A.P. Psychology Lesson Plans
Week 38 – May 27 – May 31
Monday, May 27 – NO SCHOOL – MEMORIAL DAY
Tuesday, May 28
SW present careers in Psychology
- Each student will present their Psychology career presentation
- Discuss potential careers
Assignment: Current Events due Wednesday
Wednesday, May 29
SW present careers in Psychology
- Each student will present their Psychology career presentation
- Discuss potential careers
- Collect current Event articles
Assignment: None
Thursday, May 30
SW present careers in Psychology
- Each student will present their Psychology career presentation
- Discuss potential careers
Assignment: None
Friday, May 31
SW present careers in Psychology
- Each student will present their Psychology career presentation
- Discuss potential careers
Assignment: None
Week 37 – May 20 – 24
Monday, May 20
SW present results/conclusions from their experiments
- Each student/group will present their results from their experiments
- Discuss results as a class
Assignment: None
Tuesday, May 21
SW present results/conclusions from their experiments
- Each student/group will present their results from their experiments
- Discuss results as a class
Assignment: None
Wednesday, May 22
SW present results/conclusions from their experiments
- Each student/group will present their results from their experiments
- Discuss results as a class
Assignment: None
Thursday, May 23
SWL careers in the field of Psychology
- Research various careers in the field of Psychology
- Go over guidelines for Presentations
- Discuss the careers and presentations
Assignment: Work on Career presentations – Due Tuesday
Friday, May 24
SWL careers in the field of Psychology
- Research various careers in the field of Psychology
- Go over guidelines for Presentations
- Discuss the careers and presentations
Assignment: Career presentations due Tuesday – Current Events due Wednesday
Week 35 – May 13 – 17
Monday, May 13
SW perform experiments/surveys in class
- Each group will perform their experiment in class
- Discuss error associated with each
Assignment: Bring Current Event Thursday and Friday
Tuesday, May 14
SW perform experiments/surveys in class
- Each group will perform their experiment in class
- Discuss error associated with each
Assignment: Bring Current Event Thursday and Friday
Wednesday, May 15
SW perform experiments/surveys in class
- Each group will perform their experiment in class
- Discuss error associated with each
Assignment: Bring Current Event Thursday and Friday
Thursday, May 16
SWL current Psychological information from media articles
- Each student shares a current event article in class
- Discuss major applications of the articles
Assignment: Bring Current Event Friday
Friday, May 17
SWL current Psychological information from media articles
- Each student shares a current event article in class
- Discuss major applications of the articles
Assignment: Experiment Results due Monday
Week 34 – May 6 - 10
Monday, May 6
SW take the AP Exam
- Report to Auditorium at 11:58
Assignment: None
Tuesday, May 7
SWL Experimental Guidelines for Project
- Go over Experimental Guidelines
- May work with a partner on the project
Assignment: Work on Design of Survey
Wednesday, May 8
SW design experiments in Computer lab
- 3021 B
- Design experiments with partner
Assignment: Work on Design of Survey – Bring Current Event Friday
Thursday, May 9
SW design experiments in Computer lab
- 3021 B
- Design experiments with partner
Assignment: Work on Design of Survey – Current Event Friday
Friday, May 10
SWL current Psychological Issues through Media Articles
- Each student will present his/her article
- Discuss Psychological significance of each article
Assignment: Surveys begin Monday
Week 33 – April 29 – May 3
Monday, April 29
SW Review for AP Exam
- Answer Free Response Questions from 2008 AP Practice Exam
- Discuss answers
- Review Developmental and Sensation/Perception
Assignment: None
Tuesday, April 30
SW Review states of Consciousness and Learning
- Review Consciousness
- Learning Concepts and vocab
Assignment: Study for AP Exam
Wednesday, May 1
SW review Memory, Thought and Language
- Youtube clips – Charles Schallford
- Memory,Thought and Language/Intelligence
- Confusing pairs discussion
Assignment: Study for AP Exam
Thursday, May 2
SW Emotion/Motivation and Personality
- Emotion/Motivation
- Personality/Stress/Health
Assignment: Study for AP Exam – Exam is Monday
Friday, May 3
SW review Disorders/therapies and Social Psychology
- Disorders and Therapies
- Guess at all Multiple choice
- Organize your FRQs
Assignment: GOOD LUCK ON AP EXAM MONDAY
Week 32 – April 22 – 26
Monday, April 22
SWL the Psychology of Attraction
- Mere exposure effect – Discuss
- Passionate love/Comanionate love
- Altruism
- The Norms of Helping
Assignment: Vocab due Wednesday – Vocab Quiz Wednesday
Tuesday, April 23
SWL Conflict and Peacemaking
- Conflict – Social Traps
- Mirror image perceptions
- The 4 Cs of Peacemaking
- Review Vocab terms
Assignment: Vocab due Wednesday – Vocab Quiz Wednesday
Wednesday, April 24
SW take vocab quiz on Social Psychology
- Study for Vocab Quiz on Social Psychology
- Vocab Quiz
- Begin Reviewing for AP Exam – Names from Unit I
Assignment: Start Reviewing/Preparing for AP Exam
