Friday, February 27, 2026

Tuesday February 24, 2026

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.

Circle: Your favorite pair of shoes?

Activity: Getting ready for the hand.  Take out your hand mnemonic.  You will be assessed over the major psychological perspectives.  For the assessment you will be getting a blank hand which you will fill out with each of the perspectives and a simple definition.  You will then be asked to explain how each perspective would explain the behavior in the scenario.  To study you will be creating note-cards which have all of the following.

Front of card:  Perspective

Back of card: 1. Simple definition of perspective 2. Example of perspective. 3. Personal connection to the perspective: Evolutionary Example- I know that when I get married, if female,  I will most likely marry someone who is older than me because evolutionary psychology says they will be more capable of caring for our child because they will be more mature and stable so my child will have better chance of surviving to adulthood and having children of their own.

These cards are worth 10 percent of the grade.  They must be passed in when we take the test.

Thursday, February 26, 2026

Thursday February 26, 2026

 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

Wednesday February 11, 2026

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

Monday February 9, 2026

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...

Thursday, February 5, 2026

Thursday February 5, 2026

Circle: If you had to choose between being really successful but not having any really close friends or being ok in terms of success but have really close friends which would you choose?

Revisit the definition of Psychology and the HAND

Scenarios

Reflection Ticket

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Tuesday February 3, 2026 Gold

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

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?