Content Topics

 

Unit 1

Introduction to Psychology

 

Unit 2

Assessments of Psychology

 

Unit 3

Normal Development

 

Unit 4

Consciousness

 

Unit 5

Who am I?

 

Unit 6

Learning

 

Unit 7

Stress and Pyschological disorders

 

Unit 8

Article Reviews

 

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Assessments

 

• Unit quizzes and exams
  
• Discussion topics
  
• Attendance
  
• Article reviews and research topics
  
• Journal entries
  
• Projectss

 

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Standards Alignment:

 

PA State Standards:

Concepts of Health, Safety and Physical Education

Pennsylvania's public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to:

10.1.9
A. Analyze factors that impact growth and development between adolescence and adulthood.
D. Analyze prevention and intervention strategies in relation to adolescent and adult drug use.

10.1.12
A. Evaluate factors that impact growth and development during adulthood and late adulthood.
B. Evaluate factors that impact the body systems and apply protective/preventive strategies.
D. Evaluate issues relating to the use/non-use of drugs.

10.3.12 Analyze the impact of violence on the victim and surrounding community.

Physical Activity: Pennsylvania's public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to:

10.4
B. Analyze the effects of regular
participation in a self-selected
program of moderate to vigorous
physical activities.

psychological

Pennsylvania's public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to:

History:
8.1.12
A Evaluate chronological thinking.

8.4.12
A. Evaluate the significance of individuals and groups who made major political and cultural contributions to world history since 1450.

Specific standards in this course:
Pennsylvania's public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to:

11.2.12
A. Justify solutions developed by using practical reasoning skills.

11.4.12
A. Analyze current research on existing theories in child development and its impact on parenting.
B. Analyze current issues in health and safety affecting children at each stage of child development.
C. Analyze practices that optimize child development (e.g., stimulation, safe environment, nurturing caregivers, reading to children).

 

National Standards:

Strand Number IV:
Learner Expectations
All humans think, learn, act, and develop cognitively, socially,
physically, emotionally, personally, and mentally as well as
construct, test, confirm, revise, and apply multiple concepts of and
multiple identities as to who they are. While much of what humans
are and become has been associated with genetics and assumed natural
stages of physical, psychological, emotional, and mental
development, a far greater factor in mental, social, emotional,
personal, and identity construction and application is the
interaction of the individual with his or her environments and the
consequences of these interactions. All individuals should know the
factors that contribute to who they are; to what they think, feel,
and believe; to what they decide and do; to why they are likely to
make certain decisions and act in particular ways; and to how they
perceive themselves, their abilities, their personality, and the
world.