Thursday, April 25
SW Review for AP Exam
- UNIT I Review for warmup – Basic/Applied Psychology – Counseling/Clinical Psychologists – Structuralism/Functionalism
- Bubba Brain Review – Bubbabrain.com – AP Psychology Review terms
Assignment: Review for Exam
Friday, April 26
SW Review for AP Exam
- Answer Free Response Questions from 2008 AP Practice Exam
- Discuss answers
- Practice exam for Homework
Assignment: Complete Practice Exam over Weekend
Week 31 – April 15 - 19
Monday, April 15
SW take Unit 13 Test on Treatment of Psychological Disorders
- 5 minute Review time
- Open Book Test on Unit 13
Assignment: None
Tuesday, April 16
SWL the attribution theory of Social Psychology
- Warmup – Figure 13.6 – Read/Understand – Summarize – Discuss
- Define Social Psychology
- Attribution theory/Attribution error
- Effects of Attribution
- Foot in the door phenomenon
- How actions affect attitude
Assignment:
Wednesday, April 17
SWL Obedience and Conformity
- Warmup – Cognitive Dissonance -
- Conformity and Obedience - Chameleon Effect – Mood linkage
- Group Pressure and Conformity
- Solomon Asch Study
- Conditions That Strengthen Conformity
- Ordinary people being corrupted
Assignment: Vocab Quiz Friday – Vocab terms due Friday
Thursday, April 18
SWL the effects of Group Interaction
- Social Facilitation/Social Loafing/Deindividuation
- Group Polarization / Group Think
- Culture / Norms/
- The Power of Individuals
Assignment: Keep reading Unit 14
Friday, April 19
SWL the difference between Prejudice and Discrimination
- Definitions of Prejudice and Discrimination
- Social Roots of Prejudice
- Cognitive Roots of Prejudice
- Aggression – Biology of Aggression
Assignment: Vocab due Friday – Vocab Quiz Friday
Week 30 – April 8 - 12
Monday, April 8
SWL the history of Psychological Treatments
- Warmup – Read p. 605 – Intro to Unit 13 – Take notes – Discuss
- Psychotherapy
- Psychoanalysis- Aims/Methods
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Humanistic Therapies – Insight therapies
- Client centered therapy
Assignment: Start reading Unit 13
Tuesday, April 9
SWL behavior therapy for psychological disorder
- Warmup – Counterconditioning – p. 611
- Classical conditioning techniques
- Aversive conditioning
- Operant conditioning
- Cognitive therapies
Assignment: Keep Reading Unit 13
Wednesday, April 10
SWL Group and Family Therapies
- Warmup – Fill in Table 13.1 into your notes – Discuss Psychotherapies
- Group and family therapy
- Is Psychotherapy Effective? Discuss
- Evaluating Alternative Therapies
Assignment: Keep Reading Unit 13
Thursday, April 11
SWL types of therapists and biomedical therapies
- Warmup – p. 621 – Read “Regressing From Unusual to Usual” – Discuss
- Therapists and their training
- Biomedical therapies
- Drug therapies
- Mood Stabilizing Medications
Assignment: Finish Reading Unit 13
Friday, April 12
SWL Electroconvulsive therapy and Psychosurgery
- Warmup – p. 632 – Electroconvulsive Therapy – Discuss – Take Notes
- Alternative Neurostimulation Therapies
- Psychosurgery
- Preventing psychological Disorders
Assignment: Unit 13 Test Monday – Unit 13 Notes due Monday
Week 29 – March 25 – 29
Monday, March 25 – Professional Development Day
Tuesday, March 26
SWL Mood disorders
- Warmup – Read “Understanding Identity Disorder”, p. 578-579 – Discuss
- Define Mood Disorders –
- Major Depressive Disorder
- Bipolar Disorder
- Understanding Mood Disorders
Assignment: Vocab Quiz Thursday – keep Reading Unit 12
Wednesday, March 27
SWL how to understand Mood Disorders
- Warmup – Read “Suicide”, p. 584-585 – Answer Questions – Discuss
- The Biological Perspective of Mood Disorders
- Social Cognitive Perspective of Mood Disorders
- Explanatory style of Mood Disorders
- Vicious Cycle of Depression
Assignment: Vocab Quiz Thursday – keep Reading Unit 12
Thursday, March 28
SW take vocab quiz on Psychological Disorders
- 5 minute study time
- Vocab Quiz
- Schizophrenia
- Symptoms of Schizophrenia
- Types of Schizophrenia
Assignment: Keep Reading Unit 12
Friday, March 29
SWL the development of Schizophrenia
- Warmup – Brain abnormalities of schizophrenics – Read and discuss
- Genetic factors of schizophrenics
- Psychological factors of schizophrenics
- Personality disorders
- Antisocial personality disorder
- Rates of Psychological disorders
Assignment: Unit 12 Test Tuesday – Finish Reading Unit 12
Week 28 – March 18 – 22
Monday, March 18
SW take various Intelligence tests online
- Students will take at least 4 different intelligence tests online
- Assignment due Friday on Intelligence tests
Assignment: Lab assignment due Friday
Tuesday, March 19
SW take quiz on Unit 11 and SWL abnormal Psychology
- 5 minute study time
- Quiz on Testing and Intelligence
- After quiz, read Introduction to Unit 12, p. 561-562
- Discuss definition of Abnormal Psychology
Assignment: Current Events due Thursday
Wednesday, March 20
SWL how to classify Psychological Disorders
- Turn in Warmups
- Warmup – Read Intro on p. 564 – Discuss “yesterday’s therapy.”
- The Medical Model to understanding psychological disorders
- The Biopsychosocial approach to psychological disorders
- Classifying Psychological Disorders
- How are psychological Disorders diagnosed?
