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LUPS AP SUMMER ASSIGNMENT 2018Course: AP PsychologyRECOMMENDED TEXTBOOKBook Title: Myers’ Psychology for AP, 2nd EditionAuthor: David G. MyersISBN-10: 1-4641-1307-6ISBN-13: 978-1-4641-1307**EACH STUDENT IS EXPECTED TO ACQUIRE HIS/HER OWN TEXTBOOK**Recommended ResourceAP Psychology prep book, 5 Steps to a 5, by Laura MaitlandPublished by McGraw HillAssignment TitleVocabulary, Article Review, Free Response Question, Famous Psychologists and TED TalksDate DueBy the end of the first week of class (August 24, 2018; 11:59:59 PM)Estimated Time for Completion8 hoursResources Needed to Complete Assignment? School recommended textbook ? Student purchased book(s) ? Other supplies:_________________________How the Assignment Will be AssessedEach assignment will be assessed separately using the grading rubric provided.Vocabulary and Individuals are subject to a multiple/matching type of test within the first two weeks of school.Purpose of Assignment? Review of foundational material/concepts/skills. ? Introduce new material/concepts/skills. ? Expose students to required material/concepts/skills/texts that cannot be covered during the academic year. ? Have students read material that will be discussed or used in class at the beginning of the year.Assignment Details:PART I: VOCABULARY - Grouping IdeasDirections: Define and create notecards/flashcards or a vocabulary list for the following vocabulary terms. (Quizlet is NOT acceptable for this section.)Evaluate the definitions and group the terms together according to your understanding. Once you have defined the vocabulary terms, use your understanding of their definitions to group appropriate terms together and provide a brief rationale for your term groupings/associations. There should be a minimum of 4 groupings. These terms will be utilized during the first unit and will be included in your course assessments and on the AP Psychology Examination. Psychology Empiricism Structuralism Functionalism Applied Research Psychiatry Natural Selection Basic Research Nature versus Nurture Issue Biopsychosocial Approach Levels of Analysis Approaches to Psychology Biological Evolutionary Psychodynamic Behavioral Cognitive Humanistic Socio-culturalPart II: VOCABULARYDirections: Using an appropriate and credible reference sources, create notecards/flashcards, as you define each of the bold terms below AND give an ORIGINAL example of each term (do not use the examples from the text!). Please number each term and keep them in order. (There are 65 terms here and close to 600 to know by the AP exam.) You must be 1 intrinsically motivated to be in this class for there are very few 2 extrinsic motivators. Hopefully you’ll get in the 3 flow even before class begins because there is a 4 positive correlation between 5 happiness and higher test scores. I’m certain that all of you did not miss the 6 critical period; therefore you should be able to use both 7 fluid intelligence and 8 crystallized intelligence to find answers. Additionally, you will be using your 9 Broca’s area and 10 Wernicke’s area to communicate with everyone in our class while using correct 11 grammar, proper 12 syntax, 13 morphemes, and 14 phonemes. There will be all sorts of 15 transduction and 16 parallel processing happening in our brains as we journey into the world of 17 Psychology. Our 18 hippocampi will be very busy as we 19 encode and find 20 storage for information. New information will undergo 21 assimilation and 22 accommodation in your 23 cognitive schemas. You’ll be asked to 24 recall and 25 retrieve for the AP exam without the use of 26 artificial intelligence or other assistance. Instead you can use 27 elaborative rehearsal techniques such as 28 mnemonics, 29 chunking, 30 imagery, and 31 acronyms to enhance your retention. Even though your 32 hormones may be raging and your 33 neurotransmitters flowing, hopefully no one in our class will be suffering from 34 narcolepsy, 35 sleep apnea, 36 insomnia, 37 night terrors, 38 split brain, or a 39 lobotomy, as that will make 40 learning and studying very difficult to say the least! I can guarantee that this class will test your ideas of what is and is not a 41 norm. I can also guarantee that this class will at times upset you, 42 conditioning you into 43 critical thinking, 44 self-disclosure, and into 45 belief perseverance. At the same time, this