November 24(GREEN) and 25(GOLD), 2025

November 24(GREEN) and 25(GOLD), 2025 

New Seating Chart

Seating Chart Activity: After a brief discussion with your new table-mates you will draw a picture that the other of one of the other students objects or characteristics that they  think best represents them. (They need to be appropriate and no words allowed) The rest of the class will then be responsible for guessing which picture represents each of the students at the table.  You will have to discuss your choice with your group and only when you agree will you answer.

Circle: Hold your picture and explain it & if you could see one movie again for the first time, what would it be and why?

Hypnosis Reflection:

1. If you were hypnotized, how did you find the experience?

2. Would you do it again?

3. How did you feel when you walked out of class on Thursday?

4. How did the rest of your day go?

5. How did you sleep that night? Were you, for example. more tired than usual or did you dream more?

6. If it didn't work, why do you think it didn't?

Activity: Stress and Wellness

1. Believe it or not, but the holiday season is one of the most stressful times for Americans traditionally. Why do you think the holidays can be so stressful for some?

Thursday November(GREEN) 13, 2025

Thursday November(GREEN) 13, 2025

Circle: Should we get rid of daylight savings?

Unit Topics: Consciousness, Sleep, Dreams, and Hypnosis

Sleep Journal:  On average, how many hours of sleep have you been getting on a school night?

Activity: Handout 20-13-  What are strategies you can implement to improve you sleep.  Create a customized list of things that you know you need to work on or strategies you currently use that work and are backed up by science.

Activity: At you table you will come up with a brief presentation about the long term effects of not getting enough sleep.  If you have three people, your presentation will have 3 parts.  If four people, it would have 4 parts.

For Example: Lack of sleep can lead to weight gain because; 1. Increases ghrelin, a hunger-arousing hormone and decreases leptin which decreases hunger.  2. Decreases metabolic (energy use) rate.  3. Increases cortisol production,  a stress hormone that stimulates the body to make fat(energy storage). 4. Enhances limbic brain response to the mere sight of food and reduces cortical response which helps us resist temptation. 

What is it? What are the causes? What are the symptoms? How does it affect the sufferer? What are the treatments? How common is it?  What are the long term effects?

• insomnia
• narcolepsy
• sleep apnea
• night terrors
• parasomnias(sleep walking)
• restless leg syndrome

Activity: 22-1 True or False

Note cards: Below is a list of terms that you will need to know for the AP Psych exam.    Each note card should have the term on the front.  Then, on the back you need to A) define the term and B) show application of the term.  This application can sometimes best be expressed as a personal example.  You can also draw the application of the term if you so desire.

• consciousness
• circadian rhythm
• REM sleep
• hallucinations
• insomnia
• narcolepsy
• sleep apnea
• night terrors
• parasomnias
• restless leg syndrome
• manifest content
• latent content
• hypnosis
• dissociation

Sleep

Stages of Sleep - Sleep Cycles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RjPZNNSGlY

Stages of Sleep, REM Sleep and Dreaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaoMD1XI5u8

What Makes You Tick: Circadian Rhythms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BoLqqNuqwA

Circadian Rhythm and Your Brains Clock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbQ0RxQu2gM

Sleep loss and disorders

What It’s Like To Have Insomnia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwkKcqdrfGo

Sleep Apnea Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTUjQ-IcKPU

Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dXEgVK-fF4

What is Narcolepsy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=Ucpf_OYvs4E

Nightmares and Night Terrors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds8GRH4xmN8

Night Terrors https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=R1srWn4QWoU

What would happen if you didn’t sleep? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqONk48l5vY

Sleepwalking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_JLTmIFq_A

Dreams
Crash Course Dreams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMHus-0wFSo
Hypnosis Discovering Psychology: The Mind Hidden and Divided (11:30 mark)

Monday(GREEN) November 3, 2025

Monday(GREEN) November 3, 2025

New Seating Chart/Activity- The furthest you've even been outside of Maine?

Circle: If you were given a 500 dollar Amazon gift certificate and had to spend it frivolously, what would you buy?

