: Notes due, video: False Memories

Wednesday: Discussion section due, Intro Memory

Thursday: Rewrites due, Memory Model

Friday: Types of Memory

Week of December 3

Monday: Choice Projects due, Operant Conditioning types

Tuesday: Operant Conditioning schedules

Wednesday: Results due, Cognitive Learning

Thursday: Behavior Modification Project due, Review types of learning

Friday: Notebook due, test over Learning

You Tube Videos

These are interesting videos about different aspects of learning!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRLfRRNoZzI – Pavlov’s experiments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxKfpKQzow8 – Baby Albert and Watson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUeLzfP8tCA Brief info on B.F. Skinner

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDujDOLre-8 – Thorndike and puzzle boxes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AepqpTtKbwo&feature=related – Interview with Skinner, pigeons, schedules of reinforcement, ends with free will question

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDtBz_1dkuk – Bobo Doll experiment explained by Bandura

Analyzing Daydreams

Analyzing Daydreams

Keep a diary of your daydreams over two or three days. Carry a pad of paper or 3-by-5 cards and during idle moments of the day-before class, waiting for lunch, driving home, during a break in class- jot down what you've just been thinking about.
To understand the meanings of daydreams, Singer notes, students should look at certain attributes. For example, do some scenes and themes reoccur? Score your daydreams from 1 to 5 on the following characteristics.

1. Is the fantasy purely visual or do other senses come into play? For example, in fantasizing about a banquet do you hear the speaker, smell the food, taste the roast beef? Some daydreams consist entirely of conversations with another person. Do you see the person and listen to his or her comments or do you simply do all the talking? Score 1 if only one sense was invovled but up to 5 if more senses come into play.
2. Are your dreams personal or impersonal? In dreaming about a bank robbery are you a spectator or are you actively involved as a perpetrator or victim? Score 1 if you are merely a bystander and up to 5 if you are actively involved.
3. Was the dream relevant to your real life? If you daydream about visiting the harem of an Arabian sheik, you are probably just seeking an escape from today's problems. However, if you are rehearsing a conversation you will have with your employer tomorrow, you are dealing with an immediately relevant aspect of your life. Again score 1 to 5, with 5 representing extreme, obvious relevance to your current life situation.
4. How vivid was your dream? Did you see it through a thick fog or was it clear and sharp? Were events in color or balck and white? Could you clearly hear what was being said? Score 1 to 5, with higher scores representing the more vivid experiences.

Singer states that by averaging these ratings for a whole series of dreams you can get a sense of your underlying motives. For example, to what extent do our fantasies reflect achievement? If we have been doing poorly in school and telling ourselves that it doesn't matter, while our daydreams show us overcoming incrediable obstacles, we may have misjudged our deepest wishes. Similarly, if our daydreams consist of passionate love affairs while in everyday life we have focused on career success, we may be suppressing a deep need for affection. Does power play a prat in our dreams? Dependency? Escape from danger? These and other motives may be reflected in our dreams. In each case Singer instructs us to ask ourselves whether the dreams coincide with real-life efforts and goals or are they very different? Is it possible we are hiding certain motives from ourselves and need to reevaluate our life efforts?

This week in PSYCH!

Monday: Dream AP due, Drugs (chart using other textbooks), practice test, do IB summary sheet in groups

Tuesday: Test over Consciousness unit, Turn in notebook

Wednesday: You sleep in, I come to school.

Thursday: Happy Thanksgiving. Big meal, big nap, hopefully big win for the Lions

Friday: Either shop or avoid the mall area at all costs.

