AP Psychology

Course Description

Description

AP Psychology covers the material typically covered in a one semester college-level introductory psychology course. It prepares students to take the AP Psychology exam. Through textbook readings, projects, and directed online activities that emphasize critical thinking and applications, students explore psychology as the science of behavior and of mental processes.

Topics include:

• historical perspectives in psychology
• scientific method
• biological bases of behavior
• sensation & perception
• consciousness
• learning
• cognition
• motivation & emotion
• development
• personality
• psychological testing
• individual differences
• abnormal psychology
• psychological disorders
• social psychology

This course has been reviewed and approved by the College Board to use the "AP" designation.

Materials Needed

A textbook purchase is required for this course:

Cracking the AP Psychology Exam, 2011 Edition (College Test Prep) by Princeton Review, Random House

ISBN-13: 978-0375427800

An access code for PsychPortal materials (which includes a full e-Book version of the text Myers' Psychology, 9th ed. in Modules as well as assessment and study tools) is also required:

PsychPortal

The cost is approximately $65.00.

Detailed Course Information

Course Details

Module 1: Discovering Psychology

Module 2: Psychology and Science

Module 3: Brain's Building Blocks

Module 4: Incredible Nervous System

Module 5: Sensation

Module 6: Perception

Module 7: Sleep and Dreams

Module 8: Hypnosis and Drugs

Module 9: Classical Conditioning

Module 10: Operant and Cognitive Approaches

Module 11: Types of Memory

Module 12: Remembering and Forgetting

Module 13: Intelligence

Module 14: Thought and Language

Module 15: Motivation

Module 16: Emotion

Module 17: Infancy and Childhood

Module 18: Adolescence and Adulthood

Module 19: Freudian and Humanistic Theories

Module 20: Social, Cognitive and Trait Theories

Module 21: Health, Stress and Coping

Module 22: Assessment and Anxiety Disorders

Module 23: Mood Disorder and Schizophrenia

Module 24: Therapies

Module 25: Social Psychology

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Time Required

Intensive spring and summer sessions require 10-14 hours per week for 12 weeks.

Academic year session requires 3-5 hours per week for 30 weeks, with breaks for holidays.

System Requirements

CTYOnline courses require a properly-maintained computer with Internet access and a recent-version web browser (such as Firefox, Safari, or Internet Explorer) with the Adobe Flash plugin. Students are expected to be familiar with standard computer operations (e.g. login, cut & paste, email attachments, etc).

Spam blockers, parental controls, and other internet filtering software must allow email from JHU (jhu.edu & jhem.jhu.edu), and from the instructor's email address (provided at start of course).

Important: Frequent changing of a student's screen name or email address is inversely proportional to success.

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