AP Psych: Assignment due after vacation

I hope you are enjoying your time away from school.

I'm a total Grinch. I told you I wouldn't assign any reading during your break, but it turns out that I lied. I'll be giving a homework quiz on pages 265-285 at the start of your first class once school resumes. At least you know you'll be getting 20 easy points. Even though you'll never trust a word I say, I've gots to do it. We've got to stay on track in order to get through all of the material in time for the AP exam.

You'll be reading about sleeping and dreaming, and you'll be keeping track of...you've guessed it... your sleeping and dreaming. Keep a sleep log for the remainder of your break. Set up your log as a table with the following columns, and then record your data from each night in rows:
--Date/day, time to bed
--time you awoke; time you got out of bed; how you felt upon waking
--Did you dream? (including fragments; include a summary if yes, whether or not they related to anything that happened that day Note whether or not they were in color and what stimuli were included--taste, touch, smell, sound--other than visuals)
--number of naps/additional time slept
--energy level throughout the day (on a scale of 1 to 10. Note morning, afternoon and night levels)
--caffeine intake

Despite my odious mistruth, indeed have a happy and safe New Year's. I'll see you rested and ready on the 4th.

Oh, and here's a link to an interesting discussion...
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/the-advanced-placement-juggernaut/

AP Psych: Crossword Puzzle answers

Chapter 10:

ACROSS
1. babbling, 8. grammar, 11. algorithm, 14. Washoe, 15. Skinner, 17, insight, 20. Whorf, 22. fixation, 23. telegraphic

DOWN
2. lingustic determinism, 3. neural networks, 4. heuristic, 5. prototype, 6. belief bias, 7. cognition, 9. availability, 10. mental set, 12. morphemes, 13. one-word, 16. syntax, 18. two-word, 19. concept, 21. framing

Chapter 11:

ACROSS
5. academic, 7. Sternberg, 9. practical, 10. Gardner, 11. Terman, 17. WAIS, 18. reification, 19. WISC, 21. Binet

DOWN
1. mental age, 2. factor analysis, 3. mental retardation, 4. Down syndrome, 6. criterion, 8. heritability, 12. achievement, 13. predictive, 14. normal curve, 15. reliability, 16. Flynn effect, 20. content

AP Psych: Take note...

Test on Chapters 10 & 11 for all sections will be Tuesday, December 22. My apologies to Pd. 3 students who I did not see on Friday. I did give you a solid heads-up about this test, though it was not on the board (audio -- not visual -- encoding, right?) Review day will be Monday. Yes, your lesson plans are due Monday. Please contact me if you need clarification. On a brighter note, vacation is almost here...

AP Psych: None of the Above

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/12/17/071217crbo_books_gladwell

AP Psych: Multiple Intelligences Project

For those of you who e-mailed me about not being able to view this posting, I hope this is now working. So sorry for the bugs!

Step 1: MI Survey

Take the Multiple Intelligences Survey: http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/questions/questions.cfm. Print out your Results page for our next class meeting. You will need to have identified both your highest and lowest areas of intelligence for later phases of the project.

Step 2: Creating the lesson plan

a. Identify a content area from any academic course you have taken in your K-12 experience. Imagine that you are preparing to teach a 45-minute class on whatever topic you have selected.

b. Create a lesson plan (including objectives, materials, and procedures) designed for a class of students with high intelligence in the MI area you scored highest on the survey.

c. When you pass in your lesson plan, you should also turn in any materials required in the lesson. Materials should be specifically identified and included in the lesson plans. (For example: you would need to identify and attach a specific map of Ireland you would use, rather than merely stating, “I would use a map of Ireland”)

Your lesson plan is due 12/21 and will be out of 75 points.

World History: Food, Inc. questions

Please respond to the following questions. Your answers should be in complete sentences and show that your really thought about them. Feel free to discuss these prompts -- and the documentary -- with whoever makes your household's food decisions.

1. How do you think farm animals should be treated? How do your ideas compare to what you saw in the film?
2. The movie points out that cows and farm-raised fish, which are not biologically suited to eating corn, are now given a modified diet that is based on corn. Do you think people’s diets have been modified in a similar way? How do you feel about the possibility of your food being modified without you being aware of it?
3. The film gives the impression that food is either cheap or healthy. Do you think it is true that food is either one or the other, or is this false?
4. In the film, the mother, Maria Andrea Gonzalez, says, “We’re really tight from either paying for his [Alfredo Orozco’s] medicine to be healthy or buying vegetables to be healthy.” Which should she choose if she cannot afford both?
5. How would you compare the slaughtering of the chickens by Polyface Farms (small-scale farm) to the slaughtering of the Smithfield (large factory) hogs? How do the workers’ conditions compare?
6. Author Michael Pollan uses the phrase “Vote with Your Fork” to mean that consumers have the ability to influence companies by what they choose to eat. Is there a way as a group, school, or town that we could possibly influence this situation?

AP Psych: Tonight's Homework (due 12/10) for all sections

You're starting the Intelligence chapter: pages 419-429 with notes.

AP Psych: Tonight's Homework

Visit http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/brazil/piraha.htm and read the article.

After reading the article, imagine that you are a member of the Piraha and write me a brief e-mail about your day today. It's your day, but as a member of the Piraha. (Yes, we'll discuss why this is challenging!)

AP Psych: Tonight's Homework

385-399 with notes.

AP Psych: Crossword Puzzle answers

On Ms. Arabasz' blog...
http://appsych65.blogspot.com/2009/12/60-minutes-on-problems-with-eyewitness.html