LP5: Psychology: Neuroscience Unit - II
Grade Level:
Multi
Subject:
Psychology
Prepared By:
Do Nows: Put your hand out. Bring your hand in toward your right ear. Stick your
index finger in your ear. Say “This is my favorite ear”. (This is what your brain just did)
-What are Ethics? Was the Zimbardo experiment ethical? The Harlow Monkey Experiment/ Why/Why Not?
-Would you want to know if you carried the gene for Huntington’s Chorea or Early Onset Alzheimer/
Why/Why not?
-Dra w a Clock (Intro for MME)
What is Daniel Tammet’s ability?
What is synesthesia?
What other neurological disorder does Daniel have and how does it limit his life?
How does it enrich his life?
FOCUS
Teacher Objectives
L. Korpics 10/18-21/11
Education Standards Addressed
APA (American Psychological Association) Standards for High
School Psychology Curricula. apa.org
Harvard Medical School Neuroscience excerpts
A.P Psychology Curriculum
Student Guide
The combination of activities you just
did were the result of your brain
analyzing instructions, sending
messages to your arm, called on area
that controls hand movements, found
your ear, searched your memory to find
the words you needed, used the speech
area to say the words and recalled the
sentence you heard and memorized!
WOW!
SWBAT: understand right/left brain dominance,
motor strip, sensory strip, wernickes area, occipital
lobe, axons, dendrites, visual fields, neurons,
(sensory, motor and inter-neurons). Describe how
the amgydala impacts our impulse control and
develops late in adolescence, (or later).
Parts of Brain: pons, reticular activating system,
hippocampus, myelin sheaths, myelin plaques and
their role in Multiple Sclerosis, Huntington’s Chorea,
Parkinsons Disease, Alzheimer’s, Dementia with
and without Lewey Bodies, Glasgow Coma Scale,
Epidemiology of Brain Trauma long term prognosis
READING: My Lobotomy” © 2008
by Howard Dully
Verification
(Steps to check for student
understanding)
SWBAT: understand the treatment of
psychological and other disorders by frontal
lobotomy until the early 1970’s. Discuss Dr.
Freeman’s “Icepick” Lobotomy.
Discussion of Dully’s book.
Why does the location of a frontal
lobotomy change the personality of the
patient?
Other Resources
Discussion: Rose Kennedy
Frances Farmer
Ethics in Psychology:
Willowbrook,
Assessment:
Test: Neurocience I
Quizzes
Questions: “My Lobotomy”
Howard Dully-analysis and discussion:
Activity: Propognosia – Face Blindness
When would a frontal lobotomy be
ethical – or could it be?
Phineas Gage Reading
Blood Brain Barrier Reading
Phineas Gage: Neuroscience’s First
Patient: Smithsonian
VIDEO: Born on a Blue Day
Questions – QUIZ GRADE
Materials Needed
 Pen
 Notebook
 Text: “Psychology and
You”
 Reading: “My Lobotomy”
© 2008 by Howard Dully
 Blood Brain BarrierHarvard Med.