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April 11

You will have computers Monday and Tuesday. There are 3 assignments to do with the computers: 1. The Nature of Things, Surviving the Teenage Brain assignment (due on Wednesday, April 23) 2. The brain videos chart: find Oliver Sacks on youtube, Hippocampus and Hypothalamus on learner.org (the brain) and the others on [] You will have to search around to find them, some are in season 11; otherwise, just look through the episodes in each season to find them. THIS NEEDS TO BE PRINTED AND SUBMITTED WITH YOUR TEST, FOR TEST MARKS. 3. The "Exploring Learn Genetics site" sheet (due on Wed, April 23)

The nervous system / brain test will be on Wednesday. Be sure you have read the chapters, tried the online quizzes and focused on the diagrams.



April 8

Here is your nervous system and brain powerpoint.

March 27 The midterm will be on Monday, not tomorrow. When you see this message, email me at heather.gunn@nbed.nb.ca

Please be sure to check out the review, below.

March 25 Test Review: Types of Questions March 20 The survey work (below),the "Exploring Root Words" double-sided sheet and the Matching and Chart (graphic) are all due on Monday for grade 12. The due date for grade 11 is next Wednesday.
 * Read all four chapters
 * Try the online m/c tests on Thinking About Psychology 2E website
 * Review the powerpoints on the wiki
 * Watch “Williams’ Syndrome”, “Bringing up Monkey” and “Babies: Born Good?” and review the questions / answers.
 * Watch “The Epigenetics of Identical Twins” from Learn Genetics, on youtube or on the University of Utah website.
 * Multiple choice (usually, 2 of the 4 possible answers are nonsense; look carefully at the 2 that are more likely. What makes one better than the other?
 * Fill in the chart (the perspectives from chapter 2; the types of psychologists from chapter 1 and whether they are basic or applied; the chart on page 31 “Six Contemporary Perspectives”).
 * Short response:
 * Example: Explain the difference between a genetic disorder and a common disorder and give an example of each.
 * The video “Bringing Up Monkey” reported on a research experiment that paired anxious baby monkeys with adoptive mothers to see if parenting style (nurture) could influence personality (nature). A) What two characteristics did the adoptive mothers have? B) What were the findings; could nurture bring behavior change? Were there limits to the affects of nurture?
 * Explain how one identical twin can develop heart disease and the other may not. Demonstrate your understanding by using the following terms in your response: genes, epigenetics, environmental factors (list some).
 * Be sure you are comfortable with the worksheets we’ve done on operational definitions, hypothesis, independent and dependent variables.

The midterm (chapters 1-4) will be next Thursday, March 27.

This is your goal in the time you are on the computer today:

1) Check out all the information, below, if you have not been on the wiki before, or have not spent enough time here. 2) Go to Psychology Today and try 1-2tests. On your own, at home, free write for 10 minutes (what you found out about yourself (only share what you want to), if you think the test results were accurate and in what way, do you think surveys are a valid research method, do you think they are widely used by individuals, why do you think psychologists, employers, government, schools use this method?)

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2) If you have time, go to the website below and try a few experiments. []



February 18 Here is the powerpoint for chapter three. Be sure you've read the chapter and complete the graphic for Thursday.

Hello! Welcome to Psychology 120. Have a great term! Be sure to check this page a few times a week. Here are the chapters 1 and 2 powerpoints. If you choose to print them, I suggest you choose to print 4-6 per page and also to print in greyscale rather than color.

Be sure to also check out the companion website for the multiple choice practice and other study tools: []