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AP PSYCHOLOGY

Overview

Immerse yourself in modern psychological techniques investigating the ethics and morality of human and animal research. In this college-level course, you will learn the psychological facts, principles, and phenomena associated with each major area of psychology and enhance your scientific critical thinking skills

Major Topics and Concepts

Scientific Foundations of Psychology

  • The History of Psychology
  • Research Methods in Psychology
  • The Experimental Method
  • Ethical Guidelines in Psychology
  • Statistical Analysis in Psychology

Biological Bases of Psychology

  • The Neuron
  • Neuron Firing
  • The Nervous System
  • The Endocrine System
  • The Brain Interaction of Heredity and Environment
  • Sleep, Dreams, and Psychoactive Drugs

Sensation and Perception

  • Principles of Sensation and Perception
  • Visual Sensation and Perception
  • Auditory Anatomy and Perception

Cognitive Psychology

  • Introduction to Memory, Thinking and Intelligence
  • Encoding, Storing, and Retrieving
  • Forgetting and the Biological Bases of Memory
  • Components of Language and Language Acquisition
  • Psychometric Principles and Intelligence Testing

Learning

  • Introduction to Learning and Classical Conditioning
  • Operant Conditioning
  • Social and Cognitive Factors in Learning

Developmental Psychology

  • Life Span and Physical Development in Childhood
  • Cognitive Development in Childhood
  • Social Development in Childhood
  • Gender and Sexual Orientation
  • Adolescent and Moral Development
  • Adulthood and Aging

Motivation, Emotion, and Personality

  • Theories of Motivation
  • Theories of Emotion
  • Stress and Coping
  • Introduction to Personality and Psychoanalytic Theories
  • Humanistic Theories of Personality
  • Trait Theories and Measuring Personality
  • Behaviorism and Social Cognitive Theories of Personality

Clinical Psychology

  • Pychological Perspectives and Etiology of Disorders
  • Neurodevelopmental and Schizophrenic Spectrum Disorders
  • Bipolar, Depressive, Anxiety, and Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
  • Trauma-and Stressor-Related, Dissociative, and Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
  • Feeding and Eating and Personality Disorders
  • Psychological Perspectives and Treatment of Disorders
  • Behavioral, Cognitive, and Group Therapy and Evaluating Treatments
  • Treatment of Disorders from the Biological Perspective

Social Psychology

  • Attribution Theory, Attitude Formation, and Attitude Change
  • Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience
  • Group Influences on Behavior and Mental Processes
  • Bias, Prejudice, and Discrimination
  • Altruism and Aggression
  • Interpersonal Attraction

Fee Details

R 10,166.66

Grade 9, 10, 11, 12

Annual

Textbook (e-text): Myers, David G. and Nathan DeWall. Myers’ Psychology for AP Course. 3rd edition. 2018. New York: Worth.