Ms. Lamreaux - AP Psychology Calendar

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06.18.13

Trimester I

September

LABOR DAY recess

Sept 6 HALF DAY

First Day

· Syllabus, expectations, course description, book distribution

· Time management, study techniques

· How to read your textbook

· Subfields

· Intuition vs. Empiricism

· History of Psychology

· Introspection activity

· Class starter: culture

· Approaches to Psychology

· The role of culture

Chapter 1: Introduction to Psychology Test

· Ch 1 corrections 7 am

· Thinking Critically About Psychology

· Methods: Naturalistic Observation, Case Studies

· Methods: Surveys, Correlations

· Methods: Correlations, Begin experiments

· Operational Definitions

· Review Operational definitions

· Methods: experiments -- exploring cause and effect

· Project: Design an experiment

CHS Open House 6:30

· Statistical Analysis: descriptive and inferential

· Ethical Guidelines for Research Psychologists

NO STUDENTS

Teacher PD day

Chapter 2: Research and Appendix 2 (statistics) Test

· The nervous system: cells, action potentials

· Action potential demonstration

· Synapses and communication between neurons

· Peripheral nervous system (somatic, autonomic)

Chapter 3 Part 1 : Biological Bases of Behavior Test (p. 58 - 69)

· CNS: Spinal Cord, Reflex pathway

· Methods of studying the brain (CAT, MRI, EEG)

· Begin brain model

October

· Brain model

· Divided brain in a unified self

LATE START 8:35

· Brain plasticity

· Human development and the changing brain

· Brain chemistry: neurotransmitters

· Endocrine and immune system

Chapter 3 Part 2: Biological Bases of Behavior Test

(p. 69 - 103)

· Encoding sensory information

· Hearing, sound, and the ear

· Auditory pathways, coding intensity, deafness, cochlear implants

· Light

· Vision: focusing light, converting into images, visual pathways, visual representations

· Vision: Color vision, synesthesia

The chemical senses: olfaction and gustation

· Somatic and vestibular senses

P / T Conf. 5 - 8

LATE START 8:35

Chapter 4: Sensation Test

· The perception paradox

· Approaches to perception

· Psychophysics: absolute thresholds

P / T Conf. 4 - 7

· Psychophysics: signal detection theory, JND, magnitude estimation

NO SCHOOL

Teacher Comp Day

· Organizing the perceptual world

· Recognizing the perceptual world

· Attention

· Applications of research on perception

· Illusions

Chapter 5: Perception Test

November

· Learning about stimuli

· Classical Conditioning: Pavlov, extinction and spontaneous recovery

· Classical conditioning: stimulus generalization and discrimination, signaling evens, applications

LATE START 8:35

· Operant Conditioning: Skinner box, basic components

· Operant conditioning: forming and strengthening behaviors, why reinforcers work, punishment

· Applications of OC

· Neural networks and learning

· Learned helplessness

· Latent learning and cognitive maps

· Insight and learning

· Observational learning

· Watching violence

· Applications

· Culture

Chapter 6: Learning Test

· Nature of memory: processes and types

· Storing memories: sensory, STM, LTM

· Retrieving memories

· Forgetting

· Biological Bases of Memory

· Improving your memory

Chapter 7: Memory Test

LATE START 8:35

Exams begin

23 NO STUDENTS

½ day PD

½ day Comp Day

Thanksgiving

Break

Trimester II

December

NO STUDENTS

Teacher Record Day

· Functions of thought

· Mental representations: concepts propositions, schemas, scripts

· Mental rep.: models, images, cognitive maps

· Thinking strategies: formal and informal

Dec 1

· Problem solving: strategies and obstacles

· Decision making

· Language: Elements, understanding language

· Language: development, acquisition, nonhuman, culture

Chapter 8: Cognition and Language Test

LATE START 8:35

· Functions and levels of consciousness

· Subliminal proc.

· States of consc.

