TOWNSHIP OF UNION PUBLIC SCHOOLS SS380 Advanced Placement Psychology Curriculum Guide 2015 Curriculum Guide Approved June 2015
Board Members David Arminio, President Vito Nufrio, Vice President Guy Francis Richard Galante Lois Jackson Thomas Layden Ronald McDowell Angel Salcedo Nancy Zuena
TOWNSHIP OF UNION PUBLIC SCHOOLS Administration District Superintendent.... Mr. Martin Tatum Assistant Superintendent. Dr. Noreen Lishak Director of Curriculum K-12.... Dr. Noreen Lishak Director of Student Information/Technology....Ms. Ann M. Hart Director of Athletics, Health, Physical Education Nurses.. Ms. Linda Ionta
DEPARTMENT SUPERVISORS Language Arts/Social Studies 3-5..... Mr. Robert Ghiretti Mathematics/Science 3-5.. Ms. Terri Mathews Elementary Pre K-2 (All Subjects).Ms. Maureen Corbett Guidance K-12/SAC....Ms. Nicole Ahern Language Arts/Library Services 7-12... Ms. Mary Malyska Math Mauriello 7-12..Mr.Jason Science 6-12.....Ms. Maureen Guilfoyle Social Studies/Business 7-12..Ms. Libby Galante
World Language/ESL/Career Education/G&T/Technology...Ms. Yvonne Lorenzo Art/Music...Mr. Ronald Rago
Curriculum Committee Mr. Nathan Surget
Table of Contents Title Page Board Members Administration Department Supervisors Curriculum Committee Table of Content District Mission/Philosophy Statement District Goals Course Description Recommended Texts Course Proficiencies Curriculum Units Appendix: New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Stards
Mission Statement The Township of Union Board of Education believes that every child is entitled to an education designed to meet his or her individual needs in an environment that is conducive to learning. State stards, federal state mates, local goals objectives, along with community input, must be reviewed evaluated on a regular basis to ensure that an atmosphere of learning is both encouraged implemented. Furthermore, any disruption to or interference with a healthy safe educational environment must be addressed, corrected, or when necessary, removed in order for the district to maintain the appropriate educational setting. Philosophy Statement The Township of Union Public School District, as a societal agency, reflects democratic ideals concepts through its educational practices. It is the belief of the Board of Education that a primary function of the Township of Union Public School System is to formulate a learning climate conducive to the needs of all students in general, providing therein for individual differences. The school operates as a partner with the home community.
Statement of District Goals Develop reading, writing, speaking, listening, mathematical skills. Develop a pride in work a feeling of self-worth, self-reliance, self discipline. Acquire use the skills habits involved in critical constructive thinking. Develop a code of behavior based on moral ethical principals. Work with others cooperatively. Acquire a knowledge appreciation of the historical record of human achievement failures current societal issues. Acquire a knowledge understing of the physical biological sciences. Participate effectively efficiently in economic life the development of skills to enter a specific field of work. Appreciate underst literature, art, music, other cultural activities. Develop an understing of the historical cultural heritage. Develop a concern for the proper use /or preservation of natural resources. Develop basic skills in sports other forms of recreation.
Course Description Advanced Placement Psychology has been designed to provide students with an introductory overview of the field of psychology. The course is designed to introduce students to the scientific study of human animal behavior with an emphasis on empirical data. The curriculum covers the major fields subfields of psychology in a manner that is consistent with an introductory college course. The curriculum is designed to match the National Stards for The Teaching Of Psychology published by the College Board. Students are expected to complete all assignments on time to present only the finest examples of their work. Students are consistently reminded that the course is designed to be comparable to an introductory course at the finest academic institutions in the nation should be approached as such. Students have an opportunity to earn 3 college credits for this course are expected to take the AP Psychology Exam in May.
Recommended Textbooks Coon, Dennis. Introduction To Psychology Gateways To Mind And Behavior. (2010: 12th edition Wadsworth) Text: Barron s AP Psychology. (2014. 6th edition Barron s Educational Services) 40 Studies That Changed Psychology. (2005: Pearson Prentice Hall)
Course Proficiencies 1. All students must be able to answer multiple choice questions at a rate of 30 seconds per question. 2. All students must be able to write free responses in the college board style. 3. Incorporate new vocabulary in written work. 4. All students will be able to write about how physiological changes affect behavior. 5. All students must demonstrate research skills through case studies. 6. All students must analyze data from psychology. 7. All students must be able to develop skills necessary to evaluate behavior. 8. All students must be able to develop, identify, explain the similarities differences in personality theories. 9. All students must be able to differentiate among the plethora of mental illnesses. 10. All students must be able to describe in writing the of social psychology
Curriculum Units Unit 1: History research methods Unit 2: Biopsychology Unit 3: Sensation Perception Unit 4: Learning Unit 5: Cognition Unit 6: Motivation emotion Unit 7: Development Unit 8: Personality theory Unit 9: Abnormal Psychology Unit 10: Social Psychology
Pacing Guide Course Content Number of Days Unit 1: History research methods 18 Unit 2: Biopsychology 18 Unit 3: Sensation perception 18 Unit 4: Learning 18 Unit 5: Cognition 18 Unit 6: Motivation emotion 18 Unit 7: Development 18 Unit 8: Personality theory 18 Unit 9: Abnormal psychology 18 Unit 10: Social psychology 18 A minimum of one week will be left for AP exam preparation.
