HOW MUCH DOES YOUR BRAIN WEIGH?

WHAT ANIMAL HAS THE LARGEST BRAIN?

Bellwork: Open your notebooks, date them 3/16, and answer the following

question:

Brain FunctionBrain Function Brain StructureBrain Structure

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CAT scansMRI

Brain Imaging

Brain Facts

Wet Fragile mass that weighs a little over 3 pounds

About the size of a small grapefruitShaped like a walnutAlways working even during sleepOnly 2% of our body weight but consumes

20% of our daily calories(and blood flow and oxygen).

We yawn to wake our brain up The more we think, the more we burn

Brain Facts(continued)

Your brain is 75% waterYour brain is incapable of feeling painElephants have the largest brain by size (11 pounds)

of any land mammal.Your brain stops growing at age 18Information travels to your brain at over 250 mphThe capacity for such emotions as joy, happiness,

fear, and shyness are already developed at birth. The specific type of nurturing a child receives shapes how these emotions are developed.

your brain is capable of having more ideas than the number of atoms in the known universe

Brain Facts(continued)

Tickles. You can’t tickle yourself because your brain distinguished between unexpected external touch and your own touch.

Imaginary playmates. A study from Australia showed that children with imaginary playmates between the ages of 3 and 9 tended to be first-born children.

Reading faces. Without any words, you may be able to determine if someone is in a good mood, is feeling sad, or is angry just by reading the face. A small area in the brain called the amygdala is responsible for your ability to readsomeone else’s face for clues to how they are feeling.

Pain and gender. Scientists have discovered that men and women’s brains react differently to pain, which explains why they may perceive or discuss pain differently.

Brain Facts(continued)Supertasters. There is a class of people known as supertasters who not only have more taste buds on the tongue, but whose brain is more sensitive to the tastes of foods and drinks. In fact, they can detect some flavors that others cannot.

Cold. Some people are much more sensitive to cold and actually feel pain associated with cold. Research has shown that the reason is due to certain channels that send cold information to the brain.

Decision-making. Women tend to take longer to make a decision, but are more likely to stick with the decision, compared to men, who are more likely to change their mind after making a decision.

Create associations. Memory is formed by associations, so if you want help remembering things, create associations for yourself.

Sleep. While you sleep at night may be the best time for your brain to consolidate all your memories from the day.

World Champion. A world champion memorizer, Ben Pridmore memorized 96 historical events in 5 minutes and memorized a single, shuffled deck of cards in 26.28 seconds.

1. Open notebooks, date them, and title them. 3 parts of my personality

2. On the left, list personality traits you believe you got from your mom. On the right, list personality traits you believe you got from your dad. In the middle list personality traits you think are unique to you.(could be environmental or genetic)

3/6 Bellwork:

Reading 2 pg. 112 (Read until the end of the 1st paragraph on pg 114)

Discovering who you are

1. Psychology2. Personality3. Heredity4. Environment5. Adaptation6. Id7. Ego8. Superego9. Empathy10. Conscious Needs11. Unconscious Needs12. Defense Mechanisms

Unit Vocabulary

13. Projection14. Repression15. Denial16. Rationalization17. Self Actualization18. Perception19. Mental Set20. Learning21. Experience Pattern22. Conditioning23. Stimulus

1. DO YOU BELIEVE YOUR PERSONALITY IS MORE IMPACTED BY YOUR HEREDITY OR YOUR ENVIRONMENT? EXPLAIN.

2. HOW IS THE WORD ADAPTATION USED DIFFERENTLY IN PSYCHOLOGY THAN IN SCIENCE?

Bellwork 3/18:Open notebooks, pull out personality

worksheet and answer the following 2 questions in your notes.

SIGMUND FREUD-FATHER OF MODERN PSYCHOLOGY

Id: Basic needs-food, water, survival, happiness

Superego: teachings of society concerning right and wrong

Ego: referee between Id, Superego

OPEN TEXTBOOK TO PAGE 148 AND DEFINE THE FOLLOWING:CONSCIOUS NEEDSUNCONSCIOUS NEEDS

Bellwork 4/8:

Conscious vs. Unconscious needs

90% is our unconscious mind

Unconscious Needs:•Attention•Affection•Success•Avoidance of failure•Power•Control•perfection

s. Unconscious needs

Bellwork 4/8:

Open notebooks and List one situation or event in the past month in which you personally used a defense mechanism

DISPLACEMENTSUBLIMATIONINTELECTUALIZATIONREGRESSIONACTING OUTAFFILIATION

Defense MechanismsOther Defense Mechanisms

AIM INHIBITIONALTRUISMAVOIDANCECOMPENSATIONHUMOR:PASSIVE-AGGRESSION

Shipwrecked:Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a

tale of a fateful trip, that started from this tropic port aboard this tiny ship

1. Make a list of the top 5 most urgent needs that should be taken care of within the first 2 months of being shipwrecked

1. What needs would need to be addressed within the first 2 months?

1. Nobody is coming to save you, what needs to be addressed after 2 years of living on this island?

REPRESSION IS ANOTHER WELL-KNOWN DEFENSE MECHANISM. REPRESSION ACTS TO KEEP INFORMATION OUT OF CONSCIOUS AWARENESS. HOWEVER, THESE MEMORIES DON'T JUST

DISAPPEAR; THEY CONTINUE TO INFLUENCE OUR BEHAVIOR. FOR EXAMPLE, A PERSON WHO HAS REPRESSED MEMORIES OF ABUSE SUFFERED AS A CHILD MAY LATER HAVE DIFFICULTY FORMING

RELATIONSHIPS.SOMETIMES WE DO THIS CONSCIOUSLY BY FORCING THE UNWANTED INFORMATION OUT OF OUR AWARENESS, WHICH IS KNOWN AS SUPPRESSION. IN MOST CASES, HOWEVER, THIS REMOVAL OF

ANXIETY-PROVOKING MEMORIES FROM OUR AWARENESS IS BELIEVED TO OCCUR UNCONSCIOUSLY.