class will enlighten you about those of us who may have 46 psychological disorders or 47 intellectual disabilities, and help to remove our 48 fixations (non-Freudian definition here please), 49 functional fixedness, 50 prejudices, and 51 stereotypes. But don’t have a 52 panic attack, even though we enter the world of the abnormal, we head right into 53 therapy to help us solve some problems and may inspire us to be more 54 altruistic. Your 55 creativity will be valued in this class. Your 56 attitude is critical for success and 57 social loafing, slacking, procrastinating, copying or cheating are never good ideas. Working together to pass the AP Exam and the final exam is one of our 58 superordinate goals. By the time you walk into to gym on Monday, May 2, 2016 you will have 59 self-efficacy because you will have learned that if you are confident in your ability to get a 5, you will! So, have a wonderful summer. Keep your 60 neural networks going and be certain to protect your 61 neurons, 62 brainstem, 63 limbic system, and 64 cerebral cortex safe as our brains have only so much 65 plasticity.PART III: ARTICLE REVIEW AND GUIDED REVIEW QUESTIONS Directions: Students will read SIX of the 15 articles on the theme of teens. After reading EACH article, students will analyze the article and complete four guided review questions. The questions must be answered in complete sentences for each of the three articles. The answers must be submitted on a separate page of the same document, with the name of the journal, title of the article, author, and the publication date included at the top of EACH page. 1. Beck, Melinda. "What Cocktail Parties Teach Us." Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company, Inc., 23 Apr. 2012. Web. 18 June 2015. . Dunlosky, John, Katherine Rawson, Elizabeth Marsh, Mitchell Nathan, and Daniel Willingham. "Improving Students' Learning With Effective Learning Techniques: Promising Directions From Cognitive and Educational Psychology." Association for Psychological Science RSS. Sage, 2013. Web. 18 June 2015. (Download full text)3. Gokhale, Anuradha. "Collaborative Learning Enhances Critical Thinking." VirginiaTech. Journal of Technology Education, 1995. Web. 18 June 2015. . Goleman, Dan. "The Sweet Spot for Achievement." Psychology Today. The Brain and Emotional Intelligence, 29 Mar. 2012. Web. 18 June 2015. . Michelon, Pascale. "Brain Plasticity - How Learning Changes Your Brain | SharpBrains." SharpBrains RSS. SharpBrains, 26 Feb. 2008. Web. 18 June 2015. . "Sleep, Learning, and Memory." Sleep, Learning, and Memory. Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School, 18 Dec. 2007. Web. 18 June 2015. . Trei, Lisa. "Fixed versus Growth Intelligence Mindsets: It's All in Your Head, Dweck Says." Fixed versus Growth Intelligence Mindsets: It's All in Your Head, Dweck Says. Stanford University News Service, 7 Feb. 2007. Web. 18 June 2015. . Weimer, Maryellen. "Students Think They Can Multitask. Here's Proof They Can't." Faculty Focus. MAGNA, 26 Sept. 2012. Web. 18 June 2015. . New Insights on College Drinking (American Psychological Association, Oct. 2013) 10. Partying on Facebook May Spur Teens’ Risky Behavior (Psych Central, Sept. 4, 2013) 11. Why the Teen Brain is Drawn to Risk (Time, Oct. 8, 2012) 12. Teens and Risky Behavior: More Complicated than it seems? (Los Angeles Times, Oct. 2, 2012) 13. What Makes Teens Tick (Time, May 10, 2004) 14. Good Parents, Bad Results (U.S. News & World Report, June 12, 2008) 15. Teenager, Friends, and Bad Decisions (New York Times, February 3, 2011) Guided Review Questions (for each of the 6 articles):1. What is the author’s assertion in the article? Please explain your answer. 2. Does the author use research to support his/her claim? If so, describe the research. 3. Which of the 7 Psychological perspectives (Biological, Evolutionary, Psychodynamic, Behavioral, Cognitive, Humanistic, and Socio-Cultural) does this author use to present their case? Please explain your answer. 