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(Old Version) Macro 2.3- Unemployment and Natural Rate of Unemployment- AP Macro
Mr. Clifford's explanation of frictional, structural, and cyclical unemployment and the natural rate of unemployment. Remember that "full employment" is not 0% unemployment. Even a normal health economy will experience frictional and...
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NEW AP® Economics Teacher Resources
Check out my new and improved AP® Economics Teacher Resources (2015).
Psychology Unlocked
THE COGNITIVE INTERVIEW - Geiselman (1984) & Fisher (1987)
The COGNITIVE INTERVIEW was created by Geiselman and Fisher in a bid to improve the quality of eye witness testimony. The Cognitive Interview has four distinct retrieval techniques at its core: 1) Re-establishing the context; 2)...
Brian McLogan
Rationalizing the radical to evaluate the limit
👉 Learn how to evaluate the limit of a function by rationalizing the radical. The limit of a function as the input variable of the function tends to a number/value is the number/value which the function approaches at that time. The limit...
Psychology Unlocked
Why is your first relationship so important? Internal Working Models - Psychology Revision Video
This video is the eighth installment of our Psychology Revision Series to prepare you for your exams with exactly the right information that you need to know.
Brian McLogan
Learn how to determine concavity and point of inflection AP style
👉 Learn how to determine the concavity of a function. A function is said to be concave up (convex) if the graph of the curve is facing upwards and the function is said to be concave down (concave) if the graph is facing down. To test for...
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The Shut Down Rule- Old Version
My 60 second explanation of the shut down rule. When the price falls below AVC a firm should shut down and produce nothing. It is better for them to take their fixed costs as a loss then to continue to produce.
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Graphing Perfect Competition Practice- Microeconomics
My 60 second explanation of how to draw a perfect competitive firm making a profit. This is a great way to see if you really understand the graphs. Identify which one of the four graphs is drawn correctly. Be sure to identify what is...
Psychology Unlocked
🧠 Introduction to Autism in 5 Minutes 🧠 Developmental Psychology
Autism is a developmental disorder associated with social and language abnormalities, as well as sterotypical and repetitive patterns of behaviour. It is a huge area of psychological research and many questions remain - as of yet -...
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🧠 What is a schema? 🧠 Cognitive Developmental Psychology
Schemas (or schemata) are a common concept in cognitive and developmental psychology. This video introduces the concept by outlining what a schema is, what is does, and how it is formed.
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Micro Unit 2 Summary- Supply and Demand NEW!!!
Hey econ students! This summary video covers microeconomics Unit 2: Supply and Demand. It covers demand, supply, elasticity, disequilibrium, equilibrium, shifts, taxes, and internations trade. Be sure to print and fill out the Unit 2...
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AP Economics Summer Institutes with Jacob Clifford
Last summer I put a video camera in the hallway and asked the participants if they wanted to share anything about their experience. The responses were kind and humbling. I'm very glad that they got so much out of it. If you teach AP...
Flipping Physics
8 General Suggestions for the Free Response Questions of any AP Physics Exam
After 11 years of teaching AP Physics, going through countless old exams and grading an equally innumerable number of student solutions to Free Response Questions, here are my suggestions to help future students out. AP® is a registered...
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Perfect Competition Long-Run (2 of 2)- Old Version
My 60 second explanation of perfect competition in the long run. It's an old video, but it's still good.
Brian McLogan
Values b and c that make the piece wise function differentiable
👉 Learn how to determine the differentiability of a function. A function is said to be differentiable if the derivative exists at each point in its domain. To check the differentiability of a function, we first check that the function is...
Flipping Physics
AP Physics C: Simple Harmonic Motion Review (Mechanics)
Calculus based review of Simple Harmonic Motion (SHM). SHM is defined. A horizontal mass-spring system is analyzed and proven to be in SHM and it’s period is derived. The difference between frequency and angular frequency is shown. The...
Psychology Unlocked
How to write an abstract for a scientific paper (with an example)
If you need to know how to write an abstract, this video goes through the process step-by-step, including a great example from a research report by Zhao and Rogalin (2017) published in Social Psychology Quarterly. If you're approaching...
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Series and Parallel Circuits - Review for AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism
AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism review of series and parallel circuits including: derivations of equations for resistors in series, resistors in parallel, capacitors in parallel, and capacitors in series, and where to place...
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Groups and Conformity - Social Influence - Psychology A-Level Revision Tool
This video is the first of a new Psychology A Level Revision series to prepare you for your exams with exactly the right information that you need to know.
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Classroom Activity- The Four Market Structures Candy Simulation
The best way to learn something is to do it! Here is another experiencial learning activity for economics that you can do with your students. It will help your students understand and explain the difference between the four market...
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Consumer and Producer Surplus and Dead Weight Loss
My 60 second explanation of consumer's surplus (CS) and producer's surplus (PS) and how to identify where it is on the graph. The bonus round shows how a price ceiling changes CS and PS and results in dead weight loss.
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*1st Place* 2009 AP Econ Music Video- Microeconomics
This is a music video created by a few of my students from the class of 2009. I think it is one of the best AP Economics music videos ever. Now they are off in college. BTW: "Econa Bin Laden" was their class's team name.
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Learn how to take the fourth derivative of a polynomial
👉 Learn how to find the higher derivative of a function. The derivative of a function, y = f(x), is the measure of the rate of change of the function, y, with respect to the variable x. The process of finding the derivative of a function...
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Why YOU should learn economics!
Why should you learn economics? Put simply, it's becasue it will make you a better decision maker and help you see the "unseen". Economics is the study how we deal with scarcity so we can use our resources as efficiently as possible. So...