FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: How are you preparing for your tests? Take this quick survey.

Valentines Day is coming - Know who your "Special Friend" is to make a Valentine/affirmation card to give to them on Valentines Day

• Make a valentine that incorporates a theme from psychology
• It may be humorous but please keep it in good taste. See some examples here.

LEARNING TARGETS:

• How is Piaget's Cognitive Development theory similar to motor and language development theories?
• What does Piaget believe about how babies develop their cognitive abilities.
• How do we know when a baby is knowing the difference between what is normal and what is not normal?
• What is meant by the term object permanence and how do we measure it in babies?

AGENDA:

• How old are you? Have some fun checking out how many days old you are - you may be surprised. :)
  
  
• Module 3.4-1: Infancy & Childhood: Cognitive Development (Virtual Lecture watch up to 20:00)
  • Flip It! Schemas, Assimilation & Accomodation (4 min)
  • Piaget's Sensorimotor Stage:
    • The Baby Human DVD- Sensory-Motor Stage - Face Schemas & Learning through the senses (0:00-4:00) - (On DVD: Face Schemas: 1:30-4:47)
    • Object Permanence - Worth Digital DVD Segment 15 (1:10)
    • Lacking Object Permancence - Clip from Family Guy (start at :33)
    • The Baby Human DVD:  To Think: – Renee Baillargeon et al studies of infant reactions to impossible situations
    • Chapter 2 – Sensorimotor Stage/Object Permanence - Baby Human video
      • Object Permanence in Infants: 0:00-3:05 (DVD: 8:20-11:07)
      • *Search for Hidden Objects: 3:05-7:24 (DVD: 11:07-15:44)

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Finish reading & taking notes on Module 3.4: Cognitive Development Across the Lifespan (pg. 354-362). Use the study outline in Google Classroom to help you. Due WEDNESDAY.

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

• Don't forget to make your Psych Related Valentine - DUE FRIDAY!

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: View The Magic Years:  Segment 25 of Scientific American Frontiers DVD (12 min.)

• Kids give their explanations for the tricks of magic shows.
• Renee Baillargeon studies with infants and impossible situation

LEARNING TARGETS:

• Name & describe the abilities of children at each of Piaget's 4 stages of cognitive development.
• What major cognitive developments separate sensorimotor from preoperational from concrete operational from formal operational stages of cognitive development?
• What is the difference between centration, ego centrism, conservation, irreversability and what stages are they found in?
• What are the criticisms of Piaget's theory?

AGENDA:

• Module 3.4-1: Infancy & Childhood: Cognitive Development (Virtual Lecture watch 20:00-37:15)
  • Chapter 2 – Sensorimotor Stage/Object Permanence - Baby Human video
    • *Search for Hidden Objects: 3:05-7:24 (DVD: 11:07-15:44)
    • Impossible Situations: 8:20-10:19 (DVD: 16:40-21:20)
  • Do babies unders the concepts of math and physics?
    • Baby Physics & Math - The Baby Human (6:19)
      • Baby Physics – Infants look longer at unexpected events like a car passing through a solid object - 1 min. (Baby Human 0:00-2:45)
      • Baby Math – When a baby is shown 2 figures and a figure is visibly removed but there remains 2 figures, the baby stares longer as if “knowing” something is wrong - 1 min. (Baby Human 2:45-6:19)
  • Piaget Preoperational Tasks:
    • When do children start to understand that others don't know what they know?
    • PreOperational Stage - Cognitive Limitations of the Three Year-Old Mind – Centration, Egocentrism, Irreversibility
      • Piaget Conservation & Irreversability Tasks:
        • Examples of classical conservation tests (3 min)
        • Conservation Demonstrations with 4 Year Old Madelyn (6 min)
        • The Portenga Experiments (11 min)

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Finish reading & taking notes on Module 3.4: Cognitive Development Across the Lifespan (pg. 354-362). Use the study outline in Google Classroom to help you. Due TOMORROW.

