Psychology Study Guide for Final Exam

Shawshank Redemption

Paper Requirements:

1. Cover page
2. The Body text at least two pages long
3. 1 ½ spacing
4. Times new Roman
5. Page Numbers

The Body text:

Select the best method for you!!  Select one of the following options

1. 1. Select 5 of these questions below and write a paper on it
2. 2. Take one idea and elaborate on it
3. 3. If you have another idea, discuss it with me to get approval.

• Explain the meaning of institutionalized. How does it apply to Brooks?

• What aspect(s) of prison life are emphasized throughout the movie?

• Why does the Pacific Ocean have such appeal to Andy?

• In what respects is justice finally achieved in the movie? Comment.

• To what does The Shawshank Redemption refer? Who was redeemed?

• Who was the cause or momentum of the redemption?

• What are two examples of how prison life can affect prisoners?

• This quote plays an important role in the movie “Get busy living or get busy dying.” Relate it to at least two characters and how it plays a role in their lives.

• How does the movie display the after jail life for the prisoners?

• Why does the Warden throw Andy in solitary?



Monday-Friday, May 10-May 14

Monday: What’s going on in the world today

Tuesday: Lecture

Wednesday: Test Review

Thursday: Test Review

Friday: Test

PBS: This Emotional Life

Take notes on each segment focusing primarily on what you feel has made this person into who they are.  Make sure to make note of why this particular piece of information has stuck out to you.  Relate it to your own life or those that surround you.

1. Write a Reaction Paper on one of these topics or a combination of all of them.
   
2. Your reaction should be comprised of who this story was about, what they spoke about, and the way they have gotten through theses hardships and how it made you think about the particular situation.
3. Address the key points that have stuck out to you.

• http://video.pbs.org/video/1374082644/ Choosing Friends
• http://video.pbs.org/video/1374082183/ You cant buy happiness
• http://video.pbs.org/video/1374092418/ BORN ON A SUNNY DAY
• http://video.pbs.org/video/1376654831/ Your Friends’ Friends Can Make You Happy
• http://video.pbs.org/video/1374092437/ The Price of Being Human
• http://video.pbs.org/video/1374092401/ A Special Emotion
• http://video.pbs.org/video/1374088608/ Career and Friendship

Tuesday, May 4

Students will be able to: Read Chapter 6, Feud’s theory of personality.

Class Materials:

• Class book

Class procedure:

1. Students will read pages 172- 181
2. Students will complete SEction Check up on page 181

students will be reading about:

1. How psychologists define personality
2. How philosophers and scientists have tried to explain personality
3. How the contributions of Sigmund Frued make the understanding of personality

Tuesday-Friday April 27

Students will be able to: Students will learn about Jean Piaget and will be able to define the stages of intellectual development.

Class Materials:

• Class Book

Class Procedure:

1. Students will read 4.4 (look below for two other additions to the reading)
   1. • What are the Stages of intellectual development?
      • Piaget’s Four stages of cognitive development
      • Sensory-Motor Stage
      • Preoperational Stage
      • Concrete Operations Stage
      • Formal Operations stage
      • Mastery of Language
      • Formation of concepts

• Read page 116: Jean Piaget: A Theory that Gives meaning to the timetable of Intellectual Development

• Read page 114: The Effect of Birth Order and Family Size on Intelligence:

Answer the following questions and these will be handed in with your Section Check-up

1. What are the three factors that evidence shows about sibling intelligence?
2. To back of this theory, why does each new child’s total quality of intellect fall?
3. Do you have more than one sibling?  If so, do you think this theory is true?  Explain yourself.  If you do not have siblings, look at others for examples.  Maybe you have a close friend with more than one sibling, do you think this theory rings true?  do you have cousins that may reaffirm this theory?

Complete the Section Check up and hand in what you have completed by the end of the period.

Tuesday, April 20

Students will be able to: read about the developmental taks of adolescence that relates to the self.

Class Materials:

• Read pages 150-152

Class Procedure:

1. After you have read pages 150-152, complete the section check up
2. hand in at the end of the period for a Quiz grade

Thursday-Friday, April 15-16

Students will be able to: Research one Rite of Passage from a different culture

Class Materials:

• Internet
• Word
  

Class Procedure:

1. Research “Rite of Passage”
2. Write a paper addressing the who, what, where, when and why
3. Must include a coverpage, 1.5 spacing, Times New Roman and
4. MUST INCLUDE A BIBLIOGRAPHY therefore there MUST BE QUOTES in your paper.

Homework:

1. Paper is due tomorrow at the end of class
   

Monday, March 29

Students will be able to: Begin Adolescent Searches for Identity

Class Materials:

• class text book
• Can be handwritten or typed
  

Class Procedure:

1. Read chapter 5, pages 134-139
2. Complete the section check up, Quiz grade

Homework:

If you did not complete the section check up in class, you must bring it in tomorrow and you will have 10 points taken off for not completing it on time.

Dream Project

Step #1: Dreams Log Sheet:  Dreams_log sheet

Step #2: Dream Journal Directions Dream Journal Directions

Step #3: Dream Project Paper  Dream Project_Paper Directions

*paper is required

*if you do not do the log sheet, you must answer question number 6 on the paper.