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Psychology – AP Syllabus / Curriculum

This is a yearlong course in psychology that prepares students for the AP Psychology exam. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the study of behavior and mental processes of human beings and animals. Students are exposed to the psychological facts and principles associated with the major subfields of psychology.

Textbook Kalat, James W. Introduction to Psychology. Belement, CA: Wadsworth, 2005. (Includes a Study Guide and Try-It Yourself CD-ROM)

Required Student Reading Casey, Joan Frances. The Flock: the Autobiography of a Multiple Personality. New York, NY: Random House, 1991. Rapoport, Judith L. The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Washing. New York, NY: Signet, 1989. Sacks, Oliver. An Anthropologist on Mars. New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1995. Sacks, Oliver. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1985.

Teacher Resources Duffy, Karen. Annual Editions Psychology Dubuque, IA: McGraw-Hill. 2006. Friedburg, Karen. Annual Editions Human Development. Dubuque, IA: McGraw-Hill. 2006. Reich, Jill. Close up on Psychology Supplemental Readings from the APA Monitor. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. 1997. Slife, Brent. Taking Sides Clashing Views in Psychological Issues. Dubuque, IA. McGraw-Hill. 2006.

Media Resources “Baby Talk”. NOVA. WGBH Educational Foundation. 1985. “Learning”. Discovering Psychology. The Annenburg/CPB Collection. 1989. “Motivation and Emotion”. Discovering Psychology. The Annenburg/CPB Collection. 1989. “Psychotherapy”. Discovering Psychology. The Annenburg/CPB Collection Vermont. 1989. “Remembering and Forgetting”. Discovering Psychology. The Annenburg/CPB Collection Vermont. 1989. “Sensation and Perception”. Discovering Psychology. The Annenburg/CPB Collection. Vermont 1989.



“Understanding Research”. Discovering Psychology. The Annenburg/CPB Collection. Vermont 1989. “The Behaving Brain”. Discovering Psychology. The Annenburg/CPB Collection. 1989. “The Developing Child”. Discovering Psychology. The Annenburg/CPB Collection. 1989. “The Mind Awake and Asleep”. Discovering Psychology. The Annenburg/CPB Collection. 1989.

Students Assessments Students will have been given a test each unit composed of 45 multiple-choice questions and one free response question. Quizzes are given, at least once a unit. Outside reading assignments will be given for books, articles and case studies related to the information presented in class. Other assignments include class presentations, group projects and papers.

Key to Curricular AP Requirements CR1-This course provides instruction in history and approaches. CR2-This course provides instruction in research methods in ethics used in psychological science and

practice. CR3-This course provides instruction in biological bases of behavior. CR4- This course provides instruction in sensation and perception. CR5- this course provides instruction in states of consciousness. Cr6- This course provides instruction in learning. CR7- this course provides instruction in cognition. CR8- This course provides instruction in motivation and emotion. CR9 -This course provides instruction in developmental psychology. CR10- This course provides instruction in personality. CR11-This course provides instruction in testing and individual differences. CR12-This course provides instruction in abnormal behavior. CR13-This course provides treatment of psychological disorders. CR14-This course provides instruction in social psychology. CR15- This course provides instruction in empirically supported psychological facts, research findings,

terminology, associated phenomena, major figures, perspectives, and psychological experiments

CR16- This course provides instruction in ethics and research methods used in psychological science and

practice.



Unit I Psychology What is Psychology? –2 Weeks The Early Era Page pp (17-22)

Wilhelm Wundt and the 1st Psychological Laboratory [CR1]

Edward Titchener and Structuralism [CR1]

William James and Functionalism [CR1]

Darwin and the Study of Human intelligence [CR1] The Rise of Behaviorism (22-23)

John B. Watson and Baby Albert Experiment [CR1 & 15& 16] Was Watson’s experiment ethical?

