AP Psychology (Period 2) Assignments

On a separate sheet of paper or typed work list the following information for EACH Important Name in Psychology

1. Most IMPORTANT contribution
2. Identify type of psychologist or approach they used in their studies
EX: Cognitive, social-cultural, behaviorist, humanist, evolutionary psych, neurologist, etc...

Study Guide: Questions & Answers
1. What is the difference between a delusion and hallucination?
2. The view that mental problems are caused by physical illness is known as the
3. Psychological models of mental illness emphasize the contribution of
4. The ________ approach to psychological disorders focuses on abnormalities in the brain and nervous system.
5. ________ is the most common of all major mental disturbances.
6. The tendency for some depressed persons to think that they cannot do anything to change their negative fate is termed ________ by Martin Seligman.
7. The tendency for women to ________ accounts for their higher depression rates relative to men.
8. Bipolar disorder was once known as...
9. Nancy feels anxious for long periods of time, but she is not afraid of anything in particular. She likely suffers fro...
10. The ________ is a key brain region involved in panic attacks.
11. The ________ suggests that we are innately predisposed to fear some stimuli more than others.
12. Jaci has just become blind. The fact that there is no physical reason for this suggests that Jaci may be suffering from...
13. When one loses his or her memory, but there is no known reason for the memory loss, the person may be suffering from ________.
14. A key feature of ________ is an odd motor state in which the individual may remain frozen in a stupor for long periods of time.
15. A diagnosis of ________ schizophrenia is reserved for persons whose symptoms do not clearly fall into other categories.
16. Define the diathesis-stress hypothesis of schizophrenia.
17.  ________ disorders are chronic, inflexible, pervasive, and maladaptive patterns of thinking, emotions, or relationships.
18. A key feature of ________ is a history of irresponsible behavior in a person who does not experience shame or intense emotion of any kind.
19. Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz argues that mental illness.
20.________ is a legal term, not a psychiatric or psychological term.

Board Game AP Review Project

In groups of 3-4 pick one of the topics chapters to review
1. Unit 1 Intro & History
2. Unit 2 Research Methods
3. Unit 3 Biopsychology
4. Unit 4&5 Sensation & Perception / States of Consciousness
5. Unit 6&7 Learning & Cognition
6. Unit 8 Emotion & Motivation
7. Unit 9 Psychological Development
8. Unit 10 Personality
9. Unit 11 Testing & Individual Differences
10. Unit 12-13 Psychological Disorders & Therapies

Groups will design a Board Game to Review the vocabulary or ideas of that chapter
Must include:
A game board with Title (see example game board) (5pts)
Integrated into game 20+ Questions on vocabulary of chapter or short trivia questions on chapter selected (10pts)
Short instruction on gameplay and rules (5pts)
Creative design or interesting play on the game board to help facilitate review (5pts)
Include all the designers name & short description of what they did for project. (5pts)

Total: 30pts

Students will rate the most helpful and entertaining game board for each class.
DUE DATE: APRIL 24th Thursday

Web Research – Antisocial Personalities
Research one of the these listed topics:
   Richard Ramirez
   Jeffery Dahmer
   Ted Bundy
   Aileen Wuornos
   Ed Gein

Write/type a 1 page Psychological Profile
1. Name & family background
2. List crimes and suspected crimes
3. Abnormal & psychological tendencies

Tip: Extra points will be included for a portrait (pic) of the person and design that is similar to a police or law enforcement profile of the subject.

1. A test that measures what it is supposed to measure has ________, while a test that yields consistent results over time has ________.
2. Define face validity and content validity.
3. Define split-half reliability and test-retest reliability.
4. In a normal distribution, what percentage of the population should fall within the normal range?
5. When establishing norms it is important to first ________ before comparing other people to the norm.
6. ________ is defined as the the average age at which normal (average) individuals achieve a particular intelligence score.
7. The Stanford-Binet test was developed by
8. The term ________ refers to the ratio of mental age divided by chronological age multiplied by 100.
9. A key problem with Terman's original formula for computing IQ is that it
10. In his decades-long study of giftedness, Lewis Terman found that
11. The concept of ________ was denoted by the symbol "g" by Charles Spearman.
12. Charles Spearman argued that the g factor in intelligence is based on what? Nature or nurture?
13. Robert Sternberg would say that a person who has "street smarts," even though he does not do well in school has what type of intelligence?

