March 26: Treatment Lecture

Class Activities:

1) Collect UNM $$ and permission slips. If you are not going on the field trip, you will meet in Mrs. Raichur's room (end of the P-Wing Hallway) for class that Tuesday.

2) Neuron Note/Psych News. You wrote a new question and listened to the presentation from Hilary (2B) and Nat (3B).

3) Lecture on Treatment. I explained the five major types of psychotherapy: psychoanalysis, humanism, behavioral, cognitive, and biomedical. While you took notes and watched video clips, I tried to systematically desensitize you to crickets. We looked at them, learned about them, touched them, and a few even ate them. ;)


Assignments:

1) Handout for UNM field trip. Visit the psych department's website and answer questions.

2) Read Chapter 17 over spring break. Test will be the Thursday after spring break.

3) If you are interested in some extra credit, read a book that relates to psychology over the break and write a summary and response (how does it relate to class and the text). Please handwrite your book report.

March 23: Test on Chapter 16

Class Activities:

1) Collect UNM $$ and permission slips.

2) Finish Creative Project Presentations.

3) Multiple Choice Test on Chapter 16.

4) Free -Response on Disorders. This was timed. You had 25 minutes to answer it.

Assignments:

1) $$ and permission for UNM field trip.

2) Start reading chapter 17 up to page 673.

March 20: Presentations of Projects

lass Activities:

1) Announcements. Turn in your AP exam $$ to Mrs. Lieb. Turn in your field trip permission slips and $$ to me on Monday.

2) Presentations of creative projects. Each of you got 3-5 minutes to explain the disorder you selected and your creative project. WOW! You guys are awesome! Great job being creative!

Assignments:

1) Turn in $$.

2) Test on Chapter 16 will be on Monday, March 23.

March 18: Schizophrenia

Class Activities:

1) Psych News/Neuron Note. You wrote a question. I'll get my responses to you next class. News was presented from Amber in 2B. Thomas was absent for 3B's presentation.

2) Pop Quiz on chapter 16.

3) Schizophrenia Notes and Video clips. We watched a clip of a man named Jerry who has all the classic symptoms of schizophrenia. We also watched the beginning of a Discovery show on schizophrenia. It had great explanation of the disorder.

Assignments:

1) Creative Project is due on Thursday.

2) Test on Chapter 16 will be on Monday, March 23.

March 14: OCD and Mood Disorders

Class Activities:

1) Neuron Note/Psych News. You wrote a new Neuron Note Psych News articles were presented: 2B-Gareth and 3B - Allen.

2) I collected your handout for the disorder you will present next week. Work on your creative part this weekend.

3) OCD Video. Wow! Kissing 32 times before leaving home...

4) Mood Disorders Notes. Depression, Dysthmia, and Bipolar Disorder.

5) "Fires of the Mind: Depression and Bipolar"

Assignments:

1) Read and take notes over chapter 16 to the end.

2) Work on your creative project. It is due on Thursday.

March 12: What is Abnormal?, DSM-IV, and Anxiety Disorders

Class Activities:

1) Neuron Note/Psych News. You wrote a new Neuron Note for chapter 16 up to 633. Many Psych News articles were presented: 2B-Julie, Lisa, and Amelia and 3B - Anna and Cassandra.

2) 2B quickly reviewed their Multiple Choice Test on chapter 15.

3) Turn in Work and Return Work. You received your free-responses and other assignments. I collected the Website Assignment and checked you sources for your disorder research. We all got organized.

4) Disorders Creative Project Clarification. We made sure everyone has a disorder to research. Handouts are due next class. Creative Projects are due next week.

5) What is abnormal? We talked about what is normal and what is abnormal. There are three criteria I use when determining if something is a mental disorder:
1. Does it violate cultural norms?
2. Is it harmful for yourself or others?
3. Does it make your life inefficient?

We also talked about labeling and its problems, the DSM-IV, drapetomania, the study of being sane in insane places, and more.

6) Anxiety Disorders. We took notes over four main ones and watched video clips on them.

Assignments:

1) Read and take notes over chapter 16 up to page 653.

2) Research your disorder for the creative project. Bring your handout with all the information on Friday.

March7: Review Test/Select Disorders

7-Period Day from yesterday's snow day. Class was only 48 minutes.

Class Activities:

1) Neuron Note/Psych News. No Neuron Note. Psych News will be presented next week.

2) 2B finished their Multiple Choice Test on chapter 15.

3) Review Test. We reviewed the most difficult questions on the chapter 15 test.

4) New Outline! Because of the snow day, I changed the test for chapter 16 and updated the schedule. Make sure you get a copy.

5) Select disorder to research. Each of you will research a selected disorder. The assignment is to make a handout with all sorts of information about this disorder, make something creative related to this disorder, and present it all to class. In class today, you chose your disorder. Over the weekend, start researching it. For our next class on Wednesday, bring 5 sources that you are using to learn about your disorder. Your handout is due next Friday. Your creative project is due on Thursday, March 20th (this is changed from the original assignment).

Assignments:

1) Read and take notes over chapter 16 up to page 633.

2) Research your disorder for the creative project. Bring 5 resources to class on Wednesday.

3) Mental Disorders Websites. This assignment takes you through two great websites on mental illness: the National Institutes of Mental Health website and a website for online diagnoses. Complete the questions and you view them. Due on Wednesday too.

March 5: Test on Personality

Class Activities:

1) No Neuron Note or Psych News today.

2) Multiple Choice Test on Personality.

3) Free-Response on Personality

4) Pick up Abnormal Psych Outline and Creative Project Assignment.

Assignments:

1) Read and take notes over chapter 16 up to page 619

3B ONLY! March 4: Social-Cognitive Theories and The Self

1) Neuron Note/Psych News. You didn't need to write a new question and read the answers to your questions. 2B heard the news presentation from Caroline.

2) Social Cognitive Perspective.
Reciprocal Determinism clarification.

"Shindler's List" clip: The Jewish maid has lost all sense of control in her life. Have you ever felt a lack of control? What does that do to your personality?

Locus of Control Survey.

3) The Self.

Self-Esteem survey and evaluation. Notes on self-esteem.

The Dark Side of Self-Esteem notes and discussion.

Biased Self-Ratings. Better-than-average Phenomenon.

Self-Handicapping. Don't create an excuse for failure on Wednesday's test!

Assignments:

1) STUDY!!! Test on chapter 15 tomorrow Wednesday, March 5th. Multiple Choice and Free-Response

2) Personality Free-Response. Use this to practice for the test. Due on tomorrow.