Study Tools for your Motivation, Emotion, and Stress Test!

Hi Scholars! It's hard to believe, but your LAST unit test for 1st Semester is nearly upon us. On Thursday, (1/14), you'll be taking your test on Motivation, Emotion, and Stress, so I'm compiling some links/tools here that may be of help as you prepare to finish strong!

1. First, you may find it VERY helpful to review this unit's Learning Objectives. This is a list of things I would expect you to be able to know and do for the test. Especially since we began this unit before break, AND because there are a lot of different/separate topics we addressed, this is nice checklist to make sure you're not missing anything in your studying.
2. You also received Study Guide with practice multiple choice questions following last week's quiz. If you've been through those, and feel that more practice/new questions would be helpful, here are some (created by another AP Psych teacher).
3. Then, there's our good friend, Quizlet. I've embedded the flashcards below. 
4. Study Session Materials:
• Practice FRQ (also has confusing term pairs on pg. 2)
• Slides (will use these to prompt different review activties)
• (Short) vocabulary review [in part because I need to add to it]. Go to join.quizizz.com and enter game code 76532

Notes/Slides

Motivation


Emotion and Stress
Note: Still making some final edits on tomorrow's stuff. But, if you've been gone and want to see notes from an absence, everything up until tomorrow's (1/13) slides is current.

Pre-Break Resources

Welcome back! If you had been absent in the days before break, you might wish to check out these items.

Below you'll find the notes we completed up until break (more to come this week, of course, so this is an incomplete version of the slide show).

Also, you can try out the Mid-Year Review Questions we used on 12/23 by going to http://join.quizizz.com and entering code 39634. I will leave these practice questions active until 1/17/16, so you can access them at any time. :)

Study Resources: Motivation, Emotion, & Stress

As you begin to prepare for your Motivation, Emotion, and Stress Unit exam, you may find the following resources helpful.

• Practice Multiple Choice Questions
• Study Session Prompt(s): Practice FRQ & Confusing Term Pairs
• Some video reviews: Motivation Theory and Emotion Theory

Motivation Notes (1-26-15 through 2-2-15)



Emotion & Stress (2-3-15 to 2-10-15)

Studying for Your Motivation & Emotion Test

It's hard to believe it's already time for your unit test on Motivation & Emotion, and that feeling of disbelief is no doubt magnified by the fact that we've had such a disrupted school calendar as of late (Thanks, winter weather!). But Tuesday will be here quite soon.

We will be using Monday's class period to do some reviewing, something I typically don't devote much class time to, since I feel my students should be learning how to do their reviewing and studying outside of class in preparation for college-level work. However, given that you've been forced into learning a good chunk of this unit's content via the Internet because of our snow days, I really do feel a review day is in order.

As planned, I'll also be hosting a scheduled review session this evening (Sunday) from 5-7 PM, and I'll be available after school on Monday from 4 -6 PM to answer any questions you might have.

As always, there are online review tools at your disposal in order to aid your review, including:

• Quizlet Flashcards for Chapter 12 (Motivation) and Chapter 13 (Emotion + some Stress/Health stuff from Ch. 14). 
• Online Practice Tests on Motivation & Emotion
• Lots of Topic-Specific Review Resources (videos, websites) on the Study Resources Page.

Motivation and Emotion Study Helps

This unit may have gone by quickly, but don't be fooled! There is a lot of terminology and theory to master when studying motivation and emotion. I've linked up below a number of video clips that you may find useful in reviewing  major unit concepts. You'll find the two flashcard sets for this unit embedded below as well.

Happy studying! 

• The Science of Appetite (video)
• Scientific Tips for Weight Loss (video) - Great review of psychological and physiological factors that contribute to hunger...and how one can use this information to control weight.
• Video: Dying to Be Thin - we will view portions of this in class. For those who wish to see the full version, here it is!
• Video Lecture: Emotion Theories - Probably the greatest source of confusion for this unit. So, here is a recording of lecture notes for this topic in case you need a refresher.
• Video Lecture: Stress & Stressors - Quick overview of General Adaptation Syndrome and types of stress.
• Video Review: Motivation Theories - Quick overview of Motivation Theories covered in this unit.

Motivation and Emotion Unit Flashcards

Our test on Motivation & Emotion will come up soon after break (Tuesday, March 6th). To that end, be sure to make plans to attend our study session the night before (Monday, March 5th) from 5-7 PM. In the meantime, in addition to the study guide you received in class, you might find it helpful to brush up on the terms for this unit.
Motivation (Ch. 12)

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Emotion (Ch. 13 & some portions of Ch. 14)

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Quizlet for Motivation Unit

Greetings, all.

This Quizlet on Motivation should help with test prep tonight. Good luck. :)

U of M Semistarvation Study

During World War II, Ancel Keys and his colleagues at the University of Minnesota conducted a landmark study in human nutrition and hunger: the Human Starvation Study.

Keys sought to answer questions that were being raised by the horrible conditions brought about by the war in Europe: the effects of extremely low-calorie diets and cold, for example. The experiences of the participants in the semi-starvation conditions brought to light the psychological effects of hunger, particularly an inability to focus on anything other than food (including sexual relationships and intellectual persuits). His work is usually discussed in relation to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs because the subjects behavior seems to support the idea of the primacy of physiological needs.

Another fun fact: the "K-ration" developed for the US Army is referred to as such because of Keys' role in creating it (K for Keys).