Thursday April 16, 2026
Circle: The one small thing you dread the most about your day?
Activity: Revised Facts on Suicide
Introduction to Dissociative, Schizophrenia and Personality Disorders
Activity: Dissasociation
Activity: Referential Thinking Scale
Wednesday April 15, 2026
Circle: The one small thing you dread the most about your day?
Activity: Revised Facts on Suicide
Introduction to Dissociative, Schizophrenia and Personality Disorders
Activity: Dissasociation
Activity: Referential Thinking Scale
Tuesday April 14, 2026
Circle: One thing you are looking forward to during April vacation besides sleeping more?
What is it like to have depression?
Activity: Look up rates of depression;
In America
Worldwide
In Maine
In Men
In Women
In Teenagers
What are the most prevalent forms of depression?
What are the rarest forms of depression?
Activity: Loneliness Scale
Activity: Suicide Quiz
Friday April 10, 2026
Circle: Fish sticks, yes or no?
Circle: One thing you do when you are feeling sad or depressed?
Tuesday April 7, 2026
New Seating Chart
Circle: To be answered after activity?
Activity: Social Anxiety Scale
Activity: Obsessive Compulsive Scale
Monday April 6, 2026
New Seating Chart and Activity:
You will record the answers for each person in their group:
What is one goal you have after high school?
What is one activity you enjoy outside of school?
What is one strength you bring to a group?
What is one thing most people would not guess about you?
Circle: Something that makes you anxious? Doesn't have to be a big deal. Like jumping from high places into water makes me really anxious.
At your table Write down when you think something that makes you anxious crosses over into a psychological disorder.
Introduction to Anxiety and Mood Disorders: With your group come up with as many anxiety and mood disorders as you can. What is something you think they all have in common?
Psychology Student Disorder...Look it up.
Activity: True or False?
Activity: Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale
Friday April 3, 2026
Circle: Something that makes you anxious? Doesn't have to be a big deal. Like jumping from high places into water makes me really anxious.
At your table Write down when you think something that makes you anxious crosses over into a psychological disorder.
Introduction to Anxiety and Mood Disorders: With your group come up with as many anxiety and mood disorders as you can. What is something you think they all have in common?
Psychology Student Disorder...Look it up.
Activity: True or False?
Activity: Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale
April 1, 2026
Circle: If you could choose a superpower what would you choose. If you don't choose one we get to choose one for you?
Activity: True and False 27-1
Activity: At your table come up with some of the disorders you know that people around you suffer from.
Mental Health: At your table answer the following:
How do we know if something is wrong?
Why do you think so many people don't seek the help they need?
Is mental health embarrassing?
Why do you think it is some common for people to stop treatment even when it is working very effectively?
Activity: How do we know if its a real problem?
Monday March 30, 2026
Circle: How would you know if you had a mental disorder?
Activity: Go over True and False
Activity: At your table come up with some of the disorders you know that people around you suffer from.
Mental Health: At your table answer the following:
How do we know if something is wrong?
Why do you think so many people don't seek the help they need?
Is mental health embarrassing?
Why do you think it is some common for people to stop treatment even when it is working very effectively?
Activity: How do we know if its a real problem? and
Thursday March 26, 2026
Circle: What is one of you hobbies. Something you do purely for enjoyment?
Where you Type A or B?
Stress Slide Show Start on Slide 34
Video:
TEDtalk Stress 3 Takaways
For Thursday Green Day-
Harvard Study 3 Takeaways
Stress and Memory 10:56 Mark 3 Takeaways
When someone says, "Cortisol so high". What does that mean?
What are the long term implications for your health, career, relationships etc. What did you learn about yourself and what you need to understand?
Activity: True or False
Wednesday March 25, 2026
Circle: Cat or Dog and why?
Where you Type A or B?
Stress Slide Show Start on Slide 34
Video:
TEDtalk Stress 3 Takaways
Harvard Study 3 Takeaways
Stress and Memory 10:56 Mark 3 Takeaways
What are the long term implications for your health, career, relationships etc. What did you learn about yourself and what you need to understand?
Whats next...Health!
Thursday March 19, 2026
Circle: What do you do when you feel stressed out? How well does it work?
Notecards: 1. Stress 2. Yerkes-Dodson
Math Test
What is GAS? General Adaptation Syndrome.
Type A or B?
Video:Wednesday March 18, 2026
Circle: What do you do when you are stressed out?