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read & take notes on Module 3.5: Communication & Language Development (pg. 363-373). Use the study outline in Google Classroom to help you. Due TOMORROW.
• Don't forget to make your Psych Related Valentine - DUE FRIDAY!
  

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: Piaget's Stages through Video Examples (4 min)

LEARNING TARGETS:

• Explain what is meant by egocentrism and the theory of the mind.
• What separates Concrete Operations from Formal Operations?
• What are the criticisms of Piaget's theory?

AGENDA:

• Module 4.1: Infancy & Childhood: Cognitive Development (Virtual Lecture watch 37:15 to END)
  • Overcoming Irreversibility and Theory of the Mind:
    • View Changing Minds: Segment 26 of Scientific American Frontiers DVD (12 min.) (online - It's a Kid's World: 31:50-43:00)
      • How would Mean Monkey work with Madelyn (age 5) and Nolan (age 2)?
      • How about Rude Rufus with Madelyn (age 8), Nolan (age 5), Evelyn (age 3)?
  • Piaget Concrete Operations:
    • What would happen if you really were stuck in the concrete operations stages and took everything literally?
      • The Symphony of Slang Cartoon (7 min)
  • Piaget Formal Operations:
    • Hypotheticals: “One Leg Scenario:  How would a person walk with one leg?” – a demo of formal operations
      
      
• Video Reviews:
  • Piaget's Stages through Video Examples (4 min)
  • Crash Course # 18:  The Growth of Knowledge
• 0:00  Introduction to Cognitive Development
• 1:25  Maturation - Inherent Genetic Growth Tendencies
• 1:50  Jean Piaget
• 2:44  Schemas, Cognitive Equilibrium, Assimilation & Accommodation
• 3:40  Piaget’s Stage Theory of Cognitive Development - Sensorimotor Stage
• 4:40  Preoperational Stage
• 6:40  Concrete Operational Stage
• 7:10  Formal Operational Stage
• 7:20  Criticisms of Piaget’s Theory
• 7:50  Vygotsky’s Theory

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read & take notes on Module 3.5: Communication & Language Development (pg. 363-373). Use the study outline in Google Classroom to help you. Due TOMORROW.

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

• Don't forget to make your Psych Related Valentine - DUE FRIDAY!
  

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: Is language predominantly nature driven or nurture driven in its development?

LEARNING TARGETS:

• Describe Lev Vygotsky's Theory of Development & explain how it is different from Piaget's?
• Explain how we acquire language, and explain the concept of universal grammar. Who does it support... Skinner or Chomsky?
• Name & explain the major characteristics of Language as discussed in your book.
• What evidence is there to support Chomsky's claim that language aquisition is biological/nature driven?

AGENDA:

• Module 3.4-1: Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory of Cognitive Development - (Virtual Lecture
  • What is the Zone of Proximal Development? Learning through Interaction with Others
• Module 3.5: Communication & Language Development: (Virtual Lecture watch up to 17:55)
  • Infant Speech Discrimination (3 min) - How babies learn the sounds of their language
  • If Time Allows: TED Talk: How Babies Learn One Language Over Another (10 min)
    • Is there a critical period for learning language or being bilingual?
    • How do babies use statistics to learn the sounds of a language?
    • What is the role of humans in early language development? Can you learn it through simply listening to language or viewing speakers on a screen?
  • Adorable Example of Babbling
  • Chomsky's Universal Language (3 min)- Why are languages so similar?
  • Wug Test - shows universal grammer application
  • Born to Talk (6 min)
    • What does grammar show us about the nature or nurture argument as it pertains to language?
      
      
• NEED TO REVIEW LANGUAGE? TRY THESE!
  • Flip It! The Basics of Language (5 min)
  • What happens when we read? Quick video clip from Secret Life of the Brain (click on The Center of Language)
  • Review Language using PsychInquiry Demos:  Bilingualism
  • Review key concepts on your own using Active Psych Interactive PowerPoint Demos:  Language Development
• Extend Your Learning: Does thinking affect language or is it the other way around?
  • Radiolab: Lost & Found  (minutes 32:00-36:05) This clip is great to explain the idea of Linguistic Relativism.
    • How would having a language that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right change your thinking and experience of the world?

