Marshmellow Experiment

The marshmallow experiment is a famous test of this concept conducted by Walter Mischel at Stanford University and discussed by Daniel Goleman in his popular work. In the 1960s, a group of four-year olds were given a marshmallow and promised another, only if they could wait 20 minutes before eating the first one. Some children could wait and others could not. The researchers then followed the progress of each child into adolescence, and demonstrated that those with the ability to wait were better adjusted and more dependable (determined via surveys of their parents and teachers), and scored an average of 210 points higher on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.


(See Video)

Self Esteem and Parenting

The archives from skiracing.com is excellent:

http://www.skiracing.com/?q=node/8934

I saved an example about self esteem in the psych 30 folder.

Adolescence

To be Answered:

1. What does it mean to be a teenager?  
2. Does being a teenager mean different things to males and females?
3. How is being a teenager different than being an adult?
4. What are the most important issues that teenagers face?  
5. What are the most powerful social influences on adolescents?

a) Birth of the American teenager

1950s powerpoint?

b) Rebel Without a Cause


c) Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye


d) NPR 'Teenage Diaries'

- Listen to 'Girlfriend' by Amanda

Job later - create audio diaries.

(Most crucial question for adolescents = Who am I?)

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Assessment+of+Teenage+Diaries+for+teaching+concepts+in+adolescent...-a0217178567

http://www.psychologytoday.com/search/query?keys=adolesence&x=0&y=0

Review:

Personality development

Nature vs Nurture

Ecological Theory of Development

Kohlberg theories of development

Pre School and Personality

See Unit 7

pp 68-72

pp ?? - ??

+ Article from Psychology Today regarding pre-school

Made the posters (From Unit 6? 7?)

Issue - need to produce a 'test' for the posters.

Psychological Study

http://sthaboutanything.blogspot.com/  (ania's example of an annotated bibliography)

a) Inquiry question asking a developmental psych question about kids 0 - 11
b) Annotated bibliography locating 6 sources that provide answers to the question.

Hand in annotated bibliography.

c) Hypothesis and development of proposal for an observation/survey or interview
d) Set it up.  Pick a due date
e) Write an article including a summary of your experiment (Ranelle's example)

Last week of October

Test #1

What is developmental psychology?
Operant vs Classical conditioning
Nature vs Nurture
Kohlberg theory of moral development
Jean Piaget theory of development

Post test entering Unit 4 from

http://www.education.gov.sk.ca/curr-elearn/copyright-free-courses/psych30

Cognitive development in infants

Vygotsky and the acquisition of language

Now to the end

Psychoanalytic Child Development Theories

Sigmund Freud

The theories proposed by Sigmund Freud stressed the importance of childhood events and experiences, but almost exclusively focused on mental disorders rather that normal functioning.

According to Freud, child development is described as a series of 'psychosexual stages.' In "Three Essays on Sexuality" (1915), Freud outlined these stages as oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital. Each stage involves the satisfaction of a libidinal desire and can later play a role in adult personality. Learn more in this article on Freud’s stages of psychosexual development.

Erik Erikson

Theorist Erik Erikson also proposed a stage theory of development, but his theory encompassed development throughout the human lifespan. Erikson believed that each stage of development was focused on overcoming a conflict. Success or failure in dealing with conflicts can impact overall functioning. Learn more about this theory in this article on Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development.

Cognitive Child Development Theories

Theorist Jean Piaget suggested that children think differently than adults and proposed a stage theory of cognitive development. He was the first to note that children play an active role in gaining knowledge of the world. Learn more in this article on Piaget’s stages of cognitive development.

Behavioral Child Development Theories

Behavioral theories of child development focus on how environmental interaction influences behavior and are based upon the theories of theorists such as John B. Watson, Ivan Pavlov andB. F. Skinner. These theories deal only with observable behaviors. Development is considered a reaction to rewards, punishments, stimuli and reinforcement. Learn more about these behavioral theories in these articles on classical conditioning and operant conditioning.

