All Senior students will take either one year-long senior elective, or two semester-long senior electives.
AP Psychology is a yearlong course designed to introduce students to the systematic and scientific study of the behavior and mental processes of human beings and other animals. Students are exposed to the psychological facts, principles, and phenomena associated with each of the major subfields within psychology. Students also learn about the ethics and methods psychologists use in their science and practice. The goal is to provide the student with a learning experience equivalent to that obtained in most college introductory psychology courses. The following describes the major content areas covered in the class and the AP Psychology Exam: 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 Psychology, Treatment of Psychological Disorders, Social Psychology.