Office of Cuiculum & Instuction Advanced Placement Psychology Gades 11 o 12 ABSTRACT The pupose of AP Psychology is to intoduce students to the systematic and scientific study of the behavio and mental pocesses of human beings and othe animals. Students ae exposed to the psychological facts, pinciples, and phenomena associated with each of the majo subfields within psychology. A vaiety of activities, demonstations, and pojects will be povided to meet this goal of instucting scientific and empiical appoaches. Adopted by the Someville Boad of Education on July 25, 2017
AP Psychology Cuiculum Map Unit/ Time Fame Unit 1: Histoy and Appoaches, and Reseach Methods Weeks 1-4 Unit 2: The Biological Basis of Behavio Weeks 5-8 Unit 3: Sensation and Peception Weeks 9-10 Unit 4: Social Psychology Weeks 11-13 Unit 5: States of Consciousness Week 14 2014 New Jesey Student Leaning Standads-Social Studies Ameican Psychological Association National Psychology Standads Standad Aea IA: Intoduction and Reseach Methods Standad Aea IIA: Biological Basis of Behavio Standad Aea IIB: Sensation and Peception Standad Aea VC: Social and Cultual Dimensions of Behavio Standad Aea IVD: States of Consciousness Essential Question: -How did psychology develop fom its pescientific oots in ealy undestandings of mind and body to the beginnings of moden science? -What ae psychology s levels of analysis, elated pespectives, and main subfields? -How is eseach used in psychology to undestand, descibe, and pedict behavio in humans and animals? -Is psychological eseach ethical and what methods ae used to ensue fait teatment of people and animals? -What is the elationship between physiological pocesses and behavio? -How do people take in infomation fom the envionment though active sensoy ogans (sensation) and intepet this infomation though cognitive pocesses of peception? -How do individuals elate to one anothe in social situations? -In what way does consciousness and diffeent levels of conscious activity affect behavio?
Skills and Topics: -Recognize how philosophical and physiological pespectives shaped the development of psychological thought. - Descibe and compae diffeent theoetical appoaches in explaining behavio: -Recognize the stengths and limitations of applying theoies to explain behavio. -Distinguish the diffeent domains of psychology - Identify majo histoical figues in psychology - Diffeentiate types of eseach with egad to pupose, stengths, and weaknesses. -Descibe how eseach design dives the easonable conclusions that can be dawn - Identify independent, dependent, confounding, and contol vaiables in expeimental designs. -Distinguish between andom assignment of paticipants to conditions in expeiments and andom selection of paticipants, pimaily in coelational studies and suveys. -Pedict the validity of behavioal explanations based on the quality of eseach design -Distinguish the puposes of desciptive statistics and infeential statistics. -Apply basic desciptive statistical concepts, including intepeting and constucting gaphs and calculating simple desciptive statistics. -Discuss the value of eliance on opeational definitions and measuement in behavioal eseach. -Identify how ethical issues infom and constain eseach pactices. -Descibe how ethical and legal guidelines potect eseach paticipants and pomote sound ethical pactice. AP Psychology Cuiculum Map -Explain the pocess of neual communication. -Delineate the diffeent steps of the neual chain. -Analyze the diffeence between the neual and homonal systems. -Identify the pats of the bain and the functions of each. -Descibe the diffeent types of bain scans. -Detemine the ole of genetics in influencing human behavio. -Discuss basic pinciples of sensoy tansduction, including absolute theshold, diffeence theshold, signal detection, and sensoy adaptation. -Descibe sensoy pocesses, including the specific natue of enegy tansduction, elevant anatomical stuctues, and specialized pathways in the bain fo each of the senses. -Explain common sensoy disodes -Descibe geneal pinciples of oganizing and integating sensation to pomote stable awaeness of the extenal wold -Discuss how expeience and cultue can influence peceptual pocesses -Explain the ole of topdown pocessing in poducing vulneability to illusion. -Discuss the ole of attention in behavio. -Challenge common beliefs in paapsychological phenomena. -Apply attibution theoy to explain motives -Descibe the stuctue and function of diffeent kinds of goup behavio -Explain how individuals espond to expectations of othes, including goupthink, confomity, and obedience to authoity. -Discuss attitudes and how they change - Pedict the impact of the pesence of othes on individual behavio -Descibe pocesses that contibute to diffeential teatment of goup membes -Aticulate the impact of social and cultual categoies -Anticipate the impact of behavio on a self-fulfilling pophecy. -Descibe the vaiables that contibute to altuism, aggession, and attaction. -Discuss attitude fomation and change, including pesuasion stategies and cognitive dissonance. -Define consciousness. -Descibe the diffeent stages of sleep. -Analyze the diffeent theoies of deaming. -Detemine the common sleep disodes and thei consequences. -Diffeentiate between the diffeent theoies of hypnosis. -Descibe psychoactive dugs and thei effects. -Diffeentiate among the diffeent types of psychoactive dugs and thei effects. -Analyze the consequences of addiction, toleance, and withdawal.
