AP Psychology
Mr. Karl Snell
2024-2025
Introduction
The AP Psychology course is a 1 Academic year. This is a 4-quarter or 2-semester course. The Course is aligned with the standards of AP psychology and the College Board, This is the introductory Psychology Examination.
Students who take this course will be exposed to the relevant and essential psychological facts, and research findings. Terminology, psychological experiments, and many perspectives. Students will also be introduced to the various methods and observe ethical standards used by the psychologist, which also adhere to scientific practices.
By taking this course the students will be enhancing their abilities to balance their objectives of critical thinking of objectives, judgment, and compassion with regard to perception and factual understanding. The rigors of the AP Psychology course require comprehensive readings and note-taking. Lecture discussions, the students' oral presentations, and written reaction papers on related articles are the teaching and learning approaches employed in this college introductory level course.
The AP Psychology test is a two-hour exam divided into two sections. Section I is multiple choice and Section II is free response. You will have 70 minutes for the multiple-choice section and 50 minutes for the free response section.
The AP Psychology multiple choice section is worth 66.6% of your total exam score and consists of 100 questions. These questions are designed to test your skills in defining, explaining, interpreting, and applying course concepts and scientific methods.
The free-response section is worth 33.3% of your total exam score and consists of 2 questions. These questions will ask you to explain behavior, apply theories, or analyze psychological research studies.
One of the best ways to prepare for this test is to work through as many practice questions as possible. Get started now with our free AP Psychology practice tests. They include challenging questions with answers and detailed explanations.
Topics covered. will be as follows.
Unit 0: Introduction to Psychological Science Practices
• Module 0.1: Scientific Attitude, Critical Thinking, & Developing Arguments
• Module 0.2: Need for Psychological Science
• Module 0.3: Scientific Method
• Module 0.4: Correlation & Experimentation
• Module 0.5: Research Design & Ethics in Psychology
• Module 0.6: Statistical Reasoning in Everyday Life
Unit 1: Biological Bases of Behavior (4% of course)
• Module 1.1: Interaction of Heredity & Environment
• Module 1.2: Overview of the Nervous System
• Module 1.3: Neuron & Neural Firing
• Module 1.4: The Brain
• Module 1.5: Sleep
• Module 1.6: Sensation
Unit 2: Cognition
• Module 2.1: Perception
• Module 2.2: Thinking, Problem Solving, Judgments, & Decision Making
• Module 2.3: Introduction to Memory
• Module 2.4: Encoding Memories
• Module 2.5: Storing Memories
• Module 2.6: Retrieving Memories
• Module 2.7: Forgetting & Other Memory Challenges
• Module 2.8: Intelligence & Achievement
Unit 3: Development & Learning
• Module 3.1: Themes & Methods in Developmental Psychology
• Module 3.2: Physical Development Across the Lifespan
• Module 3.3: Gender & Sexual Orientation
• Module 3.4: Cognitive Development Across the Lifespan
• Module 3.5: Communication & Language Development
• Module 3.6: Social-Emotional Development Across the Lifespan
• Module 3.7: Classical Conditioning
• Module 3.8: Operant Conditioning
• Module 3.9: Social, Cognitive, & Neurological Factors in Learning
Unit 4: Social Psychology & Personality
• Module 4.1: Attribution Theory & Person Perception
• Module 4.2: Attitude Formation & Attitude Change
• Module 4.3: Psychology of Social Situations
• Module 4.4: Introduction to Personality
• Module 4.5: Psychodynamic & Humanistic Theories of Personality
• Module 4.6: Social-Cognitive & Trait Theories of Personality
• Module 4.7: Motivation
• Module 4.8: Emotion
Unit 5: Mental & Physical Health
• Module 5.1: Introduction to Health Psychology
• Module 5.2: Positive Psychology
• Module 5.3: Explaining & Classifying Psychological Disorders
• Module 5.4: Selection of Categories of Psychological Disorders
• Module 5.5: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
Unit EM: Enrichment
• Module EM.1: Influences on Drug Use
• Module EM.2: Psychology at Work
• Module EM.3: Animal Thinking & Language
Course Materials:
Myers, David, DeWall, C. Nathan, et al. (2024) Myers’ Psychology for the AP Course 4th edition. Worth: New York, NY.
Assignments & Evaluation:
Attendance & ESLO 10%, Classwork 40%, Project 10%, Quizzes/Tests 20%, Exams 20%
A 95-100%, A- 90-94%, B+ 87-89%, B 83-86%, B- 80-82%, C+ 75-79%, C 70-74%,
C- 65-69%, D+ 60-64%, D 55-59%, D- 50-54%, F 0-49%
Some assignments may use rubric scoring. Late work will be marked as a zero, unless arranged otherwise with the instructor due to illness.
All students are responsible for the highest level of honesty. Cheating and plagiarism on any work will result in a zero for that assignment. Students are required to regularly attend classes on time. All other means of misbehavior are addressed in the student handbook and will be dealt with by the administration as deemed necessary.