PSYCHJAN

AP PSYCHOLOGY

JANUARY 2009

Assignments: January 5-16th, 2009-- Keep up! It's a big chapter!!!

AP PSYCHOLOGY MID-TERM (AP Exam) REVIEW

January 9, 2009- Fundraiser for Ezekiel!
Hotel Rwanda - Holmdel H.S. Auditorium@ 7:30 pm/
Admittance is free, but donations will be accepted to help our adoptee, Ezekiel, a Rwandan genocide survivor!! Come make a difference!!!

Please go to the link for the Society of Neuroscience, if you have not done so already. Download the booklet
"Brain Facts" It's really awesome (if you like neuroscience). We will use during the year

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
5 Memory Construction Misinformation and Imagination Effects Source Amnesia	6 Ch 8 PRS DUE Source Amnesia Children's Eyewitness Recall Repression and Memory Improving Memory	7 Review for Test	8 Chapter 8 Test	9 Chapter 9 Thinking, Language, and Intelligence 1. Thinking Concept Hierarchies Prototyes 2. Problem Solving Algorithm Heuristics Insight 3. Obstacles to Problem Solving confirmation bias fixation functional fixedness 4. Using and misuing Heuristics representative heuristic availability heuristic 5. Overconfidence 6. Belief Perserverance Phenomemon
Homework: Read and outline pages 281-287	Homework: Read and outline pages 287-288 Chapter Review pages 289-291. Ch 9 does not have a PRS as it will be tested as part of the Mid-Term. Mid-Term Essay due date: To Be Announced	Homework: Study for Test!	Homework: Read and outline pages 293-302 in text.	Homework: Read and outline pages 308-314 in text. TONIGHT: HOTEL RWANDA! 7:30 PM HHS AUDITORIUM! WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN EZEKIEL'S LIFE!
12 Thinking Scenarios Divide into 5 groups Read the scenarios and complete the required activities Use the thinking concepts/strategies we have discussed as you problem-solve.	13 Language Acquisition Stages: 1. Babbling 2. One word 3. Two words 4. Sentences Chompsky and learning Language Skinner: Operant conditioning reinforcement teaches infants language	14 Video: Language Acquisition Chompsky: Learning language Begin Video: Genie: The Wild Child.	15 Complete "Genie" Discussion Start Intelligence: Testing	16 Intelligence: Alfred Binet, Binet-Simon Test Stanford-Binet Test Lewis Terman IQ = mental age chronological age
Homework: Read and outline chapter 315-319 on Intelligence.	Homework: Review of an article from the American Psychological Association website, find an article on an aspect of thinking (cognition), language, and intelligence. Use the 'article review' form (download it) Due next MONDAY! (1/19/09)	Homework: Read and outline pages 319-322	Homework: Read and outline pages 322-326	Homework: Read and outline pages 326-331. APA REVIEW OF ARTICLE DUE ON MONDAY!

Memory Systems