Week of 3/25/24. TH 3pm last moment to turn in anything late
updates from SPURIOUS CORRELATIONS
Monday: 7 Escape room to review for test Tuesday! All work for MESHP unit due by 3pm.
Tuesday: 4,5,7 TEST! Morning classes will meet in the UPPER library because of MCAS. TEST corrections will be due by Monday.
Wednesday: 4,5 senior assignments mental health resources and TED revisions for extra points project. Both due Next Friday. Begin sensation and perception
Thursday: 7,4 sensation and perception TED Beza. Last DAY TO TURN IN ANYTHING, happy senior skip day.
Friday: no school!
Week of 3/18/24 TEST NOW ON 26th, project and NBs due by 3pm 25th at the latest. If you are fasting, see me w test info for you. All work for term 3 due by 3/27 other than the two senior assignments.
Please do interactive notebook first, then project, finally personality test slides. This is the order of importance, helpfullness on test, and point values.
Monday: 7,4 make personality boxes.
Tuesday: 5,7 open personality boxes (maybe 7 does this W?) do Rorschach instead? notes! hw, work on assignments due the 25th.
Wednesday: 4,5,7 open personality boxes 4, make Rorschach inkblots. notes! hw please work on interactive notebook, then project, and finally, finish the personality slides.
Thursday: no school for you.
friday: no class, wellness day.
Week of 3/11/24 test date moved to 3/26
Monday: 4,5,7 stress and coping notes!
Tuesday: 4,5 personality notes!
Wednesday: 7 please take this time to work on your interactive notebooks and/or your unit project if you are already done with the first notebook. I'd rank them first nb, then personality nb, then project. Thank you for using your time wisely, you have a quiz tomorrow!
Thursday: 4,5,7 reading quiz on vocab for all of motivation and emotion and personality
Friday: 4,5 notes. please work on project and motivation and interactive notebook due next week on the 25th. 50 slips project in class. w envelopes. and color personality test
Week of 3/4/24
Monday: 7 get into notes! please start reading motivation and emotion unit, Day 1 of notes is intrinsic, extrinsic, and theories of arousal
Tuesday: 4,5,7 TEDS for p4, Rishi, Shyam Day 2 of notes is Maslow and Biology of hunger (please eat before class p7)
Wednesday: 4,5 Day 2 of notes is Maslow and Biology of hunger
Thursday: 7,4 Day 3 of notes set point, sexual motivation, and theories of emotion
Friday: 5,7 Day 4 of notes, more theories of emotion.
2/14
Week of 2/26/24
Monday: 4,5 interactive notebook due if you want to do test corrections.
Tuesday: 7,4 project due if you want to do test corrections.
Wednesday: 5,7
Thursday: Test! participation bingo due! at start of class.
Friday: 4,5 Test corrections due Monday. TEDs are M and T.
Week of 2/12/24
Monday: 5,7 apologies for my absence, taking Mikey to his new fam and going to get Colby. Please use this time to make sure your notecatcher is mostly full and that you are already done with several slides from your notebook. You should have the unit fully read by Friday, so might as well get that done! Please use your headphones to listen to crash courses, etc. (37-40 cover this unit)
Tuesday: 4,5,7 snow day!
Wednesday: 4,5 second vocab quiz! and Valentines!
Thursday: 7 second vocab quiz! and Valentines!
Friday: 4,5,7 short final quiz on unit and share how your breaking a social norm project is going. Time to work on typing up the vocab application in class.
Week of 2/5/24
Monday: 4,5 notes
Tuesday: 7 notes
Wednesday: 4,5,7 social vocab quiz
Thursday: 4,5 notes
Friday: 7,4 notes
Week of 1/29/24
Monday: Test. you will have 2 choices, traditional, or with mini case studies. Each 50 MC. Corrections due by Thursday 3pm. For case study corrections, no need to write out all the options, just explain why the correct answer is correct. Answers front: a,d,t,o,p,f,l,t,k back o/j back: g,o,e,n,h,n,b,c,s,m/h
Tuesday: 4,5 TED 4 Sienna, Emma
Wednesday: 7,4 TED Talks, 7 Nina 4 Hailey
Thursday: 5,7 TED Talks 5 Josh, Michael 7: notes!
Friday: 4,5,7 4, Nicholas, Keshob 5 Emerson, Alicia, 7 Notes!
1/29/24
Monday:Test. You will have the choice between 50 traditional MC or 20 small case studies and 30 traditional questions, all MC. Please be ready to choose quickly.
Switch to next unit! TED TALKs on Social all this week.
1/22/24 TED talk bibliographies due by Friday and slides this weekend. Late work will be penalized.