Saturday: High: 36 °F Mostly cloudy and chilly

Sunday: High: 42 °F Periods of clouds and sunshine, NOTES DUE TUESDAY! (Mods 9 & 10)

Continuum of Consciousness Powerpoint

CONTINUUM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Consciousness
Awareness of the outside world and your thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and other mental processes
Doctors: awareness that is demonstrated by either explicit or implicit recall (surgery)
0.2 % of surgical patients (under general anesthesia) retain some degree of consciousness
3 Central Questions
1. What is the relationship between the conscious body and the physical brain? AKA: Mind-body question
Dualism: They are separate (Descartes), pineal gland as the "third eye", discredited
Materialism: the same, like hardware and software combining to form an image on a screen, current belief
3 Central Questions
2. Is consciousness a unified phenomenon or several different ones?
-Theater view: various aspects of awareness converge on the "stage" to "play" before the "audience" of your mind
-Parallel Distributed Process (PDP) model:
mind processes parallel streams of information which interact somehow to create consciousness
3 Central Questions
3. What is the relationship between conscious and unconscious activities?
-Freud had lots of ideas, many discounted, but current brain research does support the idea that many important mental activities do occur outside of our awareness.
Functions of Consciousness
Produce the best current interpretation of sensory information in light of past experience and make the interpretation available to parts of the brain that need it
Allows access to a vast store of information through memory processes (study on pictures)
Everchanging, multilayered, varying in both quantity (levels) and quality (states)
Levels vs. States
When you are alert and aware of your mental activity and incoming sensations, you are fully conscious. However, at the same time other mental activity is taking place within your brain at various distances or levels of consciousness.
When your experience of yourself and incoming stimuli vary in focus and clarity, then you have variations in your states of consciousness.
Levels of Consciousness
Conscious: at any moment, the mental events that you are aware of exist here (Necker Cube example)
Nonconscious: mental events that cannot be experienced consciously (brain regulating blood pressure)
Preconscious: outside of awareness, but can easily be brought out (Last night’s dinner?)
Unconscious (subconscious): mental activity that influences consciousness, but is not conscious (for example: priming)
Unconscious Examples
General anesthesia patients: While still unconscious, audiotape of 15 word pairs were played over and over, afterwards they couldn’t remember anything, but…when given one of the words in each pair, patients would produce the other
Patterns: Flashing of X’s on different places on the screen in a complex pattern, without being able to explain the pattern ($ 100 bribe didn’t even work), participants could follow it by becoming faster and more accurate
Blindsight: When the primary visual cortex is damaged causing blindness, sometimes other pathways may permit vision without awareness! (report seeing nothing, but accurately locating visual targets, identifying directions of moving objects, naming color of lights, identifying emotion in faces)
Priming: People tend to respond faster and more accurately to previously seen stimuli, even if they don’t recall seeing it. Unscrambling sentences with emotional cues caused people to act later in similar ways to the emotion (rude words = later more likely to interrupt)
Other Examples
IAT – correlates with consciously held attitudes (age prejudice)
Prosopagnosia: cannot consciously recall familiar faces (can still recognize many objects and people by their voices) but…show eye movement patterns, changes in brain activity, and autonomic nervous system responses that don’t occur when viewing unfamiliar faces
Anterograde amnesia: inability to form new memories, but … can still learn new skills (without remembering anything about learning them)
Overall, unconscious processing may help us to carry out more effectively mundane day to day activities.
States of Consciousness
Controlled Processes
Automatic Processes
Daydreaming
Altered States
Sleep and Dreams
Unconsciousness

November 12-16 in Psych!

Monday: Essays and intro Consciousness unit. Turn in IB summary sheet (if you didn't have it done on Friday).

Tuesday: 1st hour: notes due and then off to the assembly. Everyone else: Notes due, Continuum of Consciousness information (The powerpoint won't open at home and I can't get my school laptop to post it, so I'm trying another computer tomorrow at school. Thanks for your patience :)

Wednesday: Rewrites due, 1st hour: Continuum of Consciousness information, 2nd and 6th: Nap Attack video

Thursday: Choice Project due, Sleep Disorders

Friday: Hypnosis

Week of November 5

Monday: Methods and either analyzing M.C. Escher drawings or looking up optical illusions (there are handouts for both. Methods section due tomorrow.

Tuesday: Methods section due. Peer critiquing (if satisfied, turn in with peer critique. Otherwise, sign the paper Mrs. Messemer has and take it home to fix.) IF YOU ARE DOING YOUR EXPERIMENT IN CLASS, BE READY FOR WEDNESDAY!

Wednesday: In class experiements

Thursday: In class experiments, practice test

Friday: Test! Notebook due (Journals! A few sentences per question)