Welcome to Psychology We will be creating a Guide to Human Behavior Notebook The Notebook is 80% of the student’s Grade and will include: Reflections/Journal

Welcome to PsychologyWe will be creating a

Guide to Human Behavior NotebookThe Notebook is 80% of the student’s Grade and will include:

Reflections/Journal EntriesReadings in PsychologyNotes/Daily WorkUnderstanding ConceptsActivity Reflections

Reflection: Why are you taking psychology?

Answer on a separate paper:• Why are you taking psychology? • What interests you about other people’s

behavior?• What would you like to learn about your

behavior?

Read Article: Music Producer Disappears• Highlight examples where Chris (Julian)

exhibits behavior outside the “Norm”.• Underline the first indication that

something has gone wrong.Answer on a separate paper: What kind of person was he? How did he change? What could have been done to help him?

Discussion: Why do we study Psychology?

How are you doing?Has was your first week of

High School?What was the best part?What was the worst Part?

What questions do you have about rules or the handbook?Is there anything you need help with?

Activity Reflection:Balancing Act

• On your paper, write a one sentence description of the activity:– This activity uses balancing meter stick as a metaphor for balancing

all of our responsibilities in life

• On your paper, write a detailed description of the activity include:– Set up– Safety concerns– Rules and tricks– Debrief questions

• What makes a great balancer?• How is this activity like real life?• How is it like school?• What do you need to be successful?

– Focus and flexibility

Activity Reflection: Warp Speed• On your paper, write a one sentence description

of the activity: For example– Warp speed is an ice breaker or initiative that

promotes teamwork and learning names.

• On your paper, write a detailed description of the activity include:– Set up– Safety concerns– Rules and tricks –Describe the long way to start– Debrief questions- How did your group work together as a team?

What assumptions did you make in the beginning that you had to give up? Does our society have unwritten rules? Are there times when you should break them? What assumptions do you make in your daily life that could be holding you back? What are some “unwritten rules” in a classroom?

Activity Reflection:Trust Walk

• The trust walk is used to increase the trust level between individuals in a group. It can also be used to assess your groups concern for following rules and safety– Set up: People in pair each pair needs one blindfold– Safety concerns: Injury or decreased trust due to poor

guidance– Rules and tricks: People with a low trust level pick

partners first and pick someone they are comfortable with High trust level people pick someone they don’t know. Highest trust level goes first. When you are giuding you are responsible for their safety.

• Contact at all time • Communication

– Debrief questions

Activity Reflection:Warp speed

– Debrief questions

What assumptions did you make about the activity that limited your First attempt to lower your time.

What are areas in your day to day life where you make assumptions

How do

Activity Reflection:Knot So Easy

• On your paper, write a one sentence description of the activity:• This is an activity for high functioning groups to work on

handling frustration when initial expectation for an easy solution do not materialize.


• How well did your group work together? • How well did you/your group handle frustration?• How is this activity like real life?• How is it like sports?• What do you need to be successful?

Activity Reflection:Slap, Double Slap, 3 Slap Wink

• On your paper, write a one sentence description of the activity:

• This is a fun game you can use to allow a group to have a good time and enjoy each others company. For it to be fun they need to be comfortable with each other so it isn’t a great ice breaker. It is also good to allow participants to be silly without feeling stupid.


• How did you like having to be silly with the group?• How comfortable were you playing the game?

Activity Reflection:Camp Games

• Knots – A problem solving initiative used to increase a groups comfort level with close quarters and working together to solve a problem– Groups of 5-12 Even numbers make easier knots– Grab the hand of a person across from you– Grab the hand of a person across from you but not the

same person• Layered hands make easier knots• Weaving hands makes very difficult KnotsDebrief Questions:

What worked for your group? What did you struggle with?What did you do if you were uncomfortable? How could you let your group know what you wre feeling?


• Rainstorm– Show kids how to make the various noises:

• Random snapping• Rub hands together• Slap thighs• Pound floor

• With kids in a circle with their eyes closed “pass” the sounds around the circle in order then reversed


• Murder in the dark– Sit in a circle, dim the lights, pass out cards with

a joker(s) or touch 1-2 kids on the head to designate the murderer

• The Murderer winks at other participants to “kill” them

• When you are winked at you die a dramatic death• Ways to “Win”

– Guess the murderer– Best Dramatic death– Murderer kills everyone but 3 people


• Look down look up– Circle Shoulder to Shoulder Leader says “Look down,

Look up”– Participants Look at their feet then look up at another

person’s eyes– If they make eye contact both people are out they step

back and the circle closes• If you are careful and only play a couple of times in

a row they will want to keep playing again and again

• Feeling awkward together and surviving can make the group feel closer

Activity Reflection:But it Floats

• On your paper, write a one sentence description of the activity:• This is an activity for high functioning groups to work on

handling frustration when initial expectation for an easy solution do not materialize. Also a test of personal integrity


• How well did your group work together? • How well did you/your group handle frustration?• How is this activity like real life?• How is it like sports?• What do you need to be successful?

Ethical Guidelines for Psychological Experimentation

As set by the American Psychological Association• Informed consent

• Researchers must inform potential participants in advance about the general nature of the research and that they have a right to refuse to participate or to withdraw at any time.

• The right to be protected from harm and discomfort

• The right to confidentiality

• The right to debriefing

Ethical Guidelines for Experimentation

with Animals As per. Federal Guidelines

Journal

• How do you like your brain?– How do you feel about your own

brain?– Are you happy with it? What things do

you like? What things would you change?

– How good of care have you taken of your brain?

Journal• You have just learned about “Talk

and Die Syndrome” and “Phinneas Gage” – What does the contrast between these

two situations suggest about our brain?– Has your thinking about your brain

changed due to this information? Why or Why not?

– Thinking back, have you had any “close calls” with brain injuries?

Write about a time…

• When you found yourself continuing to do something you knew was bad for you because you felt like doing it.

Write about a time…• When you found yourself experiencing a

different reality from other people. For example:

• A waking dream

• A hallucination

• A different memory of a situation

What was it like to realise others were not experiencing the same thing and that what you experienced wasn’t real

Addiction

• Behavior a person engages in that activates the reward center or mechanism in the brain

• A person continues the behavior to continue the reward cycle

• Can result in physiological changes in the brain that cause discomfort when the behavior stops

Addiction

• Physiological Addiction results from the adaptation of biochemical processes in the brain

• Psychological addiction results from thought patterns and feelings that you want to continue that are associated with the behavior or drug

Addiction Thresholds

See Graphs--

Split BrainSplit Brain/corpus callosum in Psych,

but I thought these two video clips were pretty good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roKV8XJHXKc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfGwsAdS9Dc

Journal Raising kids• How did your parents raise you—what do

you think their philosophy of parenting is?– Interactions with you and your siblings– Discipline and rewards– Academics– Major morals and values

Documents

Welcome to Psychology We will be creating a Guide to Human Behavior Notebook The Notebook is 80% of the student’s Grade and will include: Reflections/Journal