4. Do you agree with the author’s expressed opinion(s)? Explain why or why not.Personal Inventory:Write 3 or more paragraphs examining the concepts that you will review in the next section (Part IV) and the articles which you have just read. Reflect on your strengths and weaknesses as a learner and formulate specific goals that you can work on as you prepare for the AP Psych exam. You will need to be introspective and honestly examine your behaviors and thought processes. Do not just write fluff here. I want true self-evaluation and specific, personal goals. *This aspect of the project MUST be handwritten in blue/black ink. You man NOT word process this portion. If I cannot read it, I cannot grade it. This is an important skill on the AP examination in May and it is essential that the College Board readers are able to grade our free response essay portion of the exam because it is written legibly. (Submit physically along with the vocabulary flashcards.)PART IV: FREE RESPONSE SECTION Directions: The units we study in psychology are interrelated. In order to have a complete picture of how humans think and behave, we need to examine a topic from multiple perspectives. Below, you will find links to recent research. Please read/watch each of the studies in their entirety. Use the information you gleaned from the resource to answer the following question:Taylor is preparing to take AP Psychology and wants to be successful academically but also wants have fun senior year. College applications, senior activities, and the pressure of a rigorous academic schedule will make the year challenging. Explain how each of the following concepts can help Taylor be academically successful. Please write one paragraph for each of the bulleted terms. Your paragraph should define and explain how the term will help Taylor be academically successful.REM SleepElaborative RehearsalTesting EffectSelf ExplanationDistributed PracticeYerkes-Dodson LawGrowth MindsetBrain PlasticitySelective AttentionCollaborative LearningA rubric with scoring guidelines is provided. PART V: PEOPLE TO KNOWDirections: Using either Wikipedia (good search engine and I personally looked up all of the names listed below and they are all there with all of the information you will need!) or another search engine of your choice, look up each of the names below and complete a bit of research (max. of 3 sentences) about each of these influential psychologists. You may want to create a table/spreadsheet and use the space next to each name to write the information you find. Or you may want to use index cards with the name of the individual on one side and his/her contribution on the flip side.Note that next to some names, I have indicated specifically what you should know about that individual. Name1. Mary Ainsworth (strange situation) 2. Solomon Asch3. Albert Bandura4. Alfred Binet5. Noam Chomsky (language acquisition device)6.Erik Erickson (psychosocial stages of development)7. Sigmund Freud8. Carol Gilligan9. G. Stanley Hall10. Harry Harlow (contact comfort/surrogate mother experiment)11. David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel12. William James (first textbook in psychology)13. Lawrence Kohlberg14. Elizabeth Loftus (misinformation effect)15. Abraham Maslow (hierarchy of needs/humanist)16. Stanley Milgram (obedience)17. Ivan Pavlov (classical conditioning)18. Jean Piaget 19. Carl Rogers (unconditional positive regard/client-centered therapy)20. Stanley Schachter (Two-Factor theory)21. B.F. Skinner (operant conditioning/skinner box)22. John B. Watson (Baby Albert experiment/behaviorism)23. Benjamin Whorf (linguistic relativity hypothesis)24. Wilhelm Wundt25. Philip G. Zimbardo (Stanford Prison Experiment)PART VI. TED Talks Directions: *Below is a list of TED talks relating to various concepts within psychology that we will be discussing throughout the year. From the list, watch SIX videos of your choosing. *After viewing lecture, you will need to write a ONE paragraph summary consisting of at least 10 sentences. *Your summaries must include YOUR opinion of the talk, terms or concepts in which you were interested or had questions, and what perspective of psychology you feel best ties to the TED Talk.Summaries must be typed, double-spaced, 12 font, including the title of the TED Talk as a heading. Please search for the talk in TED using , if the link below does not work.Philip Zimbardo: The Psychology of EvilMartin Seligman: New Era of Positive PsychologyElizabeth Loftus: How Reliable is Your MemorySusan Cain: Power of IntrovertsKeith Barry: Brain MagicTony Robbins: Why We Do What We DoAngela Lee Duckworth: The Key To Success – GritPaul Bloom: Can Prejudice Be a Good ThingAmy Cuddy: Body Language Shapes Who You AreDan Gilbert: Surprise Science of HappinessDaniel