Course Description
This introductory course in psychology is a survey of the multiple aspects of human behavior. It involves the study of the theoretical foundations of human functioning in such areas as learning, motivation, emotions, personality, deviance and pathology, psychological factors, and social influence. It directs the students to an insightful understanding of the complexities of human relationships in personal, social, and vocational settings. Over the course of the year, students will complete a research project on an approved topic of their choice. At the end of the second semester, students in this course will have completed a formal research report. |
Course MaterialsLink to support materials for our book.
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Multiple IntelligencesLearn about Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory. Then take a quiz to find out how you think!
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Course ReadingsHere are links to different articles that we will be reading this year. I will indicate articles to be read outside of class in the TeacherEase assignments. The articles are listed in alphabetical order by author in APA format. Articles by the same author are listed alphabetically.
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Psychology Research ProjectAs part of our study of different aspects of psychology, you will complete a year–long research project in which you will explore a question related to students’ attitudes about learning. As part of this project, you will create a proposal and hypothesis, develop a research methodology, complete data collection, analyze the data, and make conclusions based on the data analysis. We will work on the different parts of the research project together in class so I can help you complete each milestone.
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SimplY PsychologyThis site contains articles on different Psychology topics written specifically for students.
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AllPsych - Psychology 101Online Psychology textbook that we will be using in conjunction to the Glencoe text.
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TED TalksMore to come soon!
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