From Freud to Modern Clinical Psychology (23)

Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis [CR1]

Mary Calkins [CR1]

Margaret Washburn [CR1]

Unit II Scientific Methods in Psychology –2 Weeks Steps for gathering and evaluating Evidence pp (32)

Hypothesis [CR2]

Method [CR2]

Results [CR2]

Interpretation [CR2]

Replicability (33)

Replicable results [CR2]

Criteria for evaluating scientific theories (34)

Parsimony [CR2]

Clever Hans, the Amazing Horse [CR1 & 15]

ESP and the Amazing Kreskin [CR 2]

Ganzfeld procedure [CR1, 2 & 15]

Try it Yourself: Psychic Phenomenon Experiment [CR1 & 15] General Principles of Psychological Research (40)

Operational definition [CR 2] Writing operational defintions

Population samples (random, representative, cross-cultural, convenience) [CR 2]

Demand characteristics [CR 2] Observational Research Design (44)

Natural observation [CR 2]

Case histories/studies [CR 2]

Surveys [CR 2]

Sampling [CR 2]

Surveyor biases [CR 2]

Correlational studies/ Correlation Coefficient [CR 2]

Illusory Correlations [CR 2]



Correlation and Causation [CR 2] Experiments (49)

Independent variables [CR 2]

Dependent variables [CR 2]

Experimental group [CR 2]

Control group [CR 2]

Random assignment [CR 2] Ethical Consideration in research (52)

Informed consent [CR16]

APA ethical guidelines [CR 16]

Stanley Milgram’s experiment [CR 15 &16] Descriptive Statistics (56)

Mean [CR 2]

Normal distribution [CR 2]

Medium [CR 2]

Mode [CR 2]

Bimodal distribution [CR 2]

Range [CR 2]

Standard Deviation [CR 2] Evaluating Results: Inferential Statistics (59)

95% confidence interval [CR 2]

Inferential Statistics [CR 2]

Unit III Biological Psychology- 3 Weeks This course provides instruction in biological bases of behavior. Nervous System Cells [CR3]

Neurons

Glia

Cell body

Dendrites

Axon The Action potential (70) [CR3]

All-or-none law

Resting potential

Synapses (72) [CR3]

Terminal button

Neurotransmitter

Postsynaptic neuron

Neurotransmitters and Behavior (75)

Parkinson’s disease Dr. Sacks Case “Incontinent Nostalgia” pg.150 [CR3]



Dopamine & Tourettes [CR 3, 12,13] Dr. Sacks Case “A Surgeons Life” & “Witty Ticcy Ray”pg.92

Attention deficit disorder [CR 3, 12,13] The major divisions of the nervous system [CR3}

Central nervous system

Peripheral nervous system

Somatic Nervous System The Forebrain [CR3]

Cerebral Cortex

Occipital lobe

Parietal lobe

Primary Somatosensory Cortex

Temporal Lobe Dr. Sacks Case Study “Reminiscence” & “A Passage to India” from The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat

Frontal Lobe Dr. Sacks Case Study “Yes, Father-Sister”& “The Last Hippie“ from The Man Who Mistook his

Wife for a Hat

Primary Motor Cortex

Prefrontal cortex How the Cerebral Cortex Communicates with the Body [CR3]

Thalamus

Medulla

Pons

Spinal cord

Reticular formation

Cerebellum

Measuring Brain Activity (83)

EEG

MEG

PET

FMRI The Corpus Callosum and the Spilt-Brain Phenomenon (87)

Epilepsy [CR3]

Unit IV Sensation and Perception – 3 Weeks This course provides instruction on sensation and perception The Detection of Light (97) [CR3]

Electromagnetic spectrum

Pupil

Retina



Cornea

Lens

Fovea Common Disorders of Vision [CR3]

Presbyopia

Myopia

Glaucoma

Cataract The Visual Receptors [CR 3]

Cones

Rods

Light adaptation

Dark adaptation Visual Pathway [CR 3]

Ganglion cells

Optic Nerve

Blind Spot Try It Yourself “Filling in the Blindspot” Color Vision (104) [CR 3]

Trichromatic Theory/ Young-Helmholtz Theory (negative afterimages) [CR1, 3,4,15]

The Opponent –Process Theory [CR 1,3,4,15]

The Retinex Theory (color constancy) [CR 1,3,4,15]

Color Vision deficiency Dr. Sacks Case Study: “The Case of the Colorblind Painter” from Anthropologist on Mars (pg.3)

The Nonvisual Senses [CR3] Hearing (112)

Sound waves

Hertz

Pitch

Cochlea

Conduction deafness

Nerve deafness

Frequency principle CR

Volley principle

Place principle The Vestibular Sense (115) [CR3] The Cutaneous Sense (116) [CR3]

Gate control theory

Substance P.

