Weekly Assignments

CHAPTER 1 : What is Psychology
Chapter Check-up,
Terms: behaviorism, conditioning, control group, double-blind experiment, humanist psychology, psychoanalysis, self-actualization,
Exploring Concepts: #3
Hand-On activities: #1
Walk in the Forest

CHAPTER 2: Consciousness
Chapter Check-up:
Terms: latent/manifest content of dreams, lucid dreaming, consciousness, gestalt, hypnosis
Exploring Concepts: #3,
Hands-On activities: #4. Dream Journals. If you don't remember dreams, substitute surrealistic poems or collages. Analyze theses according to the 5 step procedure.

CHAPTER 3: The Brain and Behavior
Chapter Check-up
Terms: the eight senses
Exploring Concepts: #2
Hands-On activities: #1 Student Sample, another sample, #4, and #5

CHAPTER 4: The Child Grows Up
Chapter Check-up
Terms: conservation, genetic screening, recessive genes, sex roles, socialization
Exploring Concepts: #5
Hands-On activities: #5 Cover at least 5 values.

CHAPTER 5: The Adolescent Searches for Identity
Chapter Check-up
Chapter Check-up
Terms: generation gap, impulse control, rites of passage.
Look at page 147. Describe four people you know, one for each
of the 4 types. Report a telling incident about each person.
Exploring Concepts: #2
Hand-On activities: #2 or #3 (write down what they say)


CHAPTER 6: Freud's Theory of Personality
Chapter Check-up
Terms: the defense mechanisms, id, ego, superego
Exporing Concepts: #6, Which defense mechanisms do you use most frequently?
Hand-On activities: #4 Student sample; or #5,

CHAPTER 7: Personality Theory Since Freud
Chapter Check-up
Terms: archetypes. Conditioning, introversion, extroversion, peak experience, self, shadow,
Exploring Concepts: #4 or #5
Hand-On activities: #2 or #5 Student Sample.