Assignments

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29 Practice Free-Response Question - Modern Psychological Perspectives 11:59 PM	30	31 Skills Practice - Operational Definitions 11:59 PM Describe and explain how you experienced THREE of the following concepts in the card activity? - Limits of intuition - Confirmation bias - Hindsight bias - Overconfidence phenomenon - Perceiving order in randomness - Hypothesis testing 11:59 PM Ms. Ledbetter wants to determine if the new review activity she developed will improve student performance on unit exams. She randomly separates 160 students into two groups. Group A reviews for the unit exam in the traditional manner they have always used. Group B participates in the new review activity. After reviewing, both groups are given the same unit exam and their scores are compared. Explain how the following terms relate to this study: - Independent variable - Dependent variable - Control group 11:59 PM	1	2 Exit Ticket - Correlational Research 11:59 PM	3 Skills Practice - Experimental Variables 11:59 PM	4
5	6	7 Researchers interested in studying stress gave 150 high school seniors a very difficult math exam. After the test, the researchers measured stress by examining physiological changes with extensive medical testing that included drawing blood samples. When the test was over, they shared the results with the students but did not publish individual data. Explain whether or not this study conforms to each of the ethical standards: - Informed consent - Debriefing - Confidentiality 11:59 PM	8 Checking for Understanding - The Simple Experiment 11:59 PM	9 Reading Assignment - Statistical Reasoning in Everyday Life 11:59 PM Application Practice - Ethical Guidelines in Psychological Research 11:59 PM	10	11
12	13	14 Unit Test - Introduction to Psychology and Research Methods - Version A 11:59 PM Free-Response Question - Research Methods 9:06 PM	15 Explain the role each of the following plays in sending a message through a neuron. - Dendrites - Axon - Myelin sheath 11:59 PM Figure of a Motor Neuron 11:59 PM	16 Figure of a Neural Synapse 11:59 PM	17 Home alone, you hear a noise in another room. Explain the reactions of each of the following to this situation: - Sensory neurons - Sympathetic nervous system - Adrenal glands 11:59 PM	18
19	20 Identify and describe the role of each of the following in playing a song on the piano. - Hippocampus - Cerebellum - Reticular formation - Temporal lobe 11:59 PM	21	22	23 Anthony plays in a high school band concert. Identify one way that each of the following lobes of his brain is active as he participates in the concert. - Frontal lobes - Parietal lobes - Temporal lobes - Occipital lobes 11:59 PM	24	25
26	27 Explain the difference between parallel and sequential processing and provide an example of how each is involved in your attention during your AP® Psychology course. 11:59 PM Application Practice - Brain Structures and Function 11:59 PM	28	29 What does it mean to say that the heritability of height is 90 percent? What does that tell us about the contribution of genetics to any one person’s height? 11:59 PM	30	1	2