Welcome to Psychology
We will be creating a
Guide to Human Behavior Notebook
The Notebook is 80% of the student’s Grade
and will include:
Reflections/Journal Entries
Readings in Psychology
Notes/Daily Work
Understanding Concepts
Activity Reflections
Reflection:
Why are you taking psychology?
Answer on a separate paper:
• Why are you taking psychology?
• What interests you about other people’s
behavior?
• What would you like to learn about your
behavior?
Read Article:
Music Producer Disappears
• Highlight examples where Chris (Julian)
exhibits behavior outside the “Norm”.
• Underline the first indication that
something has gone wrong.
Answer on a separate paper: What kind of
person was he? How did he change? What could
have been done to help him?
Discussion: Why do we study Psychology?
How are you doing?
Has was your first week of
High School?
What was the best part?
What was the worst Part?
What questions do you have
about rules or the handbook?
Is there anything you need help
with?
Activity Reflection:
Balancing Act
• On your paper, write a one sentence description of
the activity:
– This activity uses balancing meter stick as a metaphor for balancing
all of our responsibilities in life
• On your paper, write a detailed description of the
activity include:
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Set up
Safety concerns
Rules and tricks
Debrief questions
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What makes a great balancer?
How is this activity like real life?
How is it like school?
What do you need to be successful?
– Focus and flexibility
Activity Reflection: Warp Speed
• On your paper, write a one sentence description
of the activity: For example
– Warp speed is an ice breaker or initiative that
promotes teamwork and learning names.
• On your paper, write a detailed description of the
activity include:
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Set up
Safety concerns
Rules and tricks –Describe the long way to start
Debrief questions- How did your group work together as a team?
What assumptions did you make in the beginning that you had to give up?
Does our society have unwritten rules? Are there times when you should
break them? What assumptions do you make in your daily life that could
be holding you back? What are some “unwritten rules” in a classroom?
Activity Reflection:
Trust Walk
• The trust walk is used to increase the trust level between
individuals in a group. It can also be used to assess your
groups concern for following rules and safety
– Set up: People in pair each pair needs one blindfold
– Safety concerns: Injury or decreased trust due to poor
guidance
– Rules and tricks: People with a low trust level pick
partners first and pick someone they are comfortable
with High trust level people pick someone they don’t
know. Highest trust level goes first. When you are giuding
you are responsible for their safety.
• Contact at all time
• Communication
– Debrief questions
Activity Reflection:
Warp speed
– Debrief questions
What assumptions did you make about the activity that limited your
First attempt to lower your time.
What are areas in your day to day life where you make assumptions
How do
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Activity Reflection:
Knot
So
Easy
On your paper, write a one sentence description of the
activity:
• This is an activity for high functioning groups to work on
handling frustration when initial expectation for an easy
solution do not materialize.
• On your paper, write a detailed description of the activity
include:
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Set up
Safety concerns
Rules and tricks
Debrief questions
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How well did your group work together?
How well did you/your group handle frustration?
How is this activity like real life?
How is it like sports?
What do you need to be successful?
Activity Reflection:
Slap, Double Slap, 3 Slap Wink
• On your paper, write a one sentence description of the
activity:
• This is a fun game you can use to allow a group to have a
good time and enjoy each others company. For it to be fun
they need to be comfortable with each other so it isn’t a
great ice breaker. It is also good to allow participants to be
silly without feeling stupid.
• On your paper, write a detailed description of the activity
include:
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Set up
Safety concerns
Rules and tricks
Debrief questions
• How did you like having to be silly with the group?
• How comfortable were you playing the game?
Activity Reflection:
Camp Games
• Knots – A problem solving initiative used to
increase a groups comfort level with close
quarters and working together to solve a problem
– Groups of 5-12 Even numbers make easier knots
– Grab the hand of a person across from you
– Grab the hand of a person across from you but not the
same person
• Layered hands make easier knots
• Weaving hands makes very difficult Knots
Debrief Questions:
What worked for your group? What did you struggle with?
What did you do if you were uncomfortable? How could you
let your group know what you wre feeling?
Activity Reflection:
Camp Games
• Rainstorm
– Show kids how to make the various noises:
• Random snapping
• Rub hands together
• Slap thighs
• Pound floor
• With kids in a circle with their eyes closed
“pass” the sounds around the circle in order
then reversed
Activity Reflection:
Camp Games
• Murder in the dark
– Sit in a circle, dim the lights, pass out cards
with a joker(s) or touch 1-2 kids on the head to
designate the murderer
• The Murderer winks at other participants to
“kill” them
• When you are winked at you die a dramatic death
• Ways to “Win”
– Guess the murderer
– Best Dramatic death
– Murderer kills everyone but 3 people
Activity Reflection:
Camp Games
• Look down look up
– Circle Shoulder to Shoulder Leader says “Look down,
Look up”
– Participants Look at their feet then look up at another
person’s eyes
– If they make eye contact both people are out they step
back and the circle closes
• If you are careful and only play a couple of times in
a row they will want to keep playing again and
again
• Feeling awkward together and surviving can make
the group feel closer
Activity Reflection:
But
it
Floats
On your paper, write a one sentence description of the activity:
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• This is an activity for high functioning groups to work on
handling frustration when initial expectation for an easy solution
do not materialize. Also a test of personal integrity
• On your paper, write a detailed description of the activity include:
– Set up
– Safety concerns
– Rules and tricks
– Debrief questions
• How well did your group work together?
• How well did you/your group handle frustration?
• How is this activity like real life?
• How is it like sports?
• What do you need to be successful?
Ethical Guidelines for
Psychological Experimentation
As set by the American Psychological Association
• Informed consent
• Researchers must inform potential participants in advance about the general
nature of the research and that they have a right to refuse to participate or to
withdraw at any time.
• The right to be protected from harm and discomfort
• The right to confidentiality
• The right to debriefing
Ethical Guidelines for
Experimentation
with Animals
As per. Federal Guidelines
Journal
• How do you like your brain?
– How do you feel about your own
brain?
– Are you happy with it? What things do
you like? What things would you
change?
– How good of care have you taken of
your brain?
Journal
• You have just learned about “Talk
and Die Syndrome” and “Phinneas
Gage”
– What does the contrast between these
two situations suggest about our brain?
– Has your thinking about your brain
changed due to this information? Why
or Why not?
– Thinking back, have you had any
“close calls” with brain injuries?
Write about a time…
• When you found yourself continuing to
do something you knew was bad for
you because you felt like doing it.
Write about a time…
• When you found yourself experiencing a
different reality from other people. For
example:
• A waking dream
• A hallucination
• A different memory of a situation
What was it like to realise others were not
experiencing the same thing and that what you
experienced wasn’t real
Addiction
• Behavior a person engages in that activates
the reward center or mechanism in the brain
• A person continues the behavior to continue
the reward cycle
• Can result in physiological changes in the
brain that cause discomfort when the
behavior stops
Addiction
• Physiological Addiction results from the
adaptation of biochemical processes in the
brain
• Psychological addiction results from
thought patterns and feelings that you want
to continue that are associated with the
behavior or drug
Addiction Thresholds
See Graphs--
Split Brain
Split Brain/corpus callosum in Psych,
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were pretty good.
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Journal Raising kids
• How did your parents raise you—what do
you think their philosophy of parenting is?
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Interactions with you and your siblings
Discipline and rewards
Academics
Major morals and values