Friday, February 13, 2015

2/13 Freud--Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality

Your turn #1
Read 55-2 on p. 558.
Discuss with a partner what Freud's view of personality was.
Be prepared to discuss the 3 main points.....


Your turn#2:  With a partner come up with real life scenarios that describe each of the defense mechanisms covered on p.561.
Include repression in your list....

On your paper, that will be turned in for credit, write out the scenarios for each one.
Be able to describe your answer and defend why you chose that particular scenario, and also why Freud believed that defense mechanisms were at work in a person's development.

Now look at the list and work together to decide the answers....
Answer them on your own sheet, but work together to discover the answer.  Be ready to defend your decision.

Finally, on that same sheet, take the quiz.....

Hmwk. Due on Tuesday:
Finish Reading Mod. 55
Finish Cornell Sheet w/ Summary

Def. Mech. Quiz on Tuesday

2/12 Intro to Personality and Testing

Go over Exams.

Intro to Personality and Testing
     Cornell Notes on Mod. 55

2/11 Unit 8 EXAM

Unit 8 EXAM

Notecards on p. 603


Tuesday, February 10, 2015

2/10 Mod 21 Finish--Review

Mod 21 Notes/ Review

FRQ for EXAM:


            1.   Psychologists who study the processes of sensation and perception often describe why we do perceive some stimuli, but equally important is the study of why we do not perceive some stimuli. Use the following terms to explain why we sometimes fail to perceive stimuli.

•  change blindness
•  inattentional blindness
•  absolute threshold
•  difference threshold
•  blind spot

•  sensorineural hearing loss

2/9 Mod 21--The Other Senses

Turn in Homework.

Matching---Visual Cues

Intro to Mod 21--
Sense of Touch, Smell, Taste, Kinesthesia, Vestibular

Friday, February 6, 2015

2/6 Inside Out of Perception

Inside Out on Perception.


Homework---
AP Psychology---
Unit 8 Homework---Sensation and Perception
Audition:

  1. Draw the ear and describe two parts of the ear that transmit sound waves before they reach the hair cells.

  1. Explain how the cochlea turns the sound wave vibrations into messages interpreted by the auditory cortex in the temporal lobe of the brain.

  1. Discuss the 2 theories on how we perceive pitch and the volley principle.

Touch

  1. What are the four skin sensations?
  2. Explain the gate control theory of pain.
  3. Using figure 21.3 in your text (p. 205), explain the biopsychosocial approach to pain.

Practice FRQ from the Unit:

Describe, from the beginning of the process to the end, how your brain is perceiving the words you are reading right now.  Use the following terms in your answer:
·         Transduction
·         Top-down processing
·         Retina
·         Pupil
·         Occipital lobe
·         Rods
·         Feature detectors


2/5 Mod 20 Audition

Notes on Audition

Explain localization of sound
Explain how we perceive sounds

Explain the 3 theories of pitch