Day Date Unit 1: History and Research Reading

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1 AP Psychology Back blackboard Day Date Unit 1: History and Research Reading 1 Intro and class expectations pp (for tomorrow) 2 History of Psych pp Quiz 1-1 (15) (by day 4) 3 Be careful: Bias & Overconfidence 4 Research Methods pp Quiz 1-2 (10) (by day 6) 5 Experiments 6 Central Tendency pp Quiz 1-3 (10) (by day 8) FRQ Assignment (10 pts) 7 Correlation Coefficients 8 Test 35 Multiple Choice (50) Free Response (50)

2 Myers Psychology Text Reading Guide Questions Unit 1: History and Research Pages What is empiricism? 2. Wundt, James, Descartes, Locke 3. What s psychology s Big Debate? 4. Biopsychosocial Approach with example 5. Psychiatry vs Psychology Pages Why should we be critical of survey results? 2. What is and is not a proper random sample of a population? 3. Think of two examples of hindsight bias in your life. 4. True or False: Surveys, Case Studies, and Naturalistic Observations are meant to explain behaviors. Pages What is a perfect correlation (positive or negative)? 2. Provide an example in which correlation does not provide causation. 3. What is a double-blind procedure and how do placebos and control conditions make it such an effective experiment? 4. Differentiate mean, median, and mode. Pages What are some standards of ethics in experimental research? 2. To what degree do you feel we can experiment on humans?

3 AP Psychology Back blackboard Day Date Unit 2: Learning and Memory Reading 1 Learning intro , Classical Conditioning 40 Studies pp or pp (20) 3 Social Learning & Operant Conditioning Schedules, Skinner, & Thorndike Encoding Quiz 2 1 (15) 6 Stages of Storing & the hippocampus 7 Retrieval Quiz 2 2 (13) 8 Elizabeth Loftus & Forgetting 9 Test 35 M.C. & 1 FRQ

4 Myers Psychology Text Reading Guide Questions Unit 2: Learning and Memory Pages , What is associative learning? 2. Distinguish generalization from discrimination. 3. The role of acquisition, extinction, and spontaneous recovery in everyday learning. 4. What are two ways you are classically conditioned everyday? 5. Who was Mary Cover Jones (Peter and the Rabbit)? Page What is Edward Thorndike s Law of Effect? 2. Differentiate Positive Reinforcement from Negative Reinforcement. 3. What are some examples from your life of each schedule of reinforcement? 4. Compare Classical with Operant Conditioning. 5. What are some biological predispositions of classical and operant conditioning? Pages What is the role of mirror neurons in observational learning? 2. Describe Albert Bandura s famous Bobo Doll experiment. Pages Of Sensory Memory, Short-Term Memory, and Long-Term Memory, which is most associated with working memory? 2. Distinguish between automatic and effortful processing of encoded information. 3. What are the roles of chunking and mnemonics in recalling information? Pages Long-Term Memory (LTM) and the Hippocampus Pages Recognition and Recall. 2. Difficulties with retrieval of learned material (forgetting): decay, interference, repression, amnesia. 3. What does Elizabeth Loftus say about reconstructed memories?

5 AP Psychology Back blackboard Day Date Unit 3: Intelligence and Language Reading 1 Defining Cognition and Heuristics pp Thinking and Language pp Theories of Intelligence pp Intelligence Tests Quiz 3 1 (25) 5 The Big Debate/Test Fairness pp Final look at each topic Review Worksheet (20) Study Guide Matching (10) 8 Test 40 Multiple Choice (20 Language/20 Intelligence) FRQ

