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!
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Sunday, December 9, 2007
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
Tuesday: Notes due, video: False Memories
Wednesday: Discussion section due, Intro Memory
Thursday: Rewrites due, Memory Model
Friday: Types of Memory
Sunday, December 2, 2007
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
Tuesday: Operant Conditioning schedules
Wednesday: Results due, Cognitive Learning
Thursday: Behavior Modification Project due, Review types of learning
Friday: Notebook due, test over Learning
Thursday, November 29, 2007
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
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
Monday, November 19, 2007
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?
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?
Sunday, November 18, 2007
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)
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)
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