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2022-2023 IBSL psychology syllabus Unit 2 - Cognitive perspective - outline Unit 2 - Cognitive perspective - presentation Unit 2 - Cognitive perspective - Exam questions

Week of November 29

Date	Agenda	Homework
Monday	Lecture/discusion - Theories of emotion
Tuesday	Final exam preparation sheet Lecture/discussion - Flashbulb memory 1
Wednesday	Lecture/discussion - Flashbulb memory 2
Thursday	Substitute Students should work either on completing the APCL for the cognitive unit or can start building outlines for the essays on the final exam. Students are familiar with both of these tasks, as they are ongoing. The textbook is available on the website.
Friday	Study review 1 Outline of key studies Approaches to the final exam essays (handout)

Week of November 15

Date	Agenda	Homework
Monday	Lecture/discussion - System 1 and system 2 thinking and heuristics Reading and APCL Time (2.6)	Quiz 2.6 - Friday
Tuesday	Lecture/discussion - Heuristics continued	Quiz 2.6 - Friday
Wednesday	SGD - Confirmation bias Lord, Ross and Lepper (1979)	Quiz 2.6 - Friday
Thursday	Lecture/discussion - Illusory correlation and cognitive dissonance	Quiz 2.6 - Friday
Friday	Quiz 2.6 IA conversation

Week of November 7

Date	Agenda	Homework
Monday	Finish Satan goes to Washington video Discusion of video and created memories	Read and annotate (double annotation) Kahneman article - due Wedneday
Tuesday	Draft precis/review return and general comments for each study Reading time - Kahneman	Read and annotate (double annotation) Kahneman article - due Wedneday; Final draft of precis and review - due Tuesday, November 15
Wednesday	Kahneman SGD/lecture-discussion
Thursday	Kahneman SGD/lecture-discussion
Friday	Veteran's day - No School

Week of October 31

Date	Agenda	Homework
Monday	Loftus+ Picking Cotton small group discussion	Quiz 2.5 - Friday
Tuesday	Substitute Read Popov pp. 160-167. Define all terms from section five of the unit outline and complete APVL for all studies listed	Quiz 2.5 - Friday
Wednesday	APCL Format and example Lecture/discussion - Reconstructive memory	Quiz 2.5 - Friday; Draft return - Monday, November 7 Final draft due - Monday November 14
Thursday	Lecture/discussion - Reconstructive memory	Quiz 2.5 - Friday
Friday	Quiz 2.5 Case study on the unreliability of memory and its real life impacts - Paul Ingram and the Satanic Panic of the 1980s (The video is unrated but refers to sensitive topics.) Links to additional material on this case: Loftus and Ketcham - The Myth of Repressed Memory (1996)- links to Google books only some of the book is readable through this link "Speaking of the devil" - article on the Ingrahm case in Newsweeek, 1994

Week of October 24

Date	Agenda	Homework
Monday	No School - Parent conferences	Read and complete APCL on section 2.4 - best practice date October 28; Quiz 2.4 - Friday
Tuesday	Lecture/discussion - Models of decision making:the theory of reasoned action	Read and complete APCL on section 2.4 - best practice date October 28; Quiz 2.4 - Friday
Wednesday	Lecture/discussion - The adaptive decision maker framework	Read and complete APCL on section 2.4 - best practice date October 28; Quiz 2.4 - Friday
Thursday	Lecture/discussion - The adaptive decision maker framework Loftus reading time	Read and complete APCL on section 2.4 - best practice date October 28; Quiz 2.4 - Friday Loftus annotation - due tomorrow
Friday	Quiz 2.4 Loftus SGD

Week of October 17

Date	Agenda	Homework
Monday	Assessing last weeks results with a Mann-Whitney U test Lecture/discussion - Finish Schema	Read and complete APCL on section 2.3 - best practice date October 19; Quiz 2.3 - Thursday, October 20; Draft precis/evaluation - due October 21
Tuesday	Lecture/discussion - Implicit bias	Read and complete APCL on section 2.3 - best practice date October 19; Quiz 2.3 - Thursday, October 20; Draft precis/evaluation - due October 21
Wednesday	Precis work time	Quiz 2.3 - Thursday, October 20; Draft precis/evaluation - due October 21
Thursday	Quiz 2.3 Last minute Precis/review questions Lecture/discussion - decision making	Draft precis/evaluation - due October 21
Friday	The psychological basis for American racism discussion The full article describing the 7 factors in detail	Read and complete APCL on section 2.4 - best practice date October 25; Quiz 2.4 - Friday, October 28

