| Course Name: | GS - AP Psychology |
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| Description: | AP Psychology is a college level course providing students an overview of the development of human behaviors and thoughts. Along with preparation for the AP Psychology exam, the goals of this course are to immerse students in modern psychological investigation techniques, to accentuate the ethics and morality of human and animal research, and to emphasize scientific critical thinking skills in application to the social sciences. Psychology is a diverse social and biological science with multiple perspectives and interpretations.
Access the site link below to view the PDF of the course description from the College Board:
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap-psychology-course-description.pdf |
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Major Topics
and Concepts: | Segment 1:
- The Science of Psychology
- History and Approaches
- Psychology is a Science
- Descriptive Techniques
- Correlations
- What Makes an Experiment?
- Statistical Evaluation
- Ethics
- The Biological Perspective: Neuroscience and Psychoactive Drugs
- Neurons
- The Nervous System
- The Brain
- The Endocrine System
- Genetics
- Psychoactive Drugs
- Sensation, Perception and States of Consciousness
- Psychometrics, Thresholds, and Sensory Adaptation
- Eyes and Vision
- Ears and Hearing
- Touch, Taste, Smell, Kinesthetic and Balance
- Selective Attention
- Illusions
- Cues and Constancies
- Perceptual Interpretation
- What Is Consciousness?
- Sleep and Dreams
- Hypnosis
- Developmental Psychology
- Prenatal Development and Newborns
- Infancy and Childhood
- Adolescence and Adulthood
- Introduction to Learning
- Classical Conditioning
- Operant Conditioning
- Learning by Observation
Segment 2:
- Cognition: Memory, Language and Intelligence
- The Phenomenon of Memory
- Encoding: Getting Information
- Storage: Retaining Information
- Retrieval: Getting Information Out
- Forgetting
- Memory Construction
- Improving Memory
- Thinking
- Language
- Thinking and Language
- Animal Thinking and Language
- Origins of Intelligence Testing
- Intelligence Defined
- Assessing Intelligence, Intelligence Dynamics, Genetic and Environmental Influences on Intelligence
- Motivation, Emotion and Industrial/Organizational Psychology
- Psychoanalytic and Humanistic Perspectives
- Trait Perspectives
- Social-Cognitive Perspective
- Abnormal Psychology, Psychological Treatments and Stress Management
- Perspectives on Psychological Disorders
- Anxiety Disorders, Mood Disorders and Schizophrenia
- Personality Disorders
- The Psychological Therapies
- The Biomedical Therapies
- Preventing Psychological Disorders
- Promoting Health
- Social Psychology
- Behavioral Attribution, Attitudes, and Actions
- Conformity, Obedience, and Group Influence
- Social Relationships
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Course Assessment and
Participation Requirements: | Besides engaging students in challenging curriculum, FLVS guides students to reflect on their learning and to evaluate their progress through a variety of assessments. Assessments can be in the form of multiple-choice questions, short-answer questions, projects, including collaborative projects, essays, labs, class discussions and discussion-based assessments. Instructors evaluate progress and provide feedback and interventions through the variety of assessments built into a course, as well as through contact with the student in other venues. |