This week AP has been working on understanding emotions and motivations. We have had several discussions on the issues of obesity in American society. We looked at the science behind the data and realized that the information is quite overstated. Students also took time to create new weight loss methods that would use multiple aspects of the psychology of motivation to help people lose weight. Today we discussed the purposes of emotions and how they have evolved over millions of years.
Upcoming Assignment: Test Chps 1-8 next Tuesday
This week Honors psych has been working on understanding the mental processes of memory. Students have worked on several experiments to demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of their short term memory systems. Visit this website if you'd like to see how difficult it is to keep information in your STM. Today, we began discussing how long term memory works, how it is organized, and how to use mnemonic devices to remember things better. Read more on peg word mnemonics and the method of loci if you are interested. Tomorrow, we will continue watching a documentary on Kim Peek that is available on youtube in order to see what is possible with long term memory. We will also discuss amnesia and other forms of long term memory loss.
Upcoming Assignments: Vocab quiz Monday, Thanksgiving Assignment 28th
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Its Been A While
It is amazing how quickly a week can go by when you have a million responsibilities for home coming. I have had no time to post lately and for that I am sorry. I'm going to get back into the flow of things this week.
AP Psych
Today we talked about ways in which people have difficult times thinking logically and analyzed some survey data that we gathered from the student body of SC. Students also learned about how important language can be in the way we approach a problem. This is called framing-best example is when you tell yourself that this test/project/experience is going to be terrible and because of this mindset it is. We are currently working on experiments to demonstrate this principle in SC.
Upcoming Assignments: Vocab chp 7 quiz Thursday 11, 3. Major extra credit opportunity due in a week and a half-create a psych themed board game for review purposes, must cover chps 1-7.
Honors
Today students continued to work on their understandings of classical conditioning by working through more examples of the process and taking part in a classical conditioning exercise. Half the class is now classically conditioned to have their hearts speed up when I clap my hands. We will test again tomorrow but the majority of the class had a significant increase to the number of beats per minute as a result of this process.
Upcoming Assignments: Vocab chp 4 quiz tomorrow
AP Psych
Today we talked about ways in which people have difficult times thinking logically and analyzed some survey data that we gathered from the student body of SC. Students also learned about how important language can be in the way we approach a problem. This is called framing-best example is when you tell yourself that this test/project/experience is going to be terrible and because of this mindset it is. We are currently working on experiments to demonstrate this principle in SC.
Upcoming Assignments: Vocab chp 7 quiz Thursday 11, 3. Major extra credit opportunity due in a week and a half-create a psych themed board game for review purposes, must cover chps 1-7.
Honors
Today students continued to work on their understandings of classical conditioning by working through more examples of the process and taking part in a classical conditioning exercise. Half the class is now classically conditioned to have their hearts speed up when I clap my hands. We will test again tomorrow but the majority of the class had a significant increase to the number of beats per minute as a result of this process.
Upcoming Assignments: Vocab chp 4 quiz tomorrow
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