Month Weekly Plans Essential Questions Content Standards

September Week 1: What is Psychology? 1. How does psychology -Definition and 1. APA: Content
Unit 1: Introduction Week 2: Life Span Development shape our everyday purposes of the Standard-Life-Span
and Developmental Week 3: Learning life? study of psychology Development:1-7
Learning Domain Week 4: Language Development 2. How has psychology 2. APA: Content
evolved to study -​Methods and issues Standard-
behavior and mental in life-span Learning:1-3
processes? development, 3. APA: Content
3. How is psychology still theories of life-span Standard-Language
evolving? In what development, Development:1-3
ways have we and do prenatal
we see this change development and the
happening? newborn, infancy
4. How do we develop (i.e., the first two
physically, socially, years of life),
and cognitively? childhood,
adolescence,
adulthood and aging

-Classical & operant

condition, and
observational &
cognitive learning

-​Structural features
of language, theories
and developmental
stages of language
acquisition, language
and the brain
October Week 5: Memory 1. How do humans -​Encoding, storage & 1. APA: Content
Unit 2: Cognitive Week 6:Thinking encode, store, and retrieval of memory Standard-Memory:1
Domain Week 7: Intelligence retrieve information -3
Week 8: from memory? -​Basic elements 2. APA: Content
Connections/Reflection/Review 2. How can humans comprising thought & Standard-Thinking:1
enhance memory obstacles related to -2
encoding, storage, thought 3. APA:Content
and retrieval? Standard-Intelligenc
3. In what ways is -​Perspectives on, e:1-3
thinking flawed or assessment of &
constrained? issues in intelligence
4. How do we study and
define intelligence &
how and why is it
computed?

November Week 9: Motivation 1. In what ways are -​Perspectives on 1. APA: Content

Unit 3: Individual Week 10: Emotion humans motivated? motivation, domains Standard-Motivation
Variations Domain Week 11: Personality 2. What role does of motivated :1-2
Week 12: Psychological Disorders emotion play in our behavior in humans 2. APA: Content
lives? and non-human Standard-Emotion:1
3. How are emotion, animals -3
personality and 3. APA: Content
motivation -​Perspectives on Standard-Personalit
interconnected? emotion, emotional y:1-3
4. What are causes of interpretation and 4. APA: Content
psychological expression & Standard-Psycholog
disorders and how can domains of ical Disorders:1-2
they be managed or emotional behavior
prevented?
5. What is considered -​Perspectives on,
abnormal behavior? assessment of &
issues in personality
 -​Perspectives on
abnormal behavior &
categories of
psychological
disorders

December Week 13: Social Interactions
Unit 4: Sociocultural Week 14: Sociocultural Diversity
Context Domain Week 15:
Review/Catch-up/Misconceptions
Week 16:Winter Break
1. What leads us to - ​Social cognition, 1. APA: Content
obey, conform or help social influence & Standard-Social
others and why? social relations Interactions:1-3
2. How do we define 2. APA: Content
culture? -​Social and cultural Standard-Sociocultu
3. How does our culture diversity & diversity ral Diversity:1-2
affect the way we among individuals
interact with each
other?
4. How has an
increasingly digital
age affected the way
we interact with others
and our awareness of
other cultures?