Teaching High School Psychology (Rob says: Kristin Whitlock sent me this news about the UTOPSS conference - what a GREAT line up! If you can possibly go, go!) Utah Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools (UTOPSS) FALL CONFERENCE Date: Friday, October 23, 2015 Place: Westminster College, SLC, UT Time: 8:00 am – 3:30 pm Cost: $50.00 (includes materials, continental breakfast & lunch) Registration due by: OCTOBER 16 TO REGISTER, go to: Unsimplifying Mental Disorders: Principles for Understanding and Teaching Abnormal Psychology, Rik Seefeldt—University of Wisconsin—River Falls Attitudes and Approaches for Diversity in the Classroom, Jen Simonds—Westminster College Homeless Youth in Utah: What We Know and What Is Being Done, Justice Morath—Salt Lake Community College Effective Methods in Teaching Sports Psychology, David Rockwood—Payson High School Using Myths to Teach Introductory Psychology, Annette Nielsen—Woods Cross High School AP Psychology, Dr.
Memory Games | Improve Memory Games Memory improvement is part of this memory game, the process can be done with few steps that can be easy and performed effortlessly. Many people have trouble remembering faces or names. How to remember things is only a technique that you need to utilize, for example to remember a face you just need to examine a person’s face discretely when you are introduced. Create an association between that characteristic, the face, and the name in your mind. Also when you are introduced, ask for the person to repeat their name. Also, after you leave the person, review the name in your mind several times. This memory game is going to activate some areas of your brain responsible for memory acquisition which therefore can help your memory improve.
memory experiments Memory Experiments Here are some experiments and games to test your memory. Also, don't forget that there are some memory tricks and techniques at the end of this section! On-line Short Term Memory Games Grades K-12 Think you have a good memory? On-line "Simon Says" Memory Games Simon says, "Play These Games!" Try Game 1 with and without sound. Face Memory Test How good is your memory for faces? There are two versions of the test: Now You See It, Now You Don't Grades K-6 Let's test short term memory. Materials: Tray or plate10-20 small items (like an eraser, pencil, coin, marble, etc.)Cloth or towel to cover the trayPaper and pencils for your subjects to write down what they remember What's Missing This experiment is a variation of the previous experiment to test short term memory. Try it again giving the subjects more time to view all the items.Try it with less time. Tray or plate10-20 small items (like an eraser, pencil, coin, marble, etc.)Cloth or towel to cover the tray Who's Missing None
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The Ten Most Revealing Psych Experiments Psychology is the study of the human mind and mental processes in relation to human behaviors - human nature. Due to its subject matter, psychology is not considered a 'hard' science, even though psychologists do experiment and publish their findings in respected journals. Some of the experiments psychologists have conducted over the years reveal things about the way we humans think and behave that we might not want to embrace, but which can at least help keep us humble. 1. The Robbers Cave Experiment is a classic social psychology experiment conducted with two groups of 11-year old boys at a state park in Oklahoma, and demonstrates just how easily an exclusive group identity is adopted and how quickly the group can degenerate into prejudice and antagonism toward outsiders. Researcher Muzafer Sherif actually conducted a series of 3 experiments. 2. This infamous experiment to plumb the depths of evil in human hearts ended up affecting its lead researcher as much as its subjects. 3. 4.
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The Big Five Project - Personality Test Directions: The following statements concern your perception about yourself in a variety of situations. Your task is to indicate the strength of your agreement with each statement, utilizing a scale in which 1 denotes strong disagreement, 5 denotes strong agreement, and 2, 3, and 4 represent intermediate judgments. In the boxes after each statement, click a number from 1 to 5 from the following scale: Strongly disagreeDisagreeNeither disagree nor agreeAgreeStrongly agree There are no "right" or "wrong" answers, so select the number that most closely reflects you on each statement.
French TV contestants made to inflict 'torture' A French TV documentary features people in a spoof game show administering what they are told are near lethal electric shocks to rival contestants. Those taking part are told to pull levers to inflict shocks - increasing in voltage - upon their opponents. Although unaware that the contestants were actors and there was no electrical current, 82% of participants in the Game of Death agreed to pull the lever. Programme makers say they wanted to expose the dangers of reality TV shows. They say the documentary shows how many participants in the setting of a TV show will agree to act against their own principles or moral codes when ordered to do something extreme. The Game of Death has all the trappings of a traditional TV quiz show, with a roaring crowd chanting "punishment" and a glamorous hostess urging the players on. Christophe Nick, the maker of the documentary, said they were "amazed" that so many participants obeyed the sadistic orders of the game show presenter. Yale experiment
5 of the Best Places to Find Historical Photographs A couple years ago, Larry Ferlazzo shared a hefty collection of ideas for how teachers can use photos in the classroom. Since then, I’ve been regularly incorporating a number of his activities into my writing lessons. I won’t bother to rehash all of Larry’s ideas here, but I do want to share a few of the websites where I find cool, and often strange, historical photos. Retronaut is hands down one of my all-time favorite websites. I subscribe to the Retronaut newsletter, so every morning I receive an email with a new collection of historical photographs. It’s a great way to start the day, and even if I don’t plan on using photos in the lesson that day, I still choose a “photo of the day” so that students can look at it and discuss before we dive into our lesson. Jones Photo Historical Collection houses four generations of the family-owned photographs. Shorpy features thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1950s.
Resources - Ages of Exploration Merchants of the Great Exchange The Great Exchange refers to the transfer of culture, plants, animals, and disease around the world. As people travelled around the world they discovered new products. This game is based on a book published in 1775 called, “The New and Complete Guide to the East India Trade.” See if you, too, can return alive to England winning fame and fortune. Play Merchants of the Great Exchange Whose Lunch is it Anyway? When Christopher Columbus and the explorers that followed him landed in the Americas, they began to introduce foods that they were familiar with. So… get ready for school, pack your lunch, and see just how many things would have been left in your lunchbox in America before 1492, with Whose Lunch is it Anyway? Play Whose Lunch is it Anyway? World Explorer: So just how good a sea captain are you? Review your knowledge of five great world explorers: Leifr Eiriksson, Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Henry Hudson, and James Cook. Play World Explorer