Intro to Psychology – Grades 11-12

District 2853

Month

Content

Performance Standards Addressed

Skills for Student Achievement

Assessment

 

2 Weeks

Introducing Psychology

·         World of Psychology: 

      An Overview

·         Unity and Diversity in Psychology

 

·         Read and analyze the scope of behavior and mental processes

·         Research the foundation of psychology

·         Read and learn of a brief history of psychology

·         Describe the approaches to psychology

·         List the sub-fields of psychology

·         Develop an understanding of the linkages within psychology and beyond

·         Identify human diversity and psychology

·         Group Activities to show an understanding of the various backgrounds of psychology

·         Notes on reading assignments

·         Team teaching on various topics of psychology

·         Chapter 1 Test

2 Weeks

Learning

·         Learning about Stimuli

·         Classical Conditioning:

Learning, Signals and Association

·         Operant Conditioning:

Learning the Consequences of Behavior

·         Cognitive Processes in Learning

·         Using Research on Learning to Help People Learn

 

·         Read and analyze Pavlov’s discovery and it’s applications of classical conditioning

·         Read and analyze the principles of operant conditioning and learning the consequences of behavior

·         Describe the purple box to the skinner box

·         Show to the class why reinforcers work

·         Show the process of learned helplessness

·         Report to the class on:  Classrooms Across Cultures

·         Group activities to show an understanding of classical and operant conditioning

·         Notes on reading assignments

·         Reports on outside research on why reinforcers work

·         Demonstrate to the class on observational learning and learning by imitation

·         Chapter Test

2 Weeks

Memory

·         The Nature of Memory

·         Acquiring New Memories

·         Retrieving Memories

·         Forgetting

·         Biological Bases of Memory

·         Applications of Memory Research

 

·         Read and analyze the types of memory

·         Measure explicit versus implicit memory

·         Read and learn sensory memory

·         Distinguish between short-term and long-term memory

·         Discuss retrieval cues and encoding specificity

·         Chart the course of forgetting

·         Do classroom activities on improving your memory and design for memory

·         Group activities to show an understanding of the nature of memory

·         Notes on reading assignments

·         Team teaching the thinking critically exercise

·         Reports on the biological bases of memory

·         Chapter Test

2 Weeks

Human Development

·         Exploring Human Development

·         Infancy and Childhood

·         Adolescence

·         Adulthood

 

·         Readings on the newborn and prenatal development

·         Show the cognitive development path in infancy and childhood

·         Do research on Piaget’s Theory

·         Analyze infancy and childhood with its social and emotional development

·         Demonstrate the challenges of adolescence

·         Identify the many changes of adulthood

·         Group activities to show an understanding of the various stages of human development

·         Notes on reading assignments

·         Show observation of early development and report these observations to the class

·         Team teaching on human development

·         Chapter Test

2 Weeks

Health, Stress and Coping

·         Health Psychology

·         Stress and Stressors

·         Stress Responses

·         Stress Mediators

·         Physiology and Psychology of Health and Illness

·         Promoting Healthy Behavior

 

·         Read and analyze stress and stressors

·         Show stress responses

·         Show how stressors are appraised

·         Research predictability and control

·         Demonstrate coping resources and coping methods

·         Develop an understanding of stress and personality

·         Research heart diseases and life-endangering behaviors

·         Identify healthy behavior

·         Group activities to show an understanding of the topics on health, stress and coping

·         Notes on reading assignments

·         Team teaching on the physical and psychological responses to stress

·         Take stress and personality inventories

·         Develop programs for promoting health

·         Chapter Test

2 Weeks

Personality

·         Psychodynamic Approach

·         Trait Approach

·         Social-Cognitive Approach

·         Phenomenological Approach

·         Assessing Personality

 

·         Read and analyze the various approaches to personality

·         Report to the class on the aspects of Feud’s personality theory and its variations

·         Demonstrate the “Big Five” model of personality

·         Evaluate personality traits

·         Show an understanding of objective, projective and personality tests

·         Group activities to show an understanding of the various approaches to personality

·         Notes on reading assignments

·         Team teaching on the various research methods of personality

·         Chapter Test

2 Weeks

Psychological Disorder

·        Understanding Psychological Disorders

·        Classifying Psychological Disorders

·        Anxiety Disorders

·        Somatoform Disorders

·        Dissociative Disorders

·        Mood Disorders

·        Schizophrenia

·        Personality Disorders

 

·         Read and analyze psychological disorders

·         Show an understanding of the classification of psychological disorders

·         Describe the links between child abuse and dissociative disorders

·         Show a sampling of other psychological disorders

·         Describe mental illness and the law

·         Group activities to show an understanding of psychological disorders

·         Notes on reading assignments

·         Team teaching on the various psychological disorders

·         Reports on the various psychological disorders

·         Chapter Test

2 Weeks

Treatment of Psychological Disorders

·        Basic Features of Treatment

·        Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

·        Phenomenological Psychotherapy

·        Behavior Therapy

·        Evaluating Psychotherapy

·        Biological Treatments

 

·         Read and analyze the various treatments of psychological disorders

·         Describe the various methods of psychotherapies

·         Show group, family, and couples therapy

·         Develop an understanding of biological treatments

·         Group activities to show an understanding of the treatments of psychological disorders

·         Notes on reading assignments

·         Team teaching on the various topics of psychotherapies

·         Chapter Test

2 Weeks

Social Influence

·        Conformity and Compliance

·        Obedience

·        Aggression

·        Altruism

·        Cooperation, Competition, and Conflict

·        Group Processes

 

·         Read and analyze the scope of social influence

·         Research the various components of social influence

·         Demonstrate altruism and help people

·         Show group processes with class leadership and groupthink

·         Identify motivation and the presence of others

·         Group activities to show an understanding of the components of social influence

·         Notes on the reading assignments

·         Team teaching on the various aspects of social influence

·         Report on observation of the components of social influence

·         Chapter Test