Unit 6 Learning

Essential Questions.
1. How do we learn?
2. What are the practical implications of the principles of learning studied by psychology?

Topic Activity

1. Learning: Overview of the types of learning
Chapter 8 preview
2. Classical Conditioning:
Pavlovian conditioning
Classroom demonstration of Classical Conditioning
Worksheet: Classical Conditioning
Little Albert Case Study
3. Operant Conditioning:
Contingencies of Reinforcement
Negative Reinforcement and Punishment
Operant Conditioning worksheet
Types of Reinforcers
Schedules of Reinforcement
4. Modeling:
Bandura and the Bobo doll

5. Learned Helplessness Learned Optimism and testing your optimism
My ABCDEs


6. Review Video: Learning

Assessment Chapter Test

Focus
Write about a time when you taught someone a particular skill or some information. Describe your method and evaluate your success.

Unit 5 Altered States of Consciousness

Essential Questions
How do we experience consciousness?
Why do we alter our state of consciousness?
Topics & Activities

1. Sleep and Dreams
Overview (How good is your note taking?)

Video The Mind Awake and Asleep

• Paired reading activity:
• Advice about sleep. & Why we sleep.

PP Lecture on Dreams

REM Sleep: Pilot Light of the Mind?

2. Hypnosis
Video: The Mind Hidden and Divided

3. Drugs and Altered States

Myers PowerPoint
Reading activity and class discussion.

Assessment:

1. Writing Assignment: My Theory of Dreams

Weblog Entry:
What purposes are served by sleeping, day dreaming, dreaming and using drugs and alcohol?