AP Psychology Syllabus                                                AP Psychology Exam May 9, 2019

Week #1

No School

August 14th - Books, Class, Ice Breaker

August 15th - Syllabus and Text Books Read 1-7, Vocab

August 16th - History of Psychology Wundt’s Reaction Time Read 8-15

August 17th - History Exam Read 19-24

Weekend

Week #2

August 20th - Research Read 25-29

August 21st - Scientific Method Read 29-33 Assign Natural Observation

August 22nd - Correlations Scatterplots Read 34-41

August 23rd - Experiments Read 42-46

August 24th - Research Test Read 51-63

Weekend

Week #3

August 27th - Neurons Read 66-73

August 28th - Brains Assign Superheros Read 74-83

August 29th - Language and Brains Read 84-91

August 30th - Superhero Project Video? Read 94-103

August 31st - Genetics Read 103-110

Weekend

Week #4

September 3rd - No School Labor Day

September 4th - Evolution Review

September 5th - Bio Test Read 115-124

September 6th - Sensation and Perception Read 124-133

September 7th - Vision + The Eye Assign Problems Project Read 134-140

Weekend

Week #5

September 10th - Hearing + The Ear Read 141-150

September 11th - Other Senses Read 151-158 Present Problems

September 12th - Perceptual Problems Read 159-169, Present Problems

September 13th - Unit 4 H/W

September 14th - Teenage Brain Video

Weekend

Week #6

September 17th - Sensation and Perception Test Read 175-191

September 18th - Sleep and Dreams Read 192-210

September 19th - Hypnosis and Drugs Read 215-227

September 20th - Classical Conditioning Read 228-241

September 21st - Operant Conditioning Read 242-249/Social Learning Review

Weekend

Week #7

September 24th - Consciousness Test Read 215-227 (Unit 6 Classical Conditioning)

September 25th - Operant Conditioning Read 228-241

September 26th - Observational Learning 242-251 [NO Unit 6 Exam!]

September 27th - (Unit 7A) Cognition/Encoding Read 255-265

September 28th - Storage 266-274

Weekend

Week #8

October 1st - Retrieval Read 274-285

October 2nd -Memory Construction 285-294

October 3rd - Memory Test 45 M/C Questions) (Read Unit 7B 298-303)

October 4th - Forming Judgment Read 303-312

October 5th - Language Read 313-322

Weekend

Week #9

October 8th - Cognition Test 7B 35 M/C Questions (Unit 8A Read 327-331)

October 9th - Motivation/Hunger Read 331-347

October 10th - Sex and Belonging Read 348-362

October 11th - Unit 8B Motivation and Emotion Read 366-376

October 12th - Expressed Emotion Read 377-384

Weekend

Week #10

October 15th - NO SCHOOL (Staff Development)

October 16th - Experienced Emotion Read 384-396

October 17th - Stress and Health Read 397-406

October 18th - Review

October 19th - Midterm {Unit 8A and 8B} (Unit 9 Development Read 411-415)

Weekend

Week #11

October 22nd - Childhood/Infancy Read 415-434

October 23rd - Gender Development Read 435-440

October 24th - Parents and Peers Read 441-444

October 25th - Adolescence Read 445-454

October 26th - Funny Story Film

Weekend

Week #12

October 29th - Funny Story Film

October 30th - Adulthood Read 455-473

October 31st - Development Test (Unit 10 Psychodynamics/Personality Read 479-489)

November 1st - "Three Identical Strangers"

November 2nd - Humanistic Perspective Read 490-502

Weekend

Week #13

November 5th - Myers-Briggs/Jung's Personality Test (16 personalities.com)

November 6th - Social-Cognitive Perspectives Read 503-511

November 7th - Exploring Self Read 511- 519

November 8th - Review

November 9th - Unit 10 Personality Test (40 M/C)

Weekend

Week #14

November 12th - No School Veterans Day

November 13th - Unit 11 Testing and Individual Difference Read 523-539

November 14th - Assessing Intelligence Read 539-543

November 15th - Dynamics and Genetics Read 544-556

November 16th - Start Unit 12 Abnormal Psychology Read 561-568

Weekend

Week #15

November 19th - Unit 11 Intelligence Test 20 M/C Questions (Anxiety Disorders Read 569-589)

November 20th - Schizophrenia Read 589-600

November 21st - Thanksgiving Break

November 22nd - Thanksgiving Break

November 23rd - Thanksgiving Break  

Weekend

Week #16

November 26th - Unit 13 Treatment of Psychological Disorders Read 605-618

November 27th - Movie

November 28th - Movie

November 29th - Psychotherapies Read 619-627

November 30th - Biomedical Therapies Read 628-638

Weekend

Week #17

December 3rd - Finish Therapies Review (Guest Speaker)

December 4th - Disorder Treatments Test (40 M/C), (Unit 14 Social Psychology Read 643-649)

December 5th - Social Influences Read 650-664

December 6th - Social Relations Read 665-677

December 7th - Psychology of Attraction Read 678-692

Weekend

Week #18

December 10th - Social Psych Test (20 M/C)

December 11th

December 12th

December 13th

December 14th

Weekend

Week #19

December 17th - Review

December 18th - Review

December 19th - Review

December 20th - Finals

December 21st - Finals