AP Psychology Calendar

Aug. 25/26 Introduction to class

Review Syllabus, Calendar & Class website

Aug. 27/28 Issue Books
Unit 1: Psychologys Historys and Approaches pgs. 1 - 15

Aug. 29/Sept. 2 Unit 2: Research methods pgs. 19 33

Sept. 3/4 Quiz pgs. 1 - 33
Experimentation & Ethics pgs. 34 36 & pgs. 44 - 46
*Bring a calculator to the next class

Sept .5/8 Quiz pgs. 19 36 & 44 46.
Statistics pgs. 39 42
Statistics Lab

Sept. 9/10 FRQ Lab
Review Unit 2

Sept. 11/12 IDs DUE Unit 1 & 2
Unit 1 & Unit 2 TEST & FRQ

Sept. 15/16 Unit 3A: Biological Bases of Behavior: pgs. 51 - 62

Sept. 17/18 Endocrine system pgs. 62 63 & Unit 3B: Biological Bases of Behavior: The Brain, The Limbic
System & The Cerebral Cortex pgs. 66 - 79

Sept. 19/22 Quiz pgs. 51 - 79
The Brains Plasticity, and Our Divided Brain, Language, Handedness, The Brain and
Consciousness pgs. 80 - 93
HW: Hemisphere Dominance survey

Sept. 23/24 Unit 3 A & 3B IDs DUE
Unit 3 A & B Test & FRQ

Sept. 25/26 Unit 3 C Genetic, Evolutionary Psychology & Behavior pgs. 94 113

Sept. 29/Sept. 30 Unit 4 Sensation & Perception: Sensation & Vision pgs. 115 - 133

Oct. 1/2 Hearing pgs. 113 140
Review

Oct. 3/6 Quiz pgs. 115 - 140
Other senses pgs. 141 - 150

Oct. 7/8 Perceptual Organization, Perceptual Interpretation pgs. 151 - 165

Oct. 9/10 ESP pgs. 166 173
Review for Unit Test




Oct. 13/14 UNIT 4 Test
UNIT 4 IDs DUE

Oct. 15 PSAT Testing

Oct 16 (B) FRQ Lab/Unit Test Review

Oct. 17/20 Unit 5: States of Consciousness: Sleep pgs. 175 - 192

Oct. 21/22 Hypnosis pgs. 192 196
Review Sleep

Oct. 23/24 Quiz pgs. 175 - 192
Drugs & Consciousness pgs. 197 - 213

Oct. 27/28 Review Unit 5

Oct. 29/30 UNIT 5 IDs Due
UNIT 5 Test & FRQ

Nov. 3/4 Unit 6: Learning: Classical Conditioning pgs. 215 227

Nov. 5/6 Quiz pgs. 215 227
Operant Conditioning pgs. 228 -242

Nov. 7/10 Quiz pgs. 215 227
Learning by Observation pgs. 242 - 249

Nov. 12/13 UNIT 6 IDs DUE
UNIT 6 TEST

Nov. 14/17 Unit 7: Cognition: 7A Memory: Information processing, Encoding & Storage pgs. 255 - 274

Nov. 18/19 Retrieval pgs. 274 - 278, Forgetting pgs. 278 - 285

Nov. 20/21 Quiz pgs. 255 - 285

Nov. 24/25 Memory Construction pgs. 285 293 & Improving Memory pgs. 293 - 294

Dec. 1/2 UNIT 7A IDs DUE
UNIT 7 TEST & FRQ

Dec. 3/4 Unit 7 B: Thinking pgs. 298 - 312

Dec. 5/8 Quiz pgs. 298 312
Language pgs. 313 - 319

Dec. 9/10 Quiz pgs. 313 - 319
Thinking & Language pgs. 19 322


Dec. 11/12 UNIT 7B IDs DUE
UNIT 7B TEST & FRQ

Dec. 15/16 Unit 8 A Motivation & Hunger pgs. 327 - 348

Dec. 17/18 Sexual Motivation pgs. 348 - 359

Dec. 19 (A)/Jan. 5 Quiz pgs. 327 - 359
The Need to Belong pgs. 359 362

Jan. 6/7 Review

Jan 8/9 UNIT 8A IDs DUE
UNIT 8 TEST & FRQ

Semester exams TBA Jan 12 16

Jan 20 (B) TBA

Jan. 21/22 Unit 8B Emotion pgs. 367 - 377

Jan. 26/27 Expressed Emotion & Experienced Emotion pgs. 377 - 396

Jan. 28/29 Quiz pgs. 367 396
Stress & Health pgs. 397 - 406

Jan. 30/Feb. 2 UNIT 8B IDs DUE
UNIT 8B TEST & FRQ

Feb. 3/4 Unit 9: Development: Prenatal Development, Infancy & Childhood pgs. 411 - 426

Feb. 5/6 Social Development & Gender Development pgs. 426 - 441

Feb. 9/10 Quiz pgs. 411 441
Parents & Peers pgs. 441 - 445

Feb. 11/12 Adolescence pgs. 445 - 455

Feb. 17/18 Quiz pgs. 445 455
Adulthood pgs. 455 471

Feb. 19/20 UNIT 9 IDs DUE
UNIT 9 TEST & FRQ

Feb. 23/24 Unit 10: Personality & Psychoanalytic Perspective pgs. 479 - 490

Feb. 25/26 Quiz
Humanistic & Trait Perspective pgs. 490 - 503

Feb. 27/Mar 2. Social- Cognitive Perspective & Exploring the Self pgs. 503 - 518

Mar.3/4 UNIT 10 IDs DUE
UNIT 10 Test & FRQ


Mar. 5/6 Unit 11: Intelligence & Assessing Intelligence pgs. 523 - 539

Mar. 9/10 Quiz pgs. 523 539
Dynamics of Intelligence pgs. 539 556

Mar. 11/16 UNIT 11 IDs DUE
Unit 12: Abnormal Psychology Perspectives & Anxiety Disorders pgs. 561 - 576

Mar. 17/18 Quiz pgs. 561 - 576
Somatoform Disorders, Dissociative Disorders, & Mood Disorders pgs. 576 - 589

Mar. 19/20 Quiz pgs. 576 - 589
Schizophrenia pgs. 589 - 596

Mar. 23/24 Quiz
Personality Disorders pgs. 596 600

Mar. 25/26 UNIT 12 IDs DUE
Unit 13: Psychological Therapies pgs. 605 - 618

Mar. 27/30 Quiz
Evaluating Psychotherapies pgs. 619 628 & Biomedical Therapies pgs. 628 - 637

Mar. 31/Apr. 1 UNIT 13 IDs Due
UNIT 12 & 13 Test & FRQ

Apr. 2 (A) Unit 14 Social Psychology: Social Thinking & Social Influence pgs. 643 664

April 13(B) Unit 14 Social Psychology: Social Thinking & Social Influence pgs. 643 664

Apr. 14/15 Quiz pgs. 643 - 664
Social Relations pgs. 664 - 692

Apr. 16/17 UNIT 14 IDs Due
UNIT 14 Test & FRQ

Apr. 20/21 Practice Test #1

Apr. 22/23 Review Test Results

Apr. 24/27 Review

Apr. 29/30 Practice Test #2

May 1(B) Review

May 4 AP EXAM 12:00 p.m.


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