Assignment: Current Events due Thursday
Thursday, March 21
SWL anxiety disorders
- Warmup – Read p. 569 – Take 5 notes – Insanity pleas Discussion
- Labeling Psychological Disorders
- Anxiety disorders
- Generalized anxiety disorder/Panic disorder/Phobias/OCD/PTSD
- Understanding Anxiety disorders
Assignment: Current Events due Friday
Friday, March 22
SWL Somatoform Disorders and Dissociative disorders
- Warmup – Define Somatoform
- Somatoform disorders/Hypochondriasis
- Mood Disorders
Assignment: All makeup work due Tuesday
Week 30 – March 26 – 30
Week 27 – March 11 – 15
Monday, March 11
SWL Sternberg’s 3 intelligences theory
- Warmup - Summarize Sternberg’s theory on 3 intelligences – Discuss
- Compare/Contrast the 4 theories on Intelligence
- Emotional intelligence and categories
- Brain size and intelligence – Brain complexity studies
- Origins of Intelligence testing – Galton
Assignment: Paper due Tuesday – Work on Current Events – Read Unit 11
Tuesday, March 12
SWL the origins of Intelligence testing
- Warmup – Complete the WAIS on p. 536 – Discuss answers and test
- Stanford Binet Intelligence tests
- How to calculate IQ – Formula
- Modern tests on Intelligence
- Achievement tests/Aptitude Tests/WAIS
Assignment: Work on Current Events – Read Unit 11
Wednesday, March 13
SWL principles of test construction
- Warmup – Define normal curve. – Summarize results of Figure 11.6, p. 537
- Standardization/Normal Curve/Flynn Effect
- Reliability/Validity
- The dynamics of Intelligence – Stability or Change – Questions – Discuss
Assignment: Keep Reading Unit 11
Thursday, March 14
SWL the extremes of Intelligence
- Warmup – Table 11.3 – Copy into notes – Discuss Intellectual Disablities
- The low extreme – Intellectual Disabilities/ The High Extreme – Giftedness
- Genetic and Environmental Influences on Intelligence
- Identical twin studies – adoption studies – Summarize
Assignment: Current Events due March 19th – Unit 11 Quiz Tuesday
Friday, March 15
SWL group differences in intelligence scores
- Warmup – Head Start, p. 548 – Read – Advantages? Disadvantages? – Discuss
- Heritability – Discuss Figure 11.11
- Schooling and Intelligence
- Gender Similarities and Differences on Intelligence
- Ethnic similarities and Differences on Intelligence
- Two meanings of Bias – Test-takers’ expectations (stereotype threat)
Assignment: Unit 11 Quiz Tuesday – Current Events due March 19 – Meet in lab Mon.
Week 26 - March 4 – 8
Monday, March 4
SWL various Research methods for Personality testing
- Warmup – “How to be a Successful astrologer or palm reader?”, p. 498-499 – Discuss
- US Army spy training
- Comparing Research Methods – Discuss and add to notes
- Exploring the self – self serving bias
Assignment: Unit 10 Test Thursday
Tuesday, March 5
SWL individualism versus collectivism
- Warmup – “Are you living up to your Superpotential?” Quiz – Discuss
- Exploring the self – self serving bias
- Value Contrasts between individualism and collectivism
- Go over Paper guidelines
Assignment: Unit 10 Test Thursday
Wednesday, March 6
SW review for Unit 10 Test on Personality
- Unit Review on Personality
- Discuss free response questions
Assignment: Unit 10 Test Thursday
Thursday, March 7
SW take test on Personality
- 5 minute study time
- Personality Test
Assignment: Work on Current Events – Paper due Tuesday
Friday, March 8
SWL intelligence and theories on types of intelligence
- Warmup – Intelligence War - Discuss
- Spearman’s – General Intelligence theory
- Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence theory
- Rate your own Intelligences - Discuss
Assignment: Work on Current Events – Paper due Tuesday
Week 25 – February 25 – March 1
Monday, February 25
SWL personality indicators and the Big 5 Personality Factors
- Warmup – “Are you a People Person” Quiz – Discuss
- Personality indicator tests
- The Big 5 Personality Factors
Assignment: Meet in 1003F Thursday – Bring 2 current events Friday
Tuesday, February 26
SWL ways individuals and the Environment interact
- Warmup – “How well do you know yourself?” Quiz – Discuss
- Review Big 5 Personality Factors
- Social Cognitive approach
- Ways individuals and the environment interact
Assignment: Meet in 1003F Thursday – Bring 2 current events Friday
Wednesday, February 27
SWL ways to study personal control
- Warmup – Personal control reading and questions
- 2 ways to study personal control
- Benefits of personal control
- Positive Psychology
Assignment: Meet in 1003F on Thursday – Bring 2 current events Friday
Thursday, February 28
SW take various Personality tests in the Computer lab
- Students report to 1003F
- Students will take various personality tests
Assignment: Personality test results due Monday – Bring 2 current events Friday
Friday, March 1
SWL current Psychology issues through media articles
- Each student will present his or her current event articles
- Discuss significance of each article.
Assignment: Personality test results due Monday
Week 24 – February 18 - 22
Monday, February 18
SWL personality and the psychoanalytic perspective
- Warmup – “Are you ruled by your mood?” Quiz - Discuss
- Define personality
- Psychoanalytic perspective
- Parts of the Mind, according to Freud
- Id, Ego , Superego
- Personality development
Assignment: Start reading Unit 10 on Personality – Vocab due Wednesday – Quiz Thu.
