Schallhorn's AP Psychology

New AP Review Site--excellent--Test Yourself

2009-05-05T14:35:00.001-07:00

http://classes.burrburton.org/Social_Studies/dmiceli/AP%20Psychology/AP%20Psychology%20WebTest/Index.htm

This has two 20-question quizzes that get graded online for almost instant feedback.

AP Review Options

2009-04-23T09:19:00.001-07:00

Good Day Everyone! You've got several options for reviewing for your AP test.
First is your review assignment--work on that

Read/re-read your textbook
Come to class every block and work on FRQs with us
Go over your previous exams and quizzes you've received back
Use the questions/review documents in your workbook
Use the review readings and practice quizzes and tests in your review books (Barron's or Princeton)
Use the review materials by your classmates (once they are done and online)
Use the Sparknotes review site: http://www.sparknotes.com/testprep/ap/
Use the text online resources: Coon and Mitter Online Resources to Use for Review
Use the Glossary of Terms from Psychology Matters
If you like using videos for part of your review, please see this site: http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/videos/
Come to the Saturday and Sunday review sessions to examine and discuss concepts from the course
Some excellent review sites that will help you if you use them correctly. http://quizlet.com/ --search for ap psychology terms
http://www.course-notes.org/Psychology
http://appsychology.com/
http://home.mindspring.com/~j-squared/apreviewsite/index.html http://academics.tjhsst.edu/psych/oldPsych/
http://www.bubbabrain.com/bbsr.php http://www.montereyinstitute.org/nroc/nrocdemos.html http://twoulfemac.googlepages.com/appsych
Go to the ETS site for taking the GRE exam--download their .pdf file with over 200 review questions--

New AP Review Site--excellent

2009-04-19T11:55:00.000-07:00

Sparknotes has a nice free AP review site. You need to register, but once you do you can take a diagnostic AP exam to identify strengths and weaknesses. http://www.sparknotes.com/testprep/ap/

How to Review for the AP Psych Exam

2009-04-05T16:10:00.000-07:00

How to Review for the AP Psych Exam

Coon and Mitter Online Resources to Use for Review
Spanish Glossary

Glossary of Terms from Psychology Matters

The first step will be organization--gather all you old exams and review the ideas contained within

Take time each day (including weekend and spring break days) to review/re-study material

Begin with the oldest material first--re-examine that to refresh your memory of the ideas we've convered already

Once you've refreshed your memories, which topics gave you the most difficulty? Begin the formal review there first

Create a coverage chart to make sure you deal with everything over the course of the next month

Create a time to study AP Psych each day--whether working on the practice FRQs, going over class materials or old quizzes and exams, creating vocab cards, studying vocab cards, doing online practice quizzes from text, using the study book from your text; or some other form of study

When going over practice tests and online testing, identify what material you need work on--go back and relearn that material

Review the key studies mentioned in the review guide (see handout)
Follow the instructions about how to read and write an FRQ (see handout)

See your review book for additional recommendations

If you like using videos for part of your review, please see this site: http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/videos/

Links from the Review

2009-04-04T10:19:00.000-07:00

http://www.backmaskonline.com/oldrock.php

Some excellent review sites that will help you if you use them correctly.
http://quizlet.com/
http://www.course-notes.org/Psychology
http://appsychology.com/
http://home.mindspring.com/~j-squared/apreviewsite/index.html
http://academics.tjhsst.edu/psych/oldPsych/
http://www.bubbabrain.com/bbsr.php
http://www.montereyinstitute.org/nroc/nrocdemos.html
http://twoulfemac.googlepages.com/appsych

AP Weekend Review for 4/4 and 4/5

2009-04-03T10:52:00.001-07:00

Saturday 4/4--9 am beginning to go over and correct the 1994 released exam and the 2005 FRQ on perception, cogition and conclusions. We will work until noon or until everyone has satisfied his/her thirst for knowledge.

Sunday 4/5--4 to 7 pm. Same situation and deal as Saturday morning.

Motivation Review Guides from Class

2009-04-03T10:48:00.000-07:00

http://www.sbhsd.k12.ca.us/~cschallhorn/psy/motivation/index.htm

Multiple Intelligences EC

2009-03-24T10:12:00.000-07:00

Here is a Gardner Multiple Intelligence Inventory:

Linguistic
1. You enjoy word play. Making puns, tongue-twisters, limericks.
2. You read everything—books, magazines, newspapers, even product labels.
3. You can easily express yourself either orally or in writing, i.e. you’re a good story-teller or writer.
4. You pepper your conversation with frequent allusions to things you've read or heard.
5. You like to do crosswords, play Scrabble or have a go at other word puzzles.
6. People sometimes have to ask you to explain a word you’ve used.
7. In school you preferred subjects such as English, history and social studies.
8. You can hold your own in verbal arguments or debates.
9. You like to talk through problems, explain solutions, ask questions.
10. You can readily absorb information from the radio or audio cassettes.
Total:

Logical-Mathematical
1. You enjoy working with numbers and can do mental calculations.
2. You’re interested in new scientific advances.
3. You can easily balance your checkbook; do the household budget.
4. You like to put together a detailed itinerary for vacations or business trips.
5. You enjoy the challenge of brain teasers or other puzzles that require logical thinking.
6. You tend to find the logical flaws in things people say and do.
7. Math and science were among your favorite subjects in school.
8. You can find specific examples to support a general point of view.
9. You take a systematic, step-by-step approach to problem-solving.
10. You need to categorize, group or quantify things to properly appreciate their relevance.
Total:

Visual-Spatial
1. You have an appreciation of the arts.
2. You tend to make a visual record of events with a camera or camcorder.
3. You find yourself doodling when taking notes or thinking through something.
4. You have no problem reading maps and navigating.
5. You enjoy visual games such as jigsaw puzzles and mazes.
6. You’re quite adept at taking things apart and putting them back together.
7. In school you liked lessons in art and preferred geometry to algebra.
8. You often make your point by providing a diagram or drawing.
9. You can visualize how things look from a different perspective.
10. You prefer reading material that is heavily illustrated.
Total:

