personality tests

Please be reviewing for you unit 10 test (it's this upcoming Thursday).

Personality tests and analysis assignment:

Take the following personality tests and then analyze your results in a 1-2 page typed, double-spaced response.  Please effectively organize your response and write clearly.   Please respond to the following prompt:  do these tests accurately assess your personality? 

You may consider the following in your response (you do not need to explicitly address each, but these are to get you thinking): 

-Do you agree with the results of the tests?  Why or why  not? 

-Which test did you find most accurate? 

-What problems did you see in the tests? 

Test 1:  The Big Five http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/ 

Test 2: Kiersey Temperament sorter:  http://www.keirsey.com/sorter/register.aspx

Test 3:  Life Orientation test http://www.psy.cmu.edu/faculty/scheier/scales/LOTR_Scale.pdf

Due Tuesday 1/4 and worth 25 points for term 2.

due this week

Please remember to share your Google presentation with me by tomorrow night (Tuesday) at midnight and be tracking your sleep and dreams (see last post).

Here are the due dates for the unit 10 reading:
p. 479-490 due Wednesday 12/19
p. 490-500 due Thursday 12/20
p. 500-510 due Friday 12/21
p. 511-518 due the first class after break (Wednesday 1/2 for D block; Thursday 1/3 for B block)

end of unit practice test answers and sleep log info

Here are the answers for the end of unit practice quizzes that are in your book:
8A/motivation:  1) B; 2) B; 3) D; 4) D; 5) E; 6) A; 7) B; 8) D; 9) C; 10) C; 11) E; 12) A; 13) C; 14) A; 15) A
8B/emotions and stress:
1) E; 2) B; 3) D; 4) D; 5) C; 6) C; 7) E; 8) A; 9) C; 10) A; 11) C; 12) A; 13) B; 14) D; 15) D


Also, here are the directions for the sleep log I mentioned in class today.  Please set up the chart and start logging your sleep next week - Monday 12/17 should be day 1.

For our next unit, you need to keep a sleep log for at least two weeks, one of which needs to be a week of vacation.  Set up your log as a table with the following columns, and then record your data from each night in rows:
--Date/day
--time to bed
--time awake
--dreams? (including fragments; include a summary if yes, whether or not they related to anything that happened that day, and note whether or not they were in color and what stimuli were included--taste, touch, smell, sound--other than visuals)
--how you felt upon waking
--number of naps/additional time slept
--energy level throughout the day
--caffeine intake

types of stressors exercise

Here are the answers to exercise 17.1 ("Between a rock and a hard place") on the different types of stressors:
dentist = approach-avoidance, ice cream flavors = approach-approach, bad breath but attractive = approach-avoidance, class time = avoidance-avoidance, vacation spot = approach-approach,  medical treatment = avoidance-avoidance (this is actually a double approach-avoidance, since there are pros and cons for both options), colleges = approach-approach, steak or ribs = avoidance-avoidance, car =  approach-avoidance, plastic surgery = approach-avoidance

due dates for 12/3-12/10

Due dates for next week for both classes:

Due Monday 12/3 for G block and Tuesday 12/4 for D block:   please bring 2-3 (at least 2) print advertisements to class that you find striking.  You don't need to do anything written for this, but need to have some reasoning behind why you chose them (other than that they were the first ones you saw).

Also, here are your reading due dates for unit 8B (I had to adjust some of the dates a bit depending on when classes meet, so there may be a few slight changes from the original schedule):
D block:
366-376 for Tuesday 12/4
377-387 for Wednesday 12/5
388-396 for Thursday 12/6 (please also bring a piece of emotional artwork - in color, if possible, and not Munch's The Scream)
397-406 for Monday 12/10

G block:

366-376 for Wednesday 12/5
377-387 for Thursday 12/6
388-396 for Friday 12/7 (please also bring a piece of emotional artwork - in color, if possible, and not Munch's The Scream)
397-406 for Monday 12/10


Here's a link to the project description and here's where you can sign up with a research question.  Please note the changes in the due dates (must be shared with me by the end of the day Tuesday 12/18 i.e. before midnight). Just to clarify a bit more about the project itself:  your presentation should be about 5 minutes long and contain about as many slides (excluding a title slide or any other extra slides of that nature that you choose to add, which is up to you).    

due next week (11/26-11/30)

Unit 8 A reading due dates (I hope you're motivated to do it):

327-336 for Monday 11/26
337-348 for Tuesday 11/27
348-354 for Thursday 11/29
354-362 for Friday 11/30

Also for Friday (optional):  bizarre food bazaar - worth 10 points of extra credit for term 2:

Prepare a rare, exotic or otherwise interesting and unfamiliar dish to share with brave and willing members of the class.  You may choose to bring in something that’s either homemade or store-bought, so long as it meets the following requirements:    

• Most people in the class will not be familiar with it
• Bring enough to serve about 15 people with a bite-size sample at least (we’ll assume that not everyone will want to try everything)
• Also bring a serving utensil for your dish, such as a large spoon, ladle or spatula.  
• If your dish contains any potential allergens (such as nuts, milk, wheat or shellfish), create a separate label for your dish to warn potential consumers
• Complete a brief write-up with the following to turn in to me:  the name of your dish, a list of ingredients and why you chose to bring this particular dish, and be prepared to give a brief explanation of the dish at the conclusion of the food bazaar
• DO NOT reveal the name or ingredients of your item to your classmates until the end of the bazaar!

Please let me know in class Thursday if you want to commit to bring something so that I know how much class time to allocate to this activity.

assignments for next week (11/19-11/20)

Your unit 7 test is Tuesday 11/20.  The following is due Monday (based on the reading given out in class):

Opening Skinner’s Box – “Lost in the Mall” and “Memory, Inc.”

For this assignment, please read the chapter you received in class and respond to the following in writing:

1.       How does the chapter build on terms, ideas and concepts presented in the Myers text?  Explain, using 3 examples.

2.       Of the real-world implications of the research presented in the chapter, which did you find the most problematic?  Which did you find the most beneficial?

3.       Choose a 2-3 sentence quote from the chapter that struck you as particularly significant to the message of the chapter overall, and record it, along with its page number and your reaction to it (why you chose it, or why you believe it reflects the essence of the chapter).

Due Monday 11/19 and worth 10 points for 2^nd quarter.