Kahneman: The Riddle of Experience vs MemoryPamela Meyer: How To Spot A Liar Ben Ambridge - 10 Myths About Psychology Debunked Shawn Achor: The Happy Secret to Better WorkAdam Grant: The Surprising Habits of Original Thinkers Dan Ariely: Our Buggy Moral Code Beau Lotto: Optical Illusions Show How We See Chid Kidd: The Art of First Impressions – In Design and Life Meaghan Ramsey: Why thinking you’re ugly is bad for you Jon Ronson: Strange Answers to the Psychopath TestPART IA: Vocabulary - Grouping Ideas Rubric – Total Points: max. 35All 19 terms defined19 points (1 for each word)At least 4 groupings created4 pointsGrouping rationales(all or none)12 pointsThorough rationales (above expectations)8 pointsSatisfactory rationales (meets expectations)4 pointsUnsatisfactory rationales (below expectations)COMMENTS:PART IB: Vocabulary - Total Points: max. 65 All 65 terms defined32.5 points (0.5 for each word) Example provided for each term32.5 points (0.5 for each word)COMMENTS:PART III: Article Review & Guided Review Questions Rubric – Total Points: max. 17 x 3On a separate document1 pointJournal name at tope of page1 pointArticle title & author at top of page2 pointsPublication date at top of page1 pointGuided Question #1What is the author’s assertion in the article? Explain your answer.3 pointsThorough response2 pointsSatisfactory response1 pointUnsatisfactory responseGuided Question #2Does the author use research to support his/her claim? If so, describe the research.3 pointsThorough response2 pointsSatisfactory response1 pointUnsatisfactory responseGuided Question #3Which of the 7 psychological perspectives (Biological, Evolutionary, Psychodynamic, Cognitive, Humanistic, and Socio-Cultural) does this author use to present their case? Explain your answer.3 pointsThorough response2 pointsSatisfactory response1 pointUnsatisfactory responseGuided Question #4Do you agree with the author’s expressed opinion(s)? Explain why or why not.3 pointsThorough response2 pointsSatisfactory response1 pointUnsatisfactory responsePART IV: Free Response Section – Total Points: max. 20 Correctly defined the REM Sleep and explained how it will help Taylor be academically successful.2 pointsCorrectly defined the Elaborative Rehearsal and explained how it will help Taylor be academically successful.2 pointsCorrectly defined the Testing Effect and explained how it will help Taylor be academically successful.2 pointsCorrectly defined the Self-Explanation and explained how it will help Taylor be academically successful.2 pointsCorrectly defined the Distributed Practice and explained how it will help Taylor be academically successful.2 pointsCorrectly defined the Yerkes-Dodson Law and explained how it will help Taylor be academically successful.2 pointsCorrectly defined the Growth Mindset and explained how it will help Taylor be academically successful.2 pointsCorrectly defined the Brain Plasticity and explained how it will help Taylor be academically successful.2 pointsCorrectly defined the Selective Attention and explained how it will help Taylor be academically successful.2 pointsCorrectly defined the Collaborative Learning and explained how it will help Taylor be academically successful.2 pointsPART V: People to Know - Total Points: max. 37 All 25 individual identified25 points (1 for each word)Contribution of individual12 pointsThorough contribution identified; succinctly stated (above expectations)8 pointsSatisfactory contribution identified and stated (meets expectations)4 pointsUnsatisfactory contribution identified and stated (below expectations)COMMENTS:PART VI: TED Talks Summary - Total Points: max. 30Summaries for 6 videos5 points3 points1 pointEach summary was one paragraph consisting of a min. of 10 sentences, written in student’s own words.5 pointsThorough response3 pointsSatisfactory response1 pointUnsatisfactory responseSummaries included student’s own opinion.5 pointsThorough response3 pointsSatisfactory response1 pointUnsatisfactory responseSummaries include terms/concepts in which student was interested or had questions.5 pointsThorough response3 pointsSatisfactory response1 pointUnsatisfactory responseSummaries include identified appropriate perspective of psychology discussed in TED Talk.5 pointsThorough response3 pointsSatisfactory response1 pointUnsatisfactory response ................
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