Oklahoma Social Studies PS.3

PS.3 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• PS.3.1

  Explain process involved in effective problem solving and decision making.

• PS.3.2

  Describe principles of perception, including personal and environmental interactions.

• PS.3.3

  Describe the process, organization, and factors that influence encoding, storing, retrieving and forgetting memories.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students explain how thinking, perception, memory, and intelligence affect behavior. They describe how attention, past experience, and surroundings shape what people notice and remember. They identify a problem, compare options, make a choice, and check the result.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Given an illusion, students explain how expectations and lighting can change what they see. They trace a word from encoding to storage to retrieval and explain how weak attention or interference can cause forgetting. They compare options before choosing a solution and explain why one test score cannot define intelligence.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may assume everyone sees the same image the same way. They may think forgetting means a memory was never stored, even when a retrieval cue could help. They may mistake one test score for intelligence or choose the first solution without weighing options.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: A student studies beside a loud TV, blanks on a quiz, then remembers the answer after seeing a picture. Explain how attention affected encoding, why recall failed, and how the picture helped retrieval.

1. 01

   Read a mixed list of 12 fruits, tools, and animals; students group remembered words on paper and test recall after five minutes.

2. 02

   Show the duck-rabbit image without a label, then ask students how their expectations and the picture's details shaped what they saw.

3. 03

   Give pairs a phone lost at school card; award points for comparing calling it, retracing steps, and reporting it before choosing.

4. 04

   Give students a printed chart of two phone plans; have them weigh price, data limits, and coverage before choosing one.

• PS.2.2

  Identify and describe the structure and function of major brain systems, including the major parts of the brainstem, limbic system and cerebral cortex.

• PS.2

  Investigate the structure, biochemistry, and circuitry of the brain and the nervous system to understand their roles in affecting behavior.