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Syllabus
Commitment Contract
Unit 1 Learning Targets:
When and how did psychological science begin?
How did psychology continue to develop from the 1920’s through today?
What is psychology’s historic big issue?
What are psychology’s levels of analysis and related perspectives?
What are psychology’s main subfields?
Definition of Psychology: The study of behavior and the mind (mental process).
Learning Target: To understand the major psychological perspectives and what they can tell us about ourselves and others.
Circle: A behavior that you would like to have an explanation for? Ex. Why male athletes slap each others on the behind after a good play.
Table Activity: Share your MB profile with your group and explain what you know about yourself as a learner and a person and what you strengths and weakness are.
Activity: Predict what kind of students are most prevalent in AP class? Is this a good thing? What might be bad about it?
Understanding your MB Profile: Using your phone read your profile. What does it tell you about yourself? What does it tell you about the others in the class? How does it feel that someone can know you that well without ever having met you? Write your profile on an index card and place it in front of you. Look around at the people at your table and read about them according to their profile. Does it make sense? Does the profile fit the person. You will be doing a brief presentation about a person at your table. Do these profile's of the 16 types give you any insight to the people in the room. Do you notice any trends?
Online MB Test
The Hand
Celebrity Exercise:
Evolutionary Psych: Handout
Textbook: Handout and have them research SQ3R or versions of it on their phone. Report out what you found to your group and then class.
First Reading assignment: SQ3R pages 1-7
Textbook: The reading of the text is essential. If you want to do good in this class and the AP exam you must read it.
Learning Target: To understand the major psychological perspectives and what they can tell us about ourselves and others.
Circle: A behavior that you would like to have an explanation for? Ex. Why male athletes slap each others on the behind after a good play.
Table Activity: Share your MB profile with your group and explain what you know about yourself as a learner and a person and what you strengths and weakness are.
Activity: Predict what kind of students are most prevalent in AP class? Is this a good thing? What might be bad about it?
Understanding your MB Profile: Using your phone read your profile. What does it tell you about yourself? What does it tell you about the others in the class? How does it feel that someone can know you that well without ever having met you? Write your profile on an index card and place it in front of you. Look around at the people at your table and read about them according to their profile. Does it make sense? Does the profile fit the person. You will be doing a brief presentation about a person at your table. Do these profile's of the 16 types give you any insight to the people in the room. Do you notice any trends?
Online MB Test
The Hand
Celebrity Exercise:
Evolutionary Psych: Handout
Textbook: Handout and have them research SQ3R or versions of it on their phone. Report out what you found to your group and then class.
First Reading assignment: SQ3R pages 1-7
Textbook: The reading of the text is essential. If you want to do good in this class and the AP exam you must read it.
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