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Last updated: November 10, 2009

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Assignment Help
(no chapter)
Basic structure for answering exam questions
Asking Good Questions
(no chapter)
Bingo sheet with criteria for good questions
Mother-Father Deaf excerpt, page 1, page 2
notes
examples by other students
Examples from Fall 2008
Exam Review
Learning Styles
(no chapter)
Learning Styles handout
How each style can help our class
Style 2 - Help to survive my Style 4 teaching
Example of "teach something to each of 4 learning styles" - science
Example of "teach something to each of 4 learning styles" - swimming

Examples of topics broken down by style:
Research Methods (Ch 1)
Neuron and Synapse (Ch 2)
Development - Piaget (Ch 4)
States of Consciousness (Ch 7)
Classical Conditioning (Ch 8)
Operant Conditioning (Ch 8)
Emotions (Ch 13)
Personality (Ch 15)
Psychological Disorders (Ch 16)

Exam Review
Introduction
(Chapter 1)
Exam Review
Research Methods
(Chapter 1)
Handout on operational definition and process of developing a scale
Procrastination scale with dimensions, from in-class activity
Anxiety scale shown on overhead (dimensions are across the top)
Research Methods (Ch 1) by Learning Style
Types of studies overhead
Types of Studies Worksheet
Human Subjects Issues
Exam Review
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Biology - Brain Areas
(Chapter 2)
Brain areas worksheet
Harvard Whole Brain Atlas
     Here are links to specific brain structures
Example of system of brain areas - someone waves, you wave back
Brain researcher has stroke - what an opportunity (good Left-Right Hemisphere)

Brain image slides:
Movie of MRIs, botttom of brain to top
Stroke, to show a focal lesion - TBI often more spread out.
3 brain joke, 3 parts of the brain
3 brains, 3 parts of the brain
3 brains, 3 parts of the brain, another view
new brain / cortex - left and right brain - language and music
new brain / cortex - hear, see, speak, think
new brain / cortex - novel task,change over time, then changed - shows many different areas involved in thinking
new brain / cortex - meaning vs syllabus - it takes a lot to think
new brain / cortex - attention - shows many different areas involved in attending
the brain areas between mid and new brains - the next wave (ADHD)
the brain areas between mid and new brains - the next wave, 2 (ADHD)

Mapping the Mind - page numbers: has great pictures
Brain areas examples
3-D Brain Model Tutorial
Class exercise on activities

Washington Univ's brain tutorial

Video: Alive Day, Audio-visual Puyallup. Ask at Circulation Desk, Call Number: DS79.76 .A3924 2007

Story excerpts from Mason, Michael Paul. (2008). Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injury and its Aftermath. New York: Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux. Available in our library.

Success story from: Veterans Health Initiative. (2004, Jan). Traumatic Brain Injury: Independent Study Course.. Department of Veterans Affairs. I have a copy.

TBI primer: Taber, K., Warden, D., & Hurley, R. (2006). Traumatic Brain Injury: What is Known. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience. 18:2, p. 141-145.

Mason on good treatment:2, p. 141-145.

Exam Review
Biology - Neuron & Synapse
(Chapter 2)

Neuron and Synapse (Ch 2) by Learning Style
Effects of Drugs
Picture of Neuron
Exam Review
Therapy Medications Exam Review
Learning - Operant Conditioning
(Chapter 4)

