Welcome to AP Psychology. We will learn about the brain, emotions, disorders, sleep and more in this class. We will also develop and improve critical thinking skills and analysis as we dive into significant past psycholocial experiments and their implications. The AP Psychology course is designed to introduce students to the systematic and scientific study of the behavior and mental processes of human beings and other animals . Students are exposed to the psychological facts, principles, and phenomena associated with each of the major subfields within psychology .