Monday, November 24, 2025

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 13, 2025

Thursday November(GREEN) 13, 2025

Thursday November(GREEN) 13, 2025

Circle: Should we get rid of daylight savings?

Unit TopicsConsciousness, 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
Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dXEgVK-fF4
Nightmares and Night Terrors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds8GRH4xmN8
What would happen if you didn’t sleep? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqONk48l5vY

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

Monday, November 3, 2025

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