Bodily-Kinesthetic
1. You take part in a sport or regularly perform some kind of physical exercise.
2. You’re quite adept at ‘do-it-yourself.’
3. You like to think through problems while engaged in a physical pursuit such as walking or running.
4. You don’t mind getting up on the dance floor.
5. You like the most thrilling rides at the fun fair.
6. You need to physically handle something to fully understand it.
7. The most enjoyable classes in school were PE and any handicrafts lessons.
8. You use hand gestures or other kinds of body language to express yourself.
9. You like rough and tumble play with children.
10. You need to tackle a new learning experience ‘hands on’ rather than reading a manual or watching a video.
Total:

Musical
1. You can play a musical instrument.
2. You can manage to sing on key.
3. Usually, you can remember a tune after hearing it just a couple of times.
4. You often listen to music at home and in your car.
5. You find yourself tapping in time to music.
6. You can identify different musical instruments.
7. Theme music or commercial jingles often pop into your head.
8. You can’t imagine life without music.
9. You often whistle or hum a tune.
10. You like a musical background when you’re working.
Total:

Interpersonal
1. You enjoy working with other people as part of a group or committee.
2. You take great pride in being a mentor to someone else.
3. People tend to come to you for advice.
4. You prefer team sports—such as basketball, softball, soccer, football—to individual sports such as swimming and running.
5. You like games involving other people—bridge, Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit.
6. You’re a social butterfly. You would much prefer to be at a party rather than home alone watching television.
7. You have several very close personal friends.
8. You communicate well with people and can help resolve disputes.
9. You have no hesitation in taking the lead; showing other people how to get things done.
10. You talk over problems with others rather than trying to resolve them by yourself.
Total:

Intrapersonal
1. You keep a personal diary or log to record your innermost thoughts.
2. You often spend ‘quiet time’ reflecting on the important issues in your life.
3. You have set your own goals—you know where you’re going.
4. You are an independent thinker—you know your own mind, make up your own mind.
5. You have a private hobby or interest which you don’t really share with anyone else.
6. You like to go fishing by yourself or take a solitary hike. You’re happy with your own company.
7. Your idea of a good vacation is an isolated hilltop cabin rather than a five-star resort and lots of people.
8. You have a realistic idea of your own strengths and weaknesses.
9. You have attended self-improvement workshops or been through some kind of counseling to learn more about yourself.
10. You work for yourself—or have seriously contemplated ‘doing your own thing.’
Total:

Naturalist
1. You keep or like pets.
2. You can recognize and name many different types of trees, flowers and plants.
3. You have an interest in and good knowledge of how the body works—where the main internal organs are, for example, and you keep abreast on health issues.
4. You are conscious of tracks, nests and wildlife while on a walk and can ‘read’ weather signs.
5. You could envision yourself as a farmer or maybe you like to fish.
6. You are a keen gardener.
7. You have an understanding of, and interest in, the main global environmental issues.
8. You keep reasonably informed about developments in astronomy, the origins of the universe and the evolution of life.
9. You are interested in social issues, psychology and human motivations.
10. You consider that conservation of resources and achieving sustainable growth are two of the biggest issues of our times.
Total:

Try this as well:

Multiple Intelligences Assignment
Read:
Utopian SchoolsBy Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D.
http://www.thomasarmstrong.com/articles/utopian_schools.htm
Multiple Intelligences:by Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D.
http://www.thomasarmstrong.com/multiple_intelligences.htm

Due ______________________________________
Plan a lesson based upon the theory of multiple intelligences for another one of your classes. Pick any subject and any topic. These don’t need to be overly long, definite two page max, one page preferable, and can be in paragraphs, outline form, or any other constructive format.
Grading Rubric
· 20-18 pts: A well thought out and detailed (yet flexible) plan incorporating most, or all, “intelligences” of a quality I can, and will, give to another teacher.
· 17-14 pts: A plan that workably incorporates several “intelligences”.
· 13-10 pts: Either a fair amount of effort that fails to incorporate many “intelligences”, a convoluted unworkable plan incorporating many of the “intelligences”, or a moderately workable plan with 3 or 4 “intelligences”
· 9-1 pts: Little effort and only incorporates a few “intelligences”
· 0 pts: Late work or anything that clearly shows no effort

Intelligence Links

2009-03-24T10:10:00.000-07:00

IQ tests online--take at your own risk

o www.queendom.com/intellig.html
o www.iqtest.com
o www.shrinktank.com
o www.queendom.com/tests.html
o www.armory.com/tests/nerd.html
o www.mentalhealth.com

Sleep and Drugs Links for Followup

2009-03-10T13:27:00.000-07:00

Reviewing for AP Exam
http://www.appsychology.com/Movies/psychological_movie_pagehome.htm

Alcoholism Screening Links
http://www.alcoholscreening.org/?gclid=CMyAqJGZmZkCFRFWagodGH39bg
http://counsellingresource.com/quizzes/alcohol-mast/index.html
http://www.recoveryconnection.org/alcoholism_test/

Sleep Links
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/sleep/
Teens and Sleep (inside the teenage brain video clip)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/view/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/from/

http://www-med.stanford.edu/school/Psychiatry/narcolepsy/
http://library.thinkquest.org/25553/english/study/research/index.shtml?type=regular

Sleep and Sleep links/videos

2009-03-06T10:12:00.000-08:00

· http://shakespeare.about.com/cs/criticismmisc/a/sleep.htm
· Sleep quotes—http://www.quotegarden.com/sleep.html

· Circadian, infradian, and ultradian rhythms
· Tips for Good Sleep

· Using sleep issues and how people react to sleep pattern changes, create a work schedule that alters the sleep schedule that will get an employee to quit and/or do something stupid to get fired (use a 4–week period)

· Perkin’s Restaurants and how to get rid of an employee (Days, Nights, Evenings, Days + mtgs)

Neuroscience for Kids site about sleep
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/sleep.html

http://www.sleepfoundation.org/

http://www.smmc.com/index.php?id=39

Signs of Sleep Disorders

Videos about narcolepsy and cataplexy
http://www-med.stanford.edu/school/Psychiatry/narcolepsy/

Cataplexy definition-- http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=10470

10 Top Social Psych Research

2009-03-03T12:07:00.001-08:00

http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/11/10-piercing-insights-into-human-nature.php

For the next unit-consciousness

2009-03-02T15:56:00.001-08:00

Please go to this site:
http://www.sfn.org/index.aspx?pagename=brainfacts

Download the entire .pdf file--there are some great sections that will be helpful for you in your review for the AP test.

