Book+project

Your job is to pick a book that interests you and maybe even targets your weak areas. I suggest going to [|amazon] and reading reviews or ask me, don't judge it by its length or cover alone. **See me if you found a different book that isn't on the shelf or list below** and you want to do that. We can chat. Ask before you start to read though. Memoirs are not usually OK...

This is an 80 point assignment, the FRQ project exists for those who want a 60pt assignment. Please choose carefully based upon what you need to work on.

You are going to divide the book up into chapters, sections, whatever is most useful, and apply **vocabulary** (terms from psych, not just rando long words) we have covered already to what you read to create a series of infographics, one for each chapter or section as you can't fit many terms per graphic. This doesn't mean that you necessarily have to read the term in the book, but that clear connections need to exist. Note that this assignment will also exist for the April vacay assignment so if you want to do a book on something covered later...might be better later. There are lots of ways to make infographics, you can draw them with crayons, or generate them for free on pictochart, venngage, canva, easel.ly, here is a blog with some comparisons [|link].

New for this year you can also create a video diary chapter by chapter of the terms that you unearthed and how you connect them to the text, to AP psych content, etc. The key here is to use the medium of video to display a not ramble, but a coherent delve into each section that you delve into.

There were some questions about what infographics are, which tells me you haven't visited the pinterest chapter pages ever, this one just is numbers, but shows you clearly and concisely how powerful a bunch of stats can be shown to anyone and voila! data can be visualized link Here is one of just terms where the idea was to cohesively show what a librarian does: link Yeah, no need for you to draw, to create a powerful infographic! Here is an example of chunking and synthesis, both of which you have to do, Pixar's rules see, no need for artistry, but organization is key. Yes, you can organize by themes, chapters of the book, chapters in our text, whatever works for you! It is your infographic! __Your grade is based on:__ demonstration of understanding of terms 30%, understanding of text 20%, creativity 10%, connections between text and terms (synthesis) 20%, clarity of presentation and understanding 10%

I would suggest keeping a list of running terms/connections as you go. If you want a full list of the most important vocab there is for AP psych, you can go by chapter or here: [|427 terms most likely on AP psych test.] Yes, some of these you haven't learned yet. Sure you can include them if you want. Make sure you use the psych term, not the layman's term.

General Psych Ariely, Dan - Predictably Irrational Bronson and Merryman -Nurtureshock: New Thinking about Children -I love this book so hard I give it to all new parents who I love and I find it amazing for the development, research, social chapters. Carter, Rita - The Human Brain Book Carter, Rita - Mapping the Mind Chabris, Christopher - The Invisible Gorilla Eagleman, David - Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain Eagleman, David - The Brain: The Story of You Gazzaniga, Michael - Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience Gladwell, Malcolm - Outliers: The Story of Success Gladwell, Malcolm - Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Hadnagy, Christopher - Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking Kahneman, Daniel - Thinking, Fast and Slow Kandel, Eric - In Search of Memory Kean, Sam - The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons Laksas, Jeanne Marie - Concussion McRaney, David - You Are Not So Smart- Why You Have too Many Friends on Facebook, Why your Memory is Fiction, and 46 other Ways You are Deluding Yourself Medina, John - Brain Rules Migram, Stanley - Obedience to Authority Navarro, Joe - What Every Body is Saying Pennebaker, James - The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us Ratey, John J. - Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain Ronson, Jon - The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry Ros, Hana - Neurocomic Sapolsky, Robert - Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals Sapolsky, Robert - Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers Sapolsky, Robert - A Primate’s Memoir: A Neuroscientist’s Unconventional Life Among the Baboons Sapolsky, Robert - The Trouble With Testosterone Sharot, Tali - The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain Shermer, Michael - The Believing Brain Sweeney, Michael and Richard Restak - Brain: The Complete Mind Tavris, Carol and Elliot Aronson - Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me ) Turkle, Sherry - Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age Turkle, Sherry - Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other Zimbardo, Philip - The Lucifer Effect
 * Book list:**

Bauby, Jean-Dominique - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death Beam, Alex - Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America’s Premier Mental Hospital Cahalan, Susannah - Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness Colapinto, John - As Nature Made Him -The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl Dickson, Ken - Detour from Normal Doidge, Norman - The Brain That Changes Itself Fadiman, Anne - The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Genova, Lisa - Still Alice (A novel) Gregory, Julie - Sickened: The True Story of a Lost Childhood Hornbacker, Marya - Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia Jamison, Kay Redfield - An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness Kaye, Randye - Ben Behind His Voices Kaysen, Susannah – Girl Interrupted Pershall, Stacy - Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar Ramachandran, V.S. – Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind Ramachandran, V.S. – The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human Reiland, Rachel - Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder Sacks, Oliver - Awakenings Sacks, Sacks, Oliver - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Sacks, Oliver - An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales Sacks, Oliver - The Mind’s Eye Saks, Elyn - The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness Schiller, Lori and Amanda Bennett - The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness Taylor, Jill Bolte - My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Jouney Traig, Jennifer - Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood Van Winkle, Clint - Soft Spots: A Marine’s Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Wilensky, Amy - Passing for Normal: A Memoir of Compulsion
 * MEMOIRS, CASE STUDIES, AND PERSONAL ACCOUNTS**