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A.P. Psychology Wendy Bendle in J366 Course Syllabus 2012-2013 wbendle@malden.mec.edu

SUMMER READING: due the first day of class, Thursday, August 30, 2012:
Please click this link for all the assignments and readings on Ms. Pember's AP Psych wiki

Welcome to AP Psychology!
The AP Psychology course is designed to introduce students to the systematic and scientific study of the behavior and mental processes of human beings and other animals. Students are exposed to the psychological facts, principles, and phenomena associated with each of the major subfields within psychology. They also learn about the ethics and methods psychologists use in their science and practice. Areas covered include: history of psychology; research methods; biological bases of behavior; sensation and perception; cognitive psychology; physical, social and emotional development; abnormal behavior and therapies; social psychology; and gender differences. This is a rigorous and demanding course requiring students to have a strong work ethic, to read at a rigorous pace, and to complete a variety of writing assignments, projects, and experiments. Students are expected to demonstrate strong writing and analytical skills and independent work habits. This course follows the APA guidelines for Advanced Placement Psychology, and all students are required to take the AP exam on May 6, 2013.

Course Textbook and reading materials

 * Myers’ Psychology for AP, by David G. Myers, Worth Publishers, 2011.
 * Assorted handouts, readings, articles, PsychSim modules, video clips, literature, art, movies…
 * I will keep assignments and related activities, handouts, etc. posted on the wikispaces page.

Course Objectives
Students will: 1. study the fundamental concepts and theories of psychology. 2. learn the basic skills of psychological research. 3. develop critical thinking, reading, writing, and discussion skills. 4. analyze ethical issues and enduring psychological questions. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">5. apply psychological principles in their own lives. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">6. prepare to earn a passing score on the AP Psychology Exam.

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Classroom Expectations
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">**Respect:** Students must respect all people, including themselves, and all property, including their own, always. While this class will address many relevant psychological issues that pertain to all of us personally, this class is not a group therapy session. Neither I, nor any of you, are licensed therapists. We are, however, caring, empathetic, non-judgmental, ethical people. It is inevitable that we do share parts of our lives, and when we do it will be done with trust and confidence that we all will practice confidentiality. Here’s a simple guideline: if it’s not your story, then it’s not your story to tell. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">**Work Ethic and Attitude:** Come to class each day prepared with your binder, be ready to learn and work hard. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Be enthusiastic, positive, curious and focused. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">**Ownership:** Take responsibility for your behavior, work, and learning. Be proud of the work you do. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">**Academic Integrity:** Don’t cheat. Don’t copy another’s words. If you’re unsure, please ask me. Collaboration is an important part of class and learning, however all work on tests must be your own and anything turned in must be in your own words. Failure to honor the standards for academic integrity will result in a failing grade and a disciplinary referral to your house principal. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">**Extra Help:** Seek extra help if you do not understand a concept or procedure. Don’t wait until before the test. I am free periods 1 and 7 and before and after school. Schedule a time with me by email or after class.

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Also, remember that as a teacher, I am a mandated reporter, which means that I am required by law to report to school authorities any information regarding a student harming him/herself, being harmed by another, or causing harm to another.

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Social Studies Department Distribution of quarterly grading components:
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Tests/Projects: 35% <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Quizzes/Minor Projects/Writing Assignments: 15% <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Class Participation/Class work/Binders: 35% <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Homework: 15%

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Assignments and Work Load:

 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">At the end of each unit we will have a test. Look at the pacing guide below. Tests will have 25 multiple choice questions, 5 terms to define and provide and example for, and one Free Response Question (FRQ).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Each quarter will have one project.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Frequent reading quizzes.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Participation: You need to speak up, share your ideas, answer questions, ask questions, challenge each other (politely), and be sensitive. It is up to you to show me in class that you are doing your work outside of class.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Homework:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Large reading assignments in the Myers’ text and/or additional readings. How you take notes is your choice but you MUST have some form of note taking—2 column, typed outline, flashcards.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Short written responses to readings, videos, discussions, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Long term planning and work on unit projects.

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Late Work:
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">We all get behind, but the pace of this class will not permit you to stay behind for more than a day or two. Do your best to stay on top of your work. Late work will be penalized a letter grade for each day it is late. I consider granting extensions if the request is made well in advance. If you are absent, it is your responsibility to check the wiki and to talk with a classmate about what you missed. If you are absent the day of a test, it is your responsibility to contact me //that day// to schedule the time you will take it. If you fail to do so, I will assume you will take the test the first day you return to class.