Defense MechanismsRepression

PROJECTION IS A DEFENSE MECHANISM THAT INVOLVES TAKING OUR OWN UNACCEPTABLE QUALITIES OR FEELINGS AND ASCRIBING THEM TO OTHER

PEOPLE. FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU HAVE A STRONG DISLIKE FOR SOMEONE, YOU MIGHT INSTEAD BELIEVE THAT HE OR SHE DOES NOT LIKE YOU. PROJECTION

WORKS BY ALLOWING THE EXPRESSION OF THE DESIRE OR IMPULSE, BUT IN A WAY THAT THE EGO CANNOT RECOGNIZE, THEREFORE REDUCING ANXIETY.

Defense MechanismsProjection

RATIONALIZATION IS A DEFENSE MECHANISM THAT INVOLVES EXPLAINING AN UNACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR OR FEELING IN A RATIONAL OR LOGICAL MANNER, AVOIDING THE TRUE REASONS FOR THE BEHAVIOR. FOR EXAMPLE, A PERSON WHO IS TURNED DOWN FOR A DATE MIGHT RATIONALIZE THE SITUATION BY SAYING THEY WERE NOT ATTRACTED TO THE OTHER PERSON ANYWAY, OR A STUDENT MIGHT BLAME A POOR EXAM SCORE ON THE INSTRUCTOR RATHER THAN HIS OR HER LACK OF PREPARATION.RATIONALIZATION NOT ONLY PREVENTS ANXIETY, IT MAY ALSO PROTECT SELF-ESTEEM AND SELF-CONCEPT. WHEN CONFRONTED BY SUCCESS OR FAILURE, PEOPLE TEND TO ATTRIBUTE ACHIEVEMENT TO THEIR OWN QUALITIES AND SKILLS WHILE FAILURES ARE BLAMED ON OTHER PEOPLE OR OUTSIDE FORCES.

Defense MechanismsRationalization

Maslow’s Needs Pyramid

1. Reading 5 pg 123 (Begin with Abraham Maslow)

What did Maslow say about our needs?

How many different needs categories did he identify?

Define Self-Actualization (In your key term boxes)

Get info down in notes, sit with a mix of B/CMaslow's Needs Pyramid

DID THE PERSON GIVE A SPECIFIC SCHOOL/NATIONAL ISSUE?WHAT WAS IT?

DID THE PERSON CONNECT IT IN A MEANINGFUL WAY TO THEIR BOOK?

Group Questions

Daily Agenda

1. Complete Reading 6 Perception and Learning.

2. Answer the questions at the end of the reading. (Key terms in notes or key term sheets)

Mental Set- an expectation of the way things should be

Experience the world through our 5 senses

Travels through nervous system to brain where we decide what to do

Information is sent back to the body ordering us to act in a certain way

Brain stores information on what to and not to do next time

Exterior Parts of the Brain

Frontal Lobe-Planning, Organizing, Higher order thinking, Impulse control, emotions

Motor Cortex-Voluntary Body MovementSensory Cortex-Sensory input registerParietal Lobe- spatial orientation, calculation,

recognition

Exterior Parts of the Brain

Occipital Lobe- Visual ProcessingTemporal Lobe- Sound, Music, face and

object recognitionCerebellum-Movement and BalanceBrain Stem- controls blood pressure, body

temperature, respiration, digestion

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Label the exterior parts of the brain

According to Freud:9. This part of your personality you are born with and it satisfies your selfish needs and wants10. This part of your personality is developed by the teachings of society.11. This part of your personality balances the desires of both

Word Bank:Brain Stem Motor CortexCerebellum Sensory CortexParietal Lobe Temporal LobeOccipital Lobe Frontal Lobe

C –ClassicalO-Operant

T-Trial and Error12. Associates a neutral stimuli with and unconditioned stimuli13. Uses positive/negative reinforcement14. Example: riding a bike15. Id a.

Maslow16. Needs b. Skinner17. Operant(Pigeon) c. Freud18. Classical(Dog) d. Pavlov

Read pgs. 122-125(Taking care of your needs)

Show that you understand defense mechanisms by drawing on your key terms an accurate example of each defense mechanism. Once you complete that, please illustrate the rest of your key terms

Defense MechanismsProtection from emotional pain

Projection- shifting your own faults onto someone else

Repression-putting painful memories out of ones mind

Denial-refusing to believe something has happened

Rationalization-making an excuse that is not the real reason for doing something

3 types of learning

Classical conditioning(Ivan Pavlov)Stimulus Response

NS(bell) R(no salivation)

UCS(food) UCR(salivation)

NS (bell)+UCS (food) R (salivation)

CS(bell) CR(salivation)

types of learning

Operant Conditioning(B.F. Skinner)

•Shaping behavior

•Uses positive and negative reinforcement

•Positive more beneficial than negative

•Worked with pigeons in “Skinner Box”

•Extrinsic Motivation

types of learning

Pg. 134 Beginning with “If you have ever tried to train a dog…”

In your notebook:

What is a difference between operant and classical conditioning?