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Psychology Common Core RST.11-12.1 resources
Sleeping in Class Activity: Stages of Sleep, Psychology, & The Enchanted City
Is your psychology class ready to learn about sleep by actually sleeping? What if I told you that one of my best lessons is an activity that allows my students to fall asleep in class. Guess what? It's true! Although sleeping appears to be disengaging, this lesson is quite the opposite. It has become a student favorite as they are completely engaged and will never forget their sleeping activity in psychology class! This Enchanted City: Sleeping Activity is a must use lesson for all psychology
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PSYCHOLOGY: Psychological Disorders Research Project | Google Classroom Ready
Looking for an engaging project to add to your unit on Psychological Disorders? Students can use this rubric guide to research, write, and present information on a psychological disorder of their choosing. This is an excellent project for a psychology class or any course discussing mental health and mental illness. You may assign students to present in any format desired: Google Slides, PowerPoint, Prezi, research paper, etc. A student instruction guide, teacher rubric, and a few helpful webs
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Psychology Pack: Dream Theories, Journaling & Analysis (Critical Thinking)
This is a complete packet to fully invite students to not only learn about the historical perspectives and theories on dreaming, but to record their own dreams and synthesize that knowledge and application by writing a critical thinking response to their dream(s). This 12-page PDF includes dream theories from antiquity, Freud's psychoanalytic theory on dreaming (with discussion of the id, ego, and superego), as well as Carl Jung's perspective on dreams, grown out of and developed from his one-ti
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Psychology: Defense Mechanisms & Avoiding Stress
Teach your psychology class about defense mechanisms with this content-rich, mini lesson. Sigmund Freud believed that in order to deal with conflict in life, an individual’s ego puts up various defense mechanisms to ward off undesired stress. So what are the various tactics that we as individuals use to avoid conflict and undesired scenarios? This lessons is definitely “on-point” and will give your class the important understandings of the 8 major defense mechanisms. The best part is that th
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Child Development: Ethics/Genetics Testing Informational Article Analysis
Polished, graphic, 2-page 2014 PDF! Focuses on student reading and critical analysis of a hot Child Development / Psychology topic: genetics testing -- especially pre-natal genetics testing. From the preview, you may note details on the Human Genome Project as well as relevant dates in the last twenty+ years indicating advancements and legal determinations in regard to such genetic testing. The PDF invites students to work as a whole class as well as an invvitation to partner work, diagramming t
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Psychology PPT: Infancy/Child Development ~ Piaget, Kohlberg + More!
Here we have a near-100 slide, detailed MS 2013 Powerpoint slideshow to introduce a Psychology unit (in Psych I or II -- AP Psych, too) on Child Development: Infancy and Childhood, including:
a.) theories on nature/nurture
b.) parenting styles
c.) attachment styles
d.) maturation processes
e.) twin studies
f.) role(s) of mother/father
g.) single parent families/divorce/working mother families
h.) language development
i.) Piaget - in depth
j.) Kohlberg - in depth
k.) sibling / birth order
l.) mu
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Psychology PPT: Consciousness/Sleep Stages with Analytic Activities
This is a 14-slide, newly revised MS 2013 PowerPoint presentation including:
a.) Introduction to consciousness
b.) Various stages of consciousness identified (controlled processes; automatic processes; daydreaming; altered states; sleep and dreams; unconscious/implicit memory - Freud)
c.) Sleep cycle
d.) Review of REM sleep, including dreaming
e.) Relevant graphics
f.) Custom transitions between slides
g.) Custom animations within slides
h.) Engaging student-focused reflective questions/activit
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Psychology: Classical & Operant Conditioning PPT + Analytic Activities!
This is a detailed, updated and graphic MS 2013 PowerPoint to be utilized in a unit on Learning in Psych I/II or AP Psych, focused on the distinctions between two powerful learning theories: classical and operant conditioning.
With this newly revised 12-slide PPT, you're purchasing:
a.) detailed information, beginning with focused learning goals
b.) custom graphics
c.) custom transitions between slides
d.) custom animations within slides
e.) introduction and description to classical conditioni
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Psychology: Split Brain Theory ~ Informational Text Critical Thinking Activity
This is a polished, graphic, new, single page 2013 PDF for critical thinking analysis of a 1998 article in Scientific American on the arguments and science behind left vs. right brain or brain lateralization. The question set could be addressed individually by students, in small collaborative groups, or as a whole group Q and A discussion to inspire problem-solving and critical thinking on a timely, hot topic in contemporary Psych/brain studies.
I have found this to be a highly thought-provokin
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Psychology: Personality Theory PPT ~ Psychoanalysis, Behaviorism, Humanism
Introductory PowerPoint for a Personality unit in Psychology course. Highly detailed, graphic and accurate 49-slide 2013 presentation and introduction to the following seven theories on personality development: Freudian Psychoanalytic theory; Behaviorism; Humanism; Trait Theory; BioPsychological theory; Evolutionary Psychology theory; Type Theory.
With this extensive 49-slide, at least 2 full class periods presentation, you get:
a.) Learning Targets
b.) Highly detailed, accurate information p
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Psychology PPT: Motivation Theories, Including Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
This is a newly revised, polished and graphic MS 2013 11-slide presentation for students to further understand how motivation works in psychological terms. Here, you'll present information in detail about human emotions -- cross-culturally, too, and Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, which shifted Psychology's focus on motivation in a unique way.
Students will invited to apply their understanding of motivation theories as they reflect upon their own intentions and self-actualization, as the PPT culm
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Your Brain Series, PBS Nova Viewing Guides
Both episodes from PBS Nova's Your Brain series. Episode 1: Perception Deception, Episode 2: Who's in Control?Viewing guides are fill-in-the-blank, followed by reflective short answers that can be used to generate a T-P-S activity or a group discussion following the video. Both PBS episodes are available for free on YouTube.