Skinner and Google

2009-03-01T21:06:00.000-08:00

Here is how Google gets such great search results--Skinner's pigeons.
http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

Dissociative Fugue State--New Article

2009-03-01T14:41:00.000-08:00

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/nyregion/thecity/01miss.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=life%20interrupted&st=cse

Check it out--fascinating.

Mon 3/2 and Wed 3/4

2009-03-01T12:07:00.000-08:00

Good morning,

Monday's class will be for working on the case studies I've given you already for examining classical and operant conditioning. We will also be quizzing on the latest reading over modeling/observational learning.

We will have a demo on shaping.

Finally, we will be looking at a larger set of details that combine all the forms of conditioning.

During the first half Wednesday, we will review. Second half will be for the unit exam.

Our next unit is states of consciousness (sleep, drugs, hypnosis).

Here are some additional links for you to check out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_ctJqjlrHA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl7jr9EVcjI&feature=related

or simply go on youtube and search for "classical conditioning," "skinner," "operant conditioning," "observational learning," or "bandura." You will get some great results. Please share any good ones with us here in the comments section.

Neuroplasticity and Classical Conditioning

2009-02-24T10:09:00.000-08:00

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=saving-new-brain-cells

Check out this Scientific American article that combines several of our topics.

HW for 2/13--Classical Conditioning

2009-02-11T10:08:00.000-08:00

Read 262-269--Classical Conditioning

We are getting into Pavlov and Skinner with the emphasis away from cognition and toward a focus on behavior only.

Sneetches and Exam Review

2009-02-09T09:50:00.000-08:00

Sneetches Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln3V0HgW4eM

Sneetches Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0LgMpfLD1Y

Be sure to review:
Review book
Work book from text
Textbook website with review quizzes
SQ4R from chapters 18-19

McDonald's Strip Search Case and Social Psychology

2009-02-05T10:20:00.000-08:00

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051009/NEWS01/510090392

This addresses most of the questions we had in class related to the case. Also, see the following links for more details on this topic.
http://www.vanguard.edu/faculty/ddegelman/amoebaweb/index.aspx?doc_id=873
for all things social psychological and related content

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/
Jane Elliott and the show that made her famous
http://www.janeelliott.com/

http://prisonexp.org/

Thursday 2/5

2009-02-04T19:59:00.000-08:00

Just a reminder that there will be a quiz over the reading that was due last class, the section on prejudice. Then we will be seeing some zimbardo vids to see original research footage.

Tuesday 2/3--in room 477-the computer lab

2009-02-02T07:49:00.000-08:00

We will be meeting in the computer lab for Tuesday's class to work on a web search and discover--bring your brains and a pen. I'll provide the rest.

CDS

Links to check out-Therapy and Social Psych

2009-01-29T13:09:00.000-08:00

Check out the resources below. People who check these out and make constructive comments about at least two of them in the comment section of this blog post will receive extra credit.

Atypical Antipsychotic Medications

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/25569107/bitter_pill

http://www.sbhsd.k12.ca.us/~cschallhorn/psy/socialpsych/index.htm

Court TV video: Human Behavior Experiments
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5444760
http://www.courttv.com/onair/shows/human_behavior_experiments/index.html
http://www.sundancechannel.com/film/?ixFilmID=7085

Watch it on google video—follow this link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=bv_ky5cBVNg

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/01/arts/television/01huma.html?ex=1306814400&en=92f86522d28c6137&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Cognitive Dissonance
o e.g. Incoming Frosh to HS or college—former concept of self as student and realities of next level
o http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/cognitive_dissonance.htm
o http://www.answers.com/topic/cognitive-dissonance
o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
o http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/dissonance.htm

Video: learner.org: Constructing Social Reality
http://www.learner.org/resources/series138.html

Jane Elliott links
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/
http://www.trainingabc.com/xcart/customer/search.php?substring=jane+elliott
http://www.janeelliott.com/
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues05/sep05/elliott.html
http://www.oprah.com/tows/vintage/past/vintage_past_20010720_b.jhtml

Therapy Links

2009-01-22T10:09:00.000-08:00

· ECT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXC6b0xy4ts&feature=related
· One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
· http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCUmINGae44&feature=related
· http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls1ZT8QwFFE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=rational+emotive+behavior+therapy&aq=1&oq=Rational+Emotive
Search Youtube for examples of different kinds of therapy--you will get some great examples of how they work in reality with some great demos.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=humanistic+therapy&aq=f

Learn from the best at MIT

2009-01-15T09:55:00.000-08:00

Check out this link:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm

If you love to learn, you will love this site with links to all sorts of different courses. Check it out!

