Guiding Thought Question: You notice your teacher is starting to lose their voice trying to get the student's attentions. Come up with a suggestion for the teacher on how they can use the ideas of classical conditioning to train the students to perform a task (sitting down quietly at the beginning of class) without having to use their voice. Identify the conditioned stimuli and the conditioned response.

Today's Learning Objective: Students will be able to explain how the ideas of Classical conditioning are applied to the actual development of Learning. Students will go through notes and examples of uses of classical conditioning and then apply their learning to come up with a plan to help someone with a psychological disorder.

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Guiding Thought Question: Watch the Clip titled The Office Classical Conditioning and based off that clip and your prior knowledge explain what you think conditioning is. 

Today's Learning Objective: Students will be able to describe the principles of Classical Conditioning and the theory behind it. Students will take notes and answer critical thinking questions related to them.

Guiding Thought Question: In your own words describe why it is important that psychology follows certain procedures, like the scientific method, when collecting data.

Today's Learning Objective: Students will be able to describe the methods used by sociologists to collect data. Students will take notes on the different methods and then watch a video about research methods and their applications. Students will answer thought questions about these topics. 

Guiding Thought Question: Based on what you know of psychology and other sciences would you say that psychology is a Soft Science, or a Hard Science? Explain.
     Soft Science: Uses scientific methods but through                                             investigation it may be difficult to establish                                  strictly measurable criteria.  

Today's learning Objective: Students will be able to describe the role of different research methods and how the scientific method is used in psychological research. Students will take notes on the theories of psychological research methods and then find an experiment and answer application style critical thinking questions. 

Guiding Thought Question: Come up with a specific example of how you can apply psychology directly to your life?

Today's Learning Objective: Student will be able to explain the different ways that psychology can be used in modern science/medicine. Students will examine notes dealing with the applications of Psychology and then complete an assignment where they will research and answer critical thinking questions about how psychology works with that career.