Emotion: At your table see if you can come up with a list of common emotions that most feel.
Compare with this list. How did you do?
Group Question: Which one would you want to get rid of if you could delete one in yourself. Discuss with you group your choice and why.
Circle: What do you do when you are stressed out?
Emotions Activity: What is it like to not have normal emotions?
Monday March 16, 2026
Circle: One specific place you would love to visit before you depart the planet?
Study Time: Fundamental Attribution Error
Quiz: Fundamental Attribution Error
Next Unit: Stress and Health
Activity: True or False
Thursday March 12, 2026
Circle: A time you felt like you were being judged.
Notecard- Write the Fundamental Attribution Error on one side and a definition you understand on the other.
FAE Explanation
Video: Fundamental Attribution Error
Activity: Karen Clips.
Wednesday March 11, 2026
Circle: A time you felt like you were being judged.
Notecard- Write the Fundamental Attribution Error on one side and a definition you understand on the other.
Video: Fundamental Attribution Error
Activity: Karen Clips. Step 1. Write down three words to describe this person. Step 2. Share out what we think. Step 3. What do we think might be behind their behavior when we slow down and examine the situation, even if we might not know for sure. Step 4. How does our attitude change about these people as we slow down and think about why they might be acting this way. Do you feel the same as you did at Step 1? What changed?
Monday March 9, 2026
Circle: What percentage chance to you give the possibility that you will make a new friend as a result of this class?
New Seating Chart/Activity: Photo Sharing: Ask everyone to share a picture on their phone from the last week and explain why it was taken. Who had the most interesting/funny picture?
Review: Fundamental Attribution Error- At your table come up with a simple explanation that you understand. Come up with an example that you can all agree on.
Simply put: We assume people act a certain way because of who they are, rather than because of the situation they’re in.
Lets look at our data... Does anything stand out to you?
Social Relations: Evaluate why we are attracted to some and not others. Why do we help others.
New Activity: Why do you think we like some people and not others. How quickly can you tell if you like someone, and have you ever been wrong- meaning you thought you didn't like someone and ended up being close or thought you liked someone and then realized they were not good for you and dropped them. What was it?
Activity: True or False
Love Attitude Scale
Thursday March 5, 2026
Social Cultural Psychology
Circle: Have you ever gotten away with something that you should have gotten in trouble for? How did it make you feel?
Activity: Deindividuation-If you could do anything humanly possible with complete assurance that you would not be detected or held responsible for what would you do? Write it down.
Deindividuation is a psychological state where individuals in a group or crowd lose their self-awareness, personal identity, and sense of individual responsibility.
aggression, charity, academic dishonesty, crime, escapism, political activities, sexual behavior, social disruption, interpersonal spying, and eavesdropping, travel, and a catch-all other.
Criminal 26%
Sexual 11%
Spying 11%
Most common...robbing a bank at 15%
36% in total were considered anti-social.
Demonstration Activity: Blank piece of paper, write down how much time went by. Then again, how much time went by. Written variations will have a much greater variation in time then spoken times. Why?
Survey Time...How many students and teachers fall prey to the Fundamental Attribution Error
March 4, 2026
Circle: If your parents could see all of you social media would they be happy, sad or mad?
Social-Cultural Perspective- What is it? Describe a time when you had to act different because of the situation you were in. How did it feel? Did you notice that you were acting differently than how you usually do? Did it feel fake? Now remember a time when you didn't know how to act, what did you do to figure it out?
Fundamental Attribution Error- We assume people act a certain way because of who they are, rather than because of the situation they are in.
Activity: True or False
Activity: Attribution Scale 32-4
Tuesday February 24, 2026
New Seating Chart- Interview everyone at your new table and determine who had the best snow day and the worst snow day? Two different people must present the best and worst but you cannot present your own. It must include specific details about why it was so bad or good.
Thursday February 26, 2026
Circle: How many pets do your family currently have?
Get into groups: Name that tune for candy! Two rounds. Top pop hits and Top country hits.
Two new notecards: 1. Psychology- The study of people's behavior and mental processes, anotherwords, what people do and why they do it. 2. Bio-psych-social Model: Mental illness is influence by your biology, the way you think about things, and the situation you are in.
Take out the HAND- What does each finger represent and why?
Notecards- How many are completed? 5 minutes to get any last ones done.
Hand out scenario- In your own words, what do you think might be wrong. Jot down you ideas on the back of scenario.