Depression/Mental Health Links

2009-01-11T10:25:00.000-08:00

PBS Show: The Lobotomist
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lobotomist/program/

US News article
http://usnews.healthline.com/usnewschannel/depression

Successful People witha Mental Illness
http://www.rethink.org/about_mental_illness/peoples_experiences/jesss_journey/famous_people.html

Depression Screening Tests
http://www.depression-screening.org/screeningtest/screeningtest.htm
http://www.med.nyu.edu/psych/screens/depres.html
http://discoveryhealth.queendom.com/depression_abridged_access.html

Famous People Who Suffer From Depression
http://www.geocities.com/coverbridge2k/artsci/famous_people_depression.html
http://www.popcrunch.com/depressed-135-famous-people-who-struggled-with-depression/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_suffered_from_depression

Bipolar Disorder
http://www.mental-health-today.com/bp/famous_people.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_believed_to_have_been_affected_by_bipolar_disorder

Famous People with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/famous-ocd.shtml

Famous People with Dyslexia
http://www.popcrunch.com/70-famous-dyslexics/

Famous People with Anxiety Disorders
http://www.anxietycentre.com/anxiety-famous-people.shtml

Famous People with Schizophrenia
http://www.schizophrenia.com/famous.htm

Review and preview resources

2008-12-19T10:57:00.000-08:00

http://quizlet.com/subject/psychology/

Post-Winter Break HW--Get started!!!!!!!

2008-12-16T09:53:00.001-08:00

New Unit--Disorders--Chapter 16--expect reading quizzes for all readings--come in prepared with notes

For Monday 1/5--read 532-540

Wednesday 1/7--541-549

Friday 1/9--549-558

Tues 1/13--558-566

TR 1/15--Unit Exam on Ch 16, Psychological Disorders

Review resources

2008-12-15T09:35:00.000-08:00

The textbook website--includes quizzes for each chapter
http://www.wadsworth.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9780495091554&discipline_number=24

Mr. Shea's flashcards from his psych classes
http://quizlet.com/subject/shea/

Another online review site with flashcards
http://www.flashcardexchange.com/tag/psychology-mamel

My site has links to each unit--there are practice exams for each of the chapters
http://www.sbhsd.k12.ca.us/~cschallhorn/psy/psyindex.html