Monday: interactive notebook due by 3 on TUESDAY!! (my bad) due tuesday. If you need an extension you must ask for it before 3pm Monday, just post in classroom. quiz. 7: Personality disorders 4: Mood disorders
Tuesday: 5,7 mood disorders
Wednesday: 4,5,7 schizophrenia
Thursday: 4,5 movie project due. addiction
Friday: 7: Test Monday!
1/8/24 Semester exam will be 100 MC questions and a 7 term vocabulary application FRQ that will count towards your 100pt total. You will take your exam in your class unless you receive permission from your principal to change things.
Monday: 4,5,7 Charles, post its and somatic disorders
Tuesday: 4,5 anxiety disorders, inc OCD, PTSD
Wednesday: 7
Thursday: 4,5,7 quiz! Dissociative disorders
Friday: 4,5 last leaves of the term. All work that you asked for extensions for during term 2 are due by today, 3pm. Personality disorders overview and case study activity.
1/3/2024 Please remember that when the term ends, all work from term 2 is due. Nothing will be accepted after 3pm on Friday Jan 12th. Please don't take advantage of this generosity.
Wednesday: 4,5: 4, TEDs 4 Henry, Caroline 5 Krystina, Charles hw: read clinical unit in textbook! get into interactive notebook! It is huge.
Thursday: 7,4 TED 7 Shea 4 Morgan, Julianne
Friday: 5,7 finish TEDs (5 Hannah 7 done) hw: read clinical unit in textbook and chip away at your interactive notebook, please note that it is divided by disorders, so you can go in whatever order you like. Leaves due by 3pm, from clinical unit only. No exc leaves will be accepted before Friday for any reason, please stop asking.
1/8/24 last week of term 2. Semester exam will be 100 MC questions and a 7 term vocabulary application FRQ that will count towards your 100pt total. You will take your exam in your class unless you receive permission from your principal to change things.
Monday: 4,5,7
Tuesday: 4,5
Wednesday: 7
Thursday: 4,5,7 reading quiz for all of clinical.
Friday: 4,5 Leaves due by 3pm, from clinical unit only. No exc leaves will be accepted before Friday for any reason, please stop asking.
Monday: TEST! See brain page for TED talk schedule!
Week of 11/6/23 Test next Monday!
Monday: 4,5 please bring in your textbook notes on sleep, sleep tracking, and your hand-written classwork on sleep.
Tuesday: 7,4 7, please bring in your textbook notes on sleep, sleep tracking, and your hand-written classwork on sleep.
Wednesday: 5,7 post your human training manual today! or ask for an extension in classroom where you will turn it in. Test is on Monday!!!!
Week of 10/30/23 pop quiz this week! Please remember that all social studies classes are dropping the "pity 50" policy going forward.
Monday: 5,7
Tuesday: 4,5,7
Wednesday: 4,5 hw: work on training your human and begin to read the sleep unit in the consciousness chapter.
Thursday: 7 hw: work on training your human and begin to read the sleep unit in the consciousness chapter.
Friday: CP 4,5,7 I'm out on MUN field trip. You will find your work in classroom. No leaves this week.
Week of 10/23/23
Monday: 4, 5 notes
Tuesday: 7 notes
Wednesday: 4,5,7 Simpsons practice CC and quiz on Classical conditioning! move on to Operant TED on diff bw Classical and Operant
Thursday: 4,5 4, notes! 5: in class, work with a partner from your seating group to complete your YouTube training vocab application. You will each need to have your steps handwritten and your own copy, please do it written, on paper, thank you. Will be collected (and returned with a sticker) when we see one another on Monday. You have enough time to complete this, so please do. You must work with at least one other person, only one group of 3 if someone is missing and you have an odd number. You must each have your own on paper handwritten copy of your work. This is typed out so that there is no possible confusion.
Friday: 7,4 7 notes in class, 4 in class, work with partners on YouTube training vocab application. You will each need to have your steps handwritten and your own copy, please do it on paper, thank you. Will be collected (and returned with a sticker) next week. ALL: Please know that I will be leaving before 2nd lunch, so any leaves for this week on this unit must be turned in before then. Please don't leave on my desk after I've left, they will be recycled, no points earned. End of term 1! Please make sure you have turned in all late work and your TED talk sheet in classroom by 3pm. Nothing from term 1 will be accepted after 3pm including quizzes.
Congrats, you are now 1/4 through your senior year. If you are doing senior internship, that is 1/3 of your non AP test classes done.
Week of 10/16/23
Monday: 4,5,7 TEST! Please turn in Participation Bingo sheet!!! if you want to do corrections, please fully follow instructions and have them in by the end of the day Wednesday. HW: begin to read your Learning chapter, please be done w Classical Conditioning by next T. and begin to track sleep every night!
