Ap Psych DMA

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Ap Psych DMA

• Describe what hindsight bias is.
• What is the function of dendrites?
• Please write down the questions leave room for
  your answers.

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Todays Agenda

• DMA
• AP Exam
• Review for Final Exam
• Chapter 1 2
• Homework
• Final Exam Friday, Feb. 3rd

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New Review Schedule for final exam

• Everyone needs a copy

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AP Psychology Exam

• May 7th
• Are you on track to pass the AP Exam?
• Grab your progress report
• On chapter tests, you should be earning As or Bs
  to be on-track to pass the AP Exam in the Spring.

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Please make sure that you take notes

• We will be reviewing quickly ?
• Miss something? Download todays file from the
  AP Psych calendar at www.wheelerswiki.pbworks.com

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Chapter 1
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Experimental method

• With a neighbor arrange these in the correct
  order and define each
• Hypothesis
• Replicate
• Operational definition
• Theory
• Double-blind procedure
• Independent variable
• Dependent variable

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Methods of Research, Measures of Central Tendency
Correlation

• Please complete the handout

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Chapter II Neuroscience Behavior

• Everyone needs a copy of the cell diagram the
  labels
• Label the cell
• Double-check your labels
• Clear your diagram label it again.
• Race your neighbor
• Who can label it fastest?

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Chapter II Neuroscience Behavior

• Which direction do the neural impulses/messages
  travel?
• What makes the impulses travel faster?
• What happens if the person has issues with this
  part of their neurons?

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The Nervous System
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The Nervous System

• Reflex
• a simple, automatic, inborn response to a sensory
  stimulus
• What are neurotransmitters?
• What neurotransmitter does opiates mimic?

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Neural Communication
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Chapter II Neuroscience Behavior

• Thalamus
• Relays sensory information
• Acts as a center for pain perception

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Brain Structures

• Hypothalamus
• pleasure center
• neural structure lying below (hypo) the thalamus
  directs several maintenance activities
• eating
• drinking
• body temperature
• helps govern the endocrine system via the
  pituitary gland
• is linked to emotion

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The Cerebral Cortex

• Motor Cortex
• area at the rear of the frontal lobes that
  controls voluntary movements
• Sensory Cortex
• area at the front of the parietal lobes that
  registers and processes body sensations

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Brain Regions

• Sequence these from oldest to newest
• Brainstem
• Limbic system
• Cerebral cortex
• Hint look on pages 72-76 in the textbook.

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Brain Regions

• Sequence these from oldest to newest
• Brainstem
• Limbic system
• Cerebral cortex
• Hint look on pages 72-76 in the textbook.
• Answer brainstem, limbic system, cerebral cortex

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Prepping for the Quiz

• Option 1
• Begin to reread chapters 1 2
• Option 2
• Grab a book
• With a neighbor, open to chapters 1 2.
• Quiz each other on the information in those
  chapters.