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
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