14. Heritability refers to ________ not ________.
15. Arthur Jensen proposed that there are limits to increases in the improvement of IQ scores for ________ because of heredity.
16. What did Scarr and Weinberg found in their classic study?
17. Critics have accused Murray and Herrnstein (authors of The Bell Curve) of ignoring which of the following rules that scientists should observe in interpreting research?

• Use info from Chapter 11 Pages 451-477
• Send the questions by email to [email protected] before the end of 7 period tomorrow Wed 3/26
• Keep answers short and write answers below the questions

Applying Theories of Intelligence

Scenario: Eddie is a ten year-old and his parents have just been told that he is mentally challenged based on the standard IQ (80) and achievement tests. Eddie has difficulty with his course work, but he has a lovable disposition and gets along well with his teacher and the other children in his class. He enjoys camping and the outdoors and is excellent at basketball and often will go outside to shoot free-throws rather that doing his homework. Eddie also enjoys listening to music and is interested in learning the guitar.

Instructions: Using the theory of intelligence that you have been assigned, write and assessment of Eddie’s intelligence for his parents. Take the position of a psychologist in the school with the particular theory you have been assigned. Include how you would assess Eddie’s intelligence and his future success in the world.

1. Triarchic Theory
2. Multiple Intelligence Theory
3. Emotional Intelligence

Unit 10 Personality  -  Study Guide

1. ________ is defined as the unique qualities and distinctive behavior patterns of an individual across time and situations.
2. The ________ is the unconscious part of a personality, whereas the ________ acts as our conscience.
3. In the different ________ stages, children are thought to associate pleasure with different bodily regions.
4. Define projection, displacement, and reaction formation.
5. The concept of psychic determinism suggests that...
6. According to Jung's principle of opposites, each personality is balanced between opposing tendencies, such as ________ and ________.
7. Karen Horney believed that ________ may block the normal development of a personality.
8. ________ proposed the first trait theory, involving cardinal, central, and secondary traits.
9. Carl Rogers defined the ________ as our subjective or perceived reality.
10. Rogers would say that a student who views herself as brilliant, but earns Cs in all her classes is experiencing
11. ________ refers to a recently developed psychological movement that emphasizes the study of desirable aspects of human functioning.
12. ________ refers to the concept of the mutual influence of cognition, behavior, and environment.
13. ________ theorists have determined five major characteristics of personality.
14. Which of the following Big Five personality characteristics is often associated with negative emotions and anxiety?
15. A serious criticism of trait theories is that they...
16. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is...
17. Your first impression of a librarian or athlete is...
18. Buck watches as Janet trips. Buck assumes this occurred because Janet is a clutz (rather than thinking it was because the sidewalk was filled with gravel). Buck has committed the ________ error.

Psychology: Theories of Personality
Group Assignment

Directions: Create a poster describing your assigned topic.

1. Personality and Temperament (431-432)
2. Personality as a Composite of Traits: The Five-Factor Theory (432-433)
3. Assessing Traits (433-434)
4. Evaluating Temperament and Trait Theories (434-435)
5. Traits and the Person-Situation Debate (435-436)
6. Psychology in Your Life: Finding Your Type (436-437)
7. Implicit Personality Theories (438-439)
8. Individualism, Collectivism, and Personality (439-440)
9. Other Cultural Differences (440-441)
10. Psychology in Your Life: Developing your Own Theory of Personality (441-442)

Presentation Rubric:
 The information is organized (think PowerPoint slide) 2pts

 Everyone contributes to the poster 2pts
 Everyone has a speaking role in the presentation 2pts
 At least one example not from the textbook or handout 2pts

Major Freudian defense mechanisms: Write your own example for each in your notebook

1. Repression
2. Regression
3. Reaction formation
4. Rationalization
5. Displacement
6. Sublimation
7. Projection
8. Denial

Study for Unit 9 Test - Pg 359-402

Concepts to Study

Developmental Psychology

Continuity & Discontinuity

Nature vs Nuture

Prenatal & Infancy Development (Fetus, Synaptic Pruning, etc)

Attachment Styles – Mary Ainsworth

Imprinting – Konrad Lorenz

Contact Comfort - Harry Harlow

Cupboard Theory – Freud

Parenting Styles - Diana Baumrind

Jean Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development

Lev Vygotsky – Proximal Zone of Development

Erik Erikson’s Social Development Theory

Lawernce Kohlberg’s Moral Development Theory

5 Stages of Psychological Adjustment – Kubler-Ross

Go to this web article or borrow a class copy of this article 

•       http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-human-beast/201402/blaming-parents-their-childrens-failings

Answer Journal #1 by Thursday 

•      After reading the article summarize in 1-2 sentences what the findings are. Do you agree with this idea? Why types of questions would you ask based on what you read? Is the article suggesting nature or nurture plays a part in development?

