There's quite a bit in this Radiolab story, but the central question is where does morality come from? Is morality taught or is it innate? For our purposes, this will be a memorable example of evolutionary psychology.

Here's the link to the story: http://www.radiolab.org/story/91508-morality/

I wanted to reiterate some of the things that I was discussing in class about class notes. Specifically, with this story, there is quite a bit of extraneous stuff that can be ignored. The storytelling is rich, complex, surprising, and memorable. That's why I use it. Michael Sandel, the famous philosophy professor from Harvard uses the trolley experiment has used and presumably still does use it in his classes as well. Your notes, however, should be shorter rather than longer, but include lots of space to add things later on.

What is memory? Can it be changed? This story from the people at Radiolab explores these questions from the perspectives of two very different people; and we open with a third person: an acerbic essayist named Andrei Codrescu.

The first of the two people is a psychologist named Dr Elizabeth Loftus. Her research principally concerns whether or not memories can be changed, or whether or not false memories can be implanted?!

The second is the story of an artist whose paintings seem to slowly be revealing a memory long forgotten/ignored—a supressed memory?

Here's the link to the story we listened to: http://www.radiolab.org/story/91573-adding-memory/

Here is the link to the article. After you have read and taken notes (essentially writing all of the highlighted text from the article), then, complete the quiz on Edmodo.

We will all tabulate the results (I will keep them anonymous) and perform a proper statistical analysis of the results over the next few days.

Here is a link to the AP Psychology Topic Outline. You should also visit the AP Psychology page from time to time.

Here is the link to the article about note-taking that we discussed (and will continue to frequently discuss) during class.

Your assignment is to do what the article says you should do: handwrite "generative" notes. What does that mean? Summarize, paraphrase, diagram, and so on. These are the key to what psychologists call "elaboration" and it is the key to encoding information into your short-term memory.

Related, of course, is the TED talk Feats of memory anyone can do.

Here's the website that I've been using concerning the events in Charlottesville, VA, over the past few weeks, and, in specific, those of August 12^th.

http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/elesson-setting-classroom-expectations-trust-tolerance-civil-discourse/

The assignment is to reflect on the events in Charlottesville by looking up and thinking about the terms social learning, social psychology, and motivation. Your written reflection should not be long, just read about the terms in the King text or online and think. For example, a psychologist might focus on motivation. One of the people interviewed said that he was there "because this is my town and I don't want to be intimidated". What do you think motivated him to be there, and then to talk to a reporter? Where do his ideas come from? Do you think he learned these ideas or does he have an instinct that compels him?

Don't write about that guy unless you're at a loss. I would prefer you pose and answer your own questions.