AP+Psychology+Daily+Activity+2016-2017

August 15 - 19
8/15: Student orientation. 8/16: Handed out textbooks and covered syllabus. Emphasized discussion nature of the class and the importance of the quarterly projects. 8/17: Introduced Unit 1 by answering "Fact of Falsehood" questionnaire and discussed organization of the book, including the timeline for completion of each unit. Tentative schedule of Unit 1 exam is Friday, 8/26. 8/18: Assigned students a psychologist for them to report on and started unit 1 talking about pre-scientific psychology, the first psychology laboratory, structuralism and functionalism. Tomorrow, begin students reports. 8/19: Started reports on famous psychologists.

August 22 - 26
8/22: Discussed levels of analysis used in psychology and subdivisions. 8/23: Practiced using levels of analysis with the case of Andrea Yates and to discuss the problem of obesity. Tomorrow, cover observation project. 8/24: Provided handout concerning observational studies and viewed three videos on observational studies and examples. Also, assigned groups for observational study. Tomorrow, review for unit 1 exam. 8/25: Reviewed for Unit 1 exam tomorrow. 8/26: Unit 1 exam. On Monday, work in research groups to decide topic of observational study.

August 29 - September 2
8/29: Brain-stormed about possible ideas for observational research project. Listed ideas on the board by group to avoid duplication. 8/30: Worked on research projects. tomorrow, start unit 2 8/31: Started unit 2 by completing and discussing the "Fact or Falsehood" survey. 9/1: Viewed two videos on experimentation in psychology, including a discussion of "hind-sight", confirmation, sampling, and over-confidence biases. For the observational study, on Tuesday, 9/6, a statement of the hypothesis, population to be studied, and behaviors to observe will be due. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFV71QPvX2I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eut8jMfSA_k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZvDaPBqAyg 9/2: Faculty retreat, no classes.

September 5 - 9
9/5: Labor Day, no classes. 9/6: Discussed how the scientific method allows us to avoid, at least to some degree, the biases we discussed in class. 9/7: Discussed critical thinking skills and the characteristics of a critical thinker. 9/8: Critical thinking and scientific method. Also, watched two videos taken from 2014-2015 Daily activity of 9/4/14, Moral Development and 9/5/2014, Research and the Cloud. Also, announced the Unit 2 exam next Wednesday, 9/14. 9/9: Discussed research methodology, statistical inference and ethics in research. Monday, finish chapter 2.

September 12 - 16
9/12: Finished discussion on ethics and watched a video on 5 psychology experiments that would be unethical today and a talk by Dan Ariely on why we think its okay to cheat. Also, next Monday, 9/19, the next assignment for the observational study is due. In this assignment, students should have a final and comlpete statement of their working hypothesis, early observational daya, and enough data to show at least a 50% agreement between judges. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ3l1jgmYrY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUdsTizSxSI 9/13: Reviewed for Unit 2 exam tomorrow. 9/14: Unit 2 exam. 9/15: Started Unit 3 by discussing "Fact or Falsehood" questions. 9/16: Discussed phrenology and watched two videos on this topic from Daily Activity, 917/15. Also, started discussion of nervous system by viewing two videos on the structure and function of a motor neuron taken from Daily Activity, 9/18/15.

September 19 - 23
9/19: Discussed nervous system and viewed three videos on central peripheral and autonomic nervous systems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8NtmDrb_qo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY9NTVh-Awo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71pCilo8k4M 9/20: Discussed "Fact or Falsehood" for unit 3B. 9/21: Started watching a video on the brain and how it functions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzyxSgLtyRM 9/22: Watched another video on understanding the brain and a second video on the anatomy and function of 17 parts of the brain. Also, data from observational study evaluating behaviors observed and judges' reliability were due today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTcOc80Z2n0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMKc8nfPATI 9/23: Mission Day, no classes.

September 26 - 30
9/26: Watched video from daily activity of 9/24/15 on limbic system. Also, discussed pathways for sensory and motor input and output. respectively. 9/27: Discussed fMRI and watched a video on its use. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLORKtkf2n8 Also, presented study by Greene on moral thinking and correlates with brain activity. 9/28: Started Steven Pinker's video on Language, a link to which can be found on Daily Activity, 9/25/2015. 9/29: Finished Steven Pinker video and discussed Observational Study report format as found on this web page. To that format was added the requirement for a a minimum of 50 observations, inclusion of the judges' reliability data (>50%), and journal accounts of the observation experience. The report is due Friday, 10/14. 9/30: Discussed hemispheric specialization and viewed a video on split-brain studies, a link to which can be found at Daily Activities, 9/25/2015.

