AP Psychology
2015-2016
Day by day syllabus
- There will be a content quiz every Wednesday
- There will be a vocabulary quiz every Friday
-If quiz days ever change, I will inform you beforehand
- If a student is absent on the day before a quiz, he/she will still
be expected to take the quiz on the assigned day
- Study guides must be handed in on the day of the exam
The Science of Psychology
Date
Class Topic
Assignment Due
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8/24
First Day of School
8/25
Course Introduction and diagnostic exam
8/26
Definition and history of psychology
4-12
8/27
Modern perspectives
13-18
8/28
Lesson 1: Approaches to Psych
Vocab Quiz
8/31
Psychology: The Science
20-25
9/1
Finding Relationships
26-33
9/2
Lesson 2: Methods-Controlled Experimentation
Content Quiz
9/3
Statistics
9/4
What’s Normal About This Curve?
Vocab Quiz
9/8
Frequency Distributions
9/9
Types of Correlations
Content Quiz
9/10
Ethics & Critical Thinking
A1-A12
35-38
9/11
Review/Catch up
Content Quiz
9/14
Chapter 1 Test
Chapter 1 Study Guide due
The Biological Perspective
Date
Class Topic
Assignment Due
9/15
Nervous System Overview
48-57
9/16
Central Nervous System
Content Quiz
59-64
9/17
Inside the Brain
65-72
9/18
Lobes of the Brain
Vocab Quiz
73-80
9/21
Lesson 9: The Brain’s Influence on Behavior
9/22
Review/Catch-up Day
9/23
Chapter 2 Test
Chapter 2 Study Guide due
Sensation and Perception
Date
Class Topic
Assignment Due
9/24
Sensation (Lesson 11 Sensation)
90-92
9/25
The Science of Seeing
Vocab Quiz
93-100
9/28
Hearing
101-106
9/29
Chemical Senses
106-113
9/30
Perception
Content Quiz
114-124
10/1
Lesson 12-Perception
10/2
Review/Catch-up Day
Vocab Quiz
10/5
Chapter 3 Test
Chapter 3 Study Guide due
Consciousness: Sleep, Dreams, Hypnosis, and Drugs
Date
Class Topic
Assignment Due
10/6
Consciousness
134-138
10/7
Stages of Sleep
Content Quiz
139-146
10/8
Dreams(Lesson 14-Dreams)
147-150
10/9
Lesson 14-Dreams
Vocab Quiz
10/13
Hypnosis
151-153
10/14
Psychoactive Drugs
Content Quiz
154-165
10/15
Lesson 15-Drugs
10/16
Review/Catch-up day
Vocab Quiz
10/19
Chapter 4 Test
Chapter 4 Study Guide due
Learning
Date
Class Topic
10/20
Classical Conditioning
(Lesson 13-Catch the Ball)
10/21
Lesson 4- Classical Conditioning
Content Quiz
10/22
Conditioned Emotional Responses
Assignment Due
176-181
183-185
10/23
Operant Conditioning
Vocab Quiz
186-194
10/26
Lesson 5 (Operant Conditioning)
10/27
Schedules of Reinforcement
196-202
10/28
Cognitive Learning Theory
Content Quiz
204-209
10/29
Lesson 6- Social Learning
10/30
Review/Catch-up Day
Vocab Quiz
11/2
Chapter 5 Test
Chapter 5 Study Guide due
Memory
Date
Class Topic
Assignment Due
11/3
Models of Memory
220-223
11/4
Information Processing Model
Content Quiz
224-234
11/5
(Lesson 1 Chunking Letters)
Retrieving Long Term Memories
11/6
(Primacy and Recency Effect)
Memory Reliability
Vocab Quiz
242-245
11/9
Forgetting
246-252
11/10
Lesson 7-Memory
11/11
Review/Make-up Day
Content Quiz
11/16
Chapter 6 Test
Chapter 6 Study Guide due
235-241
Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language
Date
Class Topic
11/17
How People Think
262-270
11/18
Problems with Problem Solving
Lessons 5 and 6 (sets)
Content Quiz
271-274
11/19
Intelligence
11/20
Lesson 26: Testing
Vocab Quiz
11/23
Individual Differences in Intelligence
11/24
Language
12/2
Review/Make-up Day
Content Quiz
12/3
Chapter 7 Test
Chapter 7 Study Guide due
Assignment Due
275-283
284-292
294-298
Motivation and Emotion
Date
Class Topic
12/4
Understanding Motivation
308-312
12/7
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
313-319
12/8
Assignment Due
Lesson 20: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
