Friday, September 4/Tuesday, September 8
Ms. Moronta
Unit Objectives – Prologue – History, Approaches, and Research Methods
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Define psychology and trace its historical development
Compare/contrast the psychological perspectives
Identify basic and applied research and subfields of psychology
Identify basic elements of an experiment
Compare/contrast research methods
Describe the three measures of central tendency and measures of variation
Discuss the ethics of animal and human research
Daily Objectives
We will:
 Examine how psychology continued to develop from the 1920s through today.
 Describe how hindsight bias, overconfidence, and the tendency to perceive order in random events
illustrate why science-based answers are more valid than those based on intuition and common sense.
CLOSURE - By the end of today, I will be able to:
 Feel confident about the structure of the AP exam.
What Are We Doing Today? 
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WARM UP - HW CHECK: Vocab
DAILY QUIZ/TEAM QUIZ
AP EXAM – quick overview
PERSPECTIVES FOLDABLE
CELEBRITY WORKSHEET
CLOSURE
HOMEWORK:
 Vocabulary ~ 34-43
 Read ~ pages 31-41
 QUIZ NEXT CLASS!
Prologue/Chapter 1 Calendar
8/31 & 9/1: Introduction
9/2 & 9/3: AP Exam/Homework Review
9/4 & 9/8: Psychological Perspectives
9/9 & 9/10: Scientific Method
9/11 & 9/14: Correlation
9/15 & 9/16: Experimentation/Ethics
9/17 & 9/18: Statistics
9/21 & 9/22: Vocab Quiz
9/23 & 9/24: TEST: Prologue & Chapter 1
WARM UP 
 Why is critical thinking so important?
 Explain why a hypothesis is more than just an educated guess.
CLOSURE
 Write down some tips that you must do when answering a Free Response Question
(FRQ).