How to make your AP Psych blog for those who still have not done so!!!

Look at the original assignment that I posted last June.

http://cantorsappsychologyblog.blogspot.com/2009_06_01_archive.html

Mr. C

Learning Blog Post Assignment : Due Jan 4th, 2010

Use the following links as well as chapter 6 in Bernstein to familiarize yourself with the main learning theorists and then make a blog post describing and comparing two of the theorists and their theories. For example, you could compare Ivan Pavlov and John Watson pointing out how Watson took Pavlov's Classical Conditioning and expanded it into the realm of emotion.

When you write your post on your blog (I hope you remember your password...) please post a comment on THIS POST with the URL of your blog so I can grade it and other students can see what you had to say.

You MUST proofread your blog post before putting it up. Be sure it makes sense and well written. I suggest writing your post in Word or another word processing program and then copying and pasting it into your blog.

Before you start writing please check out each of the links and jot down some notes so you are familiar with each learning theorist.

Pavlov


Reading about Pavlov
http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/pavlov/readmore.html

Pavlov Game
http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/pavlov/index.html

Zimbardo talks about Pavlov
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhqumfpxuzI&feature=related

Pavlov’s dogs get conditioned
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpoLxEN54ho&feature=player_embedded#

Jim conditions Dwight on The Office
http://www.strayneuron.com/blog/archives/420


John Watson



Little Albert is conditioned to fear furriness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt0ucxOrPQE

Skinner

BF Skinner explains operant conditioning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AepqpTtKbwo

Pigeons playing “ping-pong” thanks to operant conditioning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGazyH6fQQ4&feature=related

Using operant conditioning to test to see if pigeons have “concepts” or schemas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1kj6_7x4PY

Bandura


Albert Bandura explains his “Bobo doll” aggressiongexperiment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdh7MngntnI&feature=related

Albert Bandura en Español - Experimento sobre Agresividad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMwOexrV6fM&feature=related

Observational Learning– “Children see, children do” Commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_s9pG5CWXM&feature=fvw

How does reward or punishment affect social learning?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmdTYwkHBI0

Please e-mail me with any questions. ptdworkin-cantor@cps.edu

-Mr. C

Quiz on Perception - Unit 5 coming up 12/16 (b) and 12/17 (a)

The quiz will cover Bernstein Chapter 5 as well as some review questions from Chapter 4 about sensation.


Be sure to have your Cornell Notes for all of Chapter 5 as well as your 33 flash cards done before the quiz.

Discovering Psychology Sensation and Perception Video

See Dr. Philip Zimbardo's psychology video series at http://www.learner.org/discoveringpsychology/index.html . The Sensation and Perception episode is at http://www.learner.org/discoveringpsychology/07/e07expand.html .


You need to click on the VoD button for "Video on Demand" on that page and make sure your pop-up blocker is disabled since a new window with the video in it will pop up when you click the VoD button.

If you missed the Unit 4 Sensation Quiz...

If you missed the quiz because you were absent or giving blood at the blood drive you will need to be ready to take it on 11/30 or 12/1 upon return from our Thanksgiving break.

Unit 5 - Perception Reading - Part one due on Mon. 11/30 (a) and Tues. 12/1 (b)

Bernstein Text Chapter 5 Pp. 150 – 192

Perception... How we make sense of our senses.

As you read the text take Cornell Notes and be sure you understand the concepts represented be the following questions:

Part 1 (pages 150-172) Mon. 11/30 and Tues. 12/1

1. What is the “Perception Paradox?”
2. Explain and compare the three main approaches to perception: ecological, constructivist, and computationalist.
3. What is psychophysics? (not just Niebuhr, Moore and Guerrero being crazy)
4. What is an “Absolute Threshold?”
5. Explain the difference between “subliminal” and “supraliminal” perception.
6. What do YOU think about the power of subliminal messages?
7. What is “Signal Detection” theory?
8. Describe what a “Just-noticeable Difference” is and explain “Weber’s Law.”
9. Explain how Fechner’s law and Stevens’s Power Law relate to our perception of intensity of stimuli.
10. Explain how our brains organize the perceptual world.
• Figure- Ground, Grouping, Auditory Scene Analysis (Gestalt principles)
11. Explain perception of distance and location
• Two dimensional location
• Depth Perception via: interposition, relative size, height in visual field, texture gradients, linear perspective, motion parallax.
• Accommodation, convergence and binocular disparity in visual system.
12. Explain perception of motion

· Looming, stroboscopic motion

13. Why do we perceive consistency in our world when our sense data is always changing? Explain perceptual consistency.

· Size, Shape and Brightness consistency.

Part 2 (pages 173-192) Due Wed. 12/2 and Thurs. 12/3

14. How do culture, and experience shape perception of reality?
15. Explain the concepts of “Bottom-Up” and “Top-Down” processing.
16. What is the parallel distributed processing (PDP) model?
17. How do developing infants demonstrate various aspects of perceptual processing?
18. What is “attention?” How is it directed? What is “selective attention?”
19. When is it possible to “multi-task” and when is it not possible? Why?
20. How is perceptual research applied in the following fields?

• Aviation, human-computer interaction, traffic safety, architecture & design

Bernstein Study Guide Chapter 5 Pp. 126 – 157 Due 12/7 (a) and 12/8 (b)

(You will be graded for completing and correcting the study guide assignments not for how many you got right.)

1. Skim outline Pp. 126-130 – Make sure you know underlined terms and that they are in your notes.

2. Meaningful Flashcards of ALL Key Terms Pp. 130- 133 - Note examples and mnemonics (only 33 this unit)

3. Do the fill-in-the-blanks key terms quiz on Pp. 134-135. Write the question with your answer. Check your work (P. 144) and write the correct answer for any you got wrong.

4. Review the “Learning Objectives” on Pp. 153-136 – These are good sources for possible FRQ questions.

5. Do Sample Quiz 1 on Pp. 138-141 and check your answers. For each wrong answer, write the correct answer and be sure the information is in your notes. (Answers start on P. 146)

Color Vision Simulator

How can only 3 types of color sensitive cone cells allow us to see millions of colors?
You can download a small Java application which will let you run a simulation of how Red, Green and Blue light can form all colors in our visual field at http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/sims.php?sim=Color_Vision#topics .