Tuesday: 4,5 TED talks! 4 Katie 5 Ellie, Leyad
Wednesday: 7,4 TED talks! 7: Alex and Camilla p4: Begin classical conditioning. As always, slides up top! Corrections due by 3pm if you want. Please follow instructions on home page.
Thursday: 5,7 5: Steven and Parker 7 Shreya and Ava.
Friday: 4,5,7 Please say goodbye to Robert, we won't see him again.
hw: finish learning notes and move on to reading about sleep or take notes on crash course
Classical conditioning! psych teacher link to video practice Peter Tripp
Monday: 4,5,7 your TED talk organizer is posted in classroom. Please take at least the classtime to get yourself started on this. It should help you clarify how to make an APA bib in google scholar and to determine your due dates, organize your vocab, and argument. You can of course work on your group project in class! just make sure that you also get some time in on the TED thing as it will scaffold you into a great position. You have till the end of term 1 to finish the TED organizer for full credit, but you should get on it sooner if your TED is sooner. Just make sure you are using your class time effectively.
Reminder to post your psychologist in the Top Trumps slide deck If you don't post if, you are letting down everyone in all 3 classes. You must have your name visible somewhere on the slide. Please feel free to edit it today to insert that.
Tuesday: 4,5 notes and Summer project due!
Wednesday: 7,4 notes and review
Thursday: 5,7 notes and review
Friday: your first test, 50 mc questions. To study: Please make sure you review with quizlet (at home it works) and the crash course reviews.
Week of 9/18/23
Monday: 7,4: interactive notebook due by 9am. Due before test if you want to do unit test corrections, but firm deadline of end of term 1 for full credit. Term 1 work will not be graded if turned in after Term 1 ends.
Tuesday: 5,7: notes and time for project.
Wednesday: 4,5,7: research methods quiz crash course to review. Helpful if you have read Research methods section by today.
Thursday: 4,5: In class, please work on group project and remember that your Top Trumps slides due in slide deck by 3pm. If you have more time, make sure everything is submitted in classroom, then do your 2 extra credit leaves for tomorrow.
Friday: 7: Unit 1 project due Tuesday 3pm. EXC leaves due by 3pm in person to me.
Week of 9/11/2023
Monday: 4,5,7 assign person for Top Trumps, (this replaces FUNKO Pop) people link to brief bios due next Th by 3pm.
how to play Top Trumps finish perspectives, careers in psych, begin research notes.
Tuesday: 4,5 get into experiments! First project
Wednesday: 7 have read all of Hisory and Approaches by now! Begin reading research methods!
Thursday: 4,5,7 quiz on history/approaches. and research notes.
Friday: 4,5 Extra credit opportunity, due by 3pm Please send me a screenshot or other image of a correlation/causation issue headline/text/meme. You need to include the article or other background info so that we can analyze if it is a correlational claim or a causal claim. You can only send in one and you must be the first person to get that particular headline, meme, whatever into my email gould@bpsk12.org in order to get the 2 exc points. This is to prevent you from just googling and clicking something random. You earn points for thinking and demonstrating understanding every day.
We will have up to 2 exc points available most Fridays.
Week of 9/5/2025
Tuesday: 4,5,7 preview interactive notebook, review questions about syllabus, and begin notes. please be reading chapter 1, due next W and sign up for an account on www.signupgenius.com You don't need to make a sign up, just make an account. You cannot use your school email for this. Thanks!!!
Wednesday: 4,5 Pick TED talk topics notes and read the text. (I'm not going to type read the text again because it is expected for every single day, if you have class or not.) Please avoid multi-tasking! P4 only!!!! P5 only!!!
Thursday: 7,4 p7 Pick TED talk topics notes and read the text. P 4 quiz on syllabus and expectations. link for p7!!!
Friday: 5,7 p 5 and p7 quiz on syllabus and expectations.
Week of 8/30/2023
Wednesday: 4,5 Meet each other, Bingo meet up! 2 lies and a truth discussion, notecards, discussion about course expectations.
Thursday: 7 same as above. HW for all: please post your summer reading notes and reflections/whatever on the TEDs. Due T before class.
Happy long weekend!
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FYI outside opportunity: participate in research at Harvard psych lab, make money
Researchers from Boston University are seeking Massachusetts high school students ages 14-18 years old to participate in brief interviews for a research study. The interview will take 30 minutes and is conducted over Zoom. Students who are eligible and participate in an interview will receive a $40 Amazon.com gift card via email. The researchers are seeking opinions about how to create the content of a new educational program about pornography and sexual health. Students are eligible if they are 14-18 years old and speak English. Interviews are conducted anonymously but we do use email to communicate and arrange the interview time. Those interested should fill out the form here: https://redcap.bumc.bu.edu/surveys/?s=NXTH9X3FAW.