A.P. Psychology

Summer Homework

A.P. Psychology: Calbi

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The following may result in removal from AP PSYCHOLOGY class with “F” grade and “U” in citizenship:

· Failure to complete summer assignment

· PLAGIARISM… and it is illegal.

· Copying or sharing homework

· Knowledge of cheating without reporting it

ALL HOMEWORK SHOULD FOLLOW GUIDELINES IN SYLLABUS.

HOMEWORK SHOULD BE TURNED INTO Ms. ZAGARIS IN THE PRINCIPAL’S OFFICE BEFORE IT IS DUE.

SUMMER 2009 COURSEWORK:

I. Textbook: PSYCHOLOGY Wade/Tavris, 7^th Edition (Check out texbook from library before school ends.)
Cliff’s Quick Review Psychology Very helpful. ($10.00) Will be required first week of school. If you cannot afford one, see Ms. Calbi before the 2008/09 school year ends.

DUE: 12:00 noon, 8/07/09 (Friday)

1. Read and Outline: Chapter 1

2. Key Terms: p. 32

3. Ouiz review with notes. Schools of Psychology # 1-75

http://www.appsychology.com/HowPass/MC%20quizes/Schools/schools_of_psychology.htm

Directions: Print question. Explain why answer is correct and other options are incorrect.

Examples:

1. “I am primarily interested in thinking processes, I am a ____________ psychologist.”

a. cognitive
b. learning
c. perception
d. personality

Cognition is defined as “mental functions such as the ability to think, reason, and remember”. Cognitive psychologists study the ability to think, and are therefore primarily interested in thinking processes. Learning psychologists are concerned foremost with acquiring knowledge and skills, perception psychologists including Gestalt psychologists deal with obtaining, interpreting, and organizing sensory information, and personality psychologists desire to understand a person and individual actions within a given scenario.

2. Like Carl Rogers, I believe people choose to live more creative and meaningful lives. My name is

a. Wertheimer.
b. Washburn.
c. Skinner.
d. Maslow.

Abraham Maslow, a humanistic psychologist, believed in free will and believed firmly that people chose to live creative and meaningful lives. B.F. Skinner worked as a behaviorist who created the Skinner box, and is most known for operant conditioning and reinforcement. Max Wertheimer, a Gestalt psychologist, and is known in relation to his assistants Kohler and Koffka and put forth the concept of top down learning. Margaret Floy Washburn worked with animal behavior and connected the higher mental processes with physical movements.

DUE: 12:00 noon, 8/21/09 (Friday)

1. Read and Outline: Chapter 2
Supplement text with Sparknotes: http://www.sparknotes.com/101/psychology/research_methods_in_psychology

2. Key Terms: p. 65

3. Quiz Review with Notes: # 1-90

http://www.appsychology.com/HowPass/MC%20quizes/MCquizeshome.htm

DUE: Thursday, 9/10 /09 (1st day of class)

1. Essay Questions: Typed essays (1- 1/2 typed pgs ea) (3 Essays Total)

Question 1:

Read the following case history of a student that sought help at a college counseling office. A) Define each perspective. B) Then decide how a psychologist using each perspective, would explain the cause of Andrea's problem. Number your answers 1-6. Each answer is worth 2pts, for a total of 12 pts. BE BRIEF, get right to the point.

1. Biological 4. Sociocultural

2. Learning 5. Psychodynamic

3. Cognitive 6. Humanistic

Andrea is a 19-year-old college student. She has requested counseling from her college counseling center at the urging of her friends. Andrea's friends believe that she may have an eating disorder. Andrea sees herself as fat, but to her friends she is startlingly thin. In fact, she is so thin that they are afraid that she will become seriously ill. Andrea maintains this low weight mainly by eating practically nothing and drinking two quarts of water a day. She says that she thinks about foods "all the time" when she is restricting her food intake, but that she does not want to eat because she is afraid of getting fat. At other times, however, her hunger is so intense that she feels like she has to give in to the cravings. At those times she "binges" and eats huge amounts of food. For example, she once ate a half gallon of ice cream in a little over one hour. After her "binges" she works to get rid of the excess calories she has consumed by vomiting. She says she is starting to agree that she may have an eating problem. After interviewing Andrea, you are convinced that she meets the criteria for a diagnosis of both anorexia and bulimia.