Operant Conditioning (Ch 8) by Learning Style, includes basic model, types of reinforcers, issues in application, complexities
Exam Review
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Learning - Classical Conditioning
(Chapter 4)
Basic Model and terms
2 basic slide pics
3 Generalized_CS_LilAlbert
4 Experience of flashback and stim gen
5 Classical Conditioning Ð applying to real life
6 Break apart the CS
7 Classical Cond Iraq vet
8 Systematic Desens and Stimulus Hierarchy
8a systematic_desensit_spider_catvet
Classical Conditioning worksheet
Classical Conditioning (Ch 8) by Learning Style, includes handout
Exam Review
Memory
(Chapter 5)
Chunking music - Twinkle - Bach
Functions of a Schema
Memory Model overhead
Memory Model overhead with forgetting
Chunking definition and aspects
Chunking demonstration
Schemas - real life examples
Process thru Sensory - STM - LTM model, first time, when studying
Process thru Sensory - STM - LTM model, when recalling
How do experts chunk differently than novices?
Chunking music - Twinkle - handout with answers scribbled on
Types of Long Term Memory
Schema of a princess story (sometimes covered in stereotypes section)
Reconstructed memory example - cues it may be a false memory
Reconstructed memory example - Titus & van Roper
Memory Exercise - rehearse regulary
Memory Exercise answers
John & Mary's Date activity
Exam Review
Development -
Piaget and
Gender Schema Theory
(Chapter 7)
Definitions of Schema, Accommodate, etc.
Functions of a Schema
Blood! video - disequilibration in Pre-Operational Stage
Funny kids video - sensori-motor schemas gone wrong
Development - Piaget (Ch 4) by Learning Style
Interesting demonstrations of Piaget's stages
Student Work - Q & A
Description of Racial Identity stages, with examples
Exam Review
Personality
(Ch 8)
Caring for Your Introvert
Big 5 Traits - take it here
Take Keirsey Temperament sorter, a version of the Myers-Briggs
Personality (Ch 15) by Learning Style
Definition of Personality
Novel Excerpts and directions
      Directions - questions for each perspective of personality
      Excerpt of "Very Good, Jeeves" - not the whole story!
      Excerpts of "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents"
            from Ch. 1: Yolanda's perspective
            from Ch. 2: Her Sister Sophia's perspective
Examples of Student work with these and other stories
Example of Cultural Perspective
Perspectives Exercise
Exam Review
Social - Helping, Obedience and
Conformity
(Chapter 9)
Helping Behavior Questions - Car Example
Helping Behavior Questions - Obvious and Subtle Factors
Helping Behavior - list of Youtube connections
Factors of Obedience and Conformity
Social - Prejudice et al
(Chapter 9)
Examples of Stereotype, Prejudice, etc
Definitions of Schema, Accommodate, etc.
Functions of a Schema
Types of Long Term Memory
Schema of a princess story
Schemas - real life examples
List of Functional Inferences (townspeople vs. monsters)
Map of nooses after Jena
Processes of Discrimination
List of dominant and non-dominant groups
Implicit Attitudes Test, if that doesn't work, try this link
Social - Attributions
(Chapter 9)
Attributions Exercise
Cute Attribution example
Implicit Attitudes Test, if that doesn't work, try this link
Comparing Visual & Social Perception
Exam Review
Disorders
Schizophrenia
(Chapter 10)
/ Criteria for schizophrenia
Ken Steele story of schizophrenia, excerpts
UCLA imaging of schizophrenia, with explanation
Exam Review
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Disorders
Depression
(Chapter 10)
Psychological Disorders (Ch 16) by Learning Style
Prof. Link - mini lecture on general criteria with slides
Criteria kid
Scale of response
General criteria
Example criteria for schizophrenia
Example criteria for mood disorders
More Criteria for mood disorders
My name is ... The student using Prozac - whole story
Stories on Depression for Exam:
Meri nana-Ama Danquah, Willow Weep for Me (excerpt)
Mairs in Nell Casey, Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression (excerpt)
Susannah Kaysen, Girl Interrupted (excerpt)
William Styron, Darkness visible (excerpt, 1 page)
Exam Review
Disorders
Anxiety
(Chapter 10)
Criteria for anxiety disorders
PTSD - flashback and stimulus generalization
PTSD - reintegrating memory
PTSD - warning signs, etc., from Army
PTSD - the nature of triggers and examples from current wars
Case on PTSD for Exam:
PTSD Case - Sophia
Other cases:
Case study directions
      First Case: Karen
      Second Case : Deborah
Exam Review
Cognitive Therapy
(Chapter 10)
Panic Attacks, Multiple Kinds of Therapy
Cognitive Therapy Handout
5 pages: ABCs, Cog triad, Irrational/Rational, Ex Carnes, Ex Paranoid
Video of Cognitive Therapy Client
RET examples
Exam Review
Therapy & Active Listening
(Chapter 10)
Exam Review
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States of Consciousness
(Chapter ?)

States of Consciousness (Ch 7) by Learning Style, includes handout
Student work on altered states.
Exam Review
Language Exam Review
Emotion
(Chapter 13)


Emotions (Ch 13) by Learning Style
Picture of facial muscles - operational definition of expression 
Description of 2 different ways of being -- particularly good example of describing cognitive part
Examples - describing emotions by parts
Examples of variations of facial expressions - early attempts to catalogue emotions. Which ones would you expect to be universal?
Info on Darwin and universal emotions

Exam Review
Communication Exam Review