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Don't forget to make your Psych Related Valentine - DUE TOMORROW!
• Read & take notes on Module 3.6a: Social-Emotional Development in Infancy & Childhood (pg. 374-378) for WEDNESDAY. (Finish the module for THURSDAY 378-385)
• Complete your Bandura Practice AAQ Question Google Form to get practice on one of the types of AP Essays. Found in our Google Classroom. - DUE WEDNESDAY.

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

• EXTRA CREDIT: Complete the Podcast Summary Sheet on the following. (+1 each - maximum of 2). - You can create your own NY Times account using the school's access - Go to https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/digitalpass and using your school email, set up an account.
• TED Talk: How Babies Learn One Language Over Another (10 min)
• Words that Changed the World - A teacher's breakthrough with a deaf adult who grew up with no language
• A World without Words- A neurologist's story Jill Bolte Taylor discusses about her brain injury that left her without any language or "brain chatter"
  
• New Words, New World - A summary of a longitudinal research project with an isolated group of deaf children in Nicaragua who developed their own language while researchers watched!
• Quick Saaaaand! - How a word useage can influence what we fear.
• Mr. Bliss - Could the world be a better place if we just changed our language?
• 60 Words - How 60 legal words changed the way the U.S. goes into conflicts and conducts the war against terror.
• Home is where your dolphin is - Can people teach dolphins to talk?
• What do Dolphins Talk About?
• Wild Talk - Exploring Animal Language
• Listen to any one of the following TED Talks on language and write a summary of it and what you found interesting and why? Or try this one on Could Your Language Affect Your Ability to Save? (10 min)
• Voices in Your Head - Can children think before they have words? (14 min)
• Mr. Bliss - Can language change the way we think?
• Vanishing Words - Is there a correlation between one's vocabulary in writing and the development of Alzheimer's Disease?
• Article: Monkeys Could Talk but they Don't have the Brains for it.
• NY Times Article: American Sign Language Reveals Wordplay Beyond Sound

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION:

Valentines Day is TODAY! - Time to give your Psych Related Valentine to your "Special Friend!"

LEARNING TARGETS:

• Explain the natural progression of language development (language stages) found across all cultures.
• What is meant when we say there is a critical period in language development?
• Which areas of the brain are used in language production?
• Define the linguistic relativity hypothesis. Has it been proven?
• Does language determine thinking or is it the other way around?

AGENDA:

• Finish Module 3.5: Communication & Language Development: (Virtual Lecture watch from 17:55 to END)
• Critical periods for language: Is it true?
  • Genie Wiley - The Wild Child TLC documentary (10 min)
    • As you watch the video, ask yourself if what Genie and other feral children learned was language or do they fall short of our definition?
    • Does this prove there is a critical period for language?
  • Does language determine thinking or is it the other way around?

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read & take notes on Module 3.6a: Social-Emotional Development in Infancy & Childhood (pg. 374-378) for WEDNESDAY.
• Complete your Bandura Practice AAQ Question Google Form to get practice on one of the types of AP Essays. Found in our Google Classroom. - DUE WEDNESDAY.

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

• Finish reading & taking notes on Module 3.6a: Social-Emotional Development (pg. 378-385) for THURSDAY.
  
  
• Want to learn more about feral children case studies?
  • Watch Wild Child: The Story of Feral Children (43 min documentary) for more information on the critical period for language and the case of Genie (feel free to watch entire doc if your interested):
    • (21:30-23:20)- Chomsky's nativist theory and the Lenneberg's critical period explained. - (Chapter 4 on DVD: 2:00-3:20)
    • (33:20-36:57) - Actual video of Genie's language development & role playing. (Chapter 4 on DVD: 14:20-18:00)
    • (46:11-47:26)- End Results of Genie's language development. - (Chapter 5 on DVD: 8:40-10:00)
  • Interested to see more on Feral Children? Check out this additional documentary (47 min)