2021-2022 - AP Psychology Assignments
- Instructor
- Mr. Matthew Cole
- Term
- 2021-2022 School Year
- Department
- Social Studies
- Description
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Upcoming Assignments
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Past Assignments
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Directions: After watching the film The Stanford Prison Experiment, think about and answer the following questions.
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Read pages 816-823 in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Matt has just finished a five-mile run with his new friend Janelle. How might the following influence him to ask her for a date? - Similarity - Mere-exposure effect - Proximity
Read pages 808-814 Attraction - Module 79 in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Directions: As you advance through the student paced Nearpod take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The slide show provides focus questions that provide purpose for your learning and understanding.
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Describe an example of a social root of prejudice, an emotional root of prejudice, and a cognitive root of prejudice.
Read pages 792-798 Prejudice and Discrimination - Module 77 in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Identify and explain TWO specific reasons why Milgram's study would not pass the ethical guidelines of an institutional review board today.
Read pages 775-782 Conformity and Obedience - Module 75 in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Directions: As you advance through the student paced Nearpod take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The slide show provides focus questions that provide purpose for your learning and understanding.
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Using the guards in the Zimbardo prison simulation as your example, explain the following psychological concepts: - Foot-in-the-door phenomenon - Power of the situation
Read pages 768-773 Attribution, Attitudes, and Actions - Module 74 in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Directions: As you advance through the student paced Nearpod take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The slide show provides focus questions that provide purpose for your learning and understanding.
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Read pages 751-760 The Biomedical Therapies and Preventing Psychological Disorders - Module 73 in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Directions: As you advance through the student paced Nearpod take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The slide show provides focus questions that provide purpose for your learning and understanding.
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Explain a possible treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder from each of the following types of therapy: - Cognitive therapy - Behavioral therapy - Group therapy
Read textbook pages 729-739 Behavior, Cognitive, and Group Therapies - Module 71. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is among the most controversial of all psychological disorders. Briefly describe the disorder. Then, provide one piece of evidence that supports the existence of the disorder and one piece of evidence that would indicate the disorder might not be genuine.
Read pages 707-714 Other Disorders - Module 69 in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Read pages 699-704 Schizophrenia - Module 68 in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Read pages 690-697 Perspective on Depression, Suicide, and Self-Injury (Module 67) in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Read pages 686-690 Depressive Disorders and Bipolar Disorder in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Read pages 677-684 Anxiety Disorders, OCD, and PTSD - Module 66 in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Read pages 666-675 Introduction to Psychological Disorders - Module 65 in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Read pages 651-658 Exploring the Self - Module 64 in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Identify and explain ONE main criticism of social-cognitive theories and ONE main support for this approach.
Read pages 646-649 Social-Cognitive Theories - Module 63 in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Read pages
631-634 Humanistic Theories - Module 61 in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
631-634 Humanistic Theories - Module 61 in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Describe the following two projective tests and state one criticism of these types of test. - Thematic Apperception Test - Rorschach inkblot test
Read pages 618-628 Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Theories - Module 60 in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Sarah has just joined a new faith community. Describe THREE long-term benefits that she might experience as a result of her membership.
Read pages 596-610 Health and Happiness - Module 59 in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Jenna’s boyfriend just carried out the most elaborate “promposal” at her school. Use the phases of Hans Selye’s general adaptation syndrome to explain how prom preparations may be stressful for Jenna.
Read pages 582-594 Stress and Illness - Module 58 in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Olivia and David have been married for several years. Olivia criticizes her husband for not being as empathic as she is. Identify and explain TWO research findings that support her assertion.
Read pages 574-580 Expressing Emotion - Module 57 in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Lynn’s boyfriend has not replied to her last three texts. Lynn is experiencing anger, increased blood pressure, and rapid breathing. Explain her situation using the James-Lange, Cannon-Bard, and Schachter-Singer theories of emotion.
Read pages 564-571 Module 56 - Theories of Physiology of Emotion in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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As a teenager, Vincent viewed a large amount of violent pornographic material online. Describe two ways that this behavior as a teen may impact his sexual behaviors as an adult.
Read pages 550-553 Sexual Motivation in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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George believes he is overweight and would like to lose weight. Explain why each of the following would help or hinder his efforts to lose weight: - Eating while watching an action movie - Eating with his friends - Eating in a buffet restaurant
Read pages 540-547 Hunger Motivation (Module 53) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Explain evidence that suggests a genetic influence on sexual orientation from each of the following types of studies: - Family studies - Twin studies
Read pages
501-512 Sexual Development (Module 50) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
501-512 Sexual Development (Module 50) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Read pages 495-499 Adolescent: Social Development and Emerging Adulthood (Module 49) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Multiple-Choice Questions and Free-Response Questions
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Explain how the following concepts might affect a middle school student who is asked by his friends to skip science class and hide in the bathroom at school. - The timing of puberty - Conventional morality
Read pages 489-493 Adolescent: Physical and Cognitive Development (Module 48) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Give an example of a biological, a psychological, and a social factor that might contribute to gender differences.
