Course Calendar

2025-26 School Year

Trimester 2

Mon, Dec 1 - Welcome/Intro; Syllabus, website, Classroom, Remind; Connectors, Website/Article Review; questionnaire; Boundary Breakers; assign "8 Study Tips"

Tues, Dec 2 - Get to Know You activity; textbooks; discuss "8 Study Tips"; What is Psych?; Hindsight Bias, Overconfidence, & Aphorisms

Weds, Dec 3 - finish Hindsight Bias and Aphorisms; "Inside Out: Story of Psychology"; Historical Evolution of Psychology slideshows

Thurs, Dec 4 - Historical Evolution of Psych presentations; Current Perspectives and practice questions; assign Careers Essay

Fri, Dec 5 - demo

Mon, Dec 8 - Methods Psychologists Use; "What's Wrong With This Study?"

Tues, Dec 9 - Experimentation; assign Designing an Experiment

Weds, Dec 10 - Statistics & Correlation; work time for Designing an Experiment

Thurs, Dec 11 - Ethics; review for test

Fri, Dec 12 - Unit 1 Test (Foundations & Scientific Inquiry); assign Studying the Brain

Mon, Dec 15 - review test results; Random Brain Facts; assign Brain Project

Tues, Dec 16 - Methods of Studying the Brain; Phineas Gage and Mapping the Brain video clips

Weds, Dec 17 - Nervous System & Neurons ppt & demos; Endocrine System handout

Thurs, Dec 18 - finish Neurons & Neurotransmitters; start "Awakenings"

Fri, Dec 19 - "Awakenings" 

Mon, Dec 22 - finish "Awakenings" & reflection

Tues, Dec 23 - winter fun day

(WINTER BREAK!!!)

Mon, Jan 5 - Brain Hemispheres & demos; review

Tues, Jan 6 - Unit 2 Test (Biological Bases of Behavior)

Weds, Jan 7 - review test results; What is Learning?; intro notes; mental mazes

Thurs, Jan 8 - Classical Conditioning; review examples; practice quiz

Fri, Jan 9 - review CC practice quiz; finish Classical Conditioning; spray bottle conditioning; assign Media Violence articles

Mon, Jan 12 - Operant Conditioning; clicker training demo

Tues, Jan 13- finish Operant Conditioning; practice questions; "Online All the Time?" video

Weds, Jan 14 - Observational Learning; Cognitive Influences on Learning; review

Thurs, Jan 15 - Unit 3 Test (Learning)

Fri, Jan 16 - review test results; start Memory ppt & demos

Mon, Jan 19 - (No School - MLK Day)

Tues, Jan 20 - continue Memory ppt & demos; assign "Trust Your Memory?..." article

Weds, Jan 21 - continue Memory ppt & demos

Thurs, Jan 22 - finish Memory ppt & demos

Fri, Jan 23 - **Cold Day - No School**

Mon, Jan 26 - "Brain Games: Remember This"

Tues, Jan 27 - Thinking, Problem Solving, & Judgment ppt

Weds, Jan 28 - finish Thinking, Problem Solving, & Judgment ppt

Thurs, Jan 29 - What is intelligence?; A Brief History of Intelligence Testing; "A Science Odyssey: In Search of Ourselves"

Fri, Jan 30 - Theories of Intelligence ppt

Mon, Feb 2 - Psychological Test Concepts ppt; Mensa test & reflection

Tues, Feb 3 - Intelligence Lab

Weds, Feb 4 - "BBC Horizons: Battle of the Brains"; review

Thurs, Feb 5 - Unit 4 Test (Cognition)

Fri, Feb 6 - review test results; What is Abnormal?; post-its activity; Crash Course Psych #28; DSM & Perspectives on Psychopathology

Mon, Feb 9 - DSM & Perspectives; Predicting Tom's Success; start Anxiety Disorders ppt; "The Mind Explained: Anxiety"; Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale

Tues, Feb 10 - finish Anxiety Disorders; OCD video & self-test

Weds, Feb 11 - Mood Disorders; Beck Depression Inventory

Thurs, Feb 12- finish Mood Disorders; "Depression: Out of the Shadows"

Fri, Feb 13 - Schizophrenia ppt; video clips

Mon, Feb 16 - (No School - President's Day)

Tues, Feb 17 - (No School - Staff Development)

Weds, Feb 18 - Dissociative Disorders; "Beth+" clip

Thurs, Feb 19 - finish Dissociative Disorders; D.I.D. articles & essay

Fri, Feb 20 - Somatoform & Personality Disorders; PsychSim: Classifying Disorders

Mon, Feb 23 - start Therapy ppt (Psychoanalysis & Humanistic)

Tues, Feb 24 - continue Therapy (Behavior, Cognitive, Family/Group)

Weds, Feb 25 - finish Therapy (Biomedical)

Thurs, Feb 26 - "The Lobotomist"

Fri, Feb 27 - Crash Course Psych review videos; PsychSim: Mystery Therapist; review

Mon, Mar 2 - Unit 5 Test (Clinical Variations)

Tues, Mar 3 - review for final

Weds, Mar 4 - Final Exam (District CSA)

Thurs, Mar 5 - catch-up/make-up day

(End of Trimester 2)