October 3 - 7
10/3: Announced that the Unit 3 exam is scheduled for next Monday, 10/10. Today we discussed the article on implicit racial bias and viewed a film on gender bias and handed out an article on gender bias. Also, a TED video on consciousness by John Searle was presented. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nj-MjBc-xQ&list=PLgoGYHkt0PSogGaOsCsr6FHEzQ6ontzvK&index=2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqDgt12m26c 10/4: Started Unit 3C by discussing the "Fact or Falsehood" statements. 10/5: Started discussion on behavioral genetics allowing students to make presentations. Tomorrow, finish behavioral genetics and discuss evolutionary psychology. Unit 3 exam on Monday, review Friday. 10/6: Finished Unit 3C by completing discussion on behavioral genetics and evolutionary psychology. Tomorrow, review for Unit 3 exam. 10/7: Reviewed for Unit 3 exam on Monday and viewed a video on Moral Behavior. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le-74R9C6Bc

October 10 - 14
10/10: Unit 3 exam. 10/11: Because several students missed the exam yesterday, those students took the exam today in class while those students who took the exam yesterday studied Unit 4, which we will begin tomorrow. 10/12: Started Unit 4 on Sensation and Perception by discussing the "Fact of Falsehood" survey. Observation study report due Friday. 10/13: Service Day, no classes. 10/14: Discussed college life with former student.

October 17 - 21
10/17: Discussed perception and current issue of the treatment of women in our culture. 10/18: Viewed two videos on perception and discussed issues surrounding unequal treatment of women and sexual harassment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unWnZvXJH2o&list=PLrt0cmU-e2Bhh3JLavj3lH6Z7IgEsaIcy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxZWtc0mYpQ 10/19: PSAT, no classes. 10/20: Viewed video on perception and several videos about visual illusions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n46umYA_4dM 10/21: Discussed visual processing and audition as well as the research paper for this quarter. Topic proposal for this paper is due 10/27.

October 24 - 28
10/24: Finished Unit 4, review tomorrow. 10/25: Changed exam date to Thursday, 11/3. Also, started video on the life of Escher. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkM65g36BJc 10/26: Finished Escher video and watched an instructional video on making tessellations. Video can be found in the Daily Activities for 2015-2016, dated 11/3/15, 2nd video of the three listed there. 10/27: Started tessellation project. 10/28: No classes.

October 31 - November 4
10/31: Continued tessellation project in class. 11/1: Reviewed the procedure for finding research articles and completing annotated bibliographies. Annotated bibliographies are due Friday, 11/11. Tomorrow, review research articles and for the Unit 4 exam on Thursday. 11/2: Reviewed for tomorrow's unit 4 exam. 11/3: Unit 4 exam. 11/4: Started unit 5.

November 7 - 11
11/7: Discussed dream and sleep inventory filled out by students. 11/8: Started video on Ramachandran on brain and mind which can be found in daily activities from 11/4/14. 11/9: Discussed results from presidential electron. 11/10: Finished video on Ramachandran. 11/11: Started video on sleep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvjtF6uhgvA

November 14 - 18
11/14: Students worked on unit 5 classroom presentations. 11/15: Finished sleep video and started classroom presentations. 11/16: Continued with unit 5 presentations. 11/17: Unit 5 presentations. 11/18: Finished unit 5 presentations and started discussion on free will by starting to watch the following videos. Also, reviewed unit 4 exam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCGtkDzELAI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rZfSTpjGl8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Nj_rEqkyQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQxJi0COTBo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQxJi0COTBo

November 21 - 25
11/21: Free will discussion continued. 11/22: Reviewed chapter 5 for exam next monday. 11/23: Thanksgiving, no classes. 11/24: Thanksgiving, no classes. 11/25: Thanksgiving, no classes.