Endorphins

Capsaicin

Phantom limb Dr. Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat “Phantoms” (pg.66)



The Chemical Senses (121) [CR3]

Taste buds Experiment on “Are you a Super Taster?”

Smell- olfaction, pheromones Case Study: Dr. Sacks “The Dog Beneath the Skin” ” from The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (pg156)

Sensory Thresholds and Signal Detection (125) [CR3]

Absolute sensory threshold

Signal-detection-theory [Cr 1,3,15] Perception and Recognition of Patterns (128) [CR4]

Brightness Contrast Try It Yourself Online “Brightness Contrast”

Feature Detectors

Gestalt Psychology [CR1, 4,15] “Sensation and Perception” Discovering Psychology Video

Figure and ground

Reversible figures

Proximity

Similarity

Continuation

Closure

Common fate

Good figure Perception of Movement and Depth (136) [CR4]

Visual constancy

Induces movement

Stroboscopic movement

Phi effect

Retinal disparity

Binocular cues

Monocular cues

Motion parallax

Optical Illusions (140) [CR4]

Moon illusion

Try It Yourself Online Muller-Lyer Illusion [CR15]

Unit V States of consciousness- 2 weeks Our circadian Rhythms (153) [CR4]

Circadian rhythm

Jet lag

Suprachiasmatic nucleus Why we sleep (156) [CR4]

Repair and Restoration theory

Evolutionary or energy-conservation theory of sleep



Stages of sleep (158) [CR4]

Rapid Eye Movement “The Mind Hidden and Asleep” Discovering Psychology Video

Abnormalities of Sleep (162) [CR4]

Insomnia

Sleep Apnea

Narcolepsy

Sleep Talking, Sleep walking, Nightmares, and Night Terrors

Periodic Limb movement disorder

Hypersomnia

The Content of Our dreams (164) [CR 1,4,15]

Manifest & Latent content

Activation-synthesis theory of dreams

Neurognitive theory Hypnosis (169) [CR4]

Posthypnotic Suggestion

Hallucinations

Uses and limitations (170) Assignment: Position Paper: Should hypnosis be used in therapy? Drugs and their effects (178) [CR4]

Stimulants

Depressants

Narcotics

Marijuana

Hallucinogens Dr. Sacks case on PCP use: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat “Murder” (pg 161)

Chronic Drug Effects

Drug Withdrawal

Drug Tolerance

Unit VI Learning-2 Weeks Behaviorism (191) [CR 1,6,15]

Methodological behaviorists

Radical behaviorists

Stimulus-response psychology

Determinism Video: “Learning” Discovering Psychology

Classical Conditioning (195) [CR 1,6,15]

Pavlov and classical conditioning

UCS, UCR, CS, CR

Acquisition

Extinction

Spontaneous recovery



Stimulus generalization

Discrimination

Operant Conditioning (206) [CR 6]

Thorndike & Cat Puzzle box experiment [CR 1,6,15]

Law of Effect

Reinforcement

Visceral responses vs. Skeletal responses

Premack principle

Primary and Secondary reinforcers

Punishment

Positive reinforcement

Passive avoidance Learning

Negative reinforcement

Avoidance learning

Omission training

Stimulus discrimination

Stimulus control

Shaping

Chaining

Schedules of reinforcement (Fixed-ratio, variable ratio, variable-interval, variable-ratio)

Other Kinds of Learning (220)

Conditioned taste aversion,

Social learning-approach & Albert Bandura: Modeling Aggression [CR 1, 6,14,15]

Unit VII Memory – 1 Week Types of Memory (233)

Ebbinghaus’s Studies [CR1]

Retrieval Cue

Decay of Short Term memory Try It Yourself Online [CR15]