Unit 1: History Research Methods # STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Scope, History, Methodology [CR1] Historical Schools: Functionalism vs. Structuralism In Class Sources CORRESPONDING CCSS/NJCCS N/A 2. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Modern Approaches: Psychodynamic, Behaviorist, Cognitive, Humanistic, Evolutionary, Neuroscience
. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Nature of Scientific Inquiry: Sources of bias error Research Methods: Introspection, observation, survey, psychological testing, controlled [CR2] 3. 4. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Statistics: Central tendency, variance, significance, correlation Ethics in Research: Human participants, animal subjects [CR16]
Unit 2: Biopsychology # STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Neuroscience [CR3] Neuron: Neuronal synaptic transmission, psychopharmacology, drug abuse In Class Sources CORRESPONDING CCSS/NJCCS N/A
Students will demonstrate an understing of: Brain: Research methodology, neuroanatomy, brain development aging, 2.. Students will demonstrate an understing of: hemispheric specialization. 3.
Students will demonstrate an understing of: Nervous System: Structural functional organization 4. 5. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Endocrine System: Anatomy, HPA-axis, immune system Genetics Heritability
Unit 3: Sensation Perception # STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Psychophysics: Thresholds (absolute, difference, Webers constants), signal detection theory In Class Sources CORRESPONDING CCSS/NJCCS N/A 2. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Sensory Organs Transduction: Visual (including color vision feature detection), auditory, olfactory, gustatory, proprioceptive (including kinesthetic vestibular)
. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Perception: Attention, processing, illusions (including Gestalt psychology), camouflage 3. Unit 4: Learning
# STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Behaviorism Historical Background Philosophy of Radical Behaviorism In Class Sources CORRESPONDING CCSS/NJCCS N/A 2. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Classical Conditioning: Pavlov, Watson, applications, biological critique, cognitivist challenge
. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Operant Conditioning: Thorndike, Skinner, Bura, behavior modification, biological critique, cognitivist challenge [CR15 3. 4. Students will demonstrate an understing of: The Watson/ baby Albert experiment
Unit 5:Cognition # STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Consciousness, Memory, Language [CR5] In Class Sources CORRESPONDING CCSS/NJCCS N/A
Students will demonstrate an understing of: Memory: Information processing, storage, retrieval Accuracy of Memory: Loftus Schacter Cognition: Problem solving heuristics [CR7] 2. 3.. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Language: Skinner Chomsky CR11Evidence
Students will demonstrate an understing of: Eposodic memory recall 4.
Unit 6 :Motivation Emotion # STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Motivation Emotions [CR8] Motivational Concepts: Instincts, drives, optimal arousal In Class Sources CORRESPONDING CCSS/NJCCS N/A 2. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Maslows hierarchy Hunger Eating Disorders Sexuality Sexual Orientation
. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Achievement Motivation: McClell the TAT, intrinsic versus extrinsic motivators 3. 4. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Physiology of Emotion: Fear, anger, happiness Expression of Emotion: Darwin Ekman Theories of Emotion: James-Lange, Cannon-Bard, Schacter-Singer
Unit 7: Development # STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Developmental Psychology [CR9] In Class Sources CORRESPONDING CCSS/NJCCS N/A
Students will demonstrate an understing of: Methodology: Longitudinal cross-sectional studies Nature vs. Nurture (maturation versus learning) 2. 3.. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Influential Theories: Piaget cognitive development, Freud psychosocial development,
4. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Kohlberg moral development, Gilligan gender differentiation [CR6] Infancy, Childhood, Adolescence, Adulthood
Unit 8: Personality Theory # STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Personality [CR10] Psychodynamic Perspective: Freud, Jung, Adler In Class Sources CORRESPONDING CCSS/NJCCS N/A 2. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Trait Perspective: Allport, factor analysis the five-factor model, assessment (Myers-Briggs, MMPI-II)
. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Humanistic Perspective: Maslow Rogers Social-Cognitive Perspective: Bura Seligman 3. 4. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Stress Health Stress as a Concept: Selye Stress Health Adjustment
Unit 9: Abnormal Psychology # STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Abnormal Psychology [CR12, CR13] Approaches to Abnormality: The Rosenhan study, historical approaches (deviance), the medical model, the biopsychosocial model In Class Sources CORRESPONDING CCSS/NJCCS N/A
Students will demonstrate an understing of: Classifying Disorders: Evolution of the DSM-IV-TR Major Categories of Disorders: Anxiety disorders, dissociative disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia, personality disorders 2. 3.. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Major Approaches to Psychotherapy: Psychoanalysis, behavioristic, humanistic, cognitive, group, pharmacological
4. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Does Therapy Work? Eysenck, outcome studies, the Consumer Reports study CR8Evidence of Curricular Requirement: The course provides instruction in motivation emotion. CR10Evidence of Curricular Requirement: The course provides instruction in personality. CR12Evidence of Curricular Requirement: The course provides instruction in abnormal psychology. CR13Evidence of Curricular Requirement: The course provides instruction in treatment of psychological disorders.
