AP and Trimester Psychology
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Updated – 1//24/08
Course
Description and Syllabus AP Psych
Course
Description Trimester Psych Syllabus
Current Unit: Language and Cognition
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Essential Questions:
- How do people grow and develop physically
throughout the lifespan?
- How do people grow and develop cognitively
throughout the lifespan?
- How do people grow and develop socially
throughout the lifespan?
- How do people grow and develop morally throughout
the lifespan?
- How do people grow and develop personality
throughout the lifespan?
- Are people relatively stable throughout
their lives or do they change?
- What is the underlying mechanism for change?
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Objectives:
- Describe the pattern of
human physical development from prenatal to puberty
- Analyze the cognitive
changes of infants through late childhood.
- Explore Piaget’s findings
on cognitive development.
- Describe and contrast the
stages of cognitive development or infants, children, and adolescents.
- Evaluate the importance of
social development in children.
- Describe and Analyze
Erikson’s theories on social development.
- Discuss the affects of
parenting style, contact, and familiarity on attachment development.
- Explore the findings of Ainsworth
and Harlow as they relate to social development.
- Explain the importance of
secure attachment and the impact of parental neglect on the
development of children.
- Describe and analyze
Kohlberg’s stages of moral development.
- Preview Freud’s psychosocial
stages of personality development
- Discuss how the nature
versus nurture debate relates to developmental psychology.
- Describe how studies on
development are conducted comparing and contrasting Longitudinal and
cross-sectional studies.
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Activities,
Readings
and Viewings:
- Read – Myers chapter 4
- Video – Discovering
Psychology – Infant Object Permanence
- Temperament Inventory -
Experiencing Psychology
- Activity – Bringing Genetic
Screening Home – Activities Handbook for the Teaching of -Psychology
- Children’s Book –
Socialization Activity
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Daily Class Notes
Link to
download smartboard software
Development (SB
file, pdf,
ppt)