Unit 8A 8B Slideshow and Assignments

Unit 8A and 8B Slides:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4xdTlrmZTl3WXNNN19uY0lIWjg/edit?usp=sharing

Assignments for 8A&8B

1. Flashcards must have 4 things:

1.  definition
2. book example or detail
3. personal example or another note from the book
4. class notes

2. PsychSim Tutorials and Worksheets:

For Unit 8A: (Due Wed 2/25)

• Hunger and the Fat Rat  Print or hand-write this WORKSHEET and answer it using this TUTORIAL

For Unit 8B: (Due Tues 3/3)

• Expressing Emotion Worksheet: http://content.bfwpub.com/webroot_pubcontent/Content/BCS/Myers%20in%20Mod%209e/PsychSim5_PDF_Worksheets/32_ExpressEmot.pdf  Tutorial: http://bcs.worthpublishers.com/myersap1e/default.asp#612492__616355__
• Catching Liars  Worksheet: http://content.bfwpub.com/webroot_pubcontent/Content/BCS/Myers%20in%20Mod%209e/PsychSim5_PDF_Worksheets/33_CatchingLiars.pdf  Tutorial: http://bcs.worthpublishers.com/gray/content/psychsim5/Catching%20Liars/CatchingLiars.htm
• All Stressed Out  Worksheet: http://content.bfwpub.com/webroot_pubcontent/Content/BCS/Myers%20in%20Mod%209e/PsychSim5_PDF_Worksheets/34_StressedOut.pdf  Tutorial: http://bcs.worthpublishers.com/gray/content/psychsim5/All%20Stressed%20Out/PsychSim_Shell.html
• Dating and Mating   Worksheet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4xdTlrmZTl3alJKT3FjWTJET2M/edit?usp=sharing  Tutorial: http://bcs.worthpublishers.com/gray/content/psychsim5/Dating%20and%20Mating/DatingAndMating.htm  

3. Online quizzes

Do Unit 8A  and 8B quiz 1 and quiz 2 for each (four total).
www.worthpublishers.com/myersap1e

*The test for Unit 8A Motiviation will be combined with 8B Emotion. The 8A&B test is scheduled for Thursday, March 5, 2015.  

Unit 7B CW/HW

Classwork on Wed 2/18:

• Please read this interesting article about Brazil's Piraha tribe, the tribe without numbers! http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/brazil-s-piraha-tribe-living-without-numbers-or-time-a-414291.html 
• Answer and turn in:
• What is the main idea of this article? 
• What would the following psychologists say about this tribe?
• Benjamin Whorf
• Noam Chomsky
• BF Skinner

Please complete online quizzes 1 and 2 for unit 7B by midnight Thursday 2/19.
www.worthpublishers.com/myersap1e
Be sure that you are signing in with your student account and having scores sent to your instructor, not your scorecard.

Here are some fun related links for this unit:

• Online game: The Tower of Hanoi critical thinking game... can you solve it???!!!  http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/logic/towers/
• Article: 10 Steps to Raising a Multilingual Child  http://www.multilingualchildren.org/getting_started/tensteps.html
• Animal psych article: "The dog that pretended to feed a frog" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2011/09/07/animal-imagination-the-dog-that-pretended-to-feed-a-frog-and-other-tales/?WT.mc_id=SA_facebook
•  And here's a TED Talk by linguist Steve Pinker about what our language habits reveal.