Watching students adapt to a new perspective—literally! Our Perceptual Adaptation Lab with distortion goggles demonstrates the brain's incredible ability to respond and adapt to your experiences! Pequannock Township High School @RichHayzler

This year we learned about our nervous system including types of neurons, such as motor, sensory, and interneurons. Using the Human Human Interface the ‘Master’ took over control of the ‘Minions’ motor neurons in their arm using their brain. Mind control! @RichHayzler Pequannock Township High School

Miracle Berries are a type of fruit found in West Africa that make sour/acidic foods taste sweet! It turns into an agonist and activates the sweet receptors on the tongue to send instructions to the brain to perceive the taste as sweet.🍋🍓🍇 Richard Hayzler Pequannock Township High School

Psychiatrist, Dr. Walsh with the PTHS AP Psych students sharing about what it’s like to be a psychiatrist and some super fascinating case studies. The students (and I) were captivated! Pequannock Township High School @RichHayzler

Love closing out the year with this question. “How will you use psychology in your life after this course?” Have a wonderful and safe summer PTHS!! Pequannock Township High School @RichHayzler

Psych students learning about the anatomy of the brain and the locations of the different structures! 😊 🧠 #peqpantherpride #psychology Pequannock Township High School @RichHayzler

AP Psych getting creative with nature! Using nature to help learn about the anatomy of a neuron. Pequannock Township High School @RichHayzler #peqpantherpride #psychology

This is how we learn about Motor Neurons in AP Psych class!!🧠💪🏻Using this Human-Human Interface you can send motor messages from your brain to the motor neurons of someone else’s arm! (waivers were signed by guardians). Pequannock Township High School @RichHayzler #peqpantherpride #psychology

Believe it or not but this activity is to help show that language is processed in the left hemisphere and not the right hemisphere! @RichHayzler Pequannock Township High School #psychology #peqpantherpride

A deep dive into the Somatosensory Cortex! Discovering how each neuron can only send one signal at a time so if two points are touching the same neuron you only feel one point! @RichHayzler Pequannock Township High School #psychology #peqpantherpride

AP Psychology Brain Fair 2024! I always love seeing what the students come up with! Thank you Mr. Silipena for joining our fair! 😊 🧠 Pequannock Township High School @RichHayzler #peqpantherpride #psychology

This years psychology Halloween costume! Hint: it’s a part of the brain.🦛 (students earned candy for guessing it correctly😂) Pequannock Township High School @RichHayzler #peqpantherpride #psychology

Absolute Threshold Lab! Task: to find your absolute threshold of sugar in 1 cup of water. How many tsps of sugar do you need to detect sweetness 50% of the time? Where half of the time you don’t detect sweetness, and half of the time you do. Pequannock Township High School @RichHayzler #APPscyhology

Yesterday’s Difference Threshold Lab and today’s Sensory Adaptation Lab!! #APpsychology Pequannock Township High School @RichHayzler

‘Are You a Supertaster, Medium Taster or Hypotaster?’ Lab 👅 and also the ‘To Eat or Not to Eat’ Smell Lab 👃🏼 in our Sensation and Perception Unit! Pequannock Township High School @RichHayzler #psychology #peqpantherpride

Brought all the backpacks Interact Club put together to the organizations own “Packing Day” yesterday. The bags will be distributed to people who are homeless this week in Patterson, Newark, & NYC! Pequannock Township High School @RichHayzler #pthspantherpride

JL Blessings Backpack organization was on the news this week! You can see me waving in the back of the clip they show from Sunday’s “Packing Day!” Check out the video to see what happens to the backpacks after they are put together at PTHS! @RichHayzler Pequannock Township High School

Student representatives at the AP/Elective Fair!! #psychology #appsychology @RichHayzler Pequannock Township High School