Psychology Agenda
Week of 08/25/08
1. What is Psychology? Worksheet
2. What do you know about Psychology? T/F Test
3. Writing entry: Think about your personal reasons for studying
psychology. Write at least 100 words response describing what
you hope to gain from this experience.
4. The Introduction to Psychology PPT/Notes
5. Discussion on different careers in Psychology
6. Psychology video of images/clips
7. Brown vs Blue Eye experiment (video) and results.
8. Discuss the ethics of experiment and would it be done in current
times.
Week of 09/02/08
1. Personality Collage Presentations
2. Video: Shift Happens
3. Video: A Vision of Youth
4. Read pages 7-13 together
5. Zimbardo’s Prison Experiment/discussion
Week of 09/08/08
1. Milgram’s Experiment clips/discussion
2. Historical Approaches PPT/Notes.
3. Read case study on The Four Humor together answer questions
aloud.
4. Read pages 14-22 silently.
5. Behavior-Style Evaluation.
Week of 09/15/08
1. Behavior-Style Evaluation Poster Project, present posters to
class, display in hallway.
2. Power Point on Historical Approaches and Contemporary
Approaches
3. Define approaches, Psychologist/founder, Explain the approach
in your own words. (due next class)
Week of 09/22/08
1. (group of three) posters projects of the different approaches
(pages 14-22),
2. Present to class, display in hallway.
3. Piaget versus Freud
4. Read about different research methods
5. Watch Jane Goodall video/discuss Naturalistic Observation
6. Homework: This weekend a twenty minute Naturalistic
Observation.
Week of 09/29/08
1. Finish Jane Goodall video.
2. Student volunteers share their Naturalistic Observations to the
class.
3. Optical Illusions and read about perception.
4. The Study of Behavior.
5. Vocabulary Activities 1-1, 1-3.
6. Selecting a Research Method.
7. Correlations.
8. Homework: Chapter 2 Assessment (1-10), (1-5), CT 2,3,5.
Week of 10/06/02
1. Read pages 42-46.
2. Go over homework chapter 2 assessment.
3. Review Sheet Chapters 1 and 2 Test.
4. Jeopardy Game.
5. Homework: Study for the test.
Week of 10/13/08
1. Take Chapters 1 and 2 Test.
2. Key Terms: consciousness, REM sleep, circadian rhythm,
insomnia, sleep apnea, narcolepsy, nightmares, night terrors,
sleep walking.
3. List sleep disorders and illustrate them.
4. Freud’s’ levels of Consciousness.
5. Stages of Sleep chart with physical and cognitive changes.
Week of 10/20/08
1. Perception clip , cross cultural studies sleep reading and
questions
2. Application activity altered states of consciousness
3. Vocabulary activity 7
6. Homework: Dream interpretation
7. Case study self hypnosis read and answer questions
8. Finish dream interpretation, volunteers may share
9. Read pages 191 to 195 together
Week of 10/27/08
1. Video clip: Hypnotic Dissociation and pain relief
2. Read Case Study page 196 discuss together
3. Read Exploring Psychology page 197 . What factors do you think
have influenced the recent trend toward the increase of
marijuana use?
4. Anti-drug posters/ chart the different types of drugs and their
effects on behavior.
5. Video: Different types of drugs and addiction/ 25 notes.
6. Review notes together.
7. Guided Reading 7-3
8. Complete Chapter 7 Assessment Reviewing Vocabulary 1-10,
write the sentences out. Recalling Facts 1-5. Critical Thinking 1-4
Week of 11/03/08
1. Finish video on different types of drugs and addiction.
2. Review notes together.
3. Review Chapter 7 Assessment together.
Week of 11/10/08
1. Review Sheet for Chapter 7 Test = Quiz Grade
2. Review Game
3. Take Chapter 7 Test.
4. Start Normal or Not Activity
Week of 11/17/08
1. Finish Normal or Not Activity, present to class
2. Read pages 447-454, do Section 1 Assessment #1-5
3. Go over section 1 assessment together
4. Watch video clips representing OCD, PTSD, and different
phobias
5. Phobias Activity: title, definition, and picture
6. Homework: Creativity Writing on Anxiety
Week of 11/25/08
1. The Other Self survey
2. Vocabulary activity, watch video clips representing OCD, PTSD,
and different phobias
3. Phobias Activity Title, def, and picture
4. Creative Writing: Anxiety
Week of 12/01/08
1. Volunteers share creative writing with the class.
2. Read pages 455 to 459
3. Case Study: Panic Disorder, read together and discuss.
4. Chapter 16 Section 3 Assessment (1-4)
5. Reading: Hunt for Mood Genes.
6. Watch A Beautiful of Mind
7. Write down the symptoms, treatment, side effects of treatment,
Did this movie help you better understand Schizophrenia? why
or why
Week of 12/08/08
1. Finish A Beautiful Mind , write down the symptoms, treatment,
side effects of treatment, Did this movie help you better
understand Schizophrenia? why or why
2. Follow up exercise.
3. Read pages 465 to 478.
4. Chapter 16 Assessment: Reviewing Vocabulary:(1-10) Write out
sentences. Recalling Facts (1-5) page480.
5. Handout Psychology Midterm Exam Study Guide
Week of 12/15/08
1. Review Study Guide together.
2. Play Jeopardy Review Game
3. Exam on Friday the 19th of December at 8:40 am, Good Luck!