2 minutes to reflect on yourselves the term and the holidays. Ready to refocus Final Exam – November 1 st – we will be ready

 Motivation, set up for term 3  including reflex action, fixed action patterns and behaviours If this bear can learn how to dance – you guys can ace your Psychology exam

 All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today. Pope Paul VI All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today. Pope Paul VI

 The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. Vince Lombardi The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. Vince Lombardi

 Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. Vince Lombardi Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. Vince Lombardi

 Outcome 1 (50 marks) Explain the neural basis of learning, and compare and contrast different theories of learning and their applications. Folio of at least five practical activities and annotations of at least three of these activities to illustrate selected aspects of learning. (First one is on Friday)  Outcome 2 Differentiate between mental health and mental illness, and use a biopsychosocial framework to explain the causes and management of stress and a selected mental disorder. The use of a biopsychosocial framework to explain the causes and management of a selected mental disorder, presented in one of the following formats:  media response (25 marks) oral presentation using two or more data types (25 marks) Working in pairs, you will present to different classes in the school. Use your own example of depression, role plays, etc.

 It’s going to be tight..  Next 4-5 weeks – learning  3-4 weeks mental illness  Last two weeks – Depression Term 4/ Holidays STUDY, STUDY, STUDY for exam

 We won’t have enough class time to do this.  However I will give you options over the next term to come along to different things.  The learning has to come from YOU  Intrinsic MOTIVATION

 Any students who come late, will be required to stay back after school on Friday 2s or early in the morning.  This is in regards to respect

Week 1 – Wednesday and Friday Mornings Week 2 – Friday after school Take a copy of my timetable and book in different appointments at different times Ask other people for help – i.e. ‘the 3 before me rule’ STUDY GROUPS – can you PLEASE make some

 I will ask you to submit exam style questions, then you will need to submit them.  Stay on top of the reading and learning activities

 including reflex action  fixed action patterns and behaviours

 Reflex actions are automatic, involuntary responses that do not require prior experience. For example, we do not even think about whether to blink when an object comes near our eyes. Reflexes are adaptive for survival, meaning that we would be in danger if we did not have these built in mechanisms to help protect us from environmental hazards.  Think of some examples

 A fixed action pattern is an inborn predisposition to behave in a certain way when appropriately stimulated. The term is used to describe behaviour that is inherited by every individual member of a species. A funnel-web spider creates its characteristic tubular web. DO you have any more examples?? 3 minutes – google some examples This type of behaviour is also referred to as instinctive behaviour or species specific behaviour. It is distinguished from reflex action patterns because the behaviours are not simple. Instead, they are complex behaviours that are unique to a particular species of animal.

 Some behaviours require the development of the body and the structures of the nervous system. For example, most children will begin walking around 10–14 months and it is impossible to make any child walk until he or she is physically ready.  Similarly, fledgling birds are unable to fly until their wings and flight-feathers have reached the required level of maturity.  Completed last year in developmental psychology  EXAMPLES

 developmental plasticity and adaptive plasticity of the brain: changes to the brain in response to learning and experience; timing of experiences

Fill in Neuron Structure Sheet Neurons and the synapse

 As learning takes place, neurons become more responsive to neurotransmitters and there is an increase in the strength of the synaptic connections between neurons. This involves changes in presynaptic neuron so that it becomes more prepared to release neurotransmitters and change the post synaptic neuron which becomes more readily excited by the neurotransmitter.

 The post synaptic neuron changes to increase the number of the dendrite connections for receiving which has been released from the neighbouring presynaptic neurons.

 Read and highlight page  Read the box  One timer, one sharer, one summariser.  Write down what you have learnt

 Complete 9.4 page 433  Memorise the structure of a neuron, explain how it works – you will need to memorise this for Thursday

 Thursday – first one  Action Potential Activity One (Annotated Portfolio) Plasticity  focusing on the girl with half a brain