Unit 10: Social Psychology # STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Social Psychology [CR14] Attitudes Behavior In Class Sources CORRESPONDING CCSS/NJCCS N/A 2. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Fundamental attribution error, roles, Festinger cognitive dissonance
. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Group Influence: Asch conformity, Milgram obedience, facilitation loafing, Janis groupthink 3. 4. Students will demonstrate an understing of: Prejudice Scapegoating Altruism: Darley Latané
One week will be left to review for the AP Exam take practice tests. New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Stards currently do not include Psychology New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Stards Language Arts Stard 6.RL.1-10 (Reading Literature) Stard 6.RIT.1-10 (Reading Informational Text) Stard 6.W.1-10 (Writing) Stard 6.SL.1-6 (Speaking & Listening) Stard 6.L.1-6 (Language)
New Jersey Scoring Rubric New Jersey Registered Holistic Scoring Rubric Inadequate Comm Limited Comm Partial Comm Adequate Comm Strong Comm Superior Comm Content Organization Usage Score: 1 2 3 4 5 6 May lack opening / or closing Minimal response to topic; uncertain focus No planning evident; disorganized Details rom, inappropriate, or barely apparent No apparent control Severe/ numerous errors May lack opening / or closing Attempts to focus May drift or shift focus Attempts organization Few, if any, transitions between ideas Details lack elaboration, i. e., highlight paper Numerous errors Errors/ May lack opening / or closing Usually has single focus Single focus Some lapses or flaws in organization May lack some transitions between ideas Repetitious details Several unelaborated details patterns of errors may be evident Generally has opening /or closing Opening closing Opening closing Ideas loosely connected Transitions evident Uneven development of details Single focus Sense of unity coherence Key ideas developed Logical progression of ideas Moderately fluent Attempts compositional risks Details appropriate varied Single, distinct focus Unified coherent Well- developed Logical progression of ideas Fluent, cohesive Compositional risks successful Details effective, vivid, explicit, / or pertinent Some errors that do not interfere with meaning Few errors Very few, if any, errors
Excessive monotony/ same structure Sentence Construction Assortment of incomplete / or incorrect sentences Numerous errors Little variety in syntax Some errors Some variety Generally correct Variety in syntax appropriate effective Few errors Precision /or sophistication Very few, if any, errors Non-Scorable Reponses NR No Response Student wrote too little to allow a reliable judgement of his/her writing. OT Off Topic/Off Task Student did not write on the assigned topic/ task, or the student attempted to copy the prompt. NE Not English Student wrote in a language other than English. WF Wrong Format Student refused to write on the topic, or the writing task folder was blank. Content/ Organization Usage Sentence Construction Mechanics Communicates intended message to intended audience Relates to topic Opening closing Focused Logical progression of ideas Transitions Appropriate details information Tense formation Subject- verb agreement Pronouns usage/ agreement Word choice/ meaning Proper Modifiers Variety of type, structure, length Correct construction Spelling Capitalization Punctuation
Language Arts Literacy Open-Ended Scoring Rubric Points Criteria 4 A 4-point response clearly demonstrates understing of the task, completes all requirements, provides an insightful explanation/opinion that links to or extends aspects of the text. 3 A 3-point response demonstrates an understing of the task, completes all requirements, provides some explanation/opinion using situations or ideas from the text as support. 2 A 2-point response may address all of the requirements, but demonstrates a partial understing of the task, uses text incorrectly or with limited success resulting in an inconsistent or flawed explanation. 1 A 1-point response demonstrates minimal understing of the task, does not complete the requirements, provides only a vague reference to or no use of the text. 0 A 0-point response is irrelevant or off-topic.