6 Myers Psychology Text Reading Guide Questions Unit 3: Language and Intelligence Page * Notes provided for the 1. What is the difference between using a heuristic approach and algorithm? 2. Define and appreciate the significance of cognition to human behavior in general, and language and intelligence in particular. 3. What is the danger of confirmation bias for researchers? 4. What are examples of individual overconfidence and belief perseverance? Pages Distinguish semantics from syntax. 2. What are the ages and levels of language development? Pages What is the significance of linguistic determinism to thinking? 2. What levels of thinking and language do animals exhibit? Pages What is meant by g, regarding identifying intelligence? 2. Howard Gardner is the Bill Gates of intelligence. Why? 3. Is creativity measurable? Can someone extrinsically motivate someone else to be creative? 4. What exactly is gray matter, and what is its role in intelligence? Pages What was the purpose of the original intelligence tests? 2. Is it important to standardize intelligence tests? Why or why not? 3. Identify test fairness in terms of normal curve, reliability, and validity. Pages What are the benchmark ranges of intelligence scores? 2. What plays a bigger influence on intelligence, nature or nurture? 3. In what way (s) can intelligence tests be biased?

7 AP Psychology Back blackboard Day Date Unit 4: Consciousness, Motivation, Emotions Reading 1 Intro and reading day pp Sleep and Dreams 3 Hypnosis pp Quiz 4 1 (15 pts) 4 Drugs 40 Studies assignment due (20 pts) 5 Motivation intro pp (for Day 5) 6 Biological Motives 7 Human Sexuality pp (for Day 7) 8 Social Motives Quiz 4 2 (20 pts) 9 Reading Day: Emotions/Motives pp Emotions 11 Emotions & personality pp Quiz 4 3 (10 pts) 12 Emotions - Izard Key people matching (24 pts) 13 Test

8 Myers Psychology Text Reading Guide Questions Unit 4: States of Consciousness Pages Differentiate Biological Rhythms from Circadian Rhythms. 2. Appreciate the contributions of early sleep researchers like Eugene Aserinsky, Nathaniel Kleitman, William Dement, and Sigmund Freud. 3. Understand the various sleep disorders, including sleepwalking, nightmares, and night terrors. 4. What are lucid dreams, manifest content, and latency content? Pages * Notes provided for the 1. What was the role of Anton Mesmer in the development of hypnosis? 2. Differentiate psychological from physical dependence. 3. Regarding depressants, stimulants, and hallucinogens: how do each effect neural activity? Provide three examples of each. 4. Distinguish Dualism from Monism in the mind-body connection. Pages Identify role of metabolism, taste preferences, and hunger in biological motives. 2. What were the roles of Alfred Kinsey and Masters & Johnson in the understanding of sexual motivation? 3. What are the four stages of the sexual response cycle? Pages Differentiate job, career, and calling. 2. What is achievement motivation and flow? 3. Distinguish task leadership from social leadership. Theory X from Theory Y leaders. 4. What is ostracism? Pages What is the role of the brain s amygdala in our emotions? 2. What is two-factor theory? 3. What was Paul Ekman s study about emotions?

9 AP Psychology Back blackboard Day Date Unit 5: Neuroscience, Sensation, & Perception Reading 1 Brain Biology: Neurons pp Neurotransmitters 3 Nervous and Endocrine Systems + Review for Mid-Term in IMC (website) 4 Mid-Term (50 M.C. in 35 minutes) Only material from units The Old Brain, New Brain, and Lobes pp Language Areas Quiz 5-1 (20 pts) Nervous System Worksheet (40 pts) 7 The Two Brains pp Forty Studies, One Brain or Two? (20 pts) (for day 8) 8 Sensation Processing 9 Vision 10 Vision continued Quiz 5-2 (17 pts) 11 Sound Touch Taste Smell pp Illusions and perceptual organization 13 Textbook reading pp Adapting and ESP Matching key people (13 pts) Quiz 5 3 (13 pts) 15 Test

10 Myers Psychology Text Reading Guide Questions Unit 5: Neuroscience, Sensation, and Perception Pages What is meant by a neuron s action potential? 2. Differentiate sensory, motor, and interneurons. 3. What are the primary parts of the neuron? 4. Contrast agonist from atagonist. 5. What is role of the endocrine system? Pages Identify the parts of the old brain and new brain. 2. What is the purpose of EEG, PET scans, and MRIs? 3. What is the significance of the cortex areas? Pages Differentiate sensation from perception. 2. What is the significance of thresholds to our perceptions? 3. How do we process visual information? Pages Physically, how does the ear process sounds? 2. Describe Gate-Control Theory. 3. How are taste and smell significant to each other? Pages Attune to how our brains perceive things that aren t there and misses things that are. 2. What is meant by size, shape, and lightness constancy?

