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AP Test Prep
College Board

2008 AP® Psychology Free-Response Questions

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Parenting can befuddle new moms and dads, but psychology helps! Learners explain various theories of parenting and child development using a case-study model and materials from College Board. A second practice question asks scholars to...
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Baylor College

Body Strength

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Your young learners will discover how muscular strength and endurance can increase with this truly hands-on activity! Beginning by writing an acrostic for the word strength, class members then engage in tracking their ability to squeeze...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Backpacking - Lesson 5 - Getting in Shape for the Trail

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Do you have to be in decent condition to go on a weekend backpacking trip? This resource stresses the importance of fitness in backpacking. There are many ways to get the legs, the lungs, and the heart ready for a strenuous excursion....
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Learned Behaviors

For Students 7th - 12th
For this learned behaviors worksheet, students will learn the steps that Pavlov took in conditioning dogs to drool when they heard a bell. Students will then complete 2 short answer questions based on Pavlov's experiment.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Classical Conditioning Experiment

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students define classical conditioning and examine the effects on their everyday life. They participate in a classical conditioning experiment involving tapping a pencil, hopping, and taking their pulses.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Maniac McGee, Lesson 3

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students explore possible causes of stereotyping. In this multicultural awareness lesson, students participate in activities in which "conditioning" affects responses. Students compare their conditioned responses to possible community...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Types of Behavior

For Students 9th - 12th
In this behavior learning exercise, students review the different types of behaviors including instinct, reflex, and learned behaviors. This learning exercise has 10 terms in a crossword puzzle and 6 fill in the blank questions.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Animal Behavior

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this animal behavior worksheet, students will review various types of animal behavior including those that are instinctual and those that are learned. This worksheet has 10 true or false and 8 matching questions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Weights and Conditioning

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discover that circuit training is a stressful program of exercise that helps people prepare for individualized programs to maintain levels of fitness and to stimulate the cardio-vascular system. They follow the teacher around...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Interval Workout

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore how interval training works by performing activities that involve alternating short bursts of high intensity with lower intensity activities.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Animal Behavior - Why Do Dogs Drool?

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders give examples of learned behaviors. In this life science instructional activity, 7th graders simulate a behavior conditioning experiment. They complete an assessment at the end of the instructional activity.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fitness Race Track

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students complete a series of exercises and run laps. They estimate what their heart rate be at the end of the session and then check their estimates.
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Primary
York University

Classics in the History of Psychology: Behaviorism the Modern Note in Psychology

For Students 9th - 10th
"Behaviorism--The modern Note in Psychology" written by John B. Watson in 1925 was an important paper in the development of Behaviorism in Psychology. It is reproduced in full here.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Pavlovian Reactions Aren't Just for Dogs

For Students 9th - 10th
Benjamin N. Witts sketches a few situations in which people are conditioned to react in a Pavlovian way, from dating to parenting. [3:54]
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Interactive
Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: Pavlov's Dog

For Students 9th - 10th
You have to use the principles behind Pavlov's conditioning experiments in order to play this game and get the dog to drool when he hears a sound. You can also get more information about Ivan Pavlov and his research.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Fourth Grade Science: Life Science: Learned Behavior of Animals

For Students 4th - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Introduces learned behaviors and the different methods of learning.
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 8.3 Learned Behavior

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand different types of learned behavior among animals and humans.
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Website
Other

Us Masters Swimming: Body Conditioning Perfected

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource contains an article that describes body conditioning and also several reasons why strength training is a great workout. It also describes a type of equipment, Trimax, that is used for this workout.