Read pages 476-483 Gender Development (Module 45) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Keisha’s parents could be described as permissive. Jasmine’s parents could be described as authoritative. Describe the reactions of each set of parents when the girls ask if they can stay out past curfew.
Read pages 469-474 Infancy and Childhood: Social Development (Module 45) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Read pages 465-469 (Module 45) in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Give an example of each of the cognitive milestones listed below: - Object permanence - Conservation - Theory of mind
Read pages 454-462 Cognitive Development (Module 44) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Three types of development are listed below. Give a specific example of each. - Brain development - Motor development - Infant memory
Read pages 450-452 Infancy and Childhood: Physical Development (Module 43) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Three major issues are addressed by psychologists in the study of human development: nature and nurture, continuity and stages, and stability and change. Describe how each might explain how a child thinking abilities develop over time.
Read pages 442-448 (Module 42) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Identify and explain three reasons why racial differences in intelligence might be caused by environmental factors.
Read pages 429-434 (Module 41) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Identify and explain TWO environmental interventions that can help children develop better cognitive skills.
Read pages 423-427 (Module 40) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Read pages 408-413 - Assessing Intelligence (Module 38) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Mark and Bill are planning to open a piano-moving business and are hoping for great success. Explain how each element of Sternberg’s intelligence theory could help them be successful in their business. - Analytical intelligence - Creative intelligence - Practical intelligence
Read pages 402-406 (Module 37) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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While waiting in the checkout line at the grocery store, you see the cashier next to you get robbed. The police interview you. Describe how the following would hinder your ability to give an accurate description of the robber: - Misinformation effect - Source amnesia - Proactive interference
Read pages 350-363 (Module 33) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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You have a friend, Rachel, who cannot remember where she left a check she had received from a relative for her birthday. She remembers having drunk several cups of tea the morning she received the check, and she remembers taking it to her bedroom. Explain how Rachel can take advantage of context-dependent memory and state-dependent memory to remember where in her bedroom she left the check.
Read pages 339-347 (Module 32) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook
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Last evening, Carlos’ mom told him he needed to buy milk today. So, he hopped on his bicycle this morning and headed to the corner store to pick up a gallon. Explain how both implicit and explicit memories were involved in Carlos’ errand.
Read pages - 326-337 (Module31) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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After an accident, Josh lost his ability to both speak and understand spoken language. Define and explain how the following terms relate to the situation: - Broca’s area - Wernicke’s area
Read pages 381-392 - Thinking and Language (Module 36) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Multiple-Choice Questions and Free-Response Questions
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Identify one advantage and one disadvantage each, of using algorithms and heuristics when looking for an item in the grocery store.
Read pages 370 - 378 - Solving Problems and Making Decisions (Module 35) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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A drug company is seeking to develop a new medication. Explain how the following elements of creativity could assist with the process: - Divergent thinking - Intrinsic motivation
Read pages 365-368 - Thinking, Concepts, and Creativity (Module 34) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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A young boy is left at home with his older brother while their parents drop off the family car for repairs. While the parents are out, the older brother prepares lunch for the young boy. Then the older brother takes the younger brother outside, where he entertains him by building several fires with small twigs. Explain how the older brother’s conduct is related to: - Prosocial modeling - Mirror neurons
Read pages 312-318 - Observational Learning (Module 30) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Describe how each of the following can show the impact of cognition on operant conditioning. - Latent learning - Insight learning - Intrinsic motivation
Read pages 300-309 - Biology, Cognition, and Learning (Module 29) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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The Shin family is eager to train their new puppy a couple of tricks. Explain how the Shins could use the following in their training: - Positive reinforcement - Schedules of reinforcement - Shaping
Read pages 294-297 - Operant Conditioning Applications, and Comparison to Classical Conditioning (Module 28) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Multiple-Choice Questions and Free-Response Questions
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Complete the attached Handout - Identifying Schedules of Reinforcement.
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Your calculus teacher wants her students to be more diligent in completing their homework and, since you are taking AP® psychology, she has asked for your help. Give an example of how she could use each of the following to help her increase homework completion. Positive reinforcement Negative reinforcement Fixed-interval schedule of reinforcement
Read pages 283-291 -
Operant Conditioning (Module 27) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
Operant Conditioning (Module 27) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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A researcher paired the sound of a whistle with a puff of air to the eye to classically condition Ashley to blink when the whistle alone was sounded. Explain how the researcher could demonstrate the following. - Generalization - Extinction - Spontaneous recovery
Read pages 275-280 (Module 26) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Read pages 270-274 (Module 26) in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Multiple-Choice Questions and Free-Response Questions
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Read pages 257-261 (Module 25) in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Read pages 251-256 (Module 25) in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Draw and label a the attached diagram of the middle and inner ear in their notebooks and submit a photo to Google Classroom.
