Welcome to the 2008-2009 school year.  Attached please find your AP Psychology Course Description, as well as 3rd Quarter syllabus.

REVIEW WEEK!  This week you should be doing (at least) practice Exam 1 and 2 in your AP Psych Review Book (green book).

Attached HERE is a bunch of review responses. This includes the answers to all the Green Book chapter questions, Green Book practice essay answers, and the Princeton Review answers.

Also: HERE is a great website for reviewing. 

Week Of: April 27.  Lots due this week:

TEST FRIDAY:  HERE is the Review Guide.  Remember, it is on Modules 52-58.  Modules below.

Here are the PowerPoints for the test.

Module 52  Module 53   Module 54    Module 55     Module 56     Module 57     Module 58

NEXT Tuesday: Practice AP Test corrections due.

 

 

Attached HERE is the Review Guide.  Please bring to class on Tuesday (along with any questions you have). 

Here are the answers to the Review Guide:

1.	C
2.	E
3.	B
4.	B
5.	D
6.	A
7.	E
8.	B
9.	E
10.	A
11.	D
12.	D
13.	D
14.	B
15.	D
16.	B
17.	C
18.	E
19.	A

HERE are the PowerPoint Modules for this Personality Disorders test:

Module 47

Module 48

Module 49

Module 50

Module 51

AP Psychology: Modules 49-50-51 HW

Q1. How is depression protective for our psyche

Q2. Describe dysthmyic disorder and the symptoms of major depressive disorder

Q3. Describe the six facts that Peter Lewinsohn and his colleagues summarized about depression

Q4. What variables triggers suicide?

Q5. Describe the role of serotonin and norepinephrine relevant to depression

Q6. How do anatomical structures of the brain change with depression?

Q7. How is depression a vicious cycle?

Q8. Why do women have a doubled risk of depression compared to men?

Q9. How does a lack of selective attention affect schizophrenics?

Q10. List and explain the four subtypes of schizophrenia

Q11. How do neurotransmitters dopamine, and glutamate affect the biochemistry of schizophrenic brains?                 

Q12. What are some explanations for schizophrenics and their shrinking brains?

Q13. Describe the three clusters of personality disorders

Q14. How does ant-social personality describe the behavior Henry Lee Lucas?

Q15. Describe the statistical evidence reflecting how many people have 

suffered a psychological disorder?

Personality Disorders:

MODULE 48 Homework.  This is due Friday, March 20.

Q1. Describe the symptoms of a panic disorder and how it escalates into a panic attack.

Q2. How did Charles Darwin develop Agoraphobia?

Q3.  Describe how phobias could become incapacitating and provide an example of a specific phobia

Q4. How did obsessive-compulsive disorder apply to Howard Hughes?

Q5. Describe the stress-dose-response relationship.

Q6. Provide an example of survivor resiliency.

Q7. Describe the benefits of post-traumatic growth

Q8. Provide a detailed example of how fear conditioning, stimulus 

generalization, and reinforcement play a role in developing anxiety

Q9. How do genes indicate predisposition to phobias and anxiety in humans?

Q10. Explain the findings of fMRI scan on the brains with those who have OCD?

Q11. How do Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde explain dissociative identity disorder, and describe the criticisms that this disorder is manufactured.

 

 

Intelligence and Testing Chapter:

Here are the PowerPoints:  Module 31    Module 32    Module 33    Module 47

HERE is the Exam Review Guide.

Here are the answers to the Review Guide for Intelligence.

1.	C
2.	C
3.	E
4.	A
5.	A
6.	C
7.	D
8.	B
9.	C
10.	C
11.	A
12.	B
13.	C
14.	E

Homework due Thursday, March 12.  Click HERE

 

 

Personality Test:

Here are the PowerPoints:  Module 44    Module 45     Module 46

Now here's the Extra-Credit review guide.  (I will bring a copy to class on Tuesday).

Here are the answers for the Extra Credit info:

1.	C
2.	D
3.	B
4.	D
5.	E
6.	E
7.	A
8.	D
9.	E
10.	B
11.	C
12.	E
13.	E
14.	D
15.	B
16.	D
17.	B
18.	C
19.	D
20.	E
21.	C
22.	D

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Assignment

1. For those NOT in class on Wednesday (February 18), you must first take the MBTI test at THIS website.

2. Once finished, you will get a four letter code that would be your MBTI personality code.  (One example code is: ENTJ).  Also note the percentages below each of the letters in your code.  Those percentages show how strongly you favor that letter of the code, as opposed to its opposite letter.

3. You must then write a 1-2 page (typed) paper that details the following:

       a. The explanation of each of the four MBTI scales (e.g., "E" versus "I" deals with Extraversion versus Introversion...you'll note what those terms mean)

        b. The overall percentage of people who are each letter of the scales (e.g., roughly 70% of all people are "E", or Extroverted).

         c. Your letter code for that scale.

         d.  Does that letter match who you are, or were you surprised by that result?  Why?

         e.  Then do an overall summary of what characteristics are typical of your four-letter code.  You should be able to find plenty of personality summaries online.

          f.  Finally, describe what you learned in this process--about reliability and validity, about personality scales, about your personality, anything relevant that you learned.