Brain Quiz Practice

Using the ipad figure out what each part of the brain's main function is and where it is located and a specific example of how the part impacts our actions.

Practice Quiz...

Quiz on Thursday

Thursday(GREEN) October 30, 2025

Thursday(GREEN) October 30, 2025

Circle: Are you trick-o-treating tomorrow and what are you going as?

Learning Targets: 

1.Understand how different parts of the brain work

2. Understand what happens when different parts of the brain are damaged

3. Understand how the brain can rewire itself.

What could happen when you injure your brain?

What happens when you injure your brain?

Activity:

1. Unusual Brain Disorders

2. Worksheet

3. Presenting our findings

Wednesday(GREEN) November 29, 2025

Wednesday(GREEN) November 29, 2025

Circle: What is you favorite kind of Halloween candy?

Learning Targets: 

1.Understand how different parts of the brain work

2. Understand what happens when different parts of the brain are damaged

3. Understand how the brain can rewire itself.

What could happen when you injure your brain?

What happens when you injure your brain?

Unusual Brain Disorders

https://www-athenacare-health.translate.goog/five-of-the-most-unusual-brain-disorders/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=vi&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Alien Hand Syndrome

Cotards Syndrom

Synesthesia

Capgras

Prosopagnosia

Tuesday-Gold October 14th, 2025

Tuesday-Gold October 24th, 2025

Unit 1: The Brain-Everything Psychological is simultaneously Biological

Nature/Nurture Review

Circle: Tattoo of your name across your neck on one of your front teeth is gold with diamonds in the shape of the letter of your last name.

Activity: Introduction to the brain and neuroscience. David Eagleman.

Module 9 slide show

Learning Targets: I can explain/understand

What are neurons, and how do they transmit information? Myelin sheet

How do nerve cells communicate with other nerve cells?

How do neurotransmitters influence behavior, and how do drugs and other chemicals affect neurotransmission?

What are the functions of the nervous system’s main divisions?

How does the endocrine system – the body’s slower information system – transmit its messages?

How do neuroscientists study the brain’s connections to behavior and mind?

What are the functions of important lower-level brain structures?

What functions are served by the various cerebral cortex regions?

What do split brains reveal about the functions of our two brain hemispheres?

Homework: Study for Neuron QUIZ

Activity: True/False

Activity: Reaction Time-explain the sequence and how the sensory, motor neurons and interneurons work.

Mind Body Connection Activity:  We know that everything psychological is simultaneously biological. What implications can you draw about the brain and its structure from the following three examples:  In groups of three what are some of the implications of the following information?

Shawn Achor Video

Harvard Study

NPR Story:
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/09/29/444451363/childhood-stress-may-prime-pump-for-chronic-disease-later

ACES Video

Your ACE's score: Does it surprise you?

Image of Neuron

 Thursday GREEN October 9th, 2025

Circle: Do you think you are a good judge of character?

Activity: Picture

Who do you think is the kindest person?  “Why did you pick that particular person? What experiences or biases shaped your perception?”

Which person would you go to honest advice?  “How quickly did you decide? What influenced that judgment?”

If you were going to ask one of them for directions to a place you were looking for who would you ask?  Why that particular person?  What do you think influenced you?

The Brain with David Eagleman

2 Minute Neuroscience: The Neuron

Neuron Activity

Neuron Quiz

Monday October 6, 2025 for Green and Tuesday October 6, 2025 for Gold

Monday October 6, 2025 for Green and Tuesday October 6, 2025 for Gold

New Seating Chart and Activity

New Seating Chart and Activity. You will be designing, and building and flying a paper airplane with you new group.  1.  You will first do introductions and explain if you are an introvert or an extrovert.  2. You will come up with a plan to make sure that everyone is included in the building and designing of the plane.  3.  You will be asked how you made sure that everyone had a say in how the plane was designed and built and how the sensory, motor neurons and interneurons interact to throw the paper airplane.  Your plane will be judged on distance with the 1st, 2nd and 3 place are getting a prize!