Week of October 10

Date	Agenda	Homework
Monday	Journal - Examine the chart on this link from Freedom House. What is the significance of the chart to you? How does this relate to the conversation we had on Friday about "crickets?" Lecture discussion - The Working Memory model Journal discussion (time allowing)	Quiz 2.3 - Tuesday, October 25;
Tuesday	Quiz 2.2 Descriptive and inferential statistics from our class study re-creation Work time for precis/review draft	Read and complete APCL on section 2.3 - best practice date October 19; Quiz 2.3 - Thursday, October 20; Draft precis/evaluation - due October 21
Wednesday	Draft precis work and appointment time	Read and complete APCL on section 2.3 - best practice date October 19; Quiz 2.3 - Thursday, October 20; Draft precis/evaluation - due October 21
Thursday	I will call some of up to get a slip of paper. Please read what is on the paper to yourself, but do not show it or share it with anyone else. Listen to the passage Follow the instructions on the linked form. Lecture/discussion - Schema theory	Read and complete APCL on section 2.3 - best practice date October 19; Quiz 2.3 - Thursday, October 20; Draft precis/evaluation - due October 21
Friday	End of first quarter Reconstruction data analysis	Read and complete APCL on section 2.3 - best practice date October 19; Quiz 2.3 - Thursday, October 20, Draft precis/evaluation - due October 21

Week of September October 3

Date	Agenda	Homework
Monday	Student models of memory Lecture/discussion - The multistore model of memory Reading time for precis review studies	Read and complete APCL on Sperling 1960 - best practice date tomorrow; Read and complete APCL on section 2.2 - best practice date October 5; Quiz 2.2 - Tuesday, October 11; Draft precis/evaluation - due October 14
Tuesday	Lecture/Discussion - Studies supporting the multi - store model Class replication and analysis of Sperling 1960 Reading time for precis review studies	Read and complete APCL on section 2.2 best practice date - October 5; Quiz 2.2 - Tuesday, October 11; Draft precis/evaluation - due October 14
Wednesday	Journal - On presentation Lecture/Discussion - Data data Data! and Research supporting the multistore model: Sperling (1960), Glanzer and Cunitz (1966)	Read and complete APCL on section 2.2 best practice date - October 5; Quiz 2.2 - Tuesday, October 11; Draft precis/evaluation - due October 14
Thursday	Lecture discussion - Problems with MSM Reading time - precis studies	Quiz 2.2 - Tuesday, October 11;
Friday	Current events discussion	Quiz 2.2 - Tuesday, October 11; Draft precis/evaluation - due October 14

Week of September 26

Date	Agenda	Homework
Monday	Substitute Work on reading the study for your Precis/review	Quiz 2.1 - Thursday; Draft precis/evaluation - due October 14
Tuesday	Lecture/discussion - Introduction to the cognitive perspective in psychology - history of the cognitive approach part 1 Study log assignment New unit outline	Quiz 2.1 - Thursday; Draft precis/evaluation - due October 14
Wednesday	Test return and discussion	Quiz 2.1 - Thursday; Draft precis/evaluation - due October 14
Thursday	Lecture/discussion - Introduction to the cognitive perspective in psychology - history of the cognitive approach part 2	Draft precis/evaluation - due October 14
Friday	Quiz 2.2 Journal: What is a model? What makes a good model? Discussion of models Journal #2: How does memory work? Propose (by drawing and labeling) a basic model for this essential mental function. Discussion of your models	Read and complete APCL on section 2.2 best practice date - October 5; Draft precis/evaluation - due October 14

Week of September 19

Date	Agenda	Homework
Monday	Finish Milgram SGD and ethics discussion	Midterm 1 - Thursday
Tuesday	Review for midterm - Drill and kill	Midterm 1 - Thursday
Wednesday	Review for midterm - Kahoot	Midterm 1 - Thursday
Thursday	Midterm #1
Friday	Skim/look at polling graphics from this article from Pew Research. Note down three things that strike you as important or interesting FFF - Abortion in America What should American law on abortion be? Should abortion law be determined by majority opinion? What are the competing interests at stake with regard to abortion? How should those interests be balanced? What is the relationship, if any, of abortion to psychology?