Tuesday, February 19
SWL Personality defense mechanisms
- Warmup – “How Daring are you?” Quiz – Discuss
- Personality defense mechanisms – Discuss
- Neo-Freudian Theorists
- Assessing Unconscious Processes – Inkblots, TATs, projective tests
- Evaluating the Psychoanalytic perspective
Assignment: Keep reading Unit 10 – Vocab due Wednesday – Vocab quiz Thursday
Wednesday, February 20
SWL the humanistic perspective of Personality
- Warmup – “How well do you know yourself?” Quiz – Discuss
- Humanistic Perspective
- Maslow’s self actualization
- Carl Rogers Person centered Perspective
- Trait Perspective
- Factor analysis of the Trait perspective
Assignment: Keep reading Unit 10 – Vocab Quiz Thursday
Thursday, February 21
SW take vocab quiz and SWL personality inventories
- Warmup – 5 minute study period for quiz
- Vocab quiz on Personality
- Personality inventories - Discuss
Assignment: Keep Reading Unit 10
Friday, February 22
SWL the Big 5 Personality Factors
- Warmup – “Are you a Wallflower” Quiz – Discuss
- Big 5 Personality Factor Chart
- Discuss Personality
- Person-situation controversy
Assignment: None
Week 23 – February 11 – 15
Monday, February 11
SWL the developmental stages of Adolescents
- Warmup – read p. 449 on Kohlberg – Explain stages - Discuss
- Review Piaget’s Cognitive development for Adolescents
- Kohlberg’s Moral Development
- Eriksons Psychosocial Development
Assignment: Vocab due Wednesday – Vocab Quiz Wednesday
Tuesday, February 12
SWL the stages of Adulthood
- Warmup – Finish last 4 stages of Erikson and Discuss
- Stages of Emerging Adulthood
- Physical development in adulthood
- Cognitive development in adulthood
- Social development in adulthood
Assignment: Vocab due Wednesday/Vocab Quiz Wednesday
Wednesday, February 13
SW take Vocab quiz and SWL continuity of Developmental stages
- 5 minute study/review for quiz
- Vocab quiz
- Continuity of Developmental stages
Assignment: Unit 9 Test Friday
Thursday, February 14
SW review for test on Developmental Psychology
- Review questions
- Review vocab quizzes
- Free Response question preparation
Assignment: Unit 9 Test Friday
Friday, February 15
SW take test on Developmental Psychology
- 5 minute review period
- Developmental Psychology Test
Assignment: None
Week 22 – February 4 - 8
Monday, February 4
SWL Autism
- Warmup – Read p. 424-425 on Autism – Take 10 notes – Discuss
- Video on Autism from United Streaming
- Discuss Environmental factors with Autism
Assignment: Keep reading Chapter 9 – Vocab due Wed. -Vocab Quiz Wednesday
Tuesday, February 5
SWL social development in humans
- Warmup – Read p. 426-427 on Attachment – Answer questions, discuss
- Review of Piaget
- Social Development of humans
- Attachment and attachment differences
- Self concept
- Parenting style influences
- Culture and child rearing
Assignment: Keep reading Chapter 9 – Vocab due Wed. - Vocab Quiz Wednesday
Wednesday, February 6
SW take vocab quiz and Swl gender similarities and Differences
- 5 minute study time
- Vocab Quiz
- After quiz, read p. 435-437 – Fill in notes on gender differences
Assignment: None
Thursday, February 7
SWL the nature and nurture of gender
- Warmup – Gender roles – p. 438
- Nature of Gender
- Nurture of Gender
- Parents and Early experiences
- Peer Influence
- Adolescence – Physical development
Assignment: Vocab due Monday
Friday, February 8 - Parent – Teacher Conferences
Week 21 – January 28 – Feb. 1
Monday, January 28
SWL factors on Stress and Health
- Warmup – Addiction Quiz/Psychothearpy Quiz/Self Conscious Quiz – Discuss
- Finish Powerpoint notes on Stress/health
- General Adaptation Syndrome
- Stress and the Heart
- Stress and Susceptibility to Disease
Assignment: Finish Reading Unit 8B – Unit 8B Notes due Tuesday – Unit 8B Test Wed.
Tuesday, January 29
SWL motivation and Emotion
- Warmup – Are you ruled by your mood? How well do you know yourself? Discuss
- Go over Notes/Review For Test
- Review activity
Assignment: Unit 8B Test Tuesday
Wednesday, January 30
SW take test on Motivation and Emotion
- 5 minute study time
- Unit 8B Test
Assignment: None
Thursday, January 31
SWL the teachings of Developmental Psychology
- Warmup – Read p. 411 – Define Developmental Psychology – 3 issues of Dev. Psych – Discuss
- Prenatal development and the Newborn
- The competent newborn
- Physical development of the Child
Assignment: Start reading Chapter 9
Friday, February 1
SWL cognitive development in humans
- Warmup – Copy Table 9.1 into your notes- Piaget’s stages of Cog. Development
- Definition of Cognition
- Sensorimotor stage
- Preoperational stage
- Concrete Operational stage
- Formal Operational stage
Assignment: Keep reading Chapter 9
Week 20 – January 21 – 25
Monday, January 21 – MLK DAY – NO SCHOOL
Tuesday, January 22
SWL Emotions and the Nervous System
- Warmup – Pessimist vs Optimist Quiz – Discuss results
- Autonomic Nervous System
- Sympathetic vs Parasympathetic system
- Different Movie experiment
- Differences in brain activity
- Cognition and Emotion
Assignment: Keep Reading Unit 8B
Wednesday, January 23
SWL Expressed Emotion
- Warmup – Self Esteem Quiz – Discuss results
- Nonverbal cues
- Gender, emotion and nonverbal behavior
- Culture and emotion
- Levels of Analysis for Emotion
- Effects of Facial Expressions
Assignment: Keep Reading Unit 8B – Expressions due Friday
Thursday, January 24
SWL the Psychology of Fear, Anger and Happiness
- Warmup – Anger Quiz/Happiness Quiz – Discuss results
- Fear/Anger/Happiness – Notes from Powerpoint
- Discuss studies on each Emotion
Assignment: Keep Reading Unit 8B – Expressions due Friday
Friday, January 25
SWL Facial Expressions
- Each student will present their Facial Expression Assignment
- Discuss each picture and what it tells us
Assignment: Keep Reading Unit 8B
Week 19 – January 14 - 18
Monday, January 14
SW take 2nd and 5th period exams
Tuesday, January 15
SW take 3rd and 4th period exams
Wednesday, January 16
SW take 1st and 6th period exams
Thursday, January 17
SWL theories of Emotion
- Warmup – Define Emotion – 2 Controversies with Emotional arousal – Discuss
- James-Lange Theory
- Cannon-Bard Theory
- Two factor theory
Assignment: Start reading Unit 8B
Friday, January 18
NO School - Teacher Workday
Week 18 – January 7 – 11
Monday, January 7
SW finish Chapter on Motivation and begin to review for Semester Exam
- Finish up Motivation Unit
- Start working on review sheet
- Exam – 100 questions and 2 Free Response
- Work on Current Event assignment
Assignment: Work on Exam Review – Current Events due Wednesday
