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Content: Unit 6
Content Standards
Learning and Intelligence
Students learn about learning,
beginning with two methods of
conditioning. Students also
consider the type of learning
that occurs simply by observing
others, and how people
remember what they have
learned and how they solve
problems.
Taken from the Essentials of
Psychology textbook
Key Questions:
Standard Area IVA: Learning
Content Standards
After concluding this unit, students understand:
IVA-1. Characteristics of learning
IVA-2. Principles of classical conditioning
IVA-3. Principles of operant conditioning
IVA-4. Components of cognitive learning
IVA-5. Roles of biology and culture in determining learning
Notes: from the National Standards for High School Psychology Curricula by the American
Psychological Association (http://www.apa.org/education/k12/national-standards.aspx)
Skills and Outcomes: When students have finished
Formative/Summative Assessments: Students
studying this topic, they will know and be able to:
How do we learn?
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What are different types of
learning?
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What is intelligence?
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How do we measure
intelligence?
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How do reward and
punishment work?
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Preview: journal writing on intelligence and smart.
Pair/share
List: write a list of superstitions. Explain how
these myths might have first started, connect with
the term conditioning
Notes: read and mark up reading on Classical
Conditioning page 171-176
Stimulus and Response activity – handout
Activity: experiment using dots
Introduce: operant conditioning by listing rewards
and punishments in their lives for certain activities
Apply: using four terms for operant conditioning,
apply to different situations
will complete the following products/other assessments to
demonstrate the skills and understandings they have
acquired.
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Mind Maps on four types of learning
Cranium – play the boardgame to
demonstrate the theory of multiple
intelligences. Write a reflection to connect the
principles with the game
Journals
Rain Man reflection – how does this film
demonstrate the theory of multiple
intelligences? Provide example
Multiple Intelligence test: survey on which
type of intelligence is strongest for each
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Are psychological
disorders learned behavior?
How does memory work?
How does culture influence
learning and behavior?
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Writing: using operant conditioning principles
activity. Write procedures using all four
components of operant conditioning to describe
how a child might learn to change an eating habit of
your choice
Experiment: using the classroom lights and a
sound, condition students to have their pupils dilate
when they heard that sound, regardless of the light
Case study: to tell the difference between classical
and operant conditioning, read a series of scenarios
and explain which type of learning is occurring
Social learning – why do we observe and imitate
some models and not others? What kind of models
are to be imitated? TWPS
Memory: list on the board common complaints
students have about school. Share the handout
“Remembering Information” which shares
strategies for improving memory and studying.
Board game: review memory and learning
strategies
Review: List 10 things you have learned in the past
few years. Next to each, mark if you learned it
through classical, operant, social or cognitive
learning. If the list is skewed, it means you don’t
view many of your behaviors as being learned. Try
to think of an example for each category from your
life.
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student. They chart their results and write a
reflection
Sample Intelligence tests: IQ, Mensa,
Rorschach
Project: Create a school using the theory of
multiple intelligences
Cognitive learning: On a blank piece of
paper, in the center place where you live. Pick
two places away from your home, one you
like and one you don’t about the same
distance away in opposite directions. Draw
them to scale without using rulers. Connect
the streets between your house and these
places. Emotional factors should have worked
themselves into your map without you
realizing it. Is the place you don’t like farther
away? Did you straighten the roads?
Quiz/Tests on Learning and Intelligence