· Sleep: stages of sleep, reading EEGs

· Sleep Disorders

· Why people sleep

· Dreams and dreaming

· Hypnosis

· Psychoactive drugs

Media center activity

Chapter 9: Consciousness Test

· History of intelligence testing

· Reliability and validity

· Evaluating tests: group differences, raising scores, bias?

· Approaches: psychometric, information-processing, triarchic, multiple

LATE START 8:35

· Multiple intelligences

· Emotional intelligence

Winter

Break

12/21

1/2

January

· Diversity in Cognitive abilities: creativity, unusual abilities

LATE START 8:35 Chapter 10: Cognitive Abilities Test

· Sources of motivation

· Instinct theory

· Drive reduction

· Optimal arousal

· Incentive theory

· Hunger and eating: biological signals, hunger and the brain, culture and food

· Eating disorders

· Sexual behavior: biology, culture, orientation, dysfunction

· Achievement motivation

· TAT

· Conflicting motives & stress

· Nature of emotion

· Theories of emotion

· Communicating emotion

Chapter 11: Motivation and Emotion Test

16 NO STUDENTS

Teacher PD day

· Prenatal development

LATE START 8:35

· The newborn

P / T Conf. 4 - 7

· Cognitive development in infancy and childhood

· Social and emotional development in infancy and childhood

· Adolescence

· Adulthood

Chapter 12: Human Development Test

· Stress, stressors, and stress responses

· Stress mediators

February

LATE START8:35

· Physiology and psychology of health and illness

· Promoting healthy behavior

Feb 1

Chapter 13: Health, Stress and Coping Test

· Psychodynamic approach

· Psychodynamic cont'd

· Trait approach

· Social-cognitive approach

· Humanistic approach

· Assessing personality

· media center activity

Chapter 14: Personality Test

· Defining, explaining and classifying psychological disorders

Anxiety Disorders

LATE START 8:35

· Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders

· Mood Disorders

· Schizophrenia

Mid Winter

Break

· Personality Disorders

· Mental Illness and the Law

Chapter 15: Psychological Disorders Test

Exams

Mar 1

2 NO STUDENTS

Teacher Record Day

Trimester III

March

Mar 5 *

* ACT / MME testing week

LATE START 8:35

9 NO SCHOOL

Teacher Comp Day

· Basic Features of treatment

· Psychodynamic Therapy

· Humanistic Psychotherapy

· Behavior Therapy

· Group, Family, and Couples Therapy

· Evaluating Psychotherapy

· Choosing a therapist

· Cultural factors in therapy

· Biological Treatments

LATE START 8:35

· Biological Treatments

Chapter 16: Treatments Test

· Social Influences on the self

· Social Perception

· Attitudes

· Prejudice and Stereotyping

April

Spring

Break

(4/2 – 4/6)

· Interpersonal Attraction

Chapter 17: Social Cognition Test

· Social Influence

· Conformity

· Compliance

· Obedience

LATE START 8:35

· Aggression

Altruism and Helping Behavior

Cooperation, Competition and Conflict

Group Processes

Chapter 18: Social Influence Test

Writing Activity

Practice Exam

May

Review 1-3

May 1

Review 4-7

LATE START 8:35

Review 8-11

Review 12-14

Review 15-18

AP EXAM!!! (national exam)

Well-deserved break day

Course exam (cumulative, yearlong)

Review exams

· Foundations of Neuropsychology

· Foundations of neuropsychology

· Mechanisms of Brain Dysfunction

LATE START 8:35

· Neuropsychological disorders: amnestic disorders

· Neuropsychological disorders: Disorders of consciousness

· Neuropsychological disorders: Disorders of perception

· Hemineglect

· Language disorders of the brain

· Disorders of movement

Chapter 19: Neuropsychology Test

Industrial / Organizational Psychology

25 NO STUDENTS

Teacher PD day

Memorial Day

Careers in Psychology

Psychology programs

June 1

June

8 (1/2 day school)

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