AP Psychology Cuiculum Map Intedisciplinay Connections: Centuy Life/Caees: Centuy Life/Caees: Centuy Life/Caees: Centuy Life/Caees: Centuy Life/Caees: Integation of Technology: Witing: Fomative Summative Pefomance 21 st Centuy Themes: Intenet, Web Quests, wieless laptop computes, classoom computes, SMART Boads, multimedia pesentations, pezis, wikis, VoiceThead, video case studies, video steaming, podcasting Open-ended esponses, conclusions and analysis of exploatoy activities, eflective jounal enties, clinical diaies, esponse cads, essays, eseach epots Goup wok, paied wok, jounal enties, multimedia pesentations, scoing ubic, benchmak assessments Quizzes, tests, pojects, multimedia pesentations, benchmak assessments Clinical study esponses, video case esponses, goup pesentations, multimedia pesentations Global Awaeness Civic Liteacy Financial, Economic, Business, and Entepeneuial Liteacy Health Liteacy
21 st Centuy Skills: Ceativity & Innovation Media Liteacy Citical Thinking & Poblem Solving Life and Caee Skills Infomation & CommunicationTechnologies Liteacy Communication & Collaboation Resouces: AP Psychology Cuiculum Map Infomation Liteacy Tade books, peiodicals, pofessional publications, jounals, videos, websites, blogs, multimedia esouces Caees: Applicable caee options ae discussed as they aise thoughout the social studies pogam. Caee options include, but ae not limited to, the following caee clustes: Agicultue, Food, and Natual Resouces Caee Cluste; Achitectue and Constuction Caee Cluste; Ats, A/V Technology, and Communications Caee Cluste; Business, Management, and Administation Caee Cluste; Education and Taining Caee Cluste; Finance Caee Cluste; Govenment and Public Administation Caee Cluste; Health Science Caee Cluste; Hospitality and Touism Caee Cluste; Human Sevices Caee Cluste; Infomation Technology Caee Cluste; Law, Public Safety, Coection, and Secuity Caee Cluste; Manufactuing Caee Cluste; Maketing Caee Cluste; Science, Technology, Engineeing and Mathematics Caee Cluste; Tanspotation, Distibution, and Logistics Caee Cluste. *2016 NJSLS RL Reading Liteatue RI Reading Infomation W Witing SL Speaking and Listening L Language N: Numbes A: Algeba F: Functions G: Geomety S: Statistics and Pobability MD: Measuement and Data
AP Psychology Cuiculum Map Unit/Time Fame Unit 6: Leaning Weeks 15-17 Unit 7: Cognition Weeks 18-20 Unit 8: Motivation and Emotion Weeks 21-23 Unit 9: Developmental Psychology Weeks 24-26 Unit 10: Pesonality and Testing and Individual Diffeences Weeks 27-29 2014 New Jesey Student Leaning Standads-Social Studies Standad Aea IVA: Leaning Standad Aea IVB: Memoy Standad Aea IVC: Thinking and Language Standad Aea IIC: Motivation and Emotion Standad Aea IID: Stess, Coping, and Health Standad Aea IIIA: Life Span Development Standad Aea IIIB: Pesonality and Assessment Standad Aea IVE: Individual Diffeences Essential Question: -What is the diffeence between leaned and unleaned behavios? -How do humans convet sensoy infomation into memoies, language, methods of poblem solving, and ceative pocesses? -What types of biological and social factos motivate and sustain behavio and how is biology and cultue an influence on emotion? -How does behavio develop fom conception to death and what pocesses contibute to behavioal changes acoss the life span? -What factos contibute to the development of enduing pattens of behavio and pesonal chaacteistics? -How is intelligence and assessment of individual diffeences defined and used to ceate tests? Skills and Topics: -Distinguish geneal diffeences between pinciples of classical conditioning, opeant conditioning, and obsevational leaning. -Descibe basic classical conditioning phenomena, such as acquisition, extinction, spontaneous ecovey, genealization, discimination, and highe-ode leaning. -Intepet gaphs that exhibit the esults of leaning expeiments. -Compae and contast vaious cognitive pocesses: effotful vesus automatic pocessing; deep vesus shallow pocessing; focused vesus divided attention. -Descibe and diffeentiate psychological and physiological systems of memoy (e.g., shot-tem memoy, pocedual memoy). -Discuss the similaities of instinct and dive theoies. -Discuss the diffeence between dive theoy and homeostasis. -Explain the easons why intinsic motivation is moe beneficial than extinsic motivation. -Detemine how psychologists measue achievement motivation. -Identify ways we can motivate othes to give thei best effots. -Analyze how the body egulates weight -Descibe the physical development of infants and childen fom conception to pubety. -Analyze the cognitive development of infants and childen. -Evaluate the impotance of social development in infants and childen. -Define adolescence and evaluate how adolescence has changed ove the last centuy. -Summaize the physical changes that occu duing adolescence. -Explain how goup tests of intelligence diffe fom individual tests. -Diffeentiate between an aptitude test and an achievement test. -Explain the diffeence between eliability and validity. -Analyze the easons fo the diffeences in test scoes among people of diffeent gendes, aces, and ethnic goups.