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9th - 12th
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Your Brain: Who's in Control? PBS Nova Viewing Guide
Fill-in-the-blank and short answer viewing guide for PBS Nova video Your Brain: Who's in Control? Product comes with a two page worksheet, modified copy with word bank, and an answer key. The questions follow the video in order and can be used as a lesson plan for a sub, part of a psych/soc lesson, or as part of an anatomy and physiology/biology class.
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Your Brain Series, PBS Nova Viewing Guides
The Rise and Fall of the Asylum, PBS Mysteries of Mental Illness
Fill-in-the-blank and short answer viewing guide for PBS Mysteries of Mental Illness video The Rise and Fall of the Asylum. Product comes with a two page worksheet, modified copy with word bank, and an answer key. The questions follow the video in order and can be used as a lesson plan for a sub, part of a psychology or sociology lesson, or as part of an anatomy and physiology/biology class.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Your Brain: Perception Deception, PBS Nova Viewing Guide
Fill-in-the-blank and short answer viewing guide for PBS Nova video Your Brain: Perception Deception. Product comes with a standard two-sided worksheet, a modified copy with a word bank, and an answer key. The viewing guide follows the video in order, and the short answer questions on page two can be used as the base for a class discussion or a T-P-S activity. This product is great for psychology, anatomy and physiology, biology, and sociology classes, as well as life science classes!
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Your Brain Series, PBS Nova Viewing Guides
Psychology: Daydreaming ~ Critical Thinking Informational Article Analysis
This is a polished, graphic, new, single page 2013 PDF for critical thinking analysis of a 2009 Psychology Today article on the function(s) of daydreaming in our lives, its benefits, and much more! These questions could be addressed individually by students, in small collaborative groups, or as a whole group Q and A discussion to inspire problem-solving and critical thinking on a timely, hot topic in contemporary Psych/consciousness studies.
I have found this to be a highly thought-provoking an
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Eugenics Crusade, PBS American Experience Viewing Guide
This fill-in-the-blank and short answer viewing guide follows the American Experience documentary The Eugenics Crusade and the story of science and society in the early 1900s. The questions follow the film chronologically and culminates in two short answer reflection questions. This product can be used as part of a sociology class, psychology class, anatomy and physiology class, or other humanities class. You can also use this as the starting point for a larger lesson on ethics, medicine, govern
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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AWARE Glimpse of Consciousness PBS Viewing Guide
Fill-in-the-blank and short answer viewing guide for PBS AWARE Glimpse of Consciousness documentary. Product comes with a two page worksheet, modified copy with word bank, and an answer key. The questions follow the video in order and can be used as a lesson plan for a sub, part of a psychology or sociology lesson, or as part of an anatomy and physiology/biology class. This can be the foundation for a group discussion or Socratic seminar on consciousness from a psychological, biological, anatomi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Psychology: Fight or Flight Response w/Critical Thinking PowerPoint
This is a 2013 MS PowerPoint slide presentation, which could easily be reproducible as handouts, on the fight or flight response. You may use thisin a Psych I or II unit on the physiological response of fight vs. flight, and include the final slide activity I have written and presented here, OR countless others of your own choosing. This is an interactive, highly graphic and colorful cohesive set of slides with custom animation and transitions for concise student viewing and lesson application.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Psychology: Cognition/Learning Theories ~ Concise & Interactive PPT
This is an introductory MS 2013 PowerPoint to be utilized in a unit on Cognition/Learning in Psych I/II or AP Psych. Here you will present students with learning theories in detail, including:
a.) graphics
b.) custom animations
c.) slide transitions
d.) definitions on learning and cognition
e.) Bandura's theory on learning
f.) instinct theory
g.) examples with each theory for application/evaluation
h.) motor skills/development theory
i.) a culminating activity to conclude the 7 slides for stude
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Holden Caulfield Hospital Intake Form
The day after his breakdown in Chapter 26 of Catcher in the Rye, Holden is admitted to prestigious Shady Pines Psychiatric Center. Students can assume the roles of doctor and patient by answering an intake form in the voice of Holden. They will then learn about mental illnesses and research diagnoses and treatments using real-world approaches and references.Perfect for upper-level literature, AP Literature or psychology courses
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Critical Thinking: Parts 1-Basic Skills; 2-Mass Culture; 3-Ethical Decisions
Although I have taught Critical Thinking as a stand-alone course for several years, it was during my teaching of the Communication and Mass Media course at Albertus Magnus College that I first combined the two concepts of Critical Thinking, and Mass Media. My course was widely praised by students.
It soon occurred to me that it was possible to expand the concepts of Critical Thinking from Mass Media to the more general topics of critical thinking and mass culture. As I began exploring this con
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Info. Text Analysis/Critical Thinking Activity - Psychology Today (Common Core)
This is a polished, newly updated 2013 PDF of a 5-page article originally published in the March 2006 edition of Psychology Today, followed by original, critical-thinking and text-based informational reading questions for students: you may use the questions to stimulate dialogue and further problem-solving, critical thinking, and collaboration on a timely, hot topic in contemporary Psychology.
Students will be encouraged to apply their learning from this article to their own lives: in this way,
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Psychologist SPEED Dates
This is a super fun activity that gives students the opportunity to learn about different psychologists and dig deeper into their theories. The students are given a psychologist to research. They create a "dating profile" on a poster board, then "speed date" each other during the class activity.Included:Instruction Sheet for students and teacherGraphic organizer (with guiding questions) for the activity
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10th - 12th
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