Personality Chapter:

Click HERE for your Module 45 homework.  This is due on Wednesday, February 18.

***Remember: Development Test corrections are due on Tuesday, February 17.

Please start reading Module 44.  Attached HERE is your Homework for Tuesday AND Wednesday of next week.  Please complete!

Here are the PowerPoints for the Development Chapter:

Module 8  Module 9a  Module 9b  Module 10 Module 11

TEST THURSDAY!!!!

Here are the recent PowerPoints we've been working on:

Module 29  

Module 30  

Module 34  

Module 35

MODULE 30 Homework. These responses are due Monday, December 15:

 

1. Why does learning different sets of phonemes make it difficult for people of one language to produce phonemes of another language?

2. What is the universal relationship between the most common words used in all languages?

3. Describe the babies’ receptive language
4. Why is the babbling stage not an imitation of adult speech?
5. Why is it important to have exposure to other languages?
6. Describe the four stages of language development after the babbling stage?
7. How did Skinner believe that we could explain language development?
8. Describe Chomsky’s language acquisition box, surface structure of a language, and deep structure of a language

9. What happens to children who are not exposed to either a spoken or a signed language during their early years?

MODULE 29 Homework. These responses are due Wednesday, December 10:

1. Why is heuristics a better strategy then step-by-step algorithm in finding another word in SPLOYOCHYG?
2. How did psychologists Mark-Jung-Beeman, John Kounios, and Edward Bowden identify brain associations with flashes of insight?
3. How is insight critical in understanding a punch-line to a joke?
4. Provide an example of mental set and functional fixedness
5. Provide an example of the representativeness heuristic and availability heuristic
6. How did Kahnemann and Tversky demonstrate overconfidence?
7. Describe the four influences on risk.  What do those factors have to do with our irrational fears of 9/11?
8. How does the framing effect influence economic and business decisions?
9. Describe two invalid conclusions proving the belief bias?
10. Why is it so difficult to dismiss the belief perseverance phenomenon?

Here are the 3 Memory PowerPoints used in class:       Part 1   Part 2    Part 3

Attached HERE are the Homework Questions for Modules 26 and 27.  They are BOTH due the Tuesday we get back from break: Tuesday, December 2.

ALSO: Attached HERE are the Homework Questions for Module 28.  They will be due the Wednesday we get back (Wed. December 3).

AP Psychology: Module 25 Homework Questions:

Q1. Describe Ebbinghaus’s findings and retention curve
Q2. Describe the next-in-line effect.
Q3. Does “sleep learning” occur? Why/why not?
Q4. Describe Harry Bahrick’s findings.
Q5.How does the serial positioning effect interfere with you rehearsing all your classmates names?
Q6. Describe the experiment Fergus Craik and Endel Tulving demonstrated comparing visual, acoustic, and semantic encoding.
Q7. What did Ebbinghaus estimate about learning nonsense material compared with learning meaningful material? How does this relate to taking the SAT reading section?
Q8. Describe the self-reference effect
Q9. Describe rosy retrospection
Q10. Provide three examples of mnemonic devices
Q11. How does chunking aid our recall of unfamiliar material, and increase our recall of digits?
Q12. How did Gorden Bower and his colleagues demonstrate the benefits of hierarchical organization?

 

AP Psychology: Module 24 Homework Questions:

Q1. Describe the memory feat of Russian journalist Shereshevski
Q2. Provide three examples of flashbulb memories from the text
Q3. Describe President’s Bush episode of false flashbulb memory
Q4. How does a computer encode, store, and retrieve information?
Q5. Describe the three stage processing model of memory proposed by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin
Q6. What process explains why we can speak while driving?
Q7. Why is it so difficult to try to remember the melody for one song while we are listening to another?

Here's the Perception Powerpoint.

 Modules 12-13: Sensation/Perception and Vision PowerPoint.  

Modules 14-15: Hearing and Other Senses

ALSO: don't forget: there will be a few questions on Nature vs. Nurture.  Here's the PowerPoint for that: Nature v. Nurture

Here are the sample review questions, from class.  The answers are at the bottom of the document.

Also: in this website are videos that cover nearly every part of Psychology.  We will watch some of them throughout the year, but I'd suggest watching all of them at some point across the year.

Finally: here are the answers to the Chapter 3 review questions from the AP Test book.  (REMEMBER: some of these questions have to do with perception--skip those in your review).

1. D

2. E

3. C

4. A

5. A

6. C

7. D

8. B

9. C

10. A

11. D

12. E

13. B

14. E

15. C

 

Below are some other helpful links:

Gestalt Psychology Website

Website Describing Skewed Distributions