Tuesday, January 8
SW review for Semester Exam
- Complete review sheet
- Exam – 100 questions and 2 Free Response
Assignment: Work on Exam Review – Current Events due Wednesday
Wednesday, January 9
SWL current Psychological issues through current events
- Split into groups and share each article
- Discuss at least 5 articles as a class
Assignment: Work on Exam Review
Thursday, January 10
SW review for Semester Exam
- Complete review sheet
- Exam – 100 questions and 2 Free Response
Assignment: Work on Exam Review
Friday, January 11
SW review for Semester Exam
- Complete review sheet
- Exam – 100 questions and 2 Free Response
Assignment: Work on Exam ReviewWeek 17 – December 17 - 21
Monday, December 17
SWL Maslow’s hierarchy
- Maslow’s hierarchy of needs – Warmup – fill in the Hierarch
- Maslow’s Hierarchy worksheet
- Discuss answers at end
Assignment: Work on Current Events – Read Unit 8A
Tuesday, December 18
SWL motivational factors in humans
- Warmup – Read p. 327 on Aron Ralston – Discuss his motivation
- Definition of Motivation
- Instincts and Evolutionary Psychology
- Drives and incentives
- Maslow’s Hierarchy
Assignment: Work on Current Events – Read Unit 8A
Wednesday, December 19
SWL the physiology of Hunger
- Warmup – What motivates you? Why? – Discuss
- Physiology of Hunger
- Body Chemistry and the Brain
- Taste preferences
- Eating disorders
Assignment: Work on Current Events – Read Unit 8A
Thursday, December 20
SWL Obesity and Weight Control
- Warmup – Analyze Figure 8A.8 and 8A.9 on p. 340-341. – Discuss
- Explanations for Obesity
- Social Effects of Obesity
- Weight Discrimination
- Physiology of Obesity
Assignment: Work on Current Events – Read Unit 8A
Friday, December 21
SWL the role of sex hormones on Behavior
- Warmup – Why do American teens have a lower rate of Contraceptive use than European teens? Read p. 352 – Write down 5 reasons – Discuss
- Estrogen and Testosterone
- External vs Internal Stimuli
- Sexually transmitted Infections
Assignment: Current Events due Jan. 9 – Finish Reading Unit 8A
Week 16 – December 10 – 14
Monday, December 10
SW review Experiment results
- Each group presents results from experiment
- Discuss each experiment to class
Assignment: Bring Current Event Wednesday and Friday
Tuesday, December 11
SWL thinking and Language
- Warmup – Fear Factor – p. 308-309 – Answer questions – Discuss
- Finish powerpoint on Language Development and Thinking
Assignment: - Bring Current Event Wednesday and Friday
Wednesday, December 12
SWL current Psychological issues through current events
- Split into groups and share each article
- Discuss at least 5 articles as a class
Assignment: None
Thursday, December 13
SWL Language development in humans
- Discovering Psychology clip on Cognition
- Language Development in Humans
Assignment: Bring Current Event Friday
Friday, December 14
SWL current Psychological issues through current events
- Split into groups and share each article
- Discuss at least 5 articles as a class
Assignment: None
Week 15 – December 3-7
Monday, December 3
SW take Test on Memory Unit
- 5 minute study time
- UNIT 7A Test on Memory
Assignment: Work on Paper
Tuesday, December 4
SWL cognition and thinking concepts
- Warmup – Deck of cards – Indian Poker experiment – Knots- timed discuss
- Definition of Cognition
- Concepts
- Problem Solving Strategies
Assignment: Key terms due Friday – Vocab Quiz Friday
Wednesday, December 5
SWL creativity and obstacles to problem solving
- Warmup – Scrambled word lists experiment, p. 4-6 Activity book – Discuss
- Creativity
- Obstacles to problem solving – Human Pretzel – Paper Airplanes
- Heuristics
- Making decisions and forming judgments
Assignments: Key terms due Friday – Vocab Quiz Friday – Paper due Monday
Thursday, December 6
SWL language development in humans
- Warmup – Fill in the blank activity - _ _ _ _ I _ _ _ _ _ _ ING
- Define language
- Phonemes, morphemes, syntax
- Stages of productive language
- Operant learning and language
- Universal grammar
Assignment: Key terms due Friday – Vocab Quiz Friday – Paper due Monday
Friday, December 7
SW take vocab quiz and SWL linguistic determinism
- 5 minute study time
- Vocab Quiz
- Linguistic determinism
- Finish powerpoint notes
Assignment: Paper due Monday
Week 14 – November 26 – 30
Monday, November 26
SWL the retrieval process in memory
- Review LTP, priming and stress hormones
- Context effects
- Moods and memories
- Theories on Forgetting
Assignment: Experiments due Wednesday/Thursday
Tuesday, November 27
SWL interference theories and Repression
- Proactive versus Retroactive interference
- Motivated Forgetting/Repression
- Memory Reconstruction
- Improving memory techniques
Assignment: Experiments due Wednesday/Thursday
Wednesday, November 28
SW perform Memory experiments
- Each group performs their memory experiment
- Rest of the class are the research participants
Assignment: Unit 7A Test Monday
Thursday, November 29
SW perform Memory experiments
- Each group performs their memory experiment
- Rest of the class are the research participants
Assignment: Unit 7A Test Monday
Friday, November 30
SW perform Memory experiments
- Each group performs their memory experiment
- Rest of the class are the research participants
Assignment: Work on Paper – Unit 7A Test Monday
Week 13 – November 12 – 16
Monday, November 12
SWL different stages of memory
- Warmup – “The mind is slow in unlearning what it has been long in learning.” Seneca – Analyze and discuss
- Definition of Memory – Powerpoint notes
- Encoding-Storage-Retrieval
- Stages of memory
- Modified stages of memory theory
Assignment: Vocab due Thursday – Vocab Quiz Thursday
Tuesday, November 13
SWL how we encode information in the memory system
- Warmup – Read p. 258 – 259 on Encoding – Analyze and discuss
- Parallel vs Automatic processing
- Rehearsal – examples of rehearsal
- Ebbinghaus curve - Spacing effect
- Serial position effect
- Visual/acoustic/semantic encoding - Chunking
Assignment: Vocab due Thursday – Vocab Quiz Thursday
Wednesday, November 14
SWL storing information in the memory system
- Warmup – Analyze Figure 7A.7 – Discuss
- Iconic vs Echoic memory
- Short term vs Long term memory
- Stress hormones and memory
- Amnesia
- Implicit vs explicit memory
- Retrieval – getting information out
Assignment: Vocab due Thursday – vocab quiz Thursday
Thursday, November 15
SW take vocab quiz and SWL priming in memory
- Collect Key terms for homework grade
- 5 minute study time
- Vocab quiz on key terms
- After quiz, read p. 275-276. Analyze probing.