ADD VYGOTSKY TO THE LIST

Three Developmental Stages

(in utero)

Next = at what age should people learn (older vs younger)

Example:  Reading.

Montessori?

Motivation

Study Lance Armstrong

Adolescence

Study Adolescence by having students look inward.  Write autobiographies (read autobiographies...)

Classical and Operant Conditioning

See Psych 20 page.

After this - into language aquisition perhaps?

http://www.drury.edu/multinl/story.cfm?ID=2435&NLID=166

Video List:

http://cnx.org/content/m19526/latest/

Baby Book Project

http://www.saskschools.ca/~psychportal/Psych30/babybookproject/baby_book_project.htm

Your task is to create a "baby book". The book will cover the time period of physical, emotional, social and cognitive development from prenatal to the end of the first year. On a weekly basis you will be given "issue cards" which will pose a problem or situation that you must deal with. Your task will be to research these problems and give three possible solutions to each problem.  You will then choose one of these and tell why you chose that solution. 


You will research these problems and give three possible solutions to each problem.  You will then choose one of these and tell why you would choose that solution.  You should also have a list of characteristics of this age.  You may get some of these from books or from material in the Psychology 30: Human Development course as we go through infancy.  The Baby Book Project covers human development from early prenatal development to 13 months of age.  

BABY BOOK CHECKLIST    

1.      Pregnancy-1 card that tells of problem or situation.  Entry may require research or it may be a diary type; depending on the problem.  

2.      Birth announcement.  What you had and how much baby weighed.  

3.      Birth.  The type of birth you had and any birth problem the child has.  

4.      Birth certificate.  You are responsible for making your own.   

5.      Newborn.  Two sets of problems.  You need to offer three possible solutions or explanations for each and choose one then explain why you chose that solution.  

6.      4-6 weeks.  Two sets of problems.  Same as above.  

7.      10-14 weeks.  Two sets of problems.  Same procedure.  

8.      4-5 months.  Two sets of problems.  

9.      6-7 months.  Two sets of problems.  

10.  9-10 months.  Two sets of problems.  

11.  12-13 months.  Two sets of problems.  

12.  For each of these age categories you should have a list of characteristics.  

13.  Poems:  “Children Learn What They Live”, “Children are Like Kites”, and “Toddlers’ Creed”.  

14.  Baby’s First time line chart.  Also, select three of the firsts and write a diary entry on each.  This should be about one paragraph in length for each.  

15.  All the age groups should include an age appropriate picture; be it your own (preferably scanned if it is from your baby book at home) or one from an outside source.  

16.  Quiz.  These are your own answers to the questions

BABY BOOK QUIZ  

1.      What was your reaction to “giving birth”?  Were you happy with your baby or did you have different expectations?  

2.      In solving your problems, whom did you ask for help?  Tell whether you agreed with the advice given and why.  

3.      What are three different things you learned from guest speakers?   

4.      In what ways was the baby book realistic?  What ways was it unrealistic?  

5.      Before doing the baby book what were your attitudes and expectations toward parenting?  How did they change?  

6.    How would you prepare differently for the birth of a second child?

Psychologist Research Project #1

1. 
   
   Who are they?
   Include relevant or interesting biographical information
2. 
   
   What is their contribution to the field of psychology?
3. 
   
   Why are they important today? Where can their influence be seen

William Wundt – Founder of Psychology as a Scientific Field

William James – Functionalism

Francis Galton – Inheritable Traits

Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Kohler, Kurt Koffka – Gestalt Psychology

Sigmund Freud – Psychoanalytical Psychology

Ivan Pavlov – Behavioural Psychology

Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Rollo May – Humanistic Psychology

Jean Piaget, Noam Chomsky, Leon Festinger – Cognitive Psychology

Hugo Munsterberg – Industrial Psychology

Jacques Lacan -

Carl Jung -

BF Skinner -

Maria Montessori – Child Psychology

Hippocrates – The Four Humours

Aristotle –

Biological Psychology

Sociocultural Psychology

2 presentation comedy pieces
1 powerpoint about making powerpoints

Ecological Model

Brainstorm ways we are uniquely Canadian then unique characteristics of Saskatchewan people.

