Jan 29 - Feb 2

• Yes or No icebreaker
• Personal information sheet
• Syllabus
• Introductory questionnaire
• Teaching and outlining assignments and schedule
• The AP exam structure

Feb 4 - 8

• Notes on Chapter 1
• Famous Psychos
• Experimental design
• Practice Test, Chapter 1
• Experimental design
• Homework - read Chapter 2

Test next Friday, Chapters 1 & 2

Feb 11 - 15

• Chapter outline, Chapter 2
• Teaching and powerpoint on Chapter 2
• Brain basics computer exercise
• Colors test
• Lecture notes

Test Friday, Chapters 1 & 2

Feb 19 - 22

• Chapter outline, notes, and teaching on Chapter 3
• Illusions and tricks
• Basics of light and sound
• Structures of the eye and ear

Feb 25 - March 1

• Chapter outline, notes, and teaching on Chapter 6
• Memory demonstrations
• Worksheet on memory
• Computer work

March 4 - 8

• Chapter outline, notes, and teaching on Chapter 7
• Chapter outline, notes, and teaching on Appendix A (statistics)

Test Next Monday

March 11 - 15

Test

• Wrap up on problem solving notes
• AP Free Response questions
• Test strategies and scoring

March 18 - 22

• Chapter outline, notes, and teaching on Chapter 8 (Motivation and Emotion)
• Chapter outline, notes, and teaching on Chapter 9 (Developmental Psychology)

Test next Wednesday, Chapters 8 and 9

March 25 - 28

• Finish lectures on Chapter 9 (Developmental Psychology)

Test, Chapters 8 and 9

SPRING BREAK. Enjoy.

April 8 - 12

• Erikson and Freud's views on psychosocial and psychosexual development
• Freud biography video
• Bus crash! exercise
• ANS pulse-taking demonstration

April 15 - 19

• Teaching on Personality
• On line Personality tests
• Doodling Exercise - the evaluation scale is here.
• Lectures on Personality.
• Handout on Adler's ideas of personality and birth order.
• HOMEWORK: Defense Mechanisms and the 3 faces of personality.

April 22 - 26

• Lectures on Psychological Disorders
• Chapter Outline
• Assignments - 
• Using the DSM-IV
• ID the disorder from the symptoms
• ID the disorder from the case study

Test next Tuesday, Ch 10 & 12

April 29 - May 3

• Finish work on Psychological Disorders
• Test, Chapters 10 and 12
• Teaching on States of Consciousness and Learning
• Lecture and assignments on Learning
• Classic Conditioning
• Operant Conditioning
• Reinforcement vs Punishment
• Schedules of Reinforcement

May 6 - 14

• Teaching on Ch 13
• Teaching on Ch 15
• Review test ch 10/12
• Learning worksheets

May 13 - 17

• Review for AP exam
• Exams from '99 and '94, AP review questions
• General schools of thought
• Vocabulary

AP TEST THURSDAY!

May 20 - 24

• Make up and discussion of past projects
• Sentence completion (key) and outlook on life
• How long will you live?
• Handwriting analysis investigation
• Final project