Study Guide: Questions & Answers

1.       According to Paul Ekman, people around the world share and recognize at least seven basic emotions.
2.         List the seven basic human emotions: joy, disgust, surprise, sadness, contempt, anger,  and fear
3.       The research Robert Plutchik believes that... there are 8 basic emotions and if combined can form more complex emotions – joy + acceptance = love
4.       What is the distinction between implicit and explicit emotion?

Implicit emotions or the fast reacting pathway of the two emotion-processing pathway are unconscious emotions which quickly initiate fear & avoidance responses whereas the other pathway is slower sends messages to the visual cortex and lower brain giving a CONSCIOUS perception of fear.

5.       The role of the limbic system in emotion is to... 
   1. invoke emotions to stimulate behaviors for attack, defense, and retreat: “the fight or flight” response as well as help process emotional pathways to the brain.
6.       What is the role of the sympathetic nervous system in emotional response? The sympathetic will tense muscle, constrict blood flow, and elevate heart rate during an emotional response giving the physiology responses of situation or stressful stimulus.
7.       What is the role of the parasympathetic system in an emotional response? Parasympathetic takes effect after a stressful or emotional response by counteracting the effects by slowing heart rate and relieving tense muscles.
8.       Describe the James-Lange theory of emotion. The James-Lange theory is when a stimulus produces a physiological response that leads to an emotion.
9.       Describe the Cannon-Brad theory of emotion. Emotions are caused by a stimulus that sends signals to the hypothalamus which trigger both an internal physiological response as well as an emotional response at the same time.
10.       Describe the Two Factor theory of emotion. The two factor theory suggests emotions result from assessing of physiological response (factor 1) and a arousing stimulus (factor 2)
11.       Describe the cognitive theory of emotion. The Cognitive theory suggests our emotions are result of how we assess the event.
12.       The notion that some arousal can facilitate performance but that too much arousal inhibits behavior is known as the... inverted U
13.       What is the distinction between a drive and motive? A drive are basic biological needs and a motive is a goal based idea
14.       What is the difference between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation? Extrinsic deals with rewards and external consequences outside of person such as money, grades, or praise rather than intrinsic motivation which deals with inner qualities such special interests and personal enjoyment.
15.       Julian Rotter is known in psychology for endorsing which motivation theory? Rotter dealt with cognitive social learning theory which suggests we motivated based on expectation to attain goal and by the personal value of the goal.
16.       What is the difference between an external and internal locus of control? External locus of control suggest how individual believe the events of their lives our outside of their personal control versus an internal locus of control that suggest events can be influenced by personal actions.
17.       Describe the overjustification phenomenon. Giving extrinsic rewards to intrinsically motivated behavior is the overjustification effect. Extrinsic ideas may then displace the intrinsic motivation.
18.       The sensation of hunger in response to low blood sugar is due to activation of the... lateral hypothalamus
19. Set point refers to the tendency of the body to maintain a certain level of body fat and body weight.
20.       The correct order of the stages of human sexual response as reported by Masters and Johnson is .. excitement, plateau, orgasm, resolution

Quiz on Monday

10 Questions

Review

Etman & Plutchick research on emotions

Theories of Emotions (4)

Drive vs Motives

Theories of Motivation

Instinct Theory

Drive Theory

Psychodynamic Theory

Incentive Theory

Cognitive Theory

—  In groups of 2-3 you will:

◦     Design an effective weight-loss program

–  Use information provided for you in this chapter

–  Explain in outline form what your program will include

–  Think of healthy and effective ways to manage weight-loss. Motive! Empower Intrinscally!

◦      Design a tasteful ad to compliment your program

–  Motive a healthy change whether by

—  Humor

—  Satire

—  Truth

—  Encourage

–  Use color or construction paper for ad

–  Make ad eye appealing and neat

Reflection: Write a short reflection on what you learned about yourself from the Self-Evaluation and how you can use this information in the future.

1. Journal # 1-8 (2pts)
2.  Information Processing Model  (1/2pt)                                   
3. Types of Memories (1/2 pt)
4. Retrieval Cues (Presentation) (1/2pt)
5. Memory’s 7 Sins (1/2 pt)
6. Language (1/2pt)
7. Problem Solving (1/2pt)