Course Calendar

2025-26 School Year

Trimester 1

Weds, Sept 3 - Welcome/Intro; Syllabus, website, Classroom, Remind; Connectors, Website/Article Review; questionnaire; Boundary Breakers; assign "8 Study Tips"

Thurs, Sept 4 - Get to Know You activity; textbooks; discuss "8 Study Tips"; What is Psych?; Hindsight Bias, Overconfidence, & Aphorisms

Fri, Sept 5 - finish Hindsight Bias and Aphorisms; "Inside Out: Story of Psychology"; Historical Evolution of Psychology slideshows

Mon, Sept 8 - Historical Evolution of Psych presentations; Current Perspectives and practice questions; assign Careers Essay

Tues, Sept 9 - demo

Weds, Sept 10 - Methods Psychologists Use; "What's Wrong With This Study?"

Thurs, Sept 11 - Experimentation; assign Designing an Experiment

Fri, Sept 12 - Statistics & Correlation; work time for Designing an Experiment

Mon, Sept 15 - Ethics; review for test

Tues, Sept 16 - Unit 1 Test (Foundations & Scientific Inquiry); assign Studying the Brain

Weds, Sept 17 - review test results; Random Brain Facts ppt; assign Brain Project

Thurs, Sept 18 - Methods of Studying the Brain; Phineas Gage video; Mapping the Brain video

Fri, Sept 19 - Nervous System & Neurons ppt & demos; Endocrine System handout

Mon, Sept 22 - finish Neurons & Neurotransmitters; start "Awakenings"

Tues, Sept 23 - watch "Awakenings"

Weds, Sept 24 - finish "Awakenings" & reflection

Thurs, Sept 25 - Brain Hemispheres & demos; review

Fri, Sept 26 - Unit 2 Test (Biological Bases of Behavior)

Mon, Sept 29 - review test results; What is Learning?; Intro notes; Mental Mazes

Tues, Sept 30 - Classical Conditioning; practice quiz

Weds, Oct 1 - finish Classical Conditioning & demos; Crash Course video; assign Media Violence articles

Thurs, Oct 2 - Operant Conditioning; clicker training

Fri, Oct 3 - finish Operant Conditioning; practice questions; "Online All the Time?" clip

Mon, Oct 6 - Observational Learning; Cognitive Influences on Learning; review

Tues, Oct 7 - Unit 3 Test (Learning)

Weds, Oct 8 - review test results; start Memory ppt & demos

Thurs, Oct 9 - continue Memory ppt & demos; assign Loftus article

Fri, Oct 10 - continue Memory ppt & demos

Mon, Oct 13 - finish Memory ppt & demos

Tues, Oct 14 - "Brain Games: Remember This"

Weds, Oct 15 - Thinking, Problem Solving, and Judgment ppt; practice heuristics questions

(MEA Break)

Mon, Oct 20 - (No School - Staff Development)

Tues, Oct 21 - finish Thinking, Problem Solving, and Judgment ppt; "Discovering Psych: Judgment & Decision Making" clip

Weds, Oct 22 - What is Intelligence?; A Brief History of Intelligence Testing ppt; "A Science Odyssey: In Search of Ourselves"

Thurs, Oct 23 - Psychological Test Concepts ppt; Mensa Test & reflection

Fri, Oct 24 - Theories of Intelligence; Emotional Intelligence Test; Marshmallow Test

Mon, Oct 27 - Intelligence Lab

Tues, Oct 28 - "Battle of the Brains"; review

Weds, Oct 29 - Unit 4 Test (Cognition)

Thurs, Oct 30 - review test results; What is Abnormal?; post-its activity; Crash Course Psych #28; DSM & Perspectives on Psychopathology

Fri, Oct 31 - Discuss DSM & Perspectives; "Predicting Tom's Success"; start Anxiety Disorders ppt; "The Mind Explained: Anxiety"; Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale

Mon, Nov 3 - finish Anxiety Disorders; OCD video & self-test

Tues, Nov 4 - Mood Disorders ppt; Beck Depression Inventory

Weds, Nov 5 - finish Mood Disorders; "Depression: Out of the Shadows"

Thurs, Nov 6 - Schizophrenia ppt & videos

Fri, Nov 7 - Dissociative Disorders ppt; "Beth+" video

Mon, Nov 10 - finish Dissociative Disorders; D.I.D. readings & essay

Tues, Nov 11 - Somatoform & Personality Disorders (Google Classroom); PsychSim: Classifying Disorders

Weds, Nov 12 - start Therapy ppt (Psychoanalysis & Humanistic)

Thurs, Nov 13 - continue Therapy ppt (Behavior, Cognitive, Family/Group)

Fri, Nov 14 - finish Therapy ppt (Biomedical); hand out CSA Study Guide

Mon, Nov 17 - "The Lobotomist"

Tues, Nov 18 - Crash Course review videos; PsychSim: Mystery Therapist; review

Weds, Nov 19 - Unit 5 Test (Clinical Variations); work on CSA study guide

Thurs, Nov 20 - review for CSA

Fri, Nov 21 - CSA (District Final Exam); course evaluations

(End of Trimester 1)