1. AP Psychology – 1st Quarter
Bell Work
AP Psychology – 1st Quarter

2. Monday, September 10
Write down what you can recall about the psychology’s prescientific roots. (Plato & Socrates, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, and John Locke)

3. Tuesday, September 11
What can you recall about Wilhelm Wundt, Edward Bradford Titchener, and William James?

4. Wednesday, September 12
Select three people from the following list. Write down one fact about each person.
Mary Whiton Calkins
Margaret Floy Washburn
Ivan Pavlov
Sigmund Freud
Jean Piaget
John Watson
B.F. Skinner
Carl Rogers & Abraham Maslow

5. Thursday, September 13
Write down 3 things that you learned or found interesting in the Prologue chapter.

6. Friday, September 14
Describe what stimuli you are consciously aware of as you sit here right now.

7. Monday, September 17 Explain three of the following:
Top-down processing
Bottom-up processing
Selective Attention
Cocktail Party Effect
Inattentional blindness
Change blindness

8. Tuesday, September 18
Explain the difference between the absolute threshold and the difference threshold or JND.

9. Wednesday, September 19
Write down 3 things that you can remember about the eye.

10. Thursday, September 20
If you had to lose one sense, which would you prefer it to be and why? If you could only have one, which one would you want?

11. Monday, September 24
Write down three things that you can recall from the section on touch, smell, and taste.

12. Tuesday, September 25
A number of factors determine how one experiences pain. Explain how at least two of the following might contribute to an individual’s experience of pain.
Gate-control theory
Memories of pain
Biology of the brain/body
Sociocultural influences
Pain control techniques

13. Wednesday, September 26
What are some things that might affect our perceptions (the way we see and interpret things)?

14. Thursday, September 27
Give an example of selective attention and the cocktail party effect from your own life.

15. Monday, October 1
What can you recall about the Gestalt psychologists or their principles?

16. Tuesday, October 2
Explain the purpose of binocular cues and monocular cues.
What is the difference between the two types of cues?

17. Wednesday, October 3
What can you recall about perceptual constancy? Why is it important?

18. Thursday, October 4
Write down the three things that you found the most interesting from Chapter 6: Perception.

19. Friday, October 5
What do you know about sleep and dreams?

20. Monday, October 8 Take a new paper from the basket
How much sleep do you think we need?
Do you think you get enough sleep? Why or why not?

21. Tuesday, October 9
Briefly summarize what you can recall about the stages of sleep.

22. Wednesday, October 10
Write down five statements about hypnosis. These may be facts that you know, things you think you know, things you have heard, or just personal thoughts or feelings about hypnosis.

23. Thursday, October 11
Write down five things that you have learned about dreams or hypnosis from the chapter.

24. Monday, October 15
Take a quiz from the side table and complete it. You do not have to write your answers on the bell work form today.
(The quiz refers to the old sleep stages)

25. Tuesday, October 16
Take a quiz from the side table and complete it. You do not have to write your answers on the bell work form today.
(The quiz refers to the old sleep stages)

26. Wednesday, October 17
Take a paper from the side table and complete it. You do not have to write your answers on the bell work form today.

27. Thursday, October 18 – No bell work
Before you read the article, write a short paragraph HONESTLY evaluating your habits with your cellphone. Does it interfere with your life in any way?
Read the article on smartphone addiction. Highlight, underline, or annotate anything that you feel is important.
Take the self-assessment on smartphone use. BE HONEST with yourself!
Write a one-paragraph summary of the article.

28. Friday, October 19
Now that you have watched the video, take a few minutes to reflect on it, as well as the article from yesterday. What are your thoughts? How does this impact you? Do you have any concerns? Etc.