Alabama Course of Study:

• Trace the development of psychology as a scientific discipline evolving from other fields of study.
• Describing early psychological and biological inquiries that led to contemporary approaches and methods of experimentation, including ideologies of Aristotle, John Locke, Wilhelm Wundt, Charles Darwin, William James, Frantz Fanon, and G. Stanley Hall
• Differentiating among various modern schools of thought and perspectives in psychology that have evolved since 1879, including each school’s view on concepts of aggression or appetite
• Illustrating how modern psychologists utilize multiple perspectives to understand behavior and mental processes
• Identifying major sub fields and career opportunities related to psychology
  1. Describe various careers pursued by psychologists, including medical and mental health care fields, the business world, education, law and criminal justice, and research.