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Advanced Placement Psychology

Mr. Davis

Advanced Placement Psychology is designed to be a college/university level course, and will provide you with the intellectual challenges and workload consistent with a typical freshman university psychology course. The class is divided into fourteen units, and they will be taught in the following order:

Chapter 14: Social Psychology

Chapter 7: Cognition

Chapter 2: Research Methods

Chapter 3: Biopsychology and Neuroscience

Chapter 4: Sensation and Perception

Chapter 5: States of Consciousness

Chapter 6: Learning

Chapter 8: Emotion and Motivation

Chapter 9: Developmental Psychology

Chapter 10: Personality

Chapter 11: Testing and Individual Differences (a.k.a Intelligence)

Chapter 12: Psychological Disorders

Chapter 13: Treatments and Therapies

Chapter 1: Overview and Review for the AP Test

Grading:

Tests: 80%

Quizzes: 18%

Reading Guides: 2%

If you earn a 4/5 on the AP exam, you may request that I raise your final grade by one level. That is, if you earn a 3.7 in the class and get a 4 or 5 on the test, I will raise your grade to a 4.0.

Points will be based primarily on exams. This is a test-based class so there will be a test on each unit and a final in late April before the AP exam. The AP test is on the afternoon of May 12th. It is expected that students in this class will take the exam.

UW, EWU, and WWU give 5 college credits for a 3 or higher on the AP test. CWU offers 5 college credits for a 4 or higher. WSU gives 3 credits for a 3. Last year, Lewis and Clark AP Psychology students had a 92% pass rate with 75% of test takers earning a 4 or 5. We have a strong program, so if you do what is asked, you will be in a good position to earn free college credits.

After each test you will have the opportunity to correct the answers. If you follow directions, you can earn back a half point for each test correction. Thus, if you get an 80%, you can bring your grade up to a 90% with acceptable corrections. These will be due one week after tests are handed back. Late corrections are not given any points. I will post the directions on my website, davis229..

At the beginning of each unit you will be given a reading guide. Different students will approach this guide in a variety of ways, but I feel it is extremely helpful to have a place to take notes as I read (and most college students would say the same). If you completely fill out your reading guide, you will be able to turn it in before the unit test. No late reading guides will be accepted. The reading guide is worth 2% of your grade. So if it’s only 2% of the total grade, why do it? Here’s why:

1) It will help you maintain your thinking as you read.

2) It will give you a guide to study for the unit test.

3) Save them until April, and they will be a handy study guide for the AP exam.

4) If you have an 89.4% as the end of the semester, the first place I will look is your track record with these.

In an effort to embrace technology, please sign up for Remind to get reading, quiz and test reminders. Simply text this number: 81010. The body of the message should simply be @4humors.

Reading Quizzes: On the day a reading is due, I may or may not give a quiz on the assignment. If you have an excused absence the day of a quiz, you don’t need to make it up. However, being gone the day BEFORE the quiz does not exempt you. Reading assignments are posted on the board, and I remind you via text the day before the reading assignment is due, so ignorance of the assignment is not an acceptable excuse.

Absences: This is VERY important. If you have an unexcused absence the day of a test, you will receive a zero. Make SURE your parents excuse you BEFORE the test. If you are gone the day of a review (the day before the test), you still need to take the test.

Cell Phone/Electronics Policy: Common courtesy is a must in room 229. These devices need to be off and away, period.

Passes: Please ask to use the pass if you must, but after a couple of requests we will chat.

Academic Honesty:

Unfortunately, plagiarism has become an issue over the past several years. Please know that any assignment that has been found to be less than academically credible will receive a zero. In addition, that assignment MUST be rewritten in order to be eligible for a grade on the next assignment(s) of equal or greater point value. Please note that this class includes no group work other than the rare occasion when it is explicitly requested by the instructor. Disciplinary action will be followed as outlined in the L.C. Handbook.

Bottom Line—Do your job with courtesy, maturity, integrity.

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