November 28 - December 2
11/28: Unit 5 exam. 11/29: Introduced Unit 6 on Learning. 11/30: Students worked on research paper outline. 12/1: Students worked on research paper outline. 12/2: Discussed learning and its definition. Also, presented website illustrating APA format. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/18/

December 5 - 9
12/5: Discussed classical and operant conditioning. Also, viewed YouTUbe video on learning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG2SwE_6uVM&t=1s 12/6: Continued with operant conditioning by watching two videos about B.F Skinner's work with pigeons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKSvu3mj-14&t=605s https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_50726&feature=iv&src_vid=QKSvu3mj-14&v=erhmslcHvaw 12/7: Watched video from 2014 Daily Activities about reinforcement schedules. Also started classroom presentations on conditioning. 12/8: Discussed observational learning and finished unit 6 classroom presentations. Also, watched a TED video on mirror neurons taken from Daily Activities in 2014. Tomorrow, review unit 6 and start unit 10 on personality. 12/9: Reviewed unit 6 and introduced unit 10.

December 12 - 16
12/12: In unit 10, discussed personality psychoanalytic theory of personality. 12/13: Continued with psychoanalytical theory and discussed humanistic theory. 12/14: Finished humanistic theory and started trait theory Also watched YouTube video on personality theories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUrV6oZ3zsk 12/15: Finished discussion of trait theory and assigned students to take a personality inventory online and write a brief reflection of the results. www.16personalities.com 12/16: Reviewed unit 10 for final exam.

December 19 - 23
12/19: Snow day, no classes. 12/20: Final exams. 12/21: Final exams. 12/22: No classes. 12/23: No classes.

=Spring Semester 2016-2017=

January 2 - 6
1/2: Break, no classes. 1/3: Break, no classes. 1/4: Break, no classes. 1/5: Back in class, outlined spring semester material to be covered and reviewed final exam and research paper. 1/6: Started Unit 7A on Memory by reviewing "Fact or Falsehood" statements.

January 9 -13
1/9: Discussed memory inventories and watched a video on memory. Also, started to talk about information processing model. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSycdIx-C48 1/10: Discussed encoding and how we remember, including the Serial position effect. 1/11: Assigned groups and topics for presentations from unit 7A which will begin tomorrow. Handed out review for unit 7A. 1/12: Started student presentations on information processing theory. 1/13: Continued student presentations from Unit 7A.

January 16 - 20
1/16: MLK Day, no classes. 1/17: Students worked on presentations and worked on research projects. 1/18: Same as yesterday. 1/19: Watched 60 Minutes videos on Endless Memory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zTkBgHNsWM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1th1fVIc8Vo 1/20: Finished Unit 7A presentations and watched TED video on false memories by E. Loftus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB2OegI6wvI&t=937s

January 23 - 27
1/23: Watched Crash Course video on Remembering and Forgetting and reviewed unit 7A. Also, started covering instructions for writing surveys and survey questions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVWbrNls-Kw 1/24: Finished instructions for writing survey questions and reviewed unit 7A. 1/25: Started video "12 Angry Men,' in which students are to note examples of role biases and memory played in the final verdict. 1/26: Continued with video. 1/27: Finished the video and briefly discussed the movie. Also, assigned students to write a two page paper, double spaced, times new roman 12pt font, reviewing the biases and memory issues for each juror that led to the final verdict. Paper is due Monday, 1/30.

January 30 - February 3
1/30: Started unit 7B. The unit 7 A & B exam will be next Monday, 2/6. Also, instructed students to come up with new project ideas and to work on demographic questions for their surveys while I am at HASTI. 1/31: Handed out review for unit 7B and watched two Crash Course videos on Cognition and Language. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9shPouRWCs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-sVnmmw6WY 2/1: Work on review for unit 7 A & B exam next Monday, 2/6, and/or survey project. 2/2: Same as 2/1. 2/3: Same as 2/1.

February 6 - 10
2/6: Unit 7A & B exam. 2/7: Introduced unit 8A with "Fact or Falsehood" questionnaire. 2/8: Assigned student groups sections of unit 8A for in class presentations. Students spent period working on presentations. 2/9: Started presentation on sexual behavior. 2/10: Presentation on sexual behavior finished.

February 13 - 17
2/13: Students worked on their survey project questions. 2/14: Students worked on their survey project questions. 2/15: Presented "60 Minutes" video on homosexuality and started presentations on hunger. 2/16: Presentations on hunger. Surveys due tomorrow. 2/17: Presentations on hunger.

February 20 - 24
2/20: President's Day, no classes. 2/21: Presentations on hunger. 2/22: Presentations on theories of emotion. 2/23: Finished Unit 8A and introduced unit 8B with "Fact or Falsehood" questionnaire. 2/24: Assigned presentations for unit 8B, handed back approved survey questions and discussed emotion and stress and their impact of health.

