AP Psychology Scope & Sequence Grading Unit Title or Big Idea AP Standards Learning Targets Assessment Evidence Period Througho Vocabulary Development and Understanding Formative: Class discussion and ut the Reading Comprehension from Professional Journals or Articles personal examples School FRQ Writing Skill Development Formative: Group assignments and Year Albert.IO Digital A.P. Prep Resource presentations Formative: Group supportive writing/evaluation and inclusion of FRQs on Summative Assessment Tests First Cognition (8–10%) Unit 7: Memory and Cognition Formative- Vocabulary/Quizlet Grading Cognition- 12 Days AP students in psychology should be In this unit, AP Psychology students must be able to Formative- Quiz Period able to do the following: complete the following essential tasks: Formative- Albert IO ● Compare and contrast various ● 7-1 Describe the information processing Summative Assessment- Unit Test ​ Content/Topic Outline cognitive processes: effortful model of memory with specific attention to 1. Information versus automatic processing; the following steps: Processing Model — deep versus shallow ○ - Encoding: external stimuli, 2. Sensory Registers and processing; focused versus sensory registers, selective Attention divided attention . attention, reticular formation, 3. STM and LTM ● Describe and differentiate short-term memory 4. Biology of Memory psychological and ○ - Storage: long-term memory, 5. Retrieval and physiological systems of explicit memory (semantic and Forgetting memory (e.g. , short-term episodic memories) and implicit 6. Special Topics in memory, procedural memory) memories (emotional and Memory . procedural memories) ● Outline the principles that ○ - Retrieval 1. Thinking: Concepts, underlie effective encoding, ● 7-2 Outline principles that help improve ​ Schemas and storage, and construction of memory functioning at each stage: Prototypes memories . ○ encoding - attention, chunking, 2. Problem Solving ● Describe strategies for serial positioning effect, deep 3. Obstacles to Problem memory improvement . versus shallow processing, and Solving ● Synthesize how biological, rote rehearsal 4. Decision Making and cognitive, and cultural factors ○ storage - decay theory, Biases converge to facilitate elaborative rehearsal, spacing Updated 2018 5. Creativity acquisition, development, and effect, method of loci, and link 6. Structure of Language use of language . method 7. Language ● Identify problem-solving ○ retrieval – Retrieval cues and Development strategies as well as factors priming 8. Feral Children: Victor that influence their ● 7-3 Describe the physiological systems of ​ and Genie effectiveness . memory with specific attention to 9. Language, thought ● List the characteristics of long-term potentiation and the brain and culture creative thought and creative regions where memories are stored. 10. Thinking without thinkers . ● 7-4 Describe specific retrieval problems ​ language? ● Identify key contributors in (anterograde and retrograde amnesia, 11. Nonhuman Cognition cognitive psychology (e.g. , decay theory, proactive and retroactive and Language Noam Chomsky, Hermann interference) and memory construction Ebbinghaus, Wolfgang errors (misinformation effect, eyewitness Köhler, Elizabeth Loftus, testimonies, and source amnesia) George A . Miller) . Problems, Decisions and Language: ● 7-5. Define cognition and identify how the ​ following interact to form our cognitive life: ○ schemata/concepts, prototypes, assimilation, accommodation, effortful versus automatic processing, and deep vs. shallow processing, and focused versus divided attention. ● 7-6. Identify problem-solving techniques ​ (algorithms and heuristics) as well as factors that influence their effectiveness (problem representation, mental set and functional fixedness). ● 7-7. Identify decision making techniques ​ (compensatory models, representativeness heuristics, and availability heuristics) as well as factors that influence decision making (overconfidence, confirmation bias, belief bias, belief perseverance, and hindsight bias) ● 7-8. List the characteristics, stages, and ​ ways to foster creative thought ● 7-9. Synthesize how biological, cognitive ​ and cultural factors converge to facilitate the use of language (phonemes, Updated 2018 morphemes, syntax and semantics) and its development (holophrastic stage, telegraphic speech). ● 7-10. Synthesize how biological, ​ cognitive, and cultural factors converge to facilitate the acquisition (critical periods, Universal Inborn Grammar, and Victor/Genie) of language. ● 7-11. Analyze how culture impacts ​ language (linguistic determinism) and the quality and depth of non-human thought and language-free processing. Research Methods (8–10%) Unit 2: Research Methods