12/9
Why People Eat
Content Quiz
320-327
12/10
Emotion
328-336
12/11
12/14
Lesson 22: Emotion and Body Language
Vocab Quiz
Review
12/15
Chapter 8 Test
Chapter 8 Study Guide due
12/16, 12/17, 12/18, 12/21- Review for Midterm
12/22- Midterm Exam
Stress and Health
Date
Class Topic
Assignment Due
1/4
AP Diagnostic Test (MC only)
1/5
Stress and Stressors
346-352
1/6
Stress and the Mind
Content Quiz
353-357
1/7
Stress and Health
358-368
1/8
Social Factors in Stress
Vocab Quiz
369-372
1/12
Coping with Stress
373-377
1/13
Lesson 28:Coping with Stress
Content Quiz
1/14
Review
1/15
Chapter 9 Exam
Chapter 9 Study Guide due
Development Across the Life Span
Date
Class Topic
1/19
Issues in Studying Human Development
1/20
Lesson 10: Nature v. Nurture
Content Quiz
1/21
Child Development
Assignment Due
386-392
394-406
1/22
Lesson 16: Physical Development
Vocab Quiz
1/25
Lesson 17: Jean Piaget
1/26
Psychosocial Development
1/27
Lesson 18: Erik Erikson
Content Quiz
1/28
Lesson 21: Harlow’s Attachment
408-412
1/29
How Sex and Gender Influence Development
Vocab Quiz
2/1
Lesson 19: Lawrence Kohlberg
2/2
Adulthood
2/3
Review/Catch-up Day
Content Quiz
2/4
Chapter 10 Exam
Chapter 10 Study Guide due
413-419
420-427
Theories of Personality
Date
Class Topic
Assignment Due
2/5
Theories of Personality
436-439
2/8
Stages of Personality Development
440-446
2/9
Lesson 23: The Psychoanalytic Approach to
Personality Theory
2/10
The Behaviorist & Social Cognitive
View of Psychology
Content Quiz
2/11
Lesson 25: Behaviorist and Humanist
Approach to Personality Theory
2/16
Trait Theories
447-451
452-455
2/17
2/18
Behavioral Genetics
Content Quiz
Review/Catch-up Day
2/19
Chapter 11 Test
Chapter 11 Study Guide due
2/22
AP Diagnostic Test (MC only)
456-464
Psychological Disorders
Date
Class Topic
Assignment Due
2/23
Defining Abnormality
2/24
Lesson 30: Normal v. Abnormal
Content Quiz
2/25
The DSM
2/26
Lesson 31: Anxiety
Vocab Quiz
2/29
Somatoform Disorders
490-496
3/1
Mood Disorders
497-500
3/2
Lesson 32: Depression
Content Quiz
3/3
Schizophrenia
3/4
Lesson 33: Schizophrenia
Vocab Quiz
3/7
Review/Catch-up Day
3/8
Chapter 12 Exam
Chapter 12 Study Guide due
474-480
481-488
501-506
Psychological Therapies
Date
Class Topic
Assignment Due
3/9
Two Kind of Therapy
516-519
3/10
Humanistic Therapy
520-523
3/11
Behavior Therapies
Vocab Quiz
524-534
3/14
Does Psychotherapy Really Work?
535-545
3/15
Lesson 34: Kinds of Therapy
3/16
Review/Catch-up Day
Content Quiz
3/17
Chapter 13 Test
Chapter 13 Study Guide due
Social Psychology
Date
3/18
3/21
Class Topic
Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience
Social Cognition
3/22
Lesson 37: Cognitive Dissonance
3/23
Impression Formation and Attribution
Content Quiz
3/31
3/17
Assignment Due
556-564
566-571
572-575
Lesson 36: Attribution
Lesson 35: Implicit Personality Theory
4/1
Prejudice and Discrimination
Vocab Quiz
3/19
Lesson 38: Prejudice and Discrimination
4/4
Liking and Loving
577-581
582-584
4/5
Aggression and Prosocial Behavior
4/6
Lesson 27: Altruism-Drop it
Content Quiz
4/7
Continued
4/8
Continued/Review/Catch-up Day
Vocab Quiz
4/11
Chapter 14 Test
Chapter 14 Study Guide due
4/13
Review quiz for chapters 1 and 2
4/15
Review quiz for chapters 3 and 4
4/18
Review Quiz for chapters 5 and 6
4/20
Review Quiz for chapters 7 and 8
4/22
Review Quiz for chapters 9 and 10
4/26
Review Quiz for chapters 11 and 12
4/28
Review Quiz for chapters 13 and 14
4/29
AP Diagnostic Test (MC only)
High Expectations for this Diagnostic Test
Days with no review quiz will be used for private review time
5/2/16- AP Psychology Exam
5/3/16 to End of School Year- Review for Final Exam
585-591