AP Psychology Cuiculum Map Intedisciplinay Connections: -Pedict the effects of opeant conditioning. -Pedict how pactice, schedules of einfocement, and motivation will influence quality of leaning. -Povide examples of how biological constaints ceate leaning pedispositions. -Descibe the essential chaacteistics of insight leaning, latent leaning, and social leaning. -Suggest how behavio modification, biofeedback, coping stategies, and selfcontol can be used to addess behavioal poblems. 8.1.12.A.4, 8.1.12.F.1 21st Centuy Life/Caees: -Outline the pinciples that undelie effective encoding, stoage, and constuction of memoies. -Descibe stategies fo memoy impovement. -Synthesize how biological, cognitive, and cultual factos convege to facilitate acquisition, development, and use of language. -Identify poblem-solving stategies as well as factos that influence thei effectiveness. -List the chaacteistics of ceative thought and ceative thinkes. Centuy Life/Caees: -Diffeentiate between histoical and moden cognitive theoies of emotion. -Identify the physiological changes that occu when people expeience diffeent emotions. -Detemine the citeia fo assessing gende diffeences in emotional expession. Centuy Life/Caees: -Analyze how the easoning ability of adolescents diffes fom that of childen. -Descibe and analyze Kohlbeg s theoy of moal easoning. -Descibe how natue and nutue affect behavio. -Descibe how developmental psychologists eseach development ove the life span. -Analyze how sex oles influence individual and social behavio thoughout the life span. Centuy Life/Caees: -Compae and contast Gadne s and Stenbeg s theoies of intelligence. -Evaluate Alfed Binet s contibution to intelligence testing. -Evaluate Lewis Teman s ole in the development of intelligence testing. - Descibe David Weschle s contibution to intelligence testing. Centuy Life/Caees: Integation of Technology: Witing: Fomative Summative Pefomance Intenet, Web Quests, wieless laptop computes, classoom computes, SMART Boads, multimedia pesentations, pezis, wikis, VoiceThead, video case studies, video steaming, podcasting Open-ended esponses, conclusions and analysis of exploatoy activities, eflective jounal enties, clinical diaies, esponse cads, essays, eseach epots Goup wok, paied wok, jounal enties, multimedia pesentations, scoing ubic, benchmak assessments Quizzes, tests, pojects, multimedia pesentations, benchmak assessments Clinical study esponses, video case esponses, goup pesentations, multimedia pesentations
21 st Centuy Themes: AP Psychology Cuiculum Map Global Awaeness Civic Liteacy Financial, Economic, Business, and Entepeneuial Liteacy Health Liteacy 21 st Centuy Skills: Ceativity & Innovation Media Liteacy Citical Thinking & Poblem Solving Life and Caee Skills Infomation & CommunicationTechnologies Liteacy Communication & Collaboation Infomation Liteacy Resouces: Tade books, peiodicals, pofessional publications, jounals, videos, websites, blogs, multimedia esouces Caees: Applicable caee options ae discussed as they aise thoughout the social studies pogam. Caee options include, but ae not limited to, the following caee clustes: Agicultue, Food, and Natual Resouces Caee Cluste; Achitectue and Constuction Caee Cluste; Ats, A/V Technology, and Communications Caee Cluste; Business, Management, and Administation Caee Cluste; Education and Taining Caee Cluste; Finance Caee Cluste; Govenment and Public Administation Caee Cluste; Health Science Caee Cluste; Hospitality and Touism Caee Cluste; Human Sevices Caee Cluste; Infomation Technology Caee Cluste; Law, Public Safety, Coection, and Secuity Caee Cluste; Manufactuing Caee Cluste; Maketing Caee Cluste; Science, Technology, Engineeing and Mathematics Caee Cluste; Tanspotation, Distibution, and Logistics Caee Cluste.