Working Memory Method of testing memory

Free recall

Cued Recall

Savings Method

Implicit/Explicit memory

Procedural/Declarative memory

Chunking

Semantic & episodic memory Long-term Memory Storage (245)

State-Dependant Memory

SPAR method

Mnemonic devices Retrieval and Interference (252)

Serial Order-effect

Hindsight bias [CR14]



Recovered memories, repression and dissociation [CR 1,13] Amnesia [CR 3, Anterograde amnesia

Retrograde amnesia

Korsakoff’s syndrome Dr. Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat “The Lost Mariner” (pg23)

Alzheimer’s disease

Infant amnesia

Unit VIII Cognition and Language- 2 weeks Categorization and Attention (273) [CR7]

Prototypes

Spreading activation

Preattentive process

Attentive process

The Stroop Effect

Change Blindness

Attentional Blink Problem Solving, Expertise and Error (285) [CR7]

Representative Heuristics

Base-rate information

Availability Heuristic

Confirmation bias

Functional fixedness

Sunk Cost Effect Human specializations for Learning Language (304)

Williams syndrome [CR 3,7,9]

Noam Chomsky’s Language acquisition device [CR1, 6,7,9] Video “Baby Talk” by NOVA

Broca’s aphasia [CR1 3, 6,7,9]

Wernicke’s aphasia [CR1 3, 6,7,9] Reading (312)

Phoneme/Morphemes

Fixations

Saccades

Unit IX Intelligence- 2 weeks Intelligence and Intelligence Tests

Stanford-Binet test [CR 1,11,15]

Wechsler [CR1, 11,15]

Progressive matrices

Spearman’s psychometric Approach and the g factor [CR 1, 11, 15]

Cattell’s Fluid & crystallized intelligence [CR1, 11, 15]

Howard Gardeners theory of Multiple Intelligences [CR 1,11,15]



Sternburg’s Triarchic Theory of Intelligence [CR 1,11,15] Guest Speaker: School psychologist to talk on IQ testing in Education Standardization of IQ tests [CR 2,11]

Norms

Flynn Effect

Reliability

Content, construct and predictive ability

Unit X Human Development- 2 Weeks From Genetics through Infancy (353) [CR 3, 9]

Genes

Chromosomes

Zygote

Fetus

PKU

Fetal alcohol syndrome Jean Piaget’s View of Development (366) [CR 1, 9,15]

Schema

Assimilation

Accommodation

Equilibration

Sensorimotor Stage

Preoperational Stage, egocentrism

Concrete Operations Stage

Formal Operations Stage “The Developing Child” Discovering Psychology Video

The Development of Moral Reasoning (377) [CR 1, 9, 14,15]

Kohlberg’s Stages Erickson’s Description of Human Development [CR 1, 9,15]

Identity Crisis

Identity Diffusion

Identity Moratorium

Identity Foreclosure

Identity Achievement

Unit XI Motivation – 1week Hunger Motivation (412) [CR 3,8]

The physiology of hunger and satiety

Social and Cultural influences on Eating Sexual Motivation (426) [CR 3,8,14]

Sexual Anatomy and Identity

Sexual Orientation



Work Motivation (438) [CR 3,8,14]

Goals and Deadlines

Job design and Satisfaction

Leadership

Unit XII Emotion, Stress, and Health- 1 week Measuring emotion

James-Lange Theory of Emotions [CR 1,8,15]

Schachter and Singer’s Theory of Emotions

Emotional Intelligence Decisions by People with Impaired Emotions

Phineas Gage [CR 1,3,15] A Survey of Emotions (465)

Positive psychology

Frustration-aggression hypothesis Stress, coping and Health (476)

Health psychology

Selye’s concept of stress (alarm, resistance) {CR 2, 15]

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder [CR 12,13]

Problem-based Coping & Emotion Based Coping

Psychosomatic Illness [CR 12,13]

Type A& B personalities [CR 10]

Unit XIII Personality- 2 Weeks Freud and the Psychodynamic Theory (491) [CR 2, 10,15]

Unconscious

Oedipus Complex

Psychosexual pleasure

Libido

Oral stage

Anal stage

Phallic stage

The Latent period

Genital Stage

Superego

Defense mechanisms (repression, denial, rationalization, displacement, regression, projection, reaction formation, sublimation)

