AP+Psychology


 * ~ Unit ||~ Start Date (duration) ||~ Essential Questions ||~ Content / Concepts ||~ Skills ||~ Texts ||~ Supporting / Supplementary Materials ||~ **Assessment** ||
 * 1 || Introduction-2 weeks || What is Psychology?

What are psychology's big issues?

What types of questions does psychology address?

How did psychology develop?

What are ways to approach the study of psychology?

What are psychology's major levels of analysis? || 1. Psychology's Roots

2. Psychological Science develops

3. Psychology's biggest Question

4. Psychology's three Main Levels of Analysis

5. Psychology's Subfields ||  || Myers PsychologyforAPUnit1 ||  ||  ||
 * 2 || Research-2 weeks || Why is it necessary to conduct formal research?

How do scientists ask and answer questions?

What principles guide our ability to make generalizations and decide if information is significant?

What are the limits of ethical research? How does one conduct ethical research? || 1. The need for Psychological science: Hindsight Bias, overconfidence, the scientific attitude

2. How do Psychologists ask and answer questions? The scientific method, Description, Correlation, experimentation

3. Statistical reasoning in Everyday Life: describing data, making inferences, ethics in research ||  || Myers Psychology for AP Unit 2 ||  ||  ||
 * 3 || Neuroscience-4 weeks || What is the connection between the brain and the body? The brain and behavior?

What is the interplay between genes and environment? Nature and nurture? To what extent are our individual difference the product of our genetics and to what extent are they the product of our environment? || __Neural processing and the Endocrine system__ 1. Neural Communication:neurons,How neurons communicate, How neurotransmitters influence us.

2. The Nervous System: The Peripheral nervous system, the central nervous system

3.The endocrine system

__The Brain__ 1. The tools of Discovery 2. Brain structures 3. Split-brain patients 4. Lateralization

__Genetics, Evolutionary Psychology, and Behavior__ 1. Behavior Genetics-Predicting individual differences: Genes, Twin and adoption studies, heritability, gene and environment interaction, molecular genetics

2. Evolutionary Psychology-Understanding human nature: Natural selection and adaptation ||  || Myers Psychology for AP Unit 3 ||  || ||
 * 4 || Sensation and Perception-3 weeks || How do our sensations shape our perceptions?

How do our perceptions shape our sensations?

How do our perceptual constancies that impact the way in which we experience the world?

Why in perception is the "whole" greater than the "sum of its parts"? || 1.Basic Principles of sensation and perception: Selective attention, thresholds, sensory adaptation

2.Vision: Light energy, the eye, visual information processing, color vision

3. Hearing: Sound waves, the ear, hearing loss and deaf culture

4. Other senses: Touch, Pain, Taste, Smell

5. Perceptual Organization: Form perception, depth perception, motion perception, perceptual constancy

6. Perceptual Interpretation: Sensory deprivation and restored vision, perceptual adaptation, perceptual set ||  || Myers Psychology for AP Unit 4 ||  || ||
 * 5 || Consciousness-2 weeks || What is consciousness? To what degree are we in control of our own consciousness? || 1. Sleep and Dreams: Biological rhythms and sleep, why do we sleep, sleep disorders, dreams

2. Hypnosis

3. Drugs: dependence and addiction, psychoactive drugs ||  || Myers Psychology for AP Unit 5 ||  || ||
 * 6 || Learning-2 weeks || How do we learn?

Do cognitive factors affect the way in which we learn or is learning merely the forming of behavioral associations and links? || 1. Classical conditioning

2. Operant conditioning

3. Observational learning ||  || Myers Psychology for AP Unit 6 ||  ||  || What would a person be without memory? How does it shape our experiences? || __Memory__
 * 7 || Cognition-4 weeks (Memory, thinking, language) || Memory:

1. Information processing: Encoding, storage, retrieval

2. Forgetting: Encoding failure, storage decay, retrieval failure

3.Memory construction: Misinformation and imagination effects, source amnesia ||  || Myers Psychology for AP Unit 7 ||  || || 1.Instincts and evolutionary psychology 2. Drives and incentives 3. Optimum arousal 4. Hierarchy of motives
 * 8 || Emotion, Stress, and Health-4 weeks ||  || __Motivational Concepts:__

__Hunger:__ 1.The physiology and psychology of hunger

__Emotion:__ 1. Theories of emotion 2.Embodied emotion 3.Expressed emotion 4.Experienced emotion

__Stress and Health:__ ||  || Myers Psychology got AP Unit 8 || ||  ||
 * 9 || Development-2 weeks || Is development impacted more by nature or by nurture?

Does development hapen in a continuous flow or in discrete stages?

Are characteristics stable or do they change over time? || __Prenatal Development and the newborn__:Concept, Prenatal Development, and the competent newborn __Infancy and Childhood__:Physical, cognitive, social, and gender development (Piaget, Kohlberg, Vygotsky)

Parents and Peers

__Adolescence:__Physical, cognitive and social development

Adulthood ||  || Myers Psychology for AP Unit 9 ||



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 * 10 || Personality-2 weeks ||  || The Psychoanalytic Perspective (Freud and Neo-Freudias)

The trait perspective

The humanistic perspective (Maslow and Rogers)

The social-cognitive perspective

Exploring the self ||  || Myers Psychology for AP Unit 10 ||



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 * 11 || Testing and Individual Differences-1 week || What is intelligence? || Definition of intelligence

Assessing intelligence

Dynamics of intelligence

Genetic and Environmental influences on genetics ||  || Myers Psychology for AP Unit 11 ||

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 * 12 || Abnormal Psychology-2 weeks ||  || Perspectives on Psychological disorders

Anxiety Disorders

Somatoform Disorders

Mood disorders

Schizophrenia

Personality Disorders ||  || Myers Psychology for AP Unit 12 ||









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 * 13 || Therapy-2 weeks ||  || __The Psychological Therapies:__ Psychoanalysis, humanistic therapies, behavior therapies, cognitive therapies, eclectice therapies

Evaluating Psychotherapies-Is psychotherapy effective?

__The biomedical__ __therapies__:Drug therapies, ECT, alternative therapies ||  || Myers Psychology for AP Unit 13 ||



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 * 14 || Social Psychology-2 weeks ||  || __Social Thinking:__ Attribution, attitudes and actions

__Social Influence:__Conformity, obedience, Group influence, cultural influence, the power of individuals

__Social Relations__: Prejudice, aggression, attraction altruism, conflict and peacekeeping ||  || Myers Psychology for AP Unit 14 ||









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