ADVANCED PSYCHOLOGY 2012-2013
* Quizzes, Tests and Projects are underlined
Kempner High School
1st Nine Weeks
2012-2013 School Year
MONDAY
AUGUST
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What is psychology –
Handwriting analysis
Psychologists vs
psychiatrists
4
Defining human behavior
Class Rules/Syllabus
Icebreaker
Types of
psychologists– notes
and Shoe Company
activity
6
What is psychology –
worksheet
HOLIDAY
Nature vs. Nurture
Class discussion
History of Psychology notes, demos, clips
Approaches to
Psychology chart
Approaches Posters
Celebrity Analysis
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Experimental method Scenario Quiz over
approaches
Research methods –
Notes and worksheet
Taste Test Demo s
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Ethics in Research –
Milgram, Watson,
Zimbardo – Video and
follow up questions
Review for Test over
Introductory material and
research methods
Test #1 – Introduction
and Research Methods
Intro to Biology Unit –
Video – “The Brain
Game” – Key facts over
video
Drawing the nervous
systems
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Firing a neuron –
Drawing and demo
Hemispheres of the brain
Right/Left Brain test
Split Brain demo
Lobes of the brain –
Playdoh Brains
Lobotomy clips
Brain parts chart and
card game exercise
Types of Brain tests
Endocrine System
September 3
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
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THURSDAY
FRIDAY
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Progress Report
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Genetics Outline
“Create a Kid” exercise
Computer lab –
Neuroscience for Kids
Review game for Biology
Test
Test #2 - Biology
What is Abnormal
Activity
Case Study of Anne
PBJ Demo
October 1
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DSM Notes
Dissociative Disorders
Begin
”Three Faces of Eve”
“Three Faces of Eve”
“Three Faces of Eve”
Follow up Quiz
Schizophrenic
Disorders
PPT, articles and
questions
Anxiety Disorders
Phobia Survey Questions
Disorders Project
Progress Report
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Complete Anxiety
Disorders Notes
Mood Disorders
Somatoform Disorders
History of MJ’s face
Personality Disorders
Diagnose Me - Role
playing
History of Treatments
Top 10 Treatments of all
times article
Treat Me – Role Playing
Review for Disorders
and Treatments Test
Test #3– Disorders and
Treatments
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Intro to unit on States of
Consciousness
Discussion Questions
Chapter reading and
questions
Stages of Sleep and
Sleep Disorders
“Rusty”
Due Date for Projects
Why we dream and
dream analysis exercise
Adolescent Sleep
Deprivation – article
and class discussion
End of Nine Weeks
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Hypnosis and
Meditation
Types of psychoactive
drugs chart
“This is your brain on
pot” lesson
Quiz over States of
Consciousness
Sleep Day
2nd Nine Weeks
Kempner High School
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
2010-2012 School Year
THURSDAY
November 1
FRIDAY
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Intro Sensation Unit
Vision notes and demos
Hearing and Touch notes
and demos
Smell and Taste – Notes
and Demos
Quiz - Senses
Perception – Chapter
questions
Optical Illusions – Video
Clips
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Types of ESP
Article and Questions
Review for
Sensation/Perception
Test
Test #4 – Sensation and
Perception
Intro video – Motivation
and Emotion
Notes over video
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Theories of motivation –
reading and questions
Maslow’s Hierachry
Exercise
Progress Report
16
Why we eat and eating
disorders
Video clips
Emotion theories
Chart and role playing
Facial Feedback
Hypothesis
Quiz – Motivation and
Emotion Theories
Intro to cognition unit –
Types of learning and
learners
Types of learning
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Memory Notes and
Demos
Creativity Divergent/Convergent
Make a game activity
Thanksgiving Break
Thanksgiving Break
Thanksgiving Break
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Defining intelligence
National School
Exercise
Review cognition test
“Teach Me”
Test #5 - Cognition
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Development Stage
Theories
Adolescence
Death and Dying
December 3
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Personality Theories
Freud
Personality Theories
Reading and Chart
Personality Theories –
Dear Abby exercise
Complete Dear Abby
Exercise
Personality Tests
Myers-Briggs Test –
Computer Lab
2
Developmental Theories
Progress Report
Quiz- Theories
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Social Psychology
Group Project
Social Psychology Group
Project
Social Psychology Group
Project
Review for final exam
Review for final exam
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Review for final exam
End of the Semester
FINAL EXAMS
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