Course Syllabus
Mr. Coy’s Psychology
Unit 1 (Chapters 1-2)
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Overview: In Unit 1, students will be introduced to the scientific study of psychology. Students will learn what psychology is and how psychologists go about adding to the discipline’s existing body of knowledge. A variety of methods such as; lecture, note taking, small and large group discussion, projects (survey creation and implementation, interviews, observations, and development of hypotheses) will be used in teaching and evaluation. An exam will be given at the end of each Chapter consisting of multiple choice, essay and short answer. All final and midterm exams will be comprehensive.
Chapter 1 – What is Psychology? Presents the goals of psychology, the kinds of work those psychologists do a brief history of psychology, and contemporary perspectives in the field of psychology.
Section 1 – Why study Psychology?
Section 2 – What Psychologists Do
Section 3 – A History of Psychology
Section 4 – Contemporary Perspectives
Chapter 2 – Psychological Methods. Describes the steps involved in the scientific method and the various methods psychologists use to conduct research.
Section 1 – Conducting Research
Section 2 – Surveys, Samples, and Populations
Section 3 – Methods of Observation
Section 4 – The Experimental Method
Section 5 – Ethical Issues
Chapter 3 -Biology and Behavior
Section 1 - The Nervous System
Section 2 - The Brain
Section 3- The Endocrine System
Section 4 - Heredity
Chapter 4 - Sensation and Perception
Section 1 - Sensation and Perception: The Basics
Section 2 - Vision
Section 3 - Hearing
Section 4 - Other Senses
Section 5 - Perception
Chapter 5 - Consciousness
Section 1 - The Study of Consciousness
Section 2 - Sleep and Dreams
Section 3 - Meditation, Biofeedback, and Hypnosis
Section 4 - Drugs and Consciousness
Chapter 6 - Learning
Section 1 - Classical Conditioning
Section 2 - Operant Conditioning
Section 3 - Cognitive Factors
Section 4 - The PQ4R Method: Learning to learn
Sociology
