Quarter 1
Chapter 1: Psychology's Roots, Big Ideas, and Critical Thinking Tools
Chapter 1: Psychology's Roots, Big Ideas, and Critical Thinking Tools
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
- What is psychology?
- Why do psychology?
- How do psychologists ask and answer questions?
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- Identify how psychology's focus has changed over time.
- Describe psychology's current perspectives list some of its subfields.
- Explain the four ideas run throughout the textbook.
- Summarize how our everyday thinking sometimes leads us to the wrong conclusion.
- Identify the three key elements of the scientific attitude, and explain how they support scientific inquiry.
- Explain how psychological theories guide scientific research.
- Distinguish how psychologists use case studies, naturalistic observation, and surveys to observe and describe behavior, and why random sampling is important.
- Contrast positive and negative correlations, and explain how they lead to prediction but not cause-effect explanations.
- Appraise how experiments clarify or reveal cause-effect relationships.
- Indicate how simplified laboratory conditions help us understand general principles of behavior.
- Discuss why psychologists study animals, and identify what ethical guidelines safeguard human and animal research participants.
- Explain how personal values influence psychologists' research and application.
- Identify how psychological principles help you learn and remember.
Wisconsin Standards for Social Studies
Wisconsin Standards for Social Studies
- SS.BH1.a.h
- SS.BH1.b.h
- SS.BH2.a.h
Chapter 2: The Biology of Mind and Consciousness
Chapter 2: The Biology of Mind and Consciousness
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
- How does our biology affect our psychology?
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- Discuss why psychologists are concerned with human biology.
- Identify parts of a neuron.
- Explain how neurons communicate.
- Assess how neurotransmitters affect our mood and behavior.
- Identify the two major divisions of the nervous system, and explain their basic functions.
- Describe how the endocrine system transmits information and interact with the nervous system.
- List some techniques for studying the brain.
- Describe the functions of the brainstem and its related structures.
- Identify the structures and functions of the limbic system.
- Name the four lobes of the cerebral cortex and identify where they are located.
- Explain the functions of the motor cortex, somatosensory cortex, and association areas.
- Express when damaged, if the brain can repair or reorganize itself.
- Explain what is a 'split brain', and what it reveals about the functions of our left and right hemispheres.
- Identify what we mean by 'consciousness', and how does selective attention direct our perceptions.
- Explain the circadian rhythm, and the stages of our nightly sleep schedule.
- Contrast the sleep patterns of humans, and explain what five theories describe our need to sleep.
- Describe how sleep loss affects us, and identify the major sleep disorders.
- Discuss what we dream about, and the five theories of why we dream.
Wisconsin Standards for Social Studies
Wisconsin Standards for Social Studies
- SS.BH1.a.h
- SS.BH1.b.h
- SS.BH2.a.h
Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
- How does the perception of our sensory input shape our lives?
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- Define 'sensation' and 'perception' and explain what we mean by 'bottom-up' and 'top-down' processing.
- Identify what three steps are basic to all our sensory systems.
- Contrast 'absolute thresholds' and 'difference thresholds' and define Weber's Law.
- Appraise the extent to which we can be persuaded by subliminal stimuli.
- Evaluate the function of sensory adaptation.
- Explain how our expectations, assumptions, contexts, and even our motivations and emotions affect our perceptions.
- Describe the characteristics of the energy as we see as light.
- Explain how the eye transforms light energy into neural messages.
- Identify the roles of feature detection and parallel processing in the brain's visual information processing.
- Contrast the theories that help us understand color vision.
- Summarize the main message of Gestalt psychology, and how figure-ground and grouping principles help us perceive form.
- Identify how we use binocular and monocular cues to see the world in three dimensions.
- Describe how perceptual constancies help us construct meaningful perceptions.
- Explain what research on restored vision, sensory restriction, and perceptual adaptation reveals about the effects of experience on perception.
- Identify the characteristics of the air pressure waves that we hear as meaningful sounds.
- Describe how the ear transforms sound energy into neural messages.
- List the four basic touch sensations, and which of them has identifiable receptors.
- Discuss what influences our feelings of pain, and how we can treat pain.
- Compare the sense of taste and sense of smell.
- Summarize how we sense our body's position and movement.
- Describe how our sense interact.
- Identify how ESP claims hold up when put to the test by scientists.
Wisconsin Standards for Social Studies
Wisconsin Standards for Social Studies
- SS.BH1.a.h
- SS.BH1.b.h
- SS.BH2.a.h
Chapter 6: Learning
Chapter 6: Learning
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
- What is learning?
- How does learning occur?
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- Identify some basic forms of learning.
- Describe classical conditioning and explain how it demonstrates associative learning.
- Explain the parts that acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization, and discrimination play in classical conditioning.
- Assess why Pavlov's work was important and describe how it is being applied.
- Describe operant conditioning and explain how operant behavior is reinforced and shaped.
- Contrast positive and negative reinforcement and identify the basic types of reinforcers.
- Analyze how continuous and partial reinforcement schedules affect behavior.
- Contrast punishment from negative reinforcement, and discuss how punishment affects behavior.
- Appraise why Skinner's ideas were controversial, and describe how educators, managers, and parents are applying operant principles.
- Contrast classical conditioning and operant conditioning.
- Distinguish what limits biology places on conditioning.
- Discuss how cognitive processes affect classical and operant conditioning.
- Contrast observational learning and associative learning.
- Explain how observational learning may be enabled by mirror neurons.
- Describe the impact of prosocial modeling and of antisocial modeling.
Wisconsin Standards for Social Studies
Wisconsin Standards for Social Studies
- SS.BH1.a.h
- SS.BH1.b.h
- SS.BH2.a.h