11 AP Psychology Back blackboard Day Date Unit 6: Development and Personality Reading 1 Cognitive Development pp (by day 3) 2 Attachment 3 Erik Erikson & Adolescence pp Moral Development pp Studies, How Moral Are You? (20 pts) (by Day 6) 5 Adulthood Quiz 6 1 (15 pts) 6 Late Adulthood/Death & Dying pp. 595, Personality Intro pp (by Day 9) 8 Psychoanalysis Defense Mechanisms (7 pts) 9 Humanism pp Quiz 6 2 (15 points) (by Day 11) 10 Social Cognitive Approach 11 Test

12 Myers Psychology Text Reading Guide Questions Unit 6: Development and Personality Pages What is meant by the rooting reflex in newborns? 2. What limits does each stage (up to Formal Operations) of Piaget s Cognitive Development present? 3. Describe the role of attachment to a child s self-concept and basic trust. Page What are some similarities and differences of puberty for males and females? 2. What are the respective roles of peers, parents, and physical development in an adolescent s identity? 3. How does aging affect one s memory and intelligence? Pages Describe Sigmund Freud s iceberg personality analogy. 2. What does Freud mean by Fixation? 3. Describe Carl Jung s Collective Unconscious and Archetype. 4. What does Abraham Maslow mean by Self-Actualization? 5. What are the Big Five personality factors? 6. Differentiate Internal from External Locus of Control. 7. What personality perspective is Martin Seligman associated with?

13 AP Psychology Back blackboard Day Date Unit 7: Social Psychology Reading 1 Attribution Theory & Conformity pp Obedience pp Prejudice pp Quiz 7 1 (15 points) Raja Worksheet (16 points)

14 Myers Psychology Text Reading Guide Questions Unit 7: Social Psychology Pages What is meant by the fundamental attribution error? 2. What is the connection of attitudes from actions. 3. Distinguish normative social influence from informational social influence. 4. What is the influence of others on conformity and obedience? Page What is meant by the psychology of attraction? 2. Differentiate passionate from companionate love. 3. What is altruism?

15 AP Psychology Day Date Unit 8: Stress and Abnormal Back blackboard Reading 1 Stress and Conflict pp Coping with Stress pp Defining abnormal & the DSM-IV pp Neurosis pp Phobias & OCD Quiz 8 1 (10 points) 40 Studies: Relaxing Your Fears Away (20 points) 6 Eating Disorders pp Psychosis Intro pp. 152, Personality Disorders pp Schizophrenia pp Quiz 8 2 (15 points) 10 Therapy pp Blue Gen. Psych text 11 Video: Madness: A History Worksheet (10 points) 12 Psychotherapy pp Biomedical Therapies Quiz 8 3 (15 points) 14 Test 15 Semester Review 16 Semester Final

16 Myers Psychology Text Reading Guide Questions Unit 8: Stress and Abnormal Pages Describe the Stress-Response System. 2. What did Hans Selye mean by the General Adaptation Syndrome? 3. Provide some different methods of coping with stress. Pages What is the Biopsychosocial Approach to psychological disorders? 2. What are the general axis (ex. Axis I) of the DSM-IV? 3. Name some anxiety disorders? 4. What does PTSD stand for? Pages 152, What are some traits of autism? 2. What is Bipolar Disorder also known as? 3. Name some subtypes of schizophrenia. 4. What are some traits of the Antisocial Personality? Pages What are the three primary eating disorders? Pages Define psychopharmacology. 2. Differentiate antipsychotic, antidepressant, and antianxiety drugs. 3. What is rtms? How does it work? Pages (General Psychology Blue Text) 1. Differentiate the following therapies: Humanistic, Psychoanalysis, Behaviorism, Cognitive.