Circle: One thing you did outside this weekend? 

Unit 1: The Brain-Everything Psychological is simultaneously Biological

Nature/Nurture Review

Activity: Introduction to the brain and neuroscience. David Eagleman.

Module 9 slide show

Mind-body connection: Using example from page 79 of the Chinese transplant surgeon how would you answer the following questions?  1. Would Wang still be Wang?  2.  After recovering whose home should he return to?  3.  If he had specialized skills like music, would Wang retain that skill or is it dependent on the new body's muscle memory?  4.  If Wang was to later father a child, whom should the birth certificate list as the father?  

Learning Targets: I can explain/understand

What are neurons, and how do they transmit information? Myelin sheet

How do nerve cells communicate with other nerve cells?

How do neurotransmitters influence behavior, and how do drugs and other chemicals affect neurotransmission?

What are the functions of the nervous system’s main divisions?

How does the endocrine system – the body’s slower information system – transmit its messages?

How do neuroscientists study the brain’s connections to behavior and mind?

What are the functions of important lower-level brain structures?

What functions are served by the various cerebral cortex regions?

What do split brains reveal about the functions of our two brain hemispheres?

Homework: Study for QUIZ

Building a neuron model:  Due October 28th.  Quarter ends the 31st.

Activity: True/False

Activity: Reaction Time-explain the sequence and how the sensory, motor neurons and interneurons work.

Activity: Cross hands and confuse brain

Mind Body Connection Activity:  We know that everything psychological is simultaneously biological.  What implications can you draw about the brain and its structure from the following three examples:  In groups of three what are some of the implications of the following information?

Shawn Achor Video

Harvard Study

NPR Story:
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/09/29/444451363/childhood-stress-may-prime-pump-for-chronic-disease-later

ACES Video

Your ACE's score: Does it surprise you?

Image of Neuron

Friday and Monday

Friday Period 6 and Monday Period 8, 2025

New seating chart and activity next week

Friday Circle: What was you favorite thing to do at recess?

Monday Circle: TBA

Quiz Review in Class: Perspectives

Take Quiz

Next Unit: The Brain

Thursday, August 28, 2025

Thursday, August 28, 2025

Welcome to Advanced Placement Psychology!  

Phones reminder

Learning Target: I can help build a community in the classroom and understand its importance in relation to learning.

Groupings Chart

Activity:

Introduce yourself to the group:  Take notes on the people in your group.

1. Name a job you wanted to do when you were little

2. Favorite cartoon

3. One place you'd like to visit.

You will be reporting out your fellow group members.  You might want to write it down.

Why would I assign you to a group?  Make T-Chart with pros and cons

Rock Paper Scissors to see who presents

Activity:

You will not  be turning this in.  On a piece of scrap paper write down why you are taking AP classes.  Now look around the room and write down why you think others in the room are taking them.   

Circle Explanation: Restorative Justice

Circle: Not including yourself, why do you think students take AP classes?

Activity: Fundamental Attribution Error- One person from you table go get a textbook and look up the Fundamental Attribution Error and make sure everyone at your table understands what it is and come up with an example that you would use to explain it to your parents if they asked you what you did in AP Psych today.  Be prepared to share out.

Learning Target: To understand the major psychological perspectives and what they can tell us about ourselves and others.

Psychology Definition: The scientific study of behavior and mental processes. 

Circle: A bizarre behavior you have witnessed at this school.

Activity: Using  the behavior we talked about in circle and your limited understanding of psychology, try and determine why said person engaged in behavior.  Be ready to report out.

Fundamental Attribution Error

Perspective Activity: At your table come up with a working definition of perspective. 

What do you see?

What did I just do to influence what you saw?  Turn and talk

Another Perspective: Evolutionary Psych

Homework: Jung Typology Test

1. Take the test

2. Get you profile letters- write them down.

3. Look up what your profile is

4. Briefly write down what you agree with, 3-4 things and what you disagree with.

5. Then reflect in a short paragraph  how it makes you feel that you can be into 4 letters