Assignment: Continue reading Unit 7A
Friday, November 16
SW begin Research methodology for memory experiments
Assignment: Work on experimentation
Week 12 – November 5 – 9
Monday, November 5
SWL various ways of learning
- Warmup –
- SW view Discovering Psychology Video Clips of Behavioral Experimentation
- Define vocab terms dealing with modeling
Assignment: Key terms due Wednesday – Vocab Quiz Wednesday – Unit 6 Test Friday
Tuesday, November 6 – NO SCHOOL – ELECTION DAY
Wednesday, November 7
SW take vocab quiz and SWL effects of exposure to violence
- 5 minute study time for quiz
- Vocab Quiz
- Analyze Figure 6.19 on p. 248 – Read it and Analyze it – Discuss at end of class
Assignment: Unit 6 Test Friday
Thursday, November 8
SW review for test on Learning
- Review vocab quizzes
- P. 250 – Read questions – Understand answers
- Different learning styles – Get ready for the Free Response Question
Assignment: Unit 6 Test Friday
Friday, November 9
SW take Unit 6 Test
- 5 minute study time
- Unit 6 Test
Assignment: None
Week 11 - October 29 – November 2
Monday, October 29
SWL human applications of classical conditioning
- Warmup- Summarize Figure 6.6 on stimulus generalization
- Stimulus generalization and stimulus discrimination
- Learned helplessness
- Biopsychosocial influences on learning
- Pavlov’s legacy
Assignment: 1st 23 Key terms due Wednesday – Quiz Wednesday
Tuesday, October 30
SWL Operant conditioning
- Warmup – Close up – p. 228 – Read, take notes - Discuss
- Operant Conditioning
- Law of Effect
- BF Skinner – Skinner Box
- Shaping – Discriminative stimulus
- Types of Reinforcers
Assignment: Key terms due Wednesday – Quiz Wednesday
Wednesday, October 31
SW take vocab quiz on Learning and SWL reinforcement schedules
- 5 minute study time
- Vocab Quiz on Learning
- Reinforcement schedules after quiz – Discuss – Slide 47-62 on Powerpoint
Assignment: None
Thursday, November 1
SWL types of Punishment
- Warmup – 4 dangers of using physical punishment
- Positive and Negative punishment
- Negatives of using punishment
- Latent learning and cognitive maps
- Skinner’s legacy
- Comparing and contrasting Operant and classical conditioning
Assignment: Key terms due Wednesday – Vocab Quiz Wednesday
Friday, November 2
SWL learning through observation
- Warmup – Quote – “Children need models more than they need critics.” Joseph Joubert
- Modeling – Mirror Neurons
- Bobo Doll – Prosocial and Antisocial Effects
Assignment: Key terms due Wednesday – Vocab Quiz Wednesday
Week 10 – October 22 – 26
Monday, October 22 – No School – Parent Teacher Conferences
Tuesday, October 23
SW present Anti-Drug Advertisements
- Each group/present will present advertisements
- Discuss each drug and effects on Consciousness
Assignment: Unit 5 Test Wednesday
Wednesday, October 24
SW take Test on States of Consciousness
- 5 minute study time
- Test on Consciousness
Assignment: None
Thursday, October 25
SWL various ways in which we learn behavior
- Warmup – p. 215 – Read and take 5 notes – Discuss Learning
- Definition of learning
- Classical Conditioning
- Operant Conditioning
- Observational Learning
Assignment: Start Reading Unit 6
Friday, October 26
SWL Classical Conditioning
- Warmup – Define variables of Classical Conditioning - Discuss
- Ivan Pavlov’s Experimentation
- Classical Conditioning as it applies to humans
- Variables within Classical Conditioning
Assignment: Read Unit 6
Week 9 – October 15 - 19
Monday, October 15
SWL Consciousness and stages of sleep
- Warm up – How much do you sleep Sunday through Friday morning? What about Friday night and Saturday night? How do you feel? - Discussion
- Definition of Consciousness
- Circadian Rhythms
- 4 Stages of Sleep – Powerpoint notes
- REM vs non-REM sleep
- Why do we sleep?
Assignment: Start reading Unit 5 – Current Events due Tuesday - Warmups due Wed.
Tuesday, October 16
SWL the sleep theories an sleep disorders
- Take up current events
- Warmup – Survey from p. 183 – Discuss responses
- The Effects of sleep loss
- Sleep theories – Sleep disorders
Assignment: Warmups due Wednesday – last grade of the 9 weeks
Wednesday, October 17
SWL Dream theories
- Quote, p. 186, Woody Allen - Analyze
- What we dream? Why we dream?