The PPTs for you

2008-12-11T10:18:00.001-08:00

http://www.sbhsd.k12.ca.us/~cschallhorn/psy/AP_PowerPoint_Lectures/

you can download each individually

Fall 2008 Semester Review Terms/Phrases

2008-12-08T20:44:00.001-08:00

AP Psychology Semester Review Fall 2008

1. Absolute thresholds
2. Abstract definition
3. Action potential
4. Adler's key views
5. Adolescence
6. Adolescence
7. Adrenal gland
8. Adulthood
9. Aggressiveness
10. Agreeableness
11. Allport
12. Ambiguous stimuli
13. Amplitude
14. Amplitude of light
15. Amygdala
16. Anterograde amnesia
17. Anxiety
18. Aphasia
19. Archetype
20. Attention and wakefulness (brain)
21. Audition
22. Audition sequences of parts
23. Authoritarian parenting
24. Authoritative parenting
25. Autonomy (personal freedom)
26. Axon terminals
27. Axon terminals
28. Basic color categories
29. Behavioral
30. Behavioral medicine
31. Behavioral signs of stress
32. Behaviorist theories
33. Behaviorist theory
34. Bf skinner
35. Biased sample
36. Biological predisposition
37. Brain damage
38. Broca's area
39. Burnout
40. Camouflage
41. Capacity to laugh at oneself
42. Cardinal traits
43. Case study
44. Causal relationship
45. Central traits
46. Cerebellum
47. Cerebral cortex
48. Character/personality/temperament
49. Childhood
50. Children’s type of home environment and effects
51. Chomsky
52. Chronic stress on the job
53. Cochlea
54. Cognitive psychologist
55. Common region
56. Common traits
57. Communication between neurons
58. Communication within a neuron
59. Comparative psychology
60. Competence in children
61. Compression
62. Cones
63. Conscientious
64. Consolidation of memory
65. Contextual memory
66. Control
67. Control group
68. Corpus callosum
69. Correlation
70. Corticoids
71. Critical thinking
72. CT scan
73. Cue-dependent forgetting
74. Decay as a cause of forgetting
75. Decay of memory traces
76. Decision-making skills
77. Defense mechanisms
78. Defining characteristics
79. Dendrites
80. Dependent variable
81. Descriptive statistics
82. Developmental medicine
83. Developmental psychologist
84. Dimensions of the "big five" factor model of personality
85. Discontinuous figures
86. Disease-prone personality
87. Displacement
88. Divided attention
89. Double-blind experiment
90. Eardrum
91. EEG
92. Ego
93. Ego ideal
94. Egocentrism
95. Eidetic imagery
96. Electroconvulsive therapy
97. Emotion-focused coping
98. Emotional signs of stress
99. Epinephrine
100. Erikson
101. Experiment
102. Experimental group
103. Experimenter effect
104. Extract information
105. Extraneous control
106. Extraneous variable
107. Extrasensory perception
108. Extroversion
109. Feeling physically, emotionally, and mentally drained
110. Fixated
111. Focused threat assessment
112. Free choice
113. Free will and self-determination
114. Frequency
115. Freud, Sigmund
116. Fully functioning person
117. Functional MRI
118. Generalize from small samples
119. Genetics and environment
120. Graphical statistics
121. Growth hormone
122. Gustation
123. Habituation
124. Hair cells
125. Hallucinations
126. Hippocampus
127. Homeopathic psychology
128. Hue
129. Human experience, problems, potentials, and ideals
130. Humanistic psychologists
131. Humanistic theories
132. Hunger and thirst (brain)
133. Hypnogogic state
134. Hypothalamus
135. Iconic memory
136. Id
137. Ideal self
138. Idealized self-image
139. Identification with peer groups
140. Incongruence
141. Independent variable
142. Infancy
143. Inferential statistics
144. Information retrieval
145. Insecure-avoidant attachment
146. Intelligence
147. Interference theory of forgetting
148. Internal motives, conflicts, and unconscious forces
149. Intra-uterine factors
150. Introversion
151. Ion potential
152. Izard, Carroll
153. James, William
154. Job stress
155. John Watson
156. Justice
157. Keys to successful aging
158. Kinesthesis
159. Kohlberg
160. Korsakoff's syndrome
161. Lack of competence
162. Learning set
163. Learning theorist
164. Legalistic parenting
165. Long-term memory
166. Long-term potentiation
167. Loudness
168. Love and acceptance
169. LTM
170. Management coping
171. Maslow, Abraham
172. Measures of central tendency
173. Measures of variability
174. Medical psychology
175. Medulla
176. Melatonin
177. Memory decay
178. Memory is an active system that does what?
179. Mode of interaction (toward, away, or against others)
180. Moments of self-actualization
181. Moral development
182. Moral dilemmas
183. Morality principle
184. Motion parallax
185. Motor cortex
186. Mri scan
187. Narcissistic
188. Necker's cube
189. Negative correlation
190. Neonatal stage of the growth sequence
191. Neural circuits
192. Neuroticism
193. Neurotransmitters
194. Newborn infants -characteristics
195. Nirvana
196. Normal distribution
197. Occipital lobes
198. Olfaction
199. Openness to experience
200. Operational definition
201. Ossicles
202. Overly permissive parenting
203. Patterns of physical development from conception to death
204. Pavlov, Ivan
205. Peak experiences
206. Pearson r correlation coefficient
207. People's expectations
208. Perceived level of control
209. Perception of meaningful patterns
210. Perceptual set
211. Perceptual thresholds
212. Persona (or "mask")
213. Personality psychology
214. Personality traits
215. Phosphenes
216. Physical development
217. Physical signs of stress
218. Physiological development
219. Physiological psychologist
220. Piaget's four cognitive stages
221. Pineal gland
222. Pitch
223. Pituitary gland
224. Placebos
225. Pleasure and punishment (brain)
226. Pleasure principle
227. Positive correlation
228. Preoperational stage
229. Primary appraisal
230. Problem-focused coping
231. Problem-focused coping
232. Projection
233. Psychoanalytic theory
234. Psychodynamic
235. Psychodynamic theories
236. Psychologist studying sensation and perception
237. Psychosomatic disorder
238. Pureness of color
239. Random assignment
240. Range
241. Rarefaction
242. Reaction formation
243. Real self
244. Reality principle
245. Recall
246. Receptor sites
247. Recognition
248. Redintegration
249. Relearning
250. Repetition of stimuli without variation
251. Representative sample
252. Repression
253. Repression
254. Resting discharge
255. Reticular activating system
256. Reticular formation (rf)
257. Retinal disparity
258. Retrieval of stored memory
259. Retroactive inhibition
260. Retrograde amnesia
261. Reversibility (piaget)
262. Rods
263. Rogers
264. Rorschach inkblots
265. Secondary appraisal
266. Secondary risk factors
267. Selective attention
268. Self acceptance
269. Self-actualizers
270. Self-concept
271. Self-esteem
272. Self-worth
273. Seligman
274. Sensation and perception
275. Sense of displacement
276. Sense of identity
277. Sensitive periods
278. Sensory and perceptual psychologist
279. Sensory conflict theory
280. Sensory localizations
281. Sensory memory
282. Sensory systems
283. Sensory systems and limits of detection
284. Separation anxiety
285. Serial position effect
286. Sex, rage, and emotion (brain)
287. Short-term memory
288. Social anxiety
289. Social learning theories
290. Social psychologist
291. Social referencing
292. Somatosensory cortex
293. Source traits
294. Stability
295. Stable enduring characteristics
296. Standard deviation
297. State of sublimation
298. State-dependent learning
299. Stereocilia
300. Stimulus and response connections determine behavior
301. STM
302. Stress
303. Style of caregiving of mothers
304. Style of life
305. Subject replication
306. Sublimation
307. Superego
308. Superiority
309. Suppression
310. Survey guidelines
311. Synapse
312. Synaptic vesicles
313. Telegraphic readiness
314. Temperament
315. Temperance
316. The age of reason
317. Thyroid gland
318. Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
319. Trait
320. Trait theory
321. Transcendence
322. Transcendental state
323. Transducer limits
324. Trichromatic theory of color vision
325. Types of rods
326. Unconscious fear
327. Unconscious forces within one's psyche
328. Use of rewards and punishments to shape behavior
329. Vestibular system
330. View of human nature
331. Vision
332. Vision sequence of parts
333. Visual association area
334. Visual images and process
335. Visual receptors
336. Watson, john
337. Well-being and life satisfaction
338. Wernicke's are
339. Why is it important to study psychology?
340. Wilhelm Wundt
341. Z-score

Links from 12/5

2008-12-05T10:38:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnW5pUW3JBc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBzYqM1tyes

http://www.psychic-experiences.com/psychic-tests/zener-cards.php

HW for week of 12/1/08--Sensation-Perception

2008-11-30T17:58:00.000-08:00

Hope you enjoyed your long weekend--just two weeks and a week of finals to end the semester.

There is lots of vocab for this unit--you need to find a way that works for your brain to take it all in!!!!!!!!!

For Monday 12/1--read 189-198--quiz in the morning
189-198—perceptual constancies; perceptual organization; Gestalt principles; depth perception and cues

For Wed 12/3
199-208—Depth cues; perceptual learning and habits; illusions;

For Fri 12/5
209-220—Motives and perception; attention; ESP—a scientific look
Secrets of the Psychics video

Tuesday 12/9
Review and Exam—Sensation and Perception Chapters 4 & 5

We then have two days of semester review and then the semester exam

Semester Exam Tuesday 12/16
100 MC and one FRQ

Sensation and Perception

2008-11-19T07:49:00.001-08:00

You MUST try these sites and demos on your own time--not enough time in class to do them!

