Waltman's AP Psychology Page

06/10/2012

Remember tomorrow's Talent Show. See the amazing talented class from 2011. I'm sure you can do just as well.

End of school year Talent Show by AP Psychology Class.

05/05/2012

Remember to bring a pencil and Blue or Black pens for the Free Response Questions on Monday!

04/17/2012

If you didn't understand blind spots, retinas, optic nerves, etc....this might help!

I've made a lot of videos about juggling (and will continue to!) as well as minecraft. This is the first video I've made about a passion of mine that's large...

04/15/2012

Fun to watch!

This is a small animation a did as an exercise to experiment and explore all the graphical possibilities of representing the idea of the SPHERE, always thinking in searching Gestalt and form. Its all done in 3d, but i was more interested in the graphical...

04/15/2012

Not sure what happened to this page's history. FB changes things up again.

04/15/2012

A bit dry, but you might remember reading about Kandel's experiments.

http://bigthink.com/ Nobel Prize-winning neuropsychiatrist Eric Kandel describes new research which hints at the possibility of a biological basis to the unc...

03/19/2012

Just in time for our new chapter....Is creativity and intelligence related? Two sides of the same coin? Independent?

Bob Dylan was stuck. At the tail end of a grueling tour that took him across the United States and through England he told his manager ...

03/18/2012

60 Minutes segment tonight on "face blindness," the inability to recognize once familiar faces.

03/04/2012

Here is the TED Talk on building a human brain....amazing stuff. Watch, Listen, Learn. Be Blown Away. http://youtu.be/LS3wMC2BpxU

http://www.ted.com Henry Markram says the mysteries of the mind can be solved -- soon. Mental illness, memory, perception: they're made of neurons and electr...

03/03/2012

http://news.yahoo.com/build-human-brain-143401354.html

Henry Markram plans to build a brain from scratch. A neuroscientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, he believes the only way to truly understand how human brains work — and why they often don't — is to create one, then subject it to a barrage of experiments.

02/23/2012

2 articles on sleep....one is a good info graphic summarizing what you should know about sleep, and the other is about the history of sleep: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783 and http://holykaw.alltop.com/zzzzz-why-sleeping-is-so-important-infographi?tu2=1

Sleeping in one eight-hour chunk is a very recent phenomenon, and lying awake at night could be good for you, according to scientists and historians.

01/31/2012

http://www.biodigitalhuman.com/ #/pubkid=SR