Can we place them in within the concentric circles of the ecological model?

Read the 'ages and stages' article.

     - what are the examples given in this article?
     - write a summary including 'purpose, topic, conclusion'

Show the .... video

Week 4

Surely it must be time to teach the actual stages of development!

NOTE - YOU NEED TO FIND THE PRESENTATION RUBRIC!

Week 3

Journal/Book of Refections

Consider opinion questions based on developmental stages


Presentation Project

Watch 10 -20 - 30 Video
          Note:  This is what we are working towards

Watch powerpoint 2010 stand up

Project is to create a 5 minute   5 slide   30 point presentation using either prezi or PPT telling us the following about a particular psychologist (see list file)

Students will answer the following questions:

Who are they?

What contributions did they make to the field of psychology?

Why are they still relevant today?  Where can we see their work?

Unit 1 - Page 25 - (check on Word to see if graphics work)

Definitions

Developmental psychology is the branch of psychology that studies measurable changes that individuals undergo as they traverse the lifespan.

Developmental psychologists examine

patterns of growth, change, and stability in human behaviour throughout each stage of life.

Week 2

- Interview with Dr. Katherine Robinson "What is Developmental Psychology?"

          Learn annotation skills and summary writing
          Write a half page summary defining Developmental Psychology.

- Read "The Wild Boy of Aveyron" (perhaps together?)
           What aspects of human behaviour for an 11 or 12 year old boy were present?
            What aspects of human development for an 11 or 12 year old boy were missing or delayed?
             What does this case study say about the relative influence of Nature (genetic inheritance)  or Nurture (social environment) in terms of human development?

          T-Chart    Nature  /   Nurture
           a)  From the story
           b)  Your own lives.  What is natural and what is taught?

- Book Interview (Nature vs Nurture)
          Summarise the interview in three sentences
          Answer three questions:  1) What are the criticisms of        's book?
                                                2)
                                                3) How is the article critical of the child psychologists' research methods

- Research methods + Identification sheet

- What are three things you would like to know about Nature vs Nurture
             ie -

- Choose one of the research techniques and design a study that will answer your question.

(Introduce Scientific Methodology)


- Present Life Maps

(See binders:  re Nature vs Nurture)

Thursday:

a) Continue t-chart responses from today.
b) Nature vs Nurture and Wild Boy
              What is your opinion? Which is stronger?
Read interview


Plus, I need to decide on my major assessments.  Plus we need to hang the Life Maps.

Consider how economic or social events might affect decisions a person makes? How do relationships with others influence where to work and lifestyle choices?

If you asked your grandfather and grandmother to look back on their lives, what stories would they tell you? Perhaps, they have advice for you. Seniors have learned so much about life, change, and growth. Their stories are rich and teach us about relationships, joys and sorrows, and about having a place in the world. Human development happens at every age and throughout one’s lifespan.

- As a High School Senior.  What advice would you give to students in grade ______  ?

      (Have students prepare advice and organise ways for them to give that advise to the students in elementary school)

Links

American Psychological Association
http://www.apa.org/

Canadian Psychological Association
http://www.cpa.ca/home/

British Psychological Society
http://www.bps.org.uk/

Australian Psychological Society
http://www.psychology.org.au/

Psychology Today
http://www.psychologytoday.com/

Journal of Clinical Psychology
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1097-4679

Day 1 - 2

Life story chart - leading into 'influence'.

Who and what made you who you are today?

Links

A dude's blog with some good ideas.  I hope he keeps updating

http://teachinghighschoolpsychology.blogspot.com/

(note book idea:  Carter, Rita  The Human Brain)