FYI: Are You a Warrior or a Worrier?

Graphic: New York Times from Platon
Students from Shaker Heights, Ohio High School Before Taking SAT Tests

New information to go along with Chapter 5 on Stress

Sasha Rae-Grant (bottom right) said

" On the PSAT I felt pretty good, but I didn't get quite the score I wanted. I kept spacing out. That's a problem for me with standardized tests. I try to get myself as relaxed as possible before a test. I'm a BRONY, a teenage fan of "My Little Pony". I sometimes watch the episodes because the friendliness is relaxing"

NYTimes Slide Show

FYI: Class Self-Schema!

 

Can you find You?

Larger words indicate multiple choices by others

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FYI: The Trait of Shyness: What's the Latest?

Secrets of the Shy

Good overview of current thinking on this common personality trait

An Excerpt:

"Few things say "forget I'm here" quite so eloquently as the pose of the shy--the averted gaze, the hunched shoulders, the body pivoted away from the crowd. Shyness is a state that can be painful to watch, worse to experience and, in survival terms at least, awfully hard to explain. In a species as hungry for social interaction as ours, a trait that causes some individuals to shrink from the group ought to have been snuffed out pretty early on. Yet shyness is commonplace. "I think of shyness as one end of the normal range of human temperament," says professor of pediatrics William Gardner of Ohio State University."

Extra Credit Assignment -Self-Schemas

Go to www.wordle.net and create your own personality self schema. Pick at least 12 key traits you have and type them in the box as indicated. Enter the 3  traits you think are at the core of your being 4 or more times. They'll appear larger in the final product for emphasis. You can adjust the fonts, layouts and color to your satisfaction.

Then print it out in color using their print button. If that doesn't work for you, print from  "File" in Internet Explorer or Firefox. I'm having trouble printing at all from Chrome.  Due next Thursday (February 14) by class time (no late submittals). Good for 2 extra credit points. It's fun!

Look at the Gallery for what others have done.

FYI: Baby Morality Video

FYI: Just Like Me: The Challenge to Avoid Sameness

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Assignment #3 Chapter 3 Online Test

Take the test in your Springboard Course Content for Chapter 3. When complete submit your test for scoring online by Pearson and I will be notified electronically that you took the test (25 MC questions).

Take it by next Tuesday.