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Read pages 244-249 - Hearing (Module 24) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Imagine that you attend a sporting event at your school. Explain how the following terms affect your perception of the game: - Proximity - Interposition - Color constancy
Read pages 233-241 - Visual Organization and Interpretation (Module 23) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Read pages 222-230 - Vision (Module 22) in your textbook.
Draw and label the figure of the eye located on page 224 in your spiral notebook and then upload a picture of your drawing to Google Classroom.
Draw and label the figure of the eye located on page 224 in your spiral notebook and then upload a picture of your drawing to Google Classroom.
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What are the claims of ESP, and what have most research psychologists concluded after putting these claims to the test?
Read pages 215-220 - Influences on Perception (Module 21) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Marisol is planning a ski trip for winter break. Explain how each of the following might play a role in her perception of the winter weather she will experience: - Difference threshold - Absolute threshold - Selective attention
Read pages 204-212 - Basic Concepts of Sensation and Perception (Module 20) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Many teens believe that recreational use of drugs does not have negative long-term effects. Explain a negative long-term effect, other than addiction, for each of the following drugs: - Alcohol - Marijuana - Nicotine
Read pages 180-190 - Psychoactive Drugs (Module 18) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Explain the following two theories regarding why we dream and include a criticism each faces: - Freud’s wish-fulfillment theory - Activation-synthesis theory
Read pages 168-178 (Module 17) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Multiple-Choice Questions and Free-Response Questions
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A friend believes that sleep is not that important and that he can go several days without sleep with no ill effects. Use the following theories about why we sleep to explain some negative effects your friend might experience after missing a couple nights of sleep: - Sleep helps us recuperate. - Sleep helps us restore memories.
Read pages158-165 (Module 16) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Read pages 141-149 (Module 15) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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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?
Read pages 129-138 (Module 14) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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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.
Read Module 13 pages 120-127 in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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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
Read Module 12 pages 109-116 in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Identify and describe the role of each of the following in playing a song on the piano. - Hippocampus - Cerebellum - Reticular formation - Temporal lobe
Read Module 11 pages 98-106 in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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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
Read Module 10 pages 91-96 in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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In you spiral notebook draw and label the figure of neural synapse on the attached google slide. After drawing and labeling the synapse take a picture and upload it to Google Classroom.
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Explain the role each of the following plays in sending a message through a neuron. - Dendrites - Axon - Myelin sheath
Read Module 9 pages 80-89 in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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In you spiral notebook draw and label the figure of a motor neuron on page 82 of your textbook or using the attached google slide. After drawing and labeling the neuron take a picture and upload it to Google Classroom.
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Read Module 8 pages 66-71 in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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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
Read Module 7 (pages 59-63) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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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
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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
Read Module 6 (pages 50-58) in your textbook and answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Respond to the attached free-response question on modern psychological perspectives.
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Mrs. Ng is interested in studying the prevalence of cheating on exams at her local high school. Describe one disadvantage of using each of the following research methods to study this topic: - Case study - Naturalistic observation - Survey
Read pages 38-47 in your textbook and then answer the assigned question. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Explain how your assigned psychological perspective of the would attempt to explain the behavior of Andrea Yates. Provide TWO piece of evidence from the case study or video to support each conclusions.
- Behavioral (the environment, learning, reward and punishment)
- Humanistic (unique potential, positive self-concept, self-actualization, unconditional love)
- Biological (nervous system, brain, hormones, neurotransmitters)
- Cognitive (thoughts, perceptions, ideas, and beliefs)
- Sociocultural (social and cultural expectations, beliefs, values, and norms
*If you are absent today you can choose which perspective you would like to focus on.
- Behavioral (the environment, learning, reward and punishment)
- Humanistic (unique potential, positive self-concept, self-actualization, unconditional love)
- Biological (nervous system, brain, hormones, neurotransmitters)
- Cognitive (thoughts, perceptions, ideas, and beliefs)
- Sociocultural (social and cultural expectations, beliefs, values, and norms
*If you are absent today you can choose which perspective you would like to focus on.
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Read pages 24-31 in your textbook. Remember to take notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.
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Describe two psychological principles that you plan on actively using this year to help you study for class assessments and the AP Psychology exam.
Read pages 13-23 in your textbook and then answer the question above. Remember to take notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook.