Monday March 30, 2026

 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

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

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?

Stress Slide Show

Video:

TEDtalk Stress 


Harvard Study

Stress and Memory  10:56 Mark

What are the long term implications for your health, career, relationships etc.  What did you learn about yourself and what you need to understand?

Wednesday March 18, 2026

Wednesday March 18, 2026

Circle: What do you do when you are stressed out?

Stress, what is it good for?

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?

The major theories of motivation? Quizlet

Emotions

Emotions Activity: What is it like to not have normal emotions?

Anti-Social Personality Forum
Online Test

Stress Slide Show

Video:

TEDtalk Stress 


Harvard Study

Stress and Memory  10:56 Mark

What are the long term implications for your health, career, relationships etc.  What did you learn about yourself and what you need to understand?

Monday March 16, 2026

 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

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.  

Worksheet

Wednesday March 11, 2026

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

 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

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

 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

Survey for Students

Survey for Teachers