Unit 3 Developmental Psychologymr Volkmar's Course Pages

 



The course is organized into Learning Modules. The “Experience Developmental Psychology” module will engage you in a series of interviews with individuals of different ages. This activity extends over the entire term. The 5 numbered modules each contain a website assignment folder, a chapter assignment folder and a knowledge audit folder. The various learning activities located within these folders are detailed below.

Developmental Psychology Unit 3 Chapter 10: Emotional Development I. Emotion and Emotion Regulation a. What are emotions i. Still debated about what it really means but… ii. Two points of consensus 1. Both cognitive and emotional process unfold together in the experience of an emotion a. Which comes first is a matter of debate b. Unit 9/developmental psychology Developmental psychology is the scientific study of how and why human beings change over the course of their life. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence, adult development, aging, and the entire lifespan.

Experience Developmental Psychology: For this assignment you will interview 4 individuals at different stages of life, post your observations and discuss them with your colleagues. This assignment begins when the course begins and ends when the course ends.

Website Review/Website Discussion: Each module includes a website review and a website discussion activity. The website assignments are designed to introduce you to some of the psychological resources available on the web. You must locate a relevant and authentic website, write a brief, original summary/analysis paper which includes a link to the website, then lead a discussion about the website contents. Before submitting your review to the class for discussion, you must submit it to a turnitin dropbox, which will detect, and help you avoid, plagiarism. After editing your essay (as needed to meet the originality requirements) you resubmit it to the turnitin dropbox for my evaluation and to the website forum for class discussion. This assignment requires that you lead the discussion on your own website and also participate in the discussions of at least 3 websites reviewed by other students.

Student-led Discussions:In every module you will find several Student-led Discussion forums. Each forum covers one chapter. This is the way you cover the content of the textbook. For each forum you must ask one original “critical thinking” question about some topic in each chapter. Other students will respond to your questions, and you will then reply back to those students. In addition you leading your own discussion thread, you are required to answer two questions from each chapter posed by another student. You are encouraged to keep up these “virtual discussions” as long as they are productive. The idea here is for each student to lead one discussion with the other students about some important and/or controversial issue introduced in each chapter, and participate in additional discussions for each chapter. A large percentage of your final grade is determined by your participation in these discussions. I will grade these discussions, but I will not be a participant. If a discussion you are leading gets off track, it is your responsibility to refocus it. You are responsible for maintaining the quality of the discussion threads you lead. Every posting to a discussion should add something substantive to that discussion.

Knowledge Audits: In each module your appreciation for and understanding of the important content issues and concepts will be assessed by means of a reflective blog. You are asked to write about the 4 most important things that you learned in each module, and how you think the knowledge you are gaining from the module will impact your values, attitudes, beliefs and behavior.

Student Contributed Content:

When you encounter interesting information / fun facts etc. related to what we are studying – feel free to post and discuss in this ungraded, voluntary forum.

Talk with the Professor

In each module there is a “Talk with the Professor” area. In this area I may ask discussion questions about issues which I feel haven’t been fully explored in the Student Led discussion area. Also, in this area you may ask me questions, which I will respond to. Most often, I expect these questions (mine and yours) will be related to the discussions or the textbook – but no relevant topic is “off-limits.” You should check this area each time you log on and participate in these discussion threads.

Extra Credit / Make-up Work / Incomplete Grades

  1. The major requirement in this course is to discuss, with other students, the contents of each chapter in the text. There is no substitute for this requirement, and I do not permit “extra credit” or “alternative credit” assignments.
  2. Also, there is no way to “go back” after a module has ended and “make-up” missed discussion activity, because there are no other students left to learn from your posts and discuss the content with you.
  3. Finally, an incomplete in the course is not appropriate, as there is no way to complete the course once it has ended and all of the other students are gone.