You are also interested in obtaining some background information about Andrea, to aid in understanding her. You find out that Andrea is 19 years old and a freshman at your college. She says that she started really worrying about her weight two years ago, when she was a junior in high school. At that time, her parents were quarreling a lot and had even talked about a divorce. She says that managing her eating made her feel more in control. She also noticed that, even though she still felt fat, people seemed to pay more attention to her and to respond to her better as she got thinner. She indicates that she likes having a more "boyish," more athletic figure.

Question 2:

Read the following psychological study. For each term, A) define and B) identify the parts of the research. Number your answers 1-6. Each answer is worth 2pts, for a total of 12 pts. BE BRIEF, get right to the point.

1. Research method 4. Control group

2. Hypothesis 5. Independent variable

3. Experimental group 6. Dependent variable

Researchers at Stanford University conducted a study on the benefits of exercise. The researchers selected 43 sedentary adults, age 50 to 76 years old with mild to moderate sleep problems, such as taking longer than 25 minutes on average to fall asleep and sleeping only six hours a night.

Half the Participants underwent 16 weeks of aerobics, each week consisting of two hour-long low-impact classes at a YMCA and two 40-minute sessions of brisk waling or stationary cycling at home. The other half did nothing.

At the end of the study, the subjects who exercised reported that they fell asleep about 15 minutes faster and slept about 45 minutes longer than before. Those who did not exercise showed little or no improvement.

Question 3:

Number

Tally

Frequency

5

//

2

10

///

3

15

///

3

20

/

1

25

/

1

Using the above data set to A) identify and B) define the following:

1. The mean.
2. The median.
3. The mode.

4. The range.

Using the above distributions to answer the following:

5. A) Define Standard Deviation. B) What is the Standard Deviation of the S.A.T Verbal Example?
6. If you scored three standard deviations above the mean in the S.A.T. Verbal Distribution, what was your score?
7. If you were a the 97^th percentile in the IQ distribution, what was your approximate score?
8. If you earned a 600 on the S.A.T. Verbal, what approximate percentile were you at?

2. Prepare for Quiz: on summer homework quizes and review notes. ( 2^nd day of class).

SOURCES/GUIDELINES/EXAMPLES:

CHAPTER OUTLINES can be found @ : http://www.course-notes.org/ (WARNING: These chapters do not correspond with our textbook.) Use these outlines as guidelines, but write your own outlines.

ESSAY WRITING GUIDELINES & SCORING:

LINKS TO USEFUL SITES

Helpful Websites for Chapter 1:

http://www.sparknotes.com/psychology/

http://www.gerardkeegan.co.uk/resource/approaches.htm

http://www.ryerson.ca/~glassman/Frame.html

http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/dept/d46/psy/dev/Fall98/Theories/theories.html

http://www.terramir.net/index3.html

Helpful Websites for Chapter 2 (Statistics):

http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/mathlabtutstat1.htm

http://math.about.com/library/weekly/aa020502a.htm

http://www.cimt.plymouth.ac.uk/projects/mepres/book8/bk8i5/bk8_5i2.htm

Helpful Websites for Chapter 2:

http://psy1.clarion.edu/mm/General/Methods/Methods.html

http://www.gerardkeegan.co.uk/resource/research.htm

http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/proj/res_meth/navhelp.html

http://core.ecu.edu/psyc/kaiserd/course/Intro/ch2/index.htm

http://www.terramir.net/index2.html

Other Website: http://psychology.about.com/

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