Post 5 - The Anything Blog

This week, you can write about anything you want as long as you tie it to Psychology and keep it school appropriate! If you are stuck for ideas, go to Psych Central or Psychology Today . If you browse through those and still don't have an idea, you can always check out the blogs at Psychology Today, interesting stuff at Scientific American Mind, and the American Psychological Association's website has a bunch of stuff.

Find something worth talking about!!! Make sure you link the article(s) you are referring to and include a related picture.

Who can start the best discussion via comments?

Post 4 - Senses and Stuff

This week I want you to pick a sense and dig around on the internet for the weirdest, coolest, most interesting article about that sense. Summarize the article (4-5 sentences), give us your thoughts, include a picture and a link to the article.

If you have time after, here is a Color Challenge Test to see how good your color vision is!
Also, a video about the world's grossest cheese...does just looking at it bother you at all? Could you eat it?
Here's an interesting article about blue light and sleep from Harvard.
Post by Monday for full credit!
KH

Post 3 - BioHeroes

This week, let's review some brain functions using a little creativity! Find your birth month and birth date to get your part and neurotransmitter. Then, you will create a superhero based on the idea that they have some sort of heightened ability and special power based on both the part and the chemical. For example, my birthday is July 26 so my hero has abilities related to the amygdala (fear and aggression) and Serotonin (bonding and feel good). My hero is the RageCuddler. She seeks out people who need aggressive love and does her thing. Start with the origin story because every super hero needs the story of how they became that way. Then talk about how their special powers are used for good or to fight evil.

When you are finished with your story, come back here, click on some other AP Psych student links and read their stories.
Birth Month:
January - hippocampus
February - medulla oblongatta
March - hypothalamus
April - frontal lobe
May - reticular formation
June - occipital lobe
July - amygdala
August - motor cortex
September - temporal lobe
October - broca's area
November - parietal lobe
December - cerebellum

Birth Date:
1-5 Acetylcholine
6-10 Endorphins
11-15 Norepinephrine
16-20 Dopamine
21-25 Substance P
26-31 Serotonin

Post 2 - Your Life Story

Ok, for this week to preview Human Development, I want you to think about YOUR Human Development. I want you to tell your life story. I know you are just getting started but I'm sure you have an idea of where you want to go. Start with your birth, describe some milestones...first steps, first words, start of puberty...if you are up for sharing, no need to be specific :-) Ask your parents if you are stuck!

After you describe your past, I want you to tell us as much as you can about where you see your future headed. Include dates and details about the following:
- high school graduation
- college, degree, graduation, post-graduate studies
- marriage, who? where? when?
- kids, how many? when? names?!?
- jobs, your career aspirations
- retirement
- post retirement plans
- when do you think you will die?!? If you dare to guess!!

Put it all together, add links and/or pictures to enhance the story, then post it on your blog for us to see! Remember this is on the internet so keep it APPROPRIATE!

How fun will it be to look back at this blog in 10, 20, 50 years and see how much of it came true!?!

KH