Carl Jung and the Collective Unconscious [CR 2, 10,15]

Archetypes Alfred Adler and Individual Psychology [CR 2, 10,15]

Individual psychology

Inferiority complex

Striving for superiority

Style of life



Social interest The Learning Approach

Gender role

Humanistic Psychology Carl Rogers [CR 2, 10,15]

Self-actualization

Self-concept

Ideal self

Unconscious positive regard Abraham Maslow [CR 2, 10,15]

Self-actualization Personality Traits and States (506) [CR10]

Nomothetic approach

Idiographic approach

State vs. trait

Internal Vs. External locus of control

The Big Five Model of Personality [CR10]

Neuroticism

Extraversion

Agreeableness

Conscientiousness

Openness to experience

The Origins of Personality [CR10] Personality Assessment [CR10]

Standardized tests

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Projective Techniques [CR 2,10, 15]

Rorschach Inkblots

Thematic Apperception Test

Handwriting

Emotional Stoop test

Implicit Association Test Test your own response to the test at http:/implicit.Harvard.edu/implicit/demo

Unit XIV Social Psychology- 2 Weeks This course provides instruction in social psychology Social Perception and Cognition (533) [CR14]

Primacy effect

Stereotype

Prejudice and discrimination

Aversive racism



Ambivalent sexism

Bona fide pipeline

Internal attributions & External attribution

Fundamental attribution Error

Actor-observer effect

Self-servings

Self-handicapping strategies

Attitudes and persuasion (543) [CR14]

Central route & peripheral to persuasion

The sleeper effect

Forewarning effect

Inoculation effect

Foot-in-the-door, door-in-the face, bait and switch technique

Cognitive dissonance Interpersonal Attraction (552) [CR14]

Proximity

Mere exposure effect

Exchange or equity theories The Power of Social Situation (566)

The Prisoner’s Dilemma [CR 2,14] Play Prison’s dilemma game at Serendip.brymawr.edu/bb/pd.html

The Commons Dilemma Unit XV Abnormality, Therapy and Social Issues- 2 Weeks Cultural Influences on Abnormality [CR1,12,13]

Dissociative Identity Disorder and Multiple Personality Disorder

Video: Three Faces of Eve followed by 20/20 special “Lost in the Mirror” interview with the real “Eve” Reading Assignment: The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality

Classifying Psychological Disorders [CR12]

DSM-IV classifications

Axis I Disorders ex: ADD, ADHD

Axis II ex: personality disorders Historical Trends in Psychotherapy [CR1, 12,13]

Psychoanalysis

Free Association

Transference

Eclectic therapy

Brief therapy

Group therapy

Self-help groups



Behavior Therapy [CR13] Cognitive Therapy [CR13]

Rational-emotive therapy

Ellis [CR 2, 13, 15]

Humanistic Therapy [CR13]

Incongruence

Person-centered-therapy

Family Systems therapy [CR13] Social and Legal Aspects of Treatment [CR13] Landmark case in Forensic Psychiatry at bama.ua.edu/`jhooper/tableofc.html

Unit XVI Specific Disorders and Treatments- 2 Weeks Anxiety and Avoidance Disorders & Treatments [CR 12,13]

Generalized anxiety disorder

Panic Disorder

Phobias social phobias, agoraphobia, systematic desensitization & flooding

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder & exposure therapy Outside required reading The Boy who Couldn’t Stop Washing

Substance-related Disorders & Treatments [CR 12,13]

Nicotine

Alcoholism Type I & II Treatment with Antabuse

Opiate & treatment with methadone Mood Disorders & Treatments [CR 12,13]

Depression & SAD

Antidepressant medications (Tricyclic, SSRIs, MAOIs) & Electroconvulsive therapy

Bipolar Disorder I & II mania

Schizophrenia (hallucinations/delusions, catatonic, paranoid, undifferentiated, residual, tardive dyskinesia) Case Study: John Nash & A Beautiful Mind The controversy over treatments and medication The experience of Schizophrenia http;/www.chovil.com

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