Course Description
Psychology provides students with the opportunity to discover how their senses, perceptions, emotions, and intelligence influence the way they think, feel, and learn. In this course, students learn about the field of psychology, including the concepts and tools used to assess intelligence, sensation and perception, memory, motivation and emotion, and learning. At the end of this course, students gain both knowledge of and appreciation for psychology and how it affects everyone.

Course Breakdown

Environmental and genetic psychological factors
Memory processes
Emotional responses
Data analysis
Motivation and drive
Intelligence and standardized testing

Course Goals
Identify the concepts of individual memory and intelligence.
Explore emotions and physical reactions to those emotions.
Define types of motivations and incentives for behavior.