Patrick+Fitzgibbon

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Here is a link to my yearlong plan on Google Documents. It took a long time to make so I hope you enjoy! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ryIAuXPcQfMEWhJ-0GmU7zaEXZuWxoQ92-kSQq-fNRk/edit?hl=en_US

Article 1 Review

Chabrol, H., van Leeuwen, N., Rodgers, R. F., & Gibbs, J. C. (2011). Relations between self-serving cognitive distortions, psychopathic traits, and antisocial behavior in a non-clinical sample of adolescents. // Personality & Individual Differences //, 51(8), 887-892. doi:10.1016/2011.07.008

My article was from an psychology journal called //Personality & Individual Differences//. To begin, I should reiterate that my inquiry project is in regards to the differences between independent learning styles and isolation as a psychological problem, like depression. This article certainly discussed the isolation aspect of this inquiry. The authors took questionaires from 972 high school students, and after a regression analysis, discovered that "cognitive distortions, psychopathic traits, as well as their interaction term were significant predictors of antisocial behavior in both genders" (889). This is something that is worth discussing in my inquiry project: if I am witnessing antisocial behavior, could the student be experiencing "cognitive distortions" or "psychopathic traits?" I am not a psychologist, so I will need to familiarize myself more with these terms and what their function within the mind is. However, this article allows me to draw correlations between isolationism and more serious psychological conditions. The article itself is relatively dense, but not inaccessible to someone with mild psychoanalysis familiarity. I found it particularly interesting that the authors advocate using their data analysis to construct a system of prevention and intervention. Though a skeleton outline, the plan emphasizes recognizing certain types of antisocial behavior as an after affect of cognitive distortions, and as such, demands intervention in order to prevent further psychological disturbance.

Below is my unit plan, divided into Table of Contents, UbD, and the actual plan itself.