Week of September 12

Date	Agenda	Homework
Monday	Go over descriptive statistics practice Two Khan academy videos on calculating dispersion (SD and variance)(SD and average v. SIQR and median)
Tuesday	Journal: Use the data from the 2021 estimated nuclear warhead inventories from armscontrol.org Build an Excel spreadsheet that answers the following questions: How many nations currently have nuclear weapons? What is the average (mean) number of nuclear weapons nuclear states possess? What is the median number of nuclear weapons nuclear states possess? What is the Standard Deviation for this data set? What is the interquartile range for this data set? Which measures - average and standard deviation or median and interquartile range - would you use to analyze this data set? Explain your answer. Take a screenshot of your spreadsheet and paste it into the nuclear statistics assignment on Teams. Lecture/discussion - Overview of ethical theories	Read sections titled "General Principles" and "Research and Publication" from the APA's Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct
Wednesday	Complete ethics in psychological research handout and upload to Teams - due tomorrow	Milgram ethics review - due Friday
Thursday	Unit 1 exam preparation sheet Discuss -Ethics in psychological research handout	Review Milgram - Friday
Friday	FFF - The Ethics of Milgram 1963

Week of September 5

Date	Agenda	Homework
Monday	No School
Tuesday	Substitute ReadPopov, et.al 1: 25-36. Define the following terms in your notes: Qualitative studies, Trustworthiness, Triangulation, Rapport, Iterative questioning, Personal and epistemological reflexivity, Credibility checks,Thick descriptions, Participant bias (Acquiescence, social desirability, dominant respondent, sensitivity), Researcher bias (Confirmation, leading questions, question order, sampling, biased reporting), Non probabilistic Sampling methods in qualitative research (Quota, purposive, theoretical, snowball, convenience) Types of Generalizability (Sample to population, Theoretical, case-to case/transferability), Observation methods (laboratory, naturalistic, overt, covert, participant, structured, non-structured) Interviews and interview methods (structured, semi-structured, unstructured), Focus groups, Inductive content analysis (memos, grounded theories), Case studies These notes are not due today, but students will be able to use them on an up coming quiz	Quiz 1.3 - Tuesday, September 13
Wednesday	Quiz 1.2 Lecture/discussion - Non experimental studies (correlative studies and quasi experiments)	Quiz 1.3 - Tuesday, September 13
Thursday	Precis/review assignment and dates	Quiz 1.3 - Tuesday, September 13
Friday	Lecture/discussion - descriptive statistics Yummy statistics handout Descriptive statistics activity	Quiz 1.3 - Tuesday, September 13

Week of August 29

Date	Agenda	Homework
Monday	Go over IV/DV activity Lecture discussion - Sampling and research designs
Tuesday	Substitute Skim/Read Milgram - Behavioral Study of Obedience (1961) Use Jordan and Zanna's method to answer the essential questions for each of the five sections of the Milgram studystudy (1 page max, time in class only)
Wednesday	In your journal - define each of the following as they relate to psychological experiements based on opur class discussions - the definitions should be in your own words: IV, DV, construct, operationalization, hypothesis, null hypothesis Lecture/discussion - Experimental research designs and sampling methods	Quiz 1.1 - Tomorrow!
Thursday	Quiz 1.1 Lecture/discussion -Characteristics that impact the quality of research studies	Quiz 1.2 - Tuesday, September 6
Friday	Journal: Last night, President Biden gave a speech about American democracy and threats to it. In the speech, he repeatedly referred to "MAGA Republicans". Using what we learned in the article This Article Won't Change Your Mind and your quick skim of the speech, do you think that the speech will convince people who didn't vote for Biden to be more supportive of American democracy? Explain your answer in terms of the psychological princicples described in the article. Lecture/discussion - Validity in psychological studies	Quiz 1.2 - Tuesday, September 6