AP Psychology Cuiculum Map Unit/Time Fame 2014 New Jesey Student Leaning Standads-Social Studies Essential Question: Unit 11: Abnomal Psychology and Teatment of Mental Disodes Weeks 30-32 Standad Aea VA: Psychological Disodes Standad Aea VB: Teatment of Psychological Disodes -How can we daw the line between nomal and abnomality? -How ae mental illnesses categoized, diagnosed, and examined fom vaious pespectives in society? -What methods ae used to teat mental illness? Unit 12: Review fo Exam and Post Advanced Placement Test Weeks 33-40 How can pinciples of psychology be applied to eveyday situations?
Skills and Topics: -Descibe contempoay and histoical conceptions of what constitutes psychological disodes. -Recognize the use of the most ecent vesion of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disodes (DSM) published by the Ameican Psychiatic Association as the pimay efeence fo making diagnostic judgments. -Discuss the majo diagnostic categoies and thei coesponding symptoms. -Evaluate the stengths and limitations of vaious appoaches to explaining psychological disodes. -Identify the positive and negative consequences of diagnostic labels -Discuss the intesection between psychology and the legal system -Descibe the cental chaacteistics of psychotheapeutic intevention. -Descibe majo teatment oientations used in theapy and how those oientations influence theapeutic planning. -Compae and contast diffeent teatment fomats - Discuss how cultual and ethnic context influence choice and success of teatment AP Psychology Cuiculum Map -Ceate a mock study using the suvey method of eseach -Debate topics in developmental psychology -Reseach the mental health system povided fo people in wok envionments, the militay, and schools -Analyze movie chaactes and apply theapeutic methods to cope with illness
Intedisciplinay Connections: Centuy Life/Caees: AP Psychology Cuiculum Map Centuy Life/Caees: Integation of Technology: Witing: Fomative Summative Pefomance Intenet, Web Quests, wieless laptop computes, classoom computes, SMART Boads, multimedia pesentations, pezis, wikis, VoiceThead, video case studies, video steaming, podcasting Open-ended esponses, conclusions and analysis of exploatoy activities, eflective jounal enties, clinical diaies, esponse cads, essays, eseach epots Goup wok, paied wok, jounal enties, multimedia pesentations, scoing ubic, benchmak assessments Quizzes, tests, pojects, multimedia pesentations, benchmak assessments Clinical study esponses, video case esponses, goup pesentations, multimedia pesentations
21 st Centuy Themes: AP Psychology Cuiculum Map Global Awaeness Civic Liteacy Financial, Economic, Business, and Entepeneuial Liteacy Health Liteacy 21 st Centuy Skills: Ceativity & Innovation Media Liteacy Citical Thinking & Poblem Solving Life and Caee Skills Infomation & CommunicationTechnologies Liteacy Communication & Collaboation Infomation Liteacy Resouces: Tade books, peiodicals, pofessional publications, jounals, videos, websites, blogs, multimedia esouces Caees: Applicable caee options ae discussed as they aise thoughout the social studies pogam. Caee options include, but ae not limited to, the following caee clustes: Agicultue, Food, and Natual Resouces Caee Cluste; Achitectue and Constuction Caee Cluste; Ats, A/V Technology, and Communications Caee Cluste; Business, Management, and Administation Caee Cluste; Education and Taining Caee Cluste; Finance Caee Cluste; Govenment and Public Administation Caee Cluste; Health Science Caee Cluste; Hospitality and Touism Caee Cluste; Human Sevices Caee Cluste; Infomation Technology Caee Cluste; Law, Public Safety, Coection, and Secuity Caee Cluste; Manufactuing Caee Cluste; Maketing Caee Cluste; Science, Technology, Engineeing and Mathematics Caee Cluste; Tanspotation, Distibution, and Logistics Caee Cluste. *2016 NJSLS RL Reading Liteatue RI Reading Infomation W Witing SL Speaking and Listening L Language N: Numbes A: Algeba F: Functions G: Geomety S: Statistics and Pobability MD: Measuement and Data