Formative- Vocabulary/Quizlet Research Methods - 12 Days ● Differentiate types of research In this unit, AP Psychology students must be able to Formative- Quiz (e.g. , experiments, complete the following essential tasks: Formative- Albert IO 1. Scientific Method correlational studies, survey ● 2-1. Describe the scientific method and Summative Assessment- Unit Test ​ 2. Research Methods: research, naturalistic differentiate types of research with regard Descriptive observations, case studies) to purpose, strengths, weaknesses and 3. Descriptive Statistics with regard to purpose, reasonable conclusions a. Measures of strengths, and weaknesses . ○ - Descriptive Research: Case Central ● Describe how research design Studies, Naturalistic Observation Tendency drives the reasonable and Surveys b. Measures of conclusions that can be drawn ○ - Correlational Research Variation (e.g. , experiments are useful ○ - Experimental Research 4. Research Methods: for determining cause and ● 2-2. Describe descriptive research studies ​ Correlation effect; the use of experimental (Case Studies, Naturalistic Observation 5. Research Methods: controls reduce alternative and Surveys ) taking into account Experimentation explanations) . population, random sampling, 6. Inferential Statistics ● Identify independent, wording-effect and applicable biases. a. Statistical dependent, confounding, and ● 2-3. Apply basic statistical concepts to ​ Significance control variables in explain research findings using descriptive 7. Ethics: Guidelines and experimental designs . statistics: Central Tendency Wrong doings ● Distinguish between random ○ (mean, median, mode, skewed a. APA Code assignment of participants to distributions) Variance ( range, of Ethics conditions in experiments and standard deviation, and normal random selection of distributions) participants, primarily in ● 2-4. Describe a correlational research ​ correlational studies and study taking into account operational surveys . definitions, random sampling, correlational coefficient, and scatter-plots. Updated 2018 ● Predict the validity of ● 2-5. Describe experimental research design ​ behavioral explanations based taking into account operational definitions, on the quality of research independent/dependent variables, design (e.g. , confounding confounding variables, variables limit confidence in control/experimental groups, random research conclusions) . assignment of participants, single/double ● Distinguish the purposes of blind procedures, demand characteristics, descriptive statistics and and applicable biases. inferential statistics . ● 2-6. Apply basic statistical concepts to ​ ● Apply basic descriptive explain research findings using inferential statistical concepts, including statistics: Statistical significance (t-test and interpreting and constructing p-value) graphs and calculating simple ● 2-7. Identify the APA ethical guidelines ​ descriptive statistics(e.g. , and identify how they inform and constrain measures of central tendency, research practices. standard deviation) . ● Discuss the value of reliance on operational definitions and measurement in behavioral research . ● Identify how ethical issues inform and constrain research practices . ● Describe how ethical and legal guidelines (e.g. , those provided by the American Psychological Association, federal regulations, local institutional review boards) protect research participants and promote sound ethical practice . Social Psychology (8–10%) Unit 14: Social Psychology Formative- Vocabulary/Quizlet Social Psychology - 13 Days This part of the course focuses on how In this unit, AP Psychology students must be able to Formative- Quiz individuals relate to one another in complete the following essential tasks Formative- Albert IO Content/Topic Outline: social situations . Social psychologists ● 14-1. Apply attribution theory to explain Summative Assessment- Unit Test ​ study social attitudes, social influence, the behavior of others with specific 1. Social Cognition - and other social phenomena attention to the fundamental attribution Attribution ● Apply attribution theory to error, self-serving bias, just-world explain motives (e.g. , Updated 2018 2. Attitudes and fundamental attribution error, hypothesis and differences between Persuasion self-serving bias) . collectivistic and individualistic cultures 3. The impact of others ● Describe the structure and ● 14-2. Discuss attitude formation and how ​ on you function of different kinds of attitudes change with specific attention to 4. Conformity group behavior (e.g. , schema, primacy effect, cognitive 5. Compliance deindividuation, group dissonance and the central and peripheral 6. Treatment of group polarization) . routes to persuasion. members. ● Explain how individuals ● 14-3. Predict