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AP Psychology Schedule of Topics: First Semester—66 days of class Unit 1: Psychology’s History and Approaches 1) What is psychology? 2) The major approaches Unit 2: Research Methods 3) The scientific method 4) Research methods: the experiment 5) Research methods: correlational (e.g., observational, survey) 6) Statistics: descriptive and inferential 7) Ethics in research 8) In-class group activity—designing research Movie: The Stanford Prison Experiment Student Teaching Project Brown v. Board of Education Unit 3: Biological Bases of Behavior 9) Techniques for “viewing” the brain 10) The nervous system 11) The neuron and neurotransmitters 12) The anatomy and function of the hindbrain 13) The “emotional brain”—the limbic system 14) The anatomy and function of the forebrain 15) Evolutionary psychology Round Table Discussion: Forty Studies Reading 1: One Brain or Two Reading 2: More Experience = Bigger Brain Reading 3: Are You a “Natural”? Student Teaching Project Endocrine System Music and the Brain Unit 11: Testing and Individual Differences 24) Alfred Binet 25) Spearman’s factor (g) 26) Howard Gardner 27) Robert Sternberg 28) Emotional Intelligence 29) Wechsler Adult Intelligence Test 30) Achievement tests & Aptitude Tests 31) Principles of test construction—reliability and validity Unit 4: Sensation & Perception 32) The eye 33) The ear 34) Is anything there?—selective attention 35) Signal detection theory 36) Top down & bottom up processing 37) Is anything there?—absolute threshold Student Teaching Project: Color psychology Unit 5: States of Consciousness 38) Sleep 39) Dreams 40) Opponent Process Theory Round Table Discussion: Forty Studies Reading 6: To Sleep, No Doubt to Dream Reading 8: Acting as if You are Hypnotized Website Unromancing the Dream Student Teaching Project: Psychoactive Drugs Unit 14: Social Psychology 16) Attribution theory: judging others 17) Reciprocity theory: in-class activity 18) Cognitive dissonance theory 19) Charles Milgram & obedience 20) Solomon Asch & conformity 21) Aggression 22) Attraction 23) In-class group activity: self-esteem Round Table Discussion: Forty Studies Reading 13: What You Expect is What You Get Reading 38: The Power of Conformity Reading 39: To help or not to help Reading 40: Obey at any cost Student Teaching Project Groupthink Unit 6: Learning 41) Classical conditioning 42) Operant conditioning 43) Cognitive-behaviorism 44) Social learning Round Table Discussion: Forty Studies Reading 11: Knock wood! Reading 12: See aggression…do aggression Unit 7: Cognition 45) Brain structures & long-term potentiation 46) Atkinson & Shifrin’s 3-stage model 47) Sensory input and coding 48) Types of memories: procedural, episodic, semantic, flashbulb 49) Encoding failure: (STM limits, trauma, next-inline effect, serial position effect) 50) Retrieval failures (interference, state/context dependent memory) 51) Memory construction & reconstruction Round Table Discussion Forty Studies Reading 16: Thanks for the Memories! Website: Witness for the Defense