- Dream theories
- Hypnosis
- Facts and myths about hypnosis
- Biopsychosocial approach to Hypnosis
Assignment: Keep reading Unit 5
Thursday, October 18
SWL drug induced altered states of consciousness
- Handout Anti-drug Advertisement assignment
- Definition of Psychoactive Drugs
- Dependence and Addiction
- Classifications of Psychoactive Drugs
- Levels of Analysis for Psychoactive Drugs
Assignment: Bring materials to work on Anti-Drug Advertisement
Friday, October 19
SW work on Anti-Drug advertisement
- Partner up or work on your own
- Follow the guidelines – Computer lab 3021 B to work on Ads
Assignment: Unit 5 Test Wed – Advertisement due Tue
Week 8 – October 8 – 12
Monday, October 8
SWL our sense of touch and our pain circuit
- Types of touch
- Vestibular sense
- Understanding pain
- Pathways of pain
Assignment: Meet in 1003F Tuesday
Tuesday, October 9
SW research optical illusions
- Meet in the computer lab
- Research 4 visual illusions, save to flash drive
- Explain the monocular cues that change our perception with illusion
- Present illusions Thursday and Friday
Assignment: Test Wednesday on Hearing Vision
Wednesday, October 10
SW take test on Hearing and Vision
- Hearing and Vision Test
- Taste/Smell questions to work on after you Test
- Explain the process of taste and smell
Assignment: Visual illusion presentations Thursday/Friday
Thursday, October 11
SW view visual illusions and discuss how our mind is tricked
- Each student will present his/her illusions
- Discuss each illusion and the monocular cues of each
- Perceptual interpretation
- Perceptual adaptation
- Perception as a BioPsychoSocial Phenomenon
Assignment: None
Friday, October 12
SW view visual illusions and discuss how our mind is tricked
- Each student will present his/her illusions
- Discuss each illusion and the monocular cues of each
- Claims of ESP
- Parapychology
Assignment: None
Week 7 - October 1 - 5
Monday, October 1
SWL the difference between sensation and perception
- Warmup – Read p. 115 – Define prosopagnosia – “Face First”
- Definition of sensation and perception
- Selective attention
- Absolute and Difference thresholds
Assignment: Start Reading Unit 4
Tuesday, October 2
SWL Vision and Sensory adaptation
- Warmup – Diagram the eye, include function
- Sensory adaptation
- Light energy for vision
- Parts of the eye – function of the parts of the eye
Assignment: Read Unit 4
Wednesday, October 3
SWL rods and cones and visual information processing
- Warmup - Diagram on the eye
- Rods and cones and how they help us see in the dark/light
- Retina’s role in the eye
- Visual information processing
- Parallel processing
Assignment: Read Unit 4
Thursday, October 4
SWL color vision and Hearing
- Warm up - Ear diagram
- Theories on how we see color
- Sound waves
- Parts and functions of the ear
- Outer ear and middle ear
Assignment: Read Unit 4 – Vision/Hearing Test Tuesday
Friday, October 5
SWL the inner ear and hearing loss
- Warmup – “Only mind has sight and hearing; all things else are deaf and blind.” Analyze the quote and discuss
- Inner ear – cochlea
- Perceiving loudness
- Locating sounds
- Hearing loss and deaf culture
Assignment: Read Unit 4 – Vision/Hearing Test Tuesday
Week 6 – September 24 – 28
Monday, September 24
SWL behavior genetics
- Quote, p. 99 – David Lykken – Read and Analyze - Discuss
- Behavior genetics
- Genes/Chromosomes/DNA
- Twin and adoption studies
- Current event article on twin studies
- Discuss results
Assignment: Test Thursday on Unit 3B
Tuesday, September 25
SWL molecular genetics
- Warmup – Natural selection p. 106 – Take notes - Discuss
- Heritability
- Gene Environment interaction
- Molecular genetics
- Evolutionary Psychology
- Natural Selection
- Critiquing the Evolutionary Perspective
Assignment: Test Thursday - Bring a Current Event on Friday
Wednesday, September 26
SW research areas of the brain
- Meet in the Library
- 3-D Brain assignment
- Turn in at end of the class
Assignment: Test Thursday
Thursday, September 27
SW take Unit 3B Test on the Brain
- 5 minute review session
- Test
Assignment: Bring Current Event Friday
Friday, September 28
SWL current Psychological issues through current events
- Split into groups and share each article
- Discuss at least 5 articles as a class
Assignment: None
Week 5 – September 17 – 21
Monday, September 17
SWL various Brain Imaging Techniques
- Warmup – “You must look into people, as well as at them.” Lord Chesterfield
- Lesions
- EEG – CT – PET – MRI – fMri
- Brainstem – Thalamus - Cerebellum
- Discovering Psychology Video – The Behaving Brain
Assignment: Terms due Thursday – Vocab Quiz Thursday- Start Reading Unit 3B
Tuesday, September 18
SWL the limbic system
- Warmup – Video – “How Neurons Work” – Take Notes and discuss
- Hippocampus –Amygdala – Hypothalamus –
- Cerebral Cortex
- Structure of the Cerebral Cortex
- Functions of the Cortex
- Association Areas
Assignment: Terms due Thursday- Vocab Quiz Thursday-Keep Reading Unit 3B
Wednesday, September 19
SWL language areas of the brain and the Brain’s plasticity
- Language areas of the Brain
- Wernicke’s Area and Brocas Area of Brain
- Discuss Language Areas
- Brain’s plasticity
- Video on plasticity
Assignment: Terms due Thursday – Vocab Quiz Thursday – Keep Reading Unit 3B
Thursday, September 20
SW take vocab quiz and SWL neurogenesis
- Check Key terms – Vocab Quiz
- Neurogenesis
- Finish the Behaving Brain Video
Assignment: Finish Reading Unit 3B
Friday, September 21
SWL right-left differences with the brain
- Warmup – Split Brain Video – Take Notes and Discuss
- Right/left brain differences
- The Brain and Consciousness
- Dual Processing – Two Track mind
- The Responsive Brain Video
Assignment: Finish Reading Unit 3B
Week 4 – September 10 – 14
Monday, September 10
SWL the function of neurons
- Warmup – Draw and label a neuron
- Define Biological Psychology
- What is a Neuron? - Parts and functions
- Different types of neurons
- The firing of a neuron
