课程描述
AP Psychology
AP stands for Advanced Placement, which is the university preparatory course. The AP exam was held by the College Board in 1955 to give high school students access to college courses and to complete some of them ahead of schedule if they have the ability to do so. There are 22 categories, including 37 different courses.
AP Psychology Mainly Studies Four Area :
- Research methods and physiological
- Learning and cognition
- Social psychology
- Abnormal behavior
From these four angles, students can have a systematic understanding of human behavior and principles and a course of morality.
AP Psychology Course Five-points Rate
Compared with other AP courses, the 5-point rate of AP psychology is about 21%, which is relatively high and easy to get full marks.
The Practicability of AP Psychology Course
AP Psychology, as a basic course for freshmen, allows students to choose from more than 60 majors after entering university, such as education, advertising, journalism, and so on. In other words more than 60 majors will require students to have psychology as a pre-requirement course, which shows how widely psychology is used.
Curriculum :
- History and Approaches
- Research Methods
- Biological Bases of Behavior
- Sensation and Perception
- States of Consciousness
- Learning
- Cognition
- Motivation and Emotion
- Developmental Psychology
- Personality
- Testing and Individual Differences
- Abnormal Behavior
- Treatment of Abnormal Behavior
- Social Psychology