February 27 - March 3
2/27: Reviewed Unit 7 A & B exam and worked on Unit 8B presentations. 2/28: Started Unit 8B presentations. 3/1: Continued presentations. 3/2: Watched video "My son was a Columbine shooter. This is my story, " and discussed the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xfyN-yBZ7c 3/3: Continued with unit 8B presentations.

March 6 - 10
3/6: Discussed format for survey research report. Also, continued with unit 8B presentations. 3/7: Finished unit 8B presentations. 3/8: Watched TED video on stress and the brain and covered review questions from unit 8B. Unit 8 exam is scheduled for Monday, 3/13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQeDYBS63lY 3/9: Students worked on their survey projects and/or studied for the Unit 8 exam. 3/10: Same as yesterday.

March 13 - 17
3/13: Unit 8 exam. 3/14: Theology of the Body Conference for juniors and seniors, no class. 3/15: Discussed Theology of the Body Conference. 3/16: Introduced Unit 9 on Developmental Psychology by covering "Fact or Falsehood: survey. 3/17: Auction Friday, no classes.

March 20 - 24
3/20: Discussed developmental psychology from standpoint of the decades of life and with what issues individuals must confront as they age. 3/21: Watched video on learning in the womb and discussed the effects on later life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgvfvdFFrb4 3/22: Handed back and reviewed Unit 8 exam. Also, assigned sections of Unit 9 for classroom presentations beginning tomorrow. 3/23: Started unit 9 presentations. 3/24: Continued unit 9 presentations.

March 27 - 31
3/27: Continued with unit 9 presentations. 3/28: Continued presentations. 3/29: Continued presentations. 3/30: Finished unit 9 presentations. Review for unit 9 exam will be on Monday, 4/10, with the exam on Tuesday, 4/11. Also, chose project groups, 6 groups with 4 students per group. 3/31: Worked on presentations topics.

April 3 - 7
Spring Break, no classes.

April 10 - 14
4/10: Reviewed chapter 9 for exam on Wednesday. Tomorrow, work with project groups. 4/11: Worked on PowerPoint group projects. Tomorrow, unit 9 exam. 4/12: Unit 9 exam. Tomorrow, start unit 11. 4/13: Started unit 11 by reviewing "Fact or Falsehood" survey. 4/14: Good Friday, no classes.

April 17 - 21
4/17: Easter Monday, no classes. 4/18: Assigned material from chapter 11 for in class presentations, starting tomorrow. 4/19: Chapter 11 presentations. 4/20: Continued presentations. 4/21: Worked on group projects.

April 24 - 28
4/24: Watched video from Crash Course in Psychology and discussed intelligence. Also, project outlines were due today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xTz3QjcloI 4/25: Continued with Unit 11 presentations. Also watched the next Crash Course Psychology video on intelligence tests. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75g4d5sF3xI&t=51s 4/26: Continued with class presentations from Unit 11. 4/27: Watched TED video on whether standard test matter and discussed afterwards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv_Cr1a6rj4 4/28: Viewed and discussed two TED videos on intelligence tests and their usefulness in today's culture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvhb9aoyeZs&t=35s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otlmKZeNi-U&t=8s

May 1 - 5
5/1: Continued with presentations from Unit 11. 5/2: Unit 11 presentations. 5/3: Finished Unit 11 presentations. 5/4: reviewed for Unit 11 exam on Monday. 5/5: Worked on Powerpoint projects.

May 8 - 12
5/8: Unit 11 exam. 5/9: Started unit 12 by covering "Facts and Falsehoods." 5/10: Started DVD: "A Beautiful Mind." 5/11: DVD 5/12: Finished "Beautiful Mind" DVD.

May 15 - 19
5/15: Started DVD: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." 5/16: Continued "One Flew..." 5/17: Continued with "One Flew..." 5/18: Senior class retreat so class watched three Crash Course Psychology on YouTube, nos. 28, 29, and 30, concerning psychological disorders. 5/19: Finished "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."

May 22 - 26
5/22: Handed out reviews for units 12 and 13 for preparation for final exam. Discussed 2 movies. 5/23: Started PowerPoint presentations. 5/24: PowerPoint presentations. 5/25: PowerPoint presentations. 5/26: Final exam prep. Highly recommend students watch Crash Course Psychology #31- #40 for final exam which will cover units 12-14, as well as the movies, "A Beautiful Mind" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."