Unit 1 - Why Study Psychology & History of Psychology
2. Read Brains Behaving Badly: Why So Many Comedians End Up Self-Destructing and discuss.
3. Read Jennifer Lawrence photo hack: The phenomenon of the naked selfie and discuss as a class.
3.5 Read Controlling the Spread of Misinformation and play Bad News and Go Viral.
4. Analyze the current issues and debates taking place in modern psychology Source: Boundless. “Current Issues and Debates in Psychology.” Boundless Psychology
Want more controversial issues in psychology? Debates and Issues in Psychology and 5 Timeless Debates in Psychology5. Read the article Device Devotion
6. Read the article on Facebook Addiction Disorder on Fenichel's CURRENT TOPICS IN PSYCHOLOGY
7. Check out some widespread misconceptions at:
25 popular urban legends explained
Myths, Lies and Straight Talk Check out America’s unique gun violence problem, explained in 17 maps and charts for Myth #5.
10 Mind-Myths: Do Any of These Catch You Out?
8. Watch theWhat is Psychology Videos (Part 1 and 2) and complete the questions sheet
9. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Ask your parents how they use psychology at work. (When do you describe behavior?, When do you understand behavior?, When do you predict behavior?, When do you control behavior?)
10. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Watch a movie that could teach you about psychology. Go to Fenichel's CURRENT TOPICS IN PSYCHOLOGY and click on Danny Wedding: Psychology, Movies and Mental Illness for a recommendation.
11. Complete the Career Decisions Quiz
12. Schools of Thought Assignment A good starting point is SimplyPsychology - Approaches Revision Notes
13. Nature or Nurture The Case of the Boy Who Became a Girl
14. Biography Project A good starting point is SimplyPsychology - Historical Figures in Psychology
15. Psychological Perspectives Quiz
16. Unit 1 Cross Word Puzzle
17. Take these Kahoot quizzes to test your knowledge of The Schools of Thought.
18. four terrible effects of daylight saving time
19. Watch A Walk Through the 9/11 Memorial & Museum then read An Introduction to “9/11: Ten Years Later” and Ten Years Later, 9/11 Tragedy Has Wide-Ranging Psychological Impacts , Teaching High School Psychology - Psychology and September
20. Read Do You Really Remember Where You Were on 9/11? and use one of the surveys from 9/11 National Memory Survey on an adult in your life that is old enough to remember the 9/11 attacks.
Unit 2 - Methods and Statistics
1. Types of Research Methods Assignment
2. Famous Case Study Worksheet
3. Write a Fictional Psychological Case Study
4.5 Construct a short survey (traditional or on-line). TIPS: Survey Monkey
5. Canadians want a new PM, poll suggests
6. Complete the Mental Health Assessment an online psychological test. (REMEMBER: These online psychological tests are for your entertainment and possibly educational use only and do not replace in any way a formal psychiatric evaluation. Remember for a diagnosis, you need to contact a licensed mental health professional.)
7. Complete one of the Online Psychological Tests at HealthyPlace.com (REMEMBER: These online psychological tests are for your entertainment and possibly educational use only and do not replace in any way a formal psychiatric evaluation. Remember for a diagnosis, you need to contact a licensed mental health professional.)
8. Complete the Online Intelligence Test Complete the Paper Intelligence Test
9. Read the article How the brain responds to reward is linked to socioeconomic background
10. Debate the Pros & Cons of Animal Testing/Research
11. Complete the Rational Thinking Worksheet on PsychSim 4.0 by choosing Rational Thinking in the drop down menu labelled Select a Module.
12. Complete the Correlational Analysis Worksheet on PsychSim 4.0 by choosing Correlation Analysis in the drop down menu labelled Select a Module.
13. Observe the scatterplots and Guess the Correlation
14. Complete the Correlation Activity and Hand In!
15. Complete the Descriptive Statistics Worksheet on PsychSim 4.0 by choosing Descriptive Statistics in the drop down menu labelled Select a Module.
16. Complete the Descriptive Statistics – Internet Survey assignment.
17. Internal Validity SI
18. Read the CBC News article Many psychology studies fail reproducibility test
19. Test 1 Review Assignment
20. Critical Thinking Exercise
Watch 25 COMMON MYTHS You Won’t Believe Are Actually True (Surprising Findings!)
Watch 25 DISPROVEN MYTHS That People STILL Believe In (Popular False Presumptions!)
Watch 25 Misconceptions About Your Body That Aren't True (Popular False Presumptions!)
21. Complete the Types Of Errors Assignment
22. Research Methods Crossword Puzzle
23. Watch the Understanding Research Video (Research Methods in Psychology) and complete the questions sheet
Unit 3 - Bio Bases of Behaviour
. Complete the Neural Messages Worksheet on PsychSim 4.0
. Complete the Left Brain vs. Right Brain Quiz
. Watch the Behaving Brain Video and complete the questions sheet
. Watch the Responsive Brain Video and complete the questions sheet
. Read the article Swimming with Hormones: Researchers Unravel Ancient Urges That Drive the Social Decisions of Fish
. Read the article Hormone affects how teens brains control emotions
1. According to the article, how do the emotion processing centres of the teenage brain get left on their own for a while?
2. Testosterone is associated with muscles and size in males. According to the article, what is one of it's other roles in both sexes?
. Read the article Hormone affects distance men keep from unknown women they find attractive
. Read the article Love- It's all in your Head!