Psychophysics basics—java demonstrations--do them--they illustrate the concepts very well!!!!!
http://psych.hanover.edu/JavaTest/Media/Chapter02.html

The Stimulus and Anatomy of the Visual System
http://psych.hanover.edu/JavaTest/Media/Chapter03.html

The visual spectrum link (not available at school anymore-booooo)
http://photo.net/photo/edscott/vis00010.htm

Color Space
http://photo.net/photo/edscott/vis00020.htm

Neuroscience for Kids—Vision
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/bigeye.html
http://icreatewisdom.com/illusion/optical.html

Cool Stress Video

2008-11-18T09:28:00.003-08:00

http://killerstress.stanford.edu/

Check this out--take notes and the video and the accompanying Q/A sectgions and it can become extra credit--due by December 12, 2008

Fascinating Psych Blog-mental biases

2008-11-11T10:40:00.000-08:00

http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/05/how-to-choose-happiness-combat-5.php

This is the link-it has links to many more psych blogs--great stuff if you ask me--even if you did not!

HW for Thursday 11/13

2008-11-11T10:36:00.000-08:00

Just a reminder that there will be two quizzes on Thursday--the first two readings for the unit. Also, I have a number of demonstrations on memory. Also, there is an exam on this chapter on Monday, 11/17. Then we begin Sensation and Perception--more eye and ear anatomy and figuring out how we actually perceive this world.

Brain and Neuroscience Exam Friday 10/24

2008-10-22T10:19:00.000-07:00

We will be reviewing the material during the first half of class and testing the second half of class. Our next unit after that is health and stress.

Be sure to use your review guide (Barron's or Princeton's) and use your workbook.

Some review sites include:

Animated Neurons:
http://icarus.med.utoronto.ca/neurons/index.swf

Textbook Student Companion Web Site:
http://www.wadsworth.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9780495091554&discipline_number=24

http://www.brainaneurysm.com/

Brain Week 10/20-10/24

2008-10-20T10:04:00.000-07:00

For Wednesday's class, please review the chapter and refamiliarize yourself with all the terms and functions of the brain parts, neurons, and the endocrine system--much of your learning will take place outside the classroom--you need to spend extra time studying for this unit. We will be watching the brain surgery video and working on case studies.

The exam is Friday, 10/24

Mad Cow/Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

2008-10-20T09:59:00.000-07:00

Some links about Mad Cow Disease

http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/bse.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_spongiform_encephalopathy

Definition of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) (mad cow in humans)
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=2863

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/cjd/
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/submenus/sub_bse.htm

Some Brain Links

2008-10-20T09:57:00.000-07:00

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/programs/2020_mirror.html
o http://shop.wgbh.org/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?productId=10806&storeId=11051&catalogId=10051&langId=-1

Brain Links
o http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/what.html
o http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/introb.html
o http://www.vh.org/adult/provider/anatomy/BrainAnatomy/TOC.html
o http://brainmuseum.org/Sections/index.html

o Interactive link about the brain from MSNBC—it’s excellent

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6719954/

Brain and drug information

2008-10-14T09:56:00.000-07:00

NIDA resources
http://www.drugabuse.gov/drugpages.html

Neuroscience for Kids
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html

Drug Effects
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/introb.html#dr

3-D Brain
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/3d/index.html

Brain Scans
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/scanning/index.html

Scientific American Mind--my favorite sci magazine
http://www.sciam.com/sciammind/

Great Monthly Newsletter

2008-10-01T08:13:00.000-07:00

Check it out--this is the archived versio of Neuroscience for Kids--it is a tremendously helpful source that, if you use it regularly, will assist in your memory and understanding of the brain and neuroscience. This is a huge topic on the AP test.

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/news129.html
This is the September issue of the newsletter

The primary site is: http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html

For extra credit on your homework section, check out the site, find something that relates to the babysitter assignment and include it in your presentation next week-mention it by name!

Extra Credit--Due Fri 9/25

2008-09-24T10:06:00.001-07:00

Applying Personality Theories to TV Characters
Think of a potentially interesting television character to focus upon (a favorite character or one with a particularly vivid or unique personality. Select your character. Focus upon a specific episode of the show that features the character.
Write a two to three page essay in which you briefly describe the circumstances and plot of the episode. Devote the remainder of your essay explaining your character’s behavior in terms of one of the major personality theories (e.g. Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Trait, or Learning).
Additional Points:
· You may use more than one theoretical perspective
· You are not restricted to characters with negative or maladaptive personalities (healthy characters are interesting too!)
· Feel free to be creative and original in your application of the theory

Personality Theories

2008-09-16T15:36:00.001-07:00

As promised, here are some links that you may want to check out related to personality theories and online personality tests. I want to caution you about the validity of the online tests--be careful when interpreting the results. Proceed with caution.

http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/perscontents.html
This link is contains links to all aspects to studying personality theories

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jungtype.htm
This contains information about and a link to a Jung-based personality test

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/index_surveys.shtml
the BBC has a collection of a variety of different kinds of tests including personality tests

http://www.freud.org.uk/
The Freud Museum in London

http://davideck.com
contains a variety of different kinds of online tests

http://www.vanguard.edu/faculty/ddegelman/amoebaweb/index.aspx?doc_id=850
A giant list of online personality tests--be careful, you could spend a lot of time on these links

http://www.vanguard.edu/faculty/ddegelman/amoebaweb/index.aspx?doc_id=869
Links to all things personality theory-based--an incredible resource

For Tues 9/16/08--Psychodynamic Personality Theory

2008-09-15T19:47:00.001-07:00

I was gone last class and will be gone next class. We will examine Trait Theories in class with a brief Q/A. I will also be going over Psychodynamic Theories as well on Tuesday. We will examine Freud's theories and focus on defense mechanisms. We will have practice quizzes next week when I return.

HW for Wed 9/4--Stats

2008-09-02T10:06:00.000-07:00

Read the pages on Statistics--691-699. It covers all the basics that you need to know about stats that you need for this course. I will have some practice work for you in class. Check the comments from the previous blog for some hints on dealing with stats. I will post some more here. In terms of content:

descriptive stats
inferential stats
measures of central tendency
normal curve
standard deviation
graphing stats
correlation--more detail

Remember that Stats are simply a way for researchers to quantify and understand the results from the research that they do.

