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The A+LS™ Psychology course presents the study of both the mind and behavior and in particular the relationships between the two. This course is designed to provide students with a solid foundation of comprehensive knowledge and research skills that can be applied to all fields of psychology. Objectives from elective courses are not tested on national or state achievement tests. As a result, there are no course or adaptive assessments developed for our elective course titles.
1060L
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Curriculum Planning Manual (CPM) –
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• Psychology is presented as a semester-long high school elective course.
• All thirty-three lessons contain a study guide, a practice and mastery test, and an essay or constructed response.
• Lessons include a variety of essay types such as descriptive, narrative, persuasive, compare and contrast, and letter writing. Additional activities include journals, short reports, summaries, and creating a collage, brochure, or graph. Directions for essays and rubrics for grading are provided for each of the writing assignments. Students will also complete a selfevaluation form to assess their performance.
• This title is certified by MetaMetrics® with a Lexile® score.
• A+ PowerPack customers receive Cambridge University Press® (CUP) Learning Objects.
• In addition, A+ PowerPack customers receive access to Encyclopædia Britannica® Online School Edition (EB) workspaces which contain learning materials. Learning materials may contain articles, games, images, maps, and/or videos. Clearvue (CV) video clips may be included as well.
• The content in this course is based on specific standards developed by the American Psychological Association. These standards focus specifically on the curriculum content for a comprehensive high school psychology course.
• The lessons are designed to move the student from a focus on the individual psychology domains to a broad perspective of psychology and its application to real-life situations.
• Students examine the domains, goals, and various fields of psychology.
• Students review many of the fields of psychology discussed within this course including: cognitive, abnormal, child, clinical, counseling, educational, experimental, industrial, and school psychology.
• The Psychology course requires students to read resources
that are linked to the lessons. The majority of these documents
are provided as Portable Document Files (PDFs). As a result,
students will need Adobe Acrobat® Reader® available on their
workstations. Available at: www.adobe.com, select the Get Adobe Reader button.
• Numerous links to the Internet are provided in the A+ PowerPack. An Internet connection is not required for completion of this course, but it is required to utilize the CUP and EB components of the A+ PowerPack.
• Due to the interactive nature of the A+ PowerPack, there are a few specific software requirements:
- CUP and EB requires a web browser, the following are recommended:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer® versions 6.0 or higher
- Safari® versions 2.0 or higher
Note: EB requires cookies enabled.
- CUP and EB interactive activities require a web browser equipped with the Adobe® Flash® and Shockwave plug-ins.
Available at: www.adobe.com (select Get ADOBE FLASH PLAYER and Get Shockwave Player).
- EB video clips are offered in Windows Media® and MPEG-4 formats. You’ll need to have a media player installed
that will support these formats:
• Students are required to complete the essay section for lesson mastery.
This setting must be enabled on the "Settings for Assignment of A+LS Lesson"
dialog box. The default setting does not require the completion of the essay
for assignment mastery. The circled item shows the proper setting.
Cambridge Learning Objects are animations and interactive activities that enhance the concepts presented within Psychology lessons. Founded in 2003, Cambridge-Hitachi is the result of a joint venture between Cambridge University Press and Hitachi Software Engineering. Cambridge-Hitachi is committed to innovation in e-learning and applies information and communication technologies as powerful tools to enhance the quality of teaching and learning.
- Psychology contains learning objects.
- Each learning object provides animated demonstrations of key psychology topics.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition has teacher resources and student learning materials. The materials include a wide range of interactive lessons, research projects, animations, and worksheets that support the Psychology course.
- Psychology contains EB workspaces.
- Each workspace may contain an article, diagram, study guide, video, or interactive media.
The lessons in the Psychology course are divided into five domains of study and the Applied Psychology Unit. The five domains of study within the field of psychology are: Methods, Biopsychological, Developmental, Cognitive, and Sociocultural.
Unit 1 - Methods Domain
- Overview of Psychology
- History of Psychology
- Research Methods in Psychology
Unit 2 - Biopsychological Domain
- The Brain
- The Nervous and Endocrine Systems
- Sensation and Perception
- Heredity and Environment
- Stress, Coping, and Health
- Motivation and Emotion
Unit 3 - Developmental Domain
- Theories of Development
- Infancy and Childhood
- Adolescence
- Adulthood
Unit 4 - Cognitive Domain
- Personality
- States of Consciousness
- Learning
- Intelligence
- Memory
- Thinking and Language
Unit 5 - Sociocultural Domain
- Psychological Disorders
- Treatment of Psychological Disorders
- Social and Cultural Psychology
Unit 6 - Applied Psychology
- Psychoactive Drugs
- Alcohol Abuse
- Drug Abuse and Substance-Related Disorders
- Depression
- Brain Injury
- Diseases of the Brain
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Self-Injurious Behavior
- Youth and School Violence
- Disaster Mental Health
- Ethics in Psychology
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