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   Unit 1: Science of Psychology
   Unit 2: Memory
   Unit 3: Biological Psychology
   Unit 4: Sensation and Perception
   Unit 5: Learning
   Unit 6: Cognition 
   Unit 7: Intelligence
   Unit 8: Motivation and Emotion
   Unit 9: Lifespan & Development
   Unit 10: Personality
   Unit 11: Abnormal Psychology
   Unit 12: Social Psychology

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 AP Psychology Course Description

   AP Psychology is designed to introduce students to the scientific study of the behavior and mental processes of human beings. To accomplish this, the course provides instruction in each of the following 14 content areas: History and Approaches, Research Methods, Biological Bases of Behavior, Sensation and Perception, States of Consciousness, Learning, Cognition, Motivation and Emotion, Developmental Psychology, Personality, Testing and Individual Differences, Abnormal Psychology, Treatment of Psychological Disorders, and Social Psychology.

   In an effort to make budding psychologists out of you, the course will stress the need to think like a psychologist. As author and social psychologist, David Myers, notes, to think like a psychologist one must “restrain intuition with critical thinking, judgmentalism with compassion, and illusion with understanding.” (Sternberg, 1997).  Whether you choose to pursue a career in psychology or in some entirely different field, this habit of mind will be of great value.

 

Important Course Documents
AP Psychology 2011-2012 Syllabus (as a word doc)	AP Psychology 2011-2012 Calendar in pdf	AP Psychology 2010-2011 Calendar as a Word doc
AP Psychology Portfolio Checklist	AP Psychology Concept Map Rubric Concept Map Instructions	AP Psychology Summer Reading

 

Unit Pages
Unit 1: The Science of Psychology	Unit 2: Memory	Unit 2: Biological Psychology
Unit 4: Sensation Perception and States of Consciousness	Unit 5: Learning	Unit 6: Cognition and Language
Unit 7: Intelligence	Unit 8: Motivation and Emotion	Unit 9: Lifespan and Development
Unit 10: Personality	Unit 11: Abnormal Psychology

 

AP Psychology Unit Projects
Unit 1: Designing an Experiment	Unit 2: Memory Application	Unit 3: Superheroes and the Brain
Unit 4: Dream Theory	Unit 5: Conditioning Fun	Unit 6: College Application
Unit 7: Intelligence Debate	Unit 8: What Motivates You?	Unit 9: Your Lifespan and Development
No project for Unit 10	Unit 11: Case Study Groups	Final Project after the AP Exam

 

Essential Links

WHS Student Email Instructions

X2 Login Use your school username and password to check your grades in real-time.  You can also upload documents to your digital locker!

Morris Companion Website Welcome to the online study guide to accompany our textbook.  Features include chapter quizzes and links If you want more quizzes. chapter reviews. PowerPoints and flashcards - and honestly why wouldn't you -click here.

Myers Companion Website It is not our textbook, but Myers has the best companion site on the net.  Don't worry about signing up, just hit cancel and continue onto the good stuff.  I highly recommend looking around here.

The AP Psychology Commune You gotta give Mr. Kaplan credit, this is impressive.  If you haven't alread found this you must check it out.

College Board's AP Psychology Page: It is worth a look . . . horses mouth and all that