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Psychology: Mind, Brain, and Behavior (Part 2)

Grade 11, Units 5-8 · 350 pages · 40 lessons · PDF, print at home

A full-year survey of psychology as an empirical science. Students learn how psychologists ask and answer questions about behavior and mental processes, then apply that methodological lens to biological foundations, sensation and perception, learning, cognition, development, and mental health. Throughout, students distinguish claims that replicate under scrutiny from popular claims that do not, and they practice reading primary research alongside media coverage of it. Mental health content is taught at an educational level, what conditions are, how they are studied and classified, and why diagnosis and treatment require licensed professionals, never as a self-diagnosis tool. The course is evidence-based and excludes human sexuality content entirely. This volume holds units 5 to 8: Cognition: Memory, Thinking, and Problem-Solving; Development Across the Lifespan; Understanding Mental Health: Disorders, Classification, and Treatment; Capstone: Evaluating a Real Claim About Mind and Behavior.

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Psychology: Mind, Brain, and Behavior

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Unit 5: Cognition: Memory, Thinking, and Problem-Solving12 lessons
  1. 37.The multi-store (sensory/STM/LTM) model of memory and encoding-storage-retrieval
  2. 38.The role of the hippocampus in memory consolidation
  3. 39.The misinformation effect on eyewitness recall (Loftus)
  4. 40.Reconstructive memory and the mechanism of the misinformation effect
  5. 41.Forgetting: interference, decay, and retrieval failure
  6. 42.Availability heuristic and confirmation bias as distinct but confusable cognitive shortcuts
  7. 43.Heuristics and biases applied to an unfamiliar decision context
  8. 44.Expert-novice differences in metacognitive access to procedural knowledge
  9. 45.The relationship (or lack of it) between confidence and accuracy in recall
  10. 46.Proof versus suggestive evidence, applied to a classroom demonstration
  11. 47.Core memory vocabulary: encoding, storage, retrieval, reconsolidation, misinformation effect
  12. 48.The eyewitness misinformation summative scenario, integrating mechanism and methods judgment
Unit 6: Development Across the Lifespan9 lessons
  1. 49.Critical vs. sensitive periods in prenatal/early development
  2. 50.Harlow's and Ainsworth's attachment research and its limits
  3. 51.Piaget's stage theory and modern methodological critiques of it
  4. 52.Adolescent prefrontal cortex/limbic system maturation gap and risk-taking
  5. 53.Erikson's psychosocial stages and their defining conflicts
  6. 54.Erikson's psychosocial stage theory as a heuristic vs. a fixed universal law
  7. 55.Interaction of risk and resilience/protective factors across development
  8. 56.Well-supported vs. speculative developmental claims, applying Unit 1 evidentiary standards
  9. 57.Piaget's four stages and their approximate age ranges
Unit 7: Understanding Mental Health: Disorders, Classification, and Treatment9 lessons
  1. 58.Diagnostic criteria as a threshold of symptom pattern, duration, and functional impairment, not a checklist a layperson completes
  2. 59.Sources of diagnostic disagreement between clinicians using shared criteria
  3. 60.Distinguishing features of anxiety disorders and depressive disorders as taught in this unit
  4. 61.Biopsychosocial model applied to depressive or anxiety disorders
  5. 62.Randomized controlled trial design applied to a treatment-outcome study
  6. 63.The distinction between population-level treatment evidence and individual diagnostic/treatment conclusions
  7. 64.Evidentiary standards for mental-health treatment claims, generalized beyond taught examples
  8. 65.The distinction between professional diagnosis and self-diagnosis
  9. 66.Historical change in psychiatric classification as driven by evidence and by social/political context
Unit 8: Capstone: Evaluating a Real Claim About Mind and Behavior10 lessons
  1. 67.The chain from public claim to underlying evidentiary source
  2. 68.Strength classification of a research source using methods criteria
  3. 69.The relationship between replication status and warranted confidence in a claim
  4. 70.A multi-level biopsychosocial explanation for a specific chosen behavior
  5. 71.Single-level versus multi-level explanations of behavior
  6. 72.Hedged, evidence-proportioned written conclusions
  7. 73.Responsiveness to critique of one's own evidentiary reasoning
  8. 74.Unit 1 methods vocabulary definitions
  9. 75.Correlation-versus-causation judgment from study design features
  10. 76.Structural similarity in evidentiary strength across superficially different claims

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