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">What You Need for This Class:
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">-3 ring binder with dividers (14 units) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">-paper for notes, pen/pencil for writing <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">-bring your textbook EVERY DAY to class

=<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">PACING GUIDE for the ACADEMIC YEAR 2012-2013 =

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Sources: <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Myers’ Unit 5 Pages 175-213 || **<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Unit X - Personality (7-9%) ** <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Sources: <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Myers Unit 10 Pages 479-521 || **<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Unit XIV – Social Psychology (8-10%) ** <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Sources: <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Myers’ Unit 14 Pages 643-695 || <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Sources: <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Myers’ Unit 1 Pages 2-17 || **<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Unit VI - Learning (7-9%) ** <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Sources: <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Myers’ Unit 11 Pages 523-559 || **<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Review for AP Exam ** || <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Sources: <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Myers’ Unit 2 Pages 19-49 || **<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Unit VII - Cognition (8-10%) ** <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Sources: <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Myers’ Unit 7 Pages 255-325 || **<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Unit XII – Abnormal Psychology (7-9%) ** <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Sources: <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Myers Unit 12 Pages 561-603 || ==<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">AP Psychology Exam ==
 * ==<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">QUARTER ONE == || ==<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">QUARTER TWO == || ==<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">QUARTER THREE == || ==<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">QUARTER FOUR == ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Summer Assignment and Introduction ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Unit V – States of Consciousness (2-4%) **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Sleep and Dreaming
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Hypnosis
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Psychoactive Drug Effects
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Personality Theories and Approaches
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Perosonality Assessment Techniques
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Growth and Adjustment
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Group Dynamics
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Attribution Processes
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Interpersonal Perception
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Conformity, Compliance, Obedience
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Attitudes and Attitude Change
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Organizational Behavior
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Aggression/Antisocial Behavior
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Cultural Influences
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Unit I – History and Approaches (2-4%) **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">What is psychology?
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Logic, Philosophy and History of Science
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Psychology’s Approaches
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Classical Conditioning **
 * 2) **<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Operant Conditioning **
 * 3) **<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Cognitive Processes **
 * 4) **<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Social Learning and Learning by Observation **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Sources: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Myers’ Unit 6 Pages 215-253 ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Unit XI – Testing and Individual Differences (5-7%) **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Standardization and Norms
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Reliability and Validity
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Types of Tests
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Ethics and Standards in Testing
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Intelligence
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Unit II – Research Methods (8-10%) **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">The Scientific Method
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Experimental, Correlation, and Clinical Research
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Statistics
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Ethics in Research
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Memory
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Language
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Thinking
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Problem Solving and Creativity
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Perspectives on Psychological Disorders
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Theories of Psychopathology
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Diagnosis of Psychopathology
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Types of Disorders

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">at noon
|| <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Sources: <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Myers’ Unit 3 pages 51-113 || <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">**Unit VIII – Motivation and Emotion (6-8%**) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Sources: <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Myers’ Unit 8 Pages 327-409 || **<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Unit XIII – Therapy and Treatment (5-7%) ** <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Sources: <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Myers’ Unit 13 Pages 605-641 || **<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">After the AP Exam - Final Projects ** || <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Sources: <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Myers’ Unit 4 Pages 115-173 || **<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Unit IX – Developmental Psychology (7-9%) ** <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Sources: <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Myers’ Unit 9 Pages 411-477 ||  ||   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Unit III – Biological Bases of Behavior (8-10%) **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">The Brain
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Neuroanatomy
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">The Nervous System
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Neural Communication and Transmission
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">The Endocrine System
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Genetics
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Evolutionary Psychology
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Biological Bases
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Motivaional Concepts
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Hunger, Thirst, Sex and Pain
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Social Motives
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Theories of Emotion
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Stress
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Treatment Approaches
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Modes of Therapy
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Community and Preventive Approaches
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Unit IV - Sensation and Perception (6-8%) **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Thresholds and Signal Detection Theory
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Vision
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Hearing
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">The Other Senses
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Perceptual Processes
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Life-Span Approach
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Research Methods
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Heredity-Environment Issues
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Developmental Theories
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Dimensions of Development
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Sex Roles and Gender Roles
 * || **<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Midterm Review and Exam **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Thursday, January 17, 2013 ** ||  ||   ||