Now using the Hand and note cards, how would you fit your ideas under the different perspectives. You don't need to put one under each one.
Humanistic, Behavioral, Cognitive, Psychoanalytic, Social-Cultural, Evolutionary and Biological
Be prepared to share out as a group what you think is going on with Alex and which perspectives make the most sense explaining is behavior and thinking.
What the quiz will look like. Practice...
Wednesday February 11, 2026
Circle: What is you favorite thing to do outside when the weather is nice?
What would it take you to murder someone you didn't know and who was no threat to you? Do you think you would murder someone just because you were told to do so?
What do you think is wrong with someone who murders innocent people? Are they mentally ill?
How do you explain what the Nazi's did to the Jews? How could normal people do that?
Milgram Experiment. 7 min mark
Hand Revisit
Activity: Case Study Jordan M.
Monday February 9, 2026
Circle: A show you are currently watching?
Activity: Is it a disorder?
1. Maladaptive/Destructive
2. Unjustifiable
3. Disturbing
4. Atypical
Activity What is going on here?
Back to the HAND...
Tuesday February 3, 2026 Gold
Circle: If you had to choose one breakfast cereal for the rest of your life, which would you choose?
Revisit: Definition of Psychology- The study of behavior AND mental processess.
1. The Hand- What do we understand about the Evolutionary Perspective? Why do people engage in behavior(like saving the 5 year-old) and what is behind the decision/mental process?
2. Evolutionary Perspective
3. Introduce other perspectives
4. Lets look at ourselves... What does it mean???
5. Lets see if we can figure out what's going on here. Remember the Fundamental Attribution Error
6. What is going on here? How would you explain what is going on and why its happening?
Monday February 2, 2026
New Seating Chart
Seating Chart Activity:After you find you seat figure out three things you have in common with your table-mates. You will be sharing this with the class. Here is a list of questions you might use to find out.
Circle: Something about someone you live with that really bothers you?
Revisit: Definition of Psychology- The study of behavior AND mental processess.
1. The Hand
2. Evolutionary Perspective
3. Introduce other perspectives
4. Lets look at ourselves... What does it mean???
5. Lets see if we can figure out what's going on here. Remember the Fundamental Attribution Error
6. What is going on here? How would you explain what is going on and why its happening?
Friday January 30, 2026 Gold
New Seating Chart
Seating Chart Activity:After you find you seat figure out three things you have in common with your table-mates. You will be sharing this with the class.
Circle: Ocean or the lake?
Revisit: Definition of Psychology- The study of behavior AND mental processess.
1. The Hand
2. Evolutionary Perspective
3. Introduce other perspectives
4. Lets look at ourselves... What does it mean???
5. Lets see if we can figure out what's going on here. Remember the Fundamental Attribution Error
6. What is going on here? How would you explain what is going on and why its happening?
Wednesday January 28, 2026
Circle: What's an annoying habit that someone you live with has?
Activity: Write down one thing you learned about yourself as a result of taking the Myers-Briggs Profile and one thing you learned about other people in this class?
Activity: Your brain in a prediction machine and since it is a machine I and others can know things about you that you don't even know. Weird, I know.
Evolutionary Psychology: Please answer the following questions on the handout. How could I know?
Introduce the Hand-
For next class: How do we use Psychology to solve or fix something?
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Welcome to Psychology!
Learning Target: I can help build a community in the classroom and understand its importance in relation to learning.
Circle: Name and what is ONE pet peeve of yours?
Psychology Definition: The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
Your brain is a prediction machine...
Lets look at mental processess? Using your Myers-Briggs profile look at that profile that is the opposite of yours and be ready to discuss how different that world would be for you. What seems like it would blow your mind? Find someone who is opposite from you or as close to opposite as you can find. Go thru questionaire together and answer the questions. Compare answers to see how diferrently you interact with the world and the people around you.
Understand... At your table-Fundamental Attribution Error
Learning Target: To understand the major psychological perspectives and what they can tell us about ourselves and others.
Thursday January 22, 2026
Welcome to Psychology!
Google Classroom: imghqcse
Circle: Either the grossest thing you have seen served in school cafeteria or your favorite cafe item.
Learning Target: To understand the major psychological perspectives and what they can tell us about ourselves and others.
Tuesday January 20, 2026
Welcome to Psychology!
Phones reminder
Learning Target: To understand the major psychological perspectives and what they can tell us about ourselves and others.