AP PSYCHOLOGY


Assignments & Homework for the week of

Aug. 31to Sept.4


MONDAY: NO SCHOOL

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TUESDAY: Class Does Not Meet

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WEDNESDAY: AP PSYCH INTRO

HOMEWORK: READ: How to Study Successfully for AP Psychology

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THURSDAY: APPROACHES TO PSYCHOLOGY -

HOMEWORK: UNIT 1 (pp. 1-17)

Study Guide Questions: 1-113 (Due Next Wednesday)

FRIDAY: Class Does Not Meet

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REMINDERS FOR NEXT WEEK:

Vocabulary Quiz over Unit 1 on Thursday next week

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Helpful and Interesting links for Psychology:

AP College Board

High School Psychology Blog


Psychology Student Survival Guide written by David Webb Bsc (hons), MSc, author of the All About Psychology website which itself is a wonderful resource for all psychology students. He has also written a guide for psychology students which is available free in PDF form on his website. There's also an app for that for your IPod or IPhone...click here...it's free.
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The FRQs -How toguidefor answering free response questions in AP Psychology.

The Psych FilesWatch videos on various psych topics that may enhance you knowledge of the topic we are discussing in class. These are actually podcasts so you can get the 'app for that' if you'd like. Enjoy!
Course NotesHere's a site that may prove helpful. Chapter outlines (use the Myers 7th ed.) practice quizzes, study guides for the brain, learning, and other units, a glossary......
Education PortalHere's another website that offers videos to review for chapter tests and ultimately the AP Exam. Their claim is that they can help you earn college credit..give it a try.
Hippocampus.orgThe hippocampus is part of your brain that deals with memory. Here's a pretty cool site that takes our subject matter and condenses it in small bits...just like we need for short term memory. Hope you find it useful in your studying. Check out the pages for other subjects as well.
Other online learning centers
Psychology: Concepts & Applications(Nevid)


PSYCHOLOGY CRASH COURSE VIDEOS:

Crash Course PsychologyShort videos that cover the various topics of our course as taught by Hank Green.

SCISHOW PSYCHYour brain is endlessly fascinating. SciShow Psych is all about exploring the human mind using the hardcore research you know and love

DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY with DR. ZIMBARDO - video series

Discovering Psychology with Dr. Zimbardo Series


BRAIN GAMES:

Pay Attention

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OTHER INTERESTING & HELPFUL VIDEOS:

Video - Rogers - Humanistic Approach

Video -Ellis - Cognitive Approach

Video -Bellvue Insideout

Video -The Science of Addiction

Video - Dateline Program:Did You See That?!Covers inattentional and change blindness, optical illusions and other tricks our brains play on us.
Video - Operant ConditioningCheck out thisvideoon how game designers use operant conditioning to get you to keep playing their game...interesting
Video - Five stages of Death
Video - Endless Memory60 minutes from January 19, 2010 Part 1Part 2
Video - The Boy Without a Cerebellum
Video - The Teenage Brain @NBC Nightly News April, 2011 Teens in a digital age
Video - The Teenage Brain @NBC Nightly News April, 2011How sleep deprived are teens?
JUST FOR FUN
Check out this 3D diagram of the brain. GREAT Interactive Brain....check out the entire site for videos and information on traumatic brain injury
Color Blindness Simulators: Check out thissiteor thisoneand see how a person with color blindness perceives the world.
Didn't get enough optical illusions or subliminal messages in class...check out this site!
Ames Illusion videoRemember the room where one person was small and the other huge? This explains why.
More visual illusions Clickhere to see some awesome paintings by a talent artist with a different 'perception' of the world.
Think TestHow many of these daily items can correctly answer questions about? See if you can beat me...I got 23 correct.
Signal DetectionInteresting article and inactive feature to see how well you hear.
Find your EQWhat is your emotional intelligence? Here a test to find out...Warning there are 146 questions and it does take 30 minutes or more to complete.
Facial Symmetry TestSymFacelets you see how your face would look if it wasperfectly symmetrical. Think the left and right sides of your face are alike? Well, they might be... but you'll never know for sure until you try it!
Interesting articles
Alzheimer's DiseaseShows how Alzheimer's affect the brain. Great slide show on parts of the brain.
Inside The Teenage BrainFrom: Time Magazine (May 10, 2004)
Find out about what later school start times do for teenagers. From: LA Times.com
How Psychology Solved a WWII Shipwreak MysteryMemory researchers used what they learned about how our memories change over time in predictable ways to examine the stories of captured German WWII soldiers and figured out where a ship likely went down.

Video games help fight depression


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