A great website overall:
http://www.vanguard.edu/faculty/ddegelman/amoebaweb/
it has links to so many wonderful psych web sites

Stats link on amoebaweb
http://www.vanguard.edu/faculty/ddegelman/amoebaweb/index.aspx?doc_id=876

Podcasts--some recommendations

2008-08-31T10:54:00.000-07:00

If you like psychology and there are more ideas that you want to learn about in greater depth, go to: http://www.thepsychfiles.com/

Michael Britt does a great job of exploring psychological ideas that go beyond what we have time for during our classes. You can also find him on iTunes.

Post #3 8/28/08--has an assignment

2008-08-28T07:42:00.000-07:00

For reviewing for this first exam--please use your review books and the built in chapter quizzes--both text-based and on the computer using the CD-ROM--there are also questions in the study guide book that you were given--they will help a great deal as well--use them both and use them well.

Your additional homework is this. Ask at least one question you had this unit that was not answered. Do this by commenting on this blog--follow the instructions below. Sign it with your first name and last initial only--do not put in your entire name please.

Happy 3-day weekend! I'll be working too.

08-09 Blog #2 8/26/08

2008-08-26T17:20:00.000-07:00

Today we spent a great deal of time on both perspectives and beginning on methodologies. My biggest concern is that you are able to distinguish the various methods from each other. My second concern is that you are able to identify which situations that you would use each method for. Thirdly is the ability to differentiate among the different parts of the experimental method.

Your assignment is this:
Email me (psydways@gmail.com) with your description of the strengths and weaknesses of the experimental method. See you on Thursday. Be sure to sign with your first name and last initial.

First Post of 2008-2009

2008-08-22T15:28:00.000-07:00

28-45—Methods of Psychology; Scientific Method

That is your homework for Tuesday.

I also wanted to let you know that there was some missing concepts from our discussion today over the perspectives. The list from the the agenda today is below.

§ Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic (childhood experiences and unconscious conflicts)
§ Behavioral (reinforced depressive behavior/modeled and imitated behavior)
§ Humanistic (View of self is negated by negative view of others—conflict changes self-perception)
§ Biological (genetically predisposed and/or neurotransmitters-chemical imbalance)
§ Cognitive (negative thinking needs to be adjusted)
§ Socio-cultural (age, culture, sub-culture, gender issues related to depression)

If you email me at the email address I sent you this tab from, I will give you some extra credit. If you read this far and are this detailed, you deserve to get extra credit. Be sure to copy this paragraph and put it in the email :-)
This offer expired at 8:22 am on 8/28/08

psych text web site

2008-05-06T14:48:00.001-07:00

http://www.wadsworth.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9780495091554&discipline_number=24