. Read the article I get a kick out of you and complete the questions I Get a Kick Out of You - Questions Scientists are finding that, after all, love really is down to a chemical addiction between people
. Read The Science of Addiction and complete the assignment The Science of Addiction Question Sheet (web version of article)
. Go to The Science of Addiction: Genetics and the Brain and complete the assignment The Science of Addiction assignment
. Neurological Disorders Project use this as a starting point Neurological disorder From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
. Complete the Brain and Nervous System Crossword
. Complete the Psychobiology Crossword
. Biological Rhythms Experiments
. Quiz 1 Review Assignment (The Nervous System)
Unit 4 - Sensation & Perception
. Check out 7 Gestalt principles of visual perception: cognitive psychology for UX
. Check out 141 Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena This site is AWESOME!
. Check out Fun Things fromThe Joy of Visual Perception.
. Optical Illusions to Perfection Assignment
. Hands-on Activity: 20/20 Vision
. Build a Colorless Color Wheel
. The Eyes Crossword
. The Eyes II Crossword
. Neuroscience for Kids - Vision Experiments
. Our Sense of Sight: Part 2. Perceiving motion, form, and depth
. Our Sense of Sight: Part 3. Color Vision
. The Ears Crossword
. Read the article
. The Sensation of Touch Assignment . Test Your Sense of Touch (LAB)
. Pain and Pain Management Crossword
. Watch the Sensation and Perception Video and complete questions sheet
. Sensation and Perception Review Assignment Unit 5 - Motivation & Emotion . Read the Fear Matters Article and complete the questions
. Read The Seven Universal Emotions We Wear On Our Face and complete the chart on the PsychSim 5: EXPRESSING EMOTION worksheet.
. Triggers
. Read How I Felt After 70 Days of Lying in Bed for Science. Would you lay in bed for 70 days for $18,000?
Unit 6 - Stress, Coping, Health . Has the Stress of COVID Affected Our Brains? . Teen drinking may damage ability cope stress
. STRESS MANAGEMENT EXERCISES YOUTH IN BC
. Stress Reduction Activities for Students
. Centre for Studies on Human Stress
. Staying Healthy in Spite of Stress Unit 7 - Learning . Read 20 Things You Didn't Know About Learning
. Read Online gaming can boost school scores
. Learning Disabilities Research Assignment
. Compete the VARK Questionnaire
Unit 8 - Memory . Read How COVID-19 Might Increase Risk of Memory Loss and Cognitive Decline
. Read Posting personal experiences on social media may help you remember them in the future
. Read/watch How the Internet is Changing Your Brain Given the ubiquity of Google, is memory obsolete? Academic Earth dares to ask, how is such easy access to information affecting our brains as we rely less and less on memory and more on technology?
. Read Remembering When and answer the Remembering When Reading Assignment Questions . How Accurate Are Memories of 9/11? . Test Seven Review Assignment Unit 9 - Thinking and Language . Read 20 cognitive biases that screw up your decisions and The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational. Choose one of the biases and write and perform a skit that demonstrates that bias.
. Design Meets Production: Why Two Minds are Always Better than One
. Read The Internet's Impact On Our Thinking
. Read 11 BODY LANGUAGE TRICKS TO MAKE YOU SUCCESSFUL IN LIFE and demonstrate one.
. Semantically speaking: Does meaning structure unite languages?
. 7 things never to say to anyone, and why (Part 1) - Verbal Judo tactics & techniques
Unit 10 - States of Consciousness
Unit 11 - Life span Development . Learn some of the important characteristics of each phase of the life-span at PsychSite
Unit 12 - Individual Difference . Read The Confidence Gap for Girls: 5 Tips for Parents of Tween and Teen Girls
Unit 13 - Personality Unit 14 - Psychological Disorders . Biological Causal Factors Self-Instructional Exercise
. Psychological Disorders Word Search
. Complete the Differentiating Psychological Disorders online quiz.
. Read Could a Google Glass app that detects human emotion help those with autism?
. Watch Psychopathology Video and complete questions sheet
. Complete the Psychological Disorders Assignment 2016
. Why French Kids Don't Have ADHD
Unit 15 - Treatment of Psychological Disorders . Learn the functions of some of the more common drugs used in pharmacotherapy at PsychSite
. Jennifer Buchanan - Complimentary Resources The worksheets are meant to help you, from this moment forward, use music with greater intention, for the purpose of feeling better.
. Play this game of Kahoot to see how much you have learned about Duplicate of Mental Therapies
Unit 16 - Social and Cultural Dimensions of Behavior . Print a copy of the cultural iceberg and label it with as many aspects of culture as you can think of in the appropriate region. Watch The Cultural Iceberg to see how you did.
. Read this What is 'moral decision'? What are examples of this? - Quora and then check out these Top 10 Moral Dilemmas What would you do?
. Lesson 17 Interpersonal Attraction Psyc 320 Social Psyc
. WAR GAMES:
THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT VIDEO GAMES THAT PLAY AT WAR
. MILITARISM & VIDEO GAMES: AN INTERVIEW WITH NINA HUNTEMANN
. Take this Kahoot quiz to test your knowledge of Social Psychology.
Unit 17 - Advertising and Psychology . Substances As Stress Relievers: Deconstructing Advertisements
. The Age of Persuasion - Archives by Date CBC Radio
Unit 18 - Consuming Kids Unit 19 - Psychology and the Law