Week of August 22

Date	Agenda	Homework
Monday	Lecture/discussion - basic concepts in psychological research Journal: Constructs and opperationalization (partner activity)	Skim Fazio and Sherry. (2020) “The Effect of Repetition on Truth Judgments Across Development”; Quiz 1.1 - Thursday
Tuesday	Lecture/discusion - analyzing psychological research using the methods described in Jordan and ZannaHow to Read a Journal Article in Social Psychology (1999) (Slides 5-11)	Quiz 1.1 - Thursday
Wednesday	Substitute Review your notes from Jordan and Zanna (last Friday) . List the five major sections common to psychological research studies, then, identify the page range of each section from Fazio and Sherry. (2020) “The Effect of Repetition on Truth Judgments Across Development” Using the outline you just completed, use Jordan and Zanna's method to answer the essential questions for each of the five sections of the Fazio and Sherry study- we will discuss this in class tomorrow	Quiz 1.1 - Thursday
Thursday	Quiz 1.1 Lecture/Discusion - analyzing psychological research reports using Fazio and Sherry. (2020) “The Effect of Repetition on Truth Judgments Across Development”as an example	Quiz 1.2 - Thursday, September 1
Friday	Lecture discussion - Understanding dependent and independent variables IV and DV study scavenger hunt.	Quiz 1.2 - Thursday, September 1

Week of August 15

Date	Agenda	Homework
Monday	Finish - Small group discussion "This Article Won't Change Your Mind"(slides 12-18) How do you use the internet? - ungraded forms quiz
Tuesday	Journal: What strategies did you list on the survey yesterday? Lecture/Discussion - Introduction to SIFT, lateral reading and "just add Wikipedia"	Spend twenty minutes skimming and loooking over the structure of Weinberg and McGrew, 2017
Wednesday	Journal instructions (reminder) Read the abstract to Weinberg and McGrew (2017). In your journal describe in your own words what the study was about and what it concluded. try to do this in no more than 30 words. Get into your small groups from last week
Thursday	Finish yesterday's small group activity Small groups report out Whole class discussion - What struck you about the findings of this study? Why is this research important? To what extent are we taking the changes brought be the internet seriously?
Friday	Substitute Read the first six pages ofHow to Read a Journal Article in Social Psychology Take 1-2 pages of notes (physical or digital) structured in the following way: Identify the 5 major divisions of any psychology research paper. Under each major division, list, in bullet points, what you should focus on in this section. Then list anything the article says you should skim or skip in each section	None!

Week of August 8, 2022

Date	Agenda	Homework
Monday	Welcome! Seating Mr. Haydock in a bag Annotating documents This Friday's assignment - Read and annotate This Article Won't Change Your Mind	Read and annotate (2) This Article Won't Change Your Mind- due Friday, August 12 1. What arguments does Beck make about dis/mis information? 2. Define and explain the terms from section three of the unit outline in terms of their importance to Beck's argument. 3. How does the argument in this piece relate to psychology? 4. From your perspective, what is the cause of the the current info-demic taking place in the United States (and the World) Me in a bag - due in Teams by class on Tuesday, August 16
Tuesday	Introduction to the class - the syllabus and unit outlines	Read and annotate (2) This Article Won't Change Your Mind- due Friday, August 12 1. What arguments does Beck make about dis/mis information? 2. Define and explain the terms from section three of the unit outline in terms of their importance to Beck's argument. 3. How does the argument in this piece relate to psychology? 4. From your perspective, what is the cause of the the current info-demic taking place in the United States (and the World)
Wednesday	Journals in this class. Journal: Skim/Read the "Introduction to Psychology" article.In your journals, identify the four historical and three modern approaches to psychology. Describe each in pone sentence. Lecture/Discussion - "The historical development of thescience of psychology" Reading time for Friday's assignment (time allowing)	Read and annotate (2) This Article Won't Change Your Mind- due Friday, August 12 1. What arguments does Beck make about dis/mis information? 2. Define and explain the terms from section three of the unit outline in terms of their importance to Beck's argument. 3. How does the argument in this piece relate to psychology? 4. From your perspective, what is the cause of the the current info-demic taking place in the United States (and the World)
Thursday	Lecture/discussion - Lecture/Discussion - "The historical development of the science of psychology" (finish) How small group activities work in this class (preparation for tomorrow) Reading time - Beck annotation	Read and annotate (2) This Article Won't Change Your Mind- due Friday, August 12 1. What arguments does Beck make about dis/mis information? 2. Define and explain the terms from section three of the unit outline in terms of their importance to Beck's argument. 3. How does the argument in this piece relate to psychology? 4. From your perspective, what is the cause of the the current info-demic taking place in the United States (and the World)
Friday	Small group discussion "This Article Won't Change Your Mind"(slides 12-18)	Quiz 0.1 - Wednesday, August, 17