The terms to know--here's the list

2008-04-27T15:55:00.000-07:00

AP Psychology
Core Concepts Listed Alphabetically

Absolute threshold
Accommodation (perceptual)
Accommodation (Piaget)
Acetylcholine (Ach)
Action potential
Activation synthesis hypothesis
Adolescence
Aggression
Agoraphobia
Algorithms
All or none law
Altruism
Alzheimer's disease
Amnesia
Amygdala
Anal stage
Anorexia nervosa
Anterograde amnesia
Antidepressant drugs
Antipsychotic drugs
Antisocial personality disorder
Anxiety disorders
Archetypes
Assimilation
Association areas
Attachment
Attitude
Attribution
Autonomic nervous system
Availability heuristic
Aversion therapy
Axon
Basilar membrane
Behavior therapy
Behavioral genetics
Behaviorism
Big five
Binocular cues
Biofeedback
Biopsychosocial model
Bipolar disorder
Blind spot
Bottom up processing
Bulimia nervosa
Cannon Bard theory
Case study
Cell body
Central nervous system (CNS)
Cerebellum
Cerebral cortex
Chromosomes
Chunking
Circadian rhythms
Classical conditioning
Client centered therapy
Cochlea
Cognition
Cognitive dissonance
Cognitive map
Cognitive psychology
Cognitive therapy
Collective unconscious
Concept
Concrete operational stage
Conditioned response (CR)
Conditioned stimulus (CS)
Cones
Confirmation bias
Conformity
Consciousness
Conservation
Continuous reinforcement
Control group
Convergence
Conversion disorders
Cornea
Corpus callosum
Correlation coefficient
Correlational research
Creativity
Critical period
Cross sectional study
Crystallized intelligence
CT (computed tomography) scan
Dark adaptation
Decay theory
Declarative memory
Defense mechanisms
Deindividuation
Delusions
Dendrites
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
Dependent variable
Depressants
Descriptive statistics
Developmental psychology
Difference threshold
Diffusion of responsibility
Discrimination (social behavior)
Discriminative stimulus
Displacement (defense mechanism)
Dissociative amnesia
Dissociative disorders
Dissociative fugue
Dissociative identity disorder
Divergent thinking
Double blind study
Drive
DSM-IV
Eardrum
Ego
Egocentrism
Elaborative rehearsal
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Embryo
Emotion
Emotional intelligence
Encoding
Encoding specificity principle
Endocrine system
Endorphins
Episodic memory
Evolutionary psychology
Experiment
Experimental group
Explicit memory
Extinction (classical conditioning)
Extinction (operant conditioning)
Extrinsic motivation
Facial feedback hypothesis
Factor analysis
Family therapy
Feature detector
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Fetus
Fixation (Freudian)
Fixed interval schedule
Fixed ratio schedule
Flashbulb memories
Fluid intelligence
Forebrain
Formal operational stage
Fovea
Fraternal twins
Free association
Frequency theory
Frontal lobes
Frustration aggression hypothesis
Functional fixedness
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
Functionalism
Fundamental attribution error
g factor
Gate control theory
Gender
Gender identity
Gender roles
Gene
General adaptation syndrome (GAS)
Generalized anxiety disorder
Genital stage
Genotype
Gestalt psychology
Glial cells
Group polarization
Group therapy
Groupthink
Habituation
hallic stage
Hallucinations
Hallucinogens
haping
Health psychology
Heritability
Heuristic
Hierarchy of needs
Hindbrain
Hippocampus
Homeostasis
Hormones
Hue
Humanistic psychology
Hypnosis
Hypochondriasis
Hypothalamus
Hypothesis
Id
Identical twins
Implicit memory
Imprinting
Incentive
Independent variable
Inferential statistics
Informed consent
Insight (learning)
Insomnia
Instinct
Intelligence
Intelligence quotient (IQ)
Interneurons
Intrinsic motivation
Introspection
Inventory (MMPI)
Iris
James-Lange theory
Language
Latency stage
Latent content
Latent learning
Law of effect
Learned helplessness
Learning
Lens
Limbic system
Locus of control
Long term memory (LTM)
Long term potentiation (LTP)
Longitudinal study
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Maintenance rehearsal
Major depressive disorder
Mania
Manifest content
Maturation
Mean
Median
Meditation
Medulla
Memory
Menarche
Menopause
Mental age
Mental retardation
Mental set
Meta analysis
Midbrain
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
Mnemonic devices
Mode
Monocular cues P
Mood disorders
Morpheme
Motivation
Motor cortex
Motor neurons
Myelin sheath
Narcolepsy
Natural selection
Naturalistic observation
Need for achievement
Negative reinforcement
Neurons
Neurotransmitters
Norm (testing)
Normal distribution
Obedience
Object permanence
Observational learning
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
Occipital lobes
Oedipus complex
Olfaction
Operant conditioning
Operational definition
Opiates
Opponent process theory (color)
Optic nerve
Oral stage
Panic disorder
Parasympathetic nervous system
Parietal lobes
Partial reinforcement
Perception
Perceptual constancy
Peripheral nervous system
Personality
Personality disorders
Phenotype
Pheromones
Phobia
Phoneme
Physical dependence
Pitch
Pituitary gland
Place theory
Placebo
Placebo effect
Pleasure principle
Polygraph
Pons
Population
Positive reinforcement
Positron emission tomography (PET)
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Prejudice
Preoperational stage
Primacy effect
Primary reinforcers
Priming
Proactive interference
Procedural memory
Projection
Projective tests
Prototype
Psychoactive drugs
Psychoanalysis
Psychodynamic theories
Psychology
Psychoneuroimmunology
Psychophysics
Psychosexual stages
Psychosurgery
Psychotherapy
Puberty
Punishment
Pupil
Random assignment
Range
Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT)
Rationalization
Reaction formation
Reality principle
Recall
Receptors
Reciprocal determinism
Recognition
Reflex S
Reinforcement
Reliability
REM sleep
Replication
Representativeness heuristic
Repression
Resistance
Resting potential
Reticular formation
Retina
Retinal disparity
Retrieval
Retroactive interference
Retrograde amnesia
Rods
Rorschach Inkblot Test
Sample
Schedule of reinforcement
Schemas
Schizophrenia
Scientific method
Secondary reinforcers
Self actualization
Self concept
Self efficacy
Self fulfilling prophecy
Self serving bias
Semantic memory
Semantics
Sensation
Sensorimotor stage
Sensory adaptation
Sensory memory
Sensory neurons
Serial position effect
Set point (weight)
Sexual orientation
Shape constancy
Signal detection theory
Size constancy
Sleep apnea
Social facilitation
Social loafing
Social norms
Social phobia
Social psychology
Social support
Somatic nervous system
Somatoform disorders
Specific phobia
Spinal cord
Spontaneous recovery
Standard deviation
Standardization
State dependent memory
Stereotype
Stimulants
Stimulus discrimination
Stimulus generalization
Storage
Stress
Stressors
Structuralism
Subliminal perception
Superego Zygote
Survey
Sympathetic nervous system
Synapse
Syntax
Systematic desensitization
Taste buds
Telegraphic speech
Temperament
Temporal lobes
Teratogens
Thalamus
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Theory
Token economy
Tolerance
Top down processing
Trait
Transduction
Transference
Triarchic theory of intelligence
Trichromatic theory
Two factor theory of emotion
Type A behavior pattern
Type B behavior pattern
Unconditional positive regard
Unconditioned response (UCR)
Unconditioned stimulus (UCS)
Unconscious
Validity

Variable interval schedule
Variable ratio schedule
Variables
Vestibular sense
Weber's law
Working memory

Review terms and occurance in texts

2008-04-26T10:04:00.000-07:00

Check out this link--notice it will open a .pdf file in your browser. Very helpful resource

http://teachpsych.org/otrp/resources/proctor06.pdf

Are you studying your terms/review sheets daily???

2008-04-26T10:02:00.001-07:00

Are you doing what is necessary to earn yourself a high score????????

Psych Review Site

2008-04-26T09:56:00.001-07:00

Check out:
http://quizlet.com/tag/shea/

There are over 400 terms using electronic flashcards to help you prepare for the AP exam.

Exam 3/20--Thursday--States of Consciousness

2008-03-18T18:21:00.000-07:00

For those of you who will be in class (fewer and fewer I'm guessing), there will be an exam and an extra credit opportunity for those who are in attendance--remember, you miss school, you miss out.

Operant Conditioning

2008-03-06T13:26:00.000-08:00

Please describe at least one example of operant conditioning (as separate from classical conditioning in the real world) that you have experienced or witnessed. Label the desired behavior, the consequence that increased or decreased the behavior and how the behavior changed.

Classical Conditioning

2008-03-06T13:09:00.000-08:00

Describe and label at least one classical conditioning example that you have experienced or seen.