AP Psychology

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AP Psychology
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Questions to be answered

• Who teaches?
• How is the class graded? (Breakdown of grading
  system)
• What is a typical night of homework like?
• What will I learn?
• What kind of projects will I do?
• What else is there about this class that I should
  know?

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Who teaches?

• Mrs. Keller
• Mrs. Krissoff

• Well whats so great about them?
• Hands on, come up with fun activities
• Always willing to help
• Make class fun, hilarious

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How will you be graded?

• Earn grades on weekly quizzes, unit tests,
  homework, projects, drills/classwork, vocabulary,
  notebook, journals, current events.
• Grades are based on total points earned and
  percentages. EX The total number of points for
  the class is 1000 and you received 900. You have
  a 90 or an A.
• Class participation is 5 of grade
• Homework is 15-20 of grade
• BCRs and ECRs

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What will you learn?

• History and approaches of psychology
• Methods of research
• Biological bases of behavior
• Sensation and perception
• States of consciousness
• Learning, how you learn
• Cognition, thinking
• Motivation and emotion
• Developmental psychology

I promise its more interesting and more fun than
it sounds!
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Specific cool things youll learn

• Learn about genetics
• Dreaming
• Hypnosis
• How you can condition someone to do anything you
  want (classical vs. operant conditioning)
• Emotions and stress

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Projects

• Egg Baby
• Fairy Tale
• Personality Mask

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Why Take This Class

• Can get college credit (depending on AP exam
  score)
• Gives you a deeper understanding of human
  behavior
• Improves timed writing skills
• Required for many health related careers
• Pre-requisite for college classes
• Fun way to meet education requirements

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Workload

• Daily journal
• Vocabulary
• Famous people
• Chapter notes
• Chapter quizzes unit tests
• Projects
• (It seems like a lot of work, but its not as
  bad as it looks!)

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