Assignment: Quiz Friday on Neural Processing – Bring Current Event Thursday – Finish Reading Unit 3A by Thursday
Tuesday, September 11
SWL how neurons communicate
- Warmup – Draw and label Action Potential within a Neuron
- Synaptic Gap
- How Neurotransmitters influence us
- Agonist versus Antagonist neurons
Assignment: Key terms due Friday – Quiz Friday on Neural Processing – Bring Current Event Thursday
Wednesday, September 12
SWL branches of the Nervous System
- Warmup – Draw and label the branches of the Nervous System
Draw and label the Endocrine system
- Central Nervous System versus Peripheral Nervous System
- Branches of the Peripheral Nervous System
- Branches of the Autonomic Nervous System
- Central Nervous System
- Endocrine System
Assignment: Key Terms due Friday – Quiz Friday on Neural Processing – Bring Current Event Thursday
Thursday, September 13
SWL current Psychological issues and studies through media articles
- Warmup – Complete your drawings and labels
- Split into groups and share each article
- Discuss at least 5 articles as a class
Assignment: Key terms due Friday – Quiz Friday on Neural Processing
Friday, September 14
SW take quiz on Neural Processing
- Quiz on Neural Processing
- Finish diagrams by the end of class
Assignment: None
Week 3 – September 3 - 7
Monday, September 3 - LABOR DAY – NO SCHOOL
Tuesday, September 4
SW take vocab quiz and SWL mode, mean and median
- Check Key terms for HW grade
- Vocab Quiz
- Mode, mean and median activity after quiz
Assignment: Finish Reading Unit II
Wednesday, September 5
SWL measures of variability
- Quote of the day – “Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.” Sigmund Freud
- Range and Standard Deviation
- Normal Curve or Bell Curve
- Ethics in Research
Assignment: Meet in the computer lab Thursday
Thursday, September 6
SW go to computer lab and research famous experiments in Psychology
- Report to 3021B Computer lab
- Work on experiment scavenger hunt. Turn in when completed
- Get familiar with College Board website
Assignment: Test Friday on Unit II
Friday, September 7
SW take test on Unit II – Research Methods in Psychology
- 5 minute study time
- Research Methods Test
- Article on the Brain – Read and Discuss
Assignment: None
Week 2 – August 27 – August 31
Monday, August 27
SWL why Research Methods are important in Psychology
- Warmup – 10 True False Questions on Powerpoint – Answer and Discuss
- Importance of Research Methods
- Hindsight bias – Overconfidence
- Scientific Attitude – Critical Thinking
- Scientific Method Discussion – Steps in Designing an Experiment
Assignment: Start Reading Unit II
Tuesday, August 28
SWL different Research methods techniques
- Quote of the day – “Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.” Soren Kierkegaard
- Case studies – Define and give an example (Phineas Gage)
- Surveys – Define and give an example
- Discuss the importance of sample size
- Naturalistic Observation – define and give an example – Bobo Doll Video 5:27
Assignment: Keep reading Unit II
Wednesday, August 29
SWL various controls on Research Methods
- Quote of the day – “Anything seems commonplace, once explained.” Dr. Watson
- Go over Quiz I
- SW view “Discovering Psychology” segment on Research Methods in Psychology
- Discuss Research Methods in Psychology
Assignment: Have read through p. 31 by Thursday
Thursday, August 30
SWL correlation and causation
- Reading Quiz through p. 31 – Homework grade
- Warmup – p. 30 - #1-4 – Explain and graph
- Define Correlation – Examples in the text
- Slide 33 – 49
- Illusory Correlation – Random events
- Define Causation and give an example
Assignment: Keep reading Unit II
Friday, August 31
SWL experimentation and Placebo Effect
- Quote of the day – “The scientist must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.” Robert Oppenheimer
- Experimentation
- Single Blind – Double Blind
- Placebo Effect
- Example of Placebo Effect
- Experimental Design
- Comparing Research Methods
Assignment: Vocab Quiz Tuesday (p. 19 – 34) – Vocab words due Tuesday – Study over the weekend – Keep reading Unit II
Week 1 – August 20 – 24
Monday, August 20
SWL the Course Syllabus and get familiar with AP Central.
- Introductions
- Handout Syllabus
- Discuss AP Exam, etc
- Handout guidelines for Paper due Thursday
Go to AP Central Website – Familiarize students with AP Central
Assignment: Start Reading Unit 1 – Paper due Thursday – Unit 1 Quiz Friday – Key Terms and Key People due Friday before Quiz
Tuesday, August 21
SWL the definition of Psychology and Psychology’s History
- Quote of the Day – p.1 – Benedict Spinoza – Analyze and Discuss
- Psychology definition
- Pre-scientific psychology
- Psychology as a Science – Wundt, Titchener, William James
- Introspection Experiment – Classical Music
- Go over current event assignments
Assignment: Keep Reading Unit 1 – Paper due Thursday – Unit 1 Quiz Friday – Key Terms and Key People due Friday before Quiz
Wednesday, August 22
SWL 20th century Psychology and Behaviorism
- Warmup – Discovering Psychology video on History of Psychology – 10 mins
- Psychology develops – Freud, Pavlov, etc
- Behaviorism – Little Albert Video – Skinner Box Video
- Humanistic psychology
- Nature vs Nurture
- Levels of Analysis
Assignment: Finish Reading Unit 1 – Paper due Thursday – Unit 1 Quiz Friday – Key Terms and Key People due Friday before Quiz
Thursday, August 23
SWL Psychological approaches, perspectives and subfields
- 7 different Psychological approaches
- Basic vs Applied
- SQ3R – Discuss
- Review for Quiz
Assignments: Unit 1 Quiz Friday – Key Terms and Key People due Friday before Quiz
Friday, August 24
SW take quiz on Unit 1 – Psychology’s History and Approaches
- Check Key Terms and Key People – While checking homework, students will finish Discovering Psychology Video on History of Psychology
- Unit 1 Quiz
- Read Current Event Article on Specialty Area of Psychology
- Answer questions in Warm-up Section of Notebook – Discuss at end of class
Assignment: Start reading Unit II