0 Period - AP Psychology-AP Psychology Assignments
- Instructor
- Mr. Matthew Cole
- Term
- School Year 2026-2027
- Department
- Social Sciences
- Description
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Upcoming Assignments
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Read pages 193-205 in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook. The textbook provides focus questions that provide a purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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See attached instructions.
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Assignment: AP Classroom Progress Check – Multiple-Choice Questions
Please log in to AP Classroom and complete the assigned Progress Check. Ensure you answer all questions thoughtfully and to the best of your ability. This will help track your understanding and identify areas for improvement.
If you have any questions or encounter issues accessing the assignment, please let me know.
Please log in to AP Classroom and complete the assigned Progress Check. Ensure you answer all questions thoughtfully and to the best of your ability. This will help track your understanding and identify areas for improvement.
If you have any questions or encounter issues accessing the assignment, please let me know.
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AP Classroom Progress Check – Free-Response Questions
Please log in to AP Classroom and complete the assigned Progress Check. This Progress Check includes practice free-response questions designed to strengthen your understanding and prepare you for the AP exam.
Requirements for Full Credit:
Complete all FRQs on your own to the best of your ability.
Score each of your responses using the rubric provided in AP Classroom.
Make sure you read the scoring guidelines carefully and evaluate your work honestly.
Students who complete the questions, but do not score their responses will not receive full credit for the assignment.
This progress check is an opportunity to assess your own mastery, identify areas for improvement, and guide your studying.
If you have any trouble accessing the Progress Check or have questions about the scoring process, please let me know.
Please log in to AP Classroom and complete the assigned Progress Check. This Progress Check includes practice free-response questions designed to strengthen your understanding and prepare you for the AP exam.
Requirements for Full Credit:
Complete all FRQs on your own to the best of your ability.
Score each of your responses using the rubric provided in AP Classroom.
Make sure you read the scoring guidelines carefully and evaluate your work honestly.
Students who complete the questions, but do not score their responses will not receive full credit for the assignment.
This progress check is an opportunity to assess your own mastery, identify areas for improvement, and guide your studying.
If you have any trouble accessing the Progress Check or have questions about the scoring process, please let me know.
Past Assignments
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Read pages 187-192 in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook. The textbook provides focus questions that provide a purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Read pages 174-186 in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook. The textbook provides focus questions that provide a purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Read pages 166-174 in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook. The textbook provides focus questions that provide a purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Reading Assignment: Module 1.6d - Sensation: Skin, Chemical,and Bondy Senses and Sensory Interaction
Read pages 143-157 in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook. The textbook provides focus questions that provide a purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Read pages 135-142 in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook. The textbook provides focus questions that provide a purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Draw a diagram of the eye in your notebook.
Take a photo of your drawing.
Submit the photo to Google Classroom.
Draw a diagram of the eye in your notebook.
Take a photo of your drawing.
Submit the photo to Google Classroom.
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Read pages 124-134 in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook. The textbook provides focus questions that provide a purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Read pages 115-123 in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook. The textbook provides focus questions that provide a purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Read pages 109-114 in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook. The textbook provides focus questions that provide a purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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In this assignment, you will practice developing a claim and supporting it with evidence and reasoning, similar to the AP Psychology Evidence-Based Question (EBQ).
Read both research studies (Study A and Study B) in the attached Google Doc.Develop a clear, defensible claim that answers the argument question.Select one piece of evidence from and explain how it supports your claim.Apply at least one psychological concept from our lessons on sleep to strengthen your argument.
Read both research studies (Study A and Study B) in the attached Google Doc.Develop a clear, defensible claim that answers the argument question.Select one piece of evidence from and explain how it supports your claim.Apply at least one psychological concept from our lessons on sleep to strengthen your argument.
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Complete the 18-question Morning Person–Evening Person Survey using the link provided.Take a screenshot of your results showing your score and chronotype (morning, evening, or neither).Open the attached Google Doc and answer both reflection questions using complete sentences.
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Read pages 103-108 in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook. The textbook provides focus questions that provide a purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Read pages 99-102 in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook. The textbook provides focus questions that provide a purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Read pages 93-98 in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook. The textbook provides focus questions that provide a purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Read pages 87-92 in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook. The textbook provides focus questions that provide a purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Read pages 80-86 in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook. The textbook provides focus questions that provide a purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Read pages 70-79 in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook. The textbook provides focus questions that provide a purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Hi Raiders! You are eligible this year to have your AP exam in May paid for by RUSD. We must know your intent to take AP Exams before October 30th, 2026. You must also join your AP Classroom by October 30th for your exam to be ordered.
After October 30th if you decide not to take the exam, you will be charged $40. Please submit this form no later than October 30th. If you have questions, please reach out to Mrs. Martinez: [email protected]
This form must be filled out and submitted from the student's RUSD email account. Please share this information with your parent/guardian.
After October 30th if you decide not to take the exam, you will be charged $40. Please submit this form no later than October 30th. If you have questions, please reach out to Mrs. Martinez: [email protected]
This form must be filled out and submitted from the student's RUSD email account. Please share this information with your parent/guardian.
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Read pages 63-69 in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook. The textbook provides focus questions that provide a purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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With your group, make one copy of your assigned study Google Doc and share it with all group members so everyone can edit. Read the simulated study together and answer the five questions in your shared copy. Begin with a brief summary of what the researchers did and found. Everyone should be prepared to explain the study on Monday; I will select one group for each study to present.
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Read pages 55-63 in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook. The textbook provides focus questions that provide a purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Read pages 39-54 in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook. The textbook provides focus questions that provide a purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Reading Assignment: Module 1.3a - (Part 2): How Neurotransmitters Influence Us and and the Endocrine System
Read pages 32-39 in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook. The textbook provides focus questions that provide a purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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In you spiral notebook, draw and label the figure of a neuron using the attached Google slide. After drawing and labeling the neuron take a picture and upload it to Google Classroom.
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Reading Assignment: Module 1.3a (Part 1): Neural Communication to How Neurotransmitters Influence Us
Read pages 28-32 in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook. The textbook provides focus questions that provide a purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Read pages 22-27 in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook. The textbook provides focus questions that provide a purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Complete the Argumentation Skills Practice worksheet as we work through today’s activity.
Use your assigned source to identify two pieces of evidence that support your assigned position.
During the class share-out, take notes on the evidence presented for the opposing position.
After hearing both sides, write a 4–5 sentence conclusion explaining your own position on the nature vs. nurture debate over aggressive behavior.
Use specific evidence from the sources to support your conclusion.
Use your assigned source to identify two pieces of evidence that support your assigned position.
During the class share-out, take notes on the evidence presented for the opposing position.
After hearing both sides, write a 4–5 sentence conclusion explaining your own position on the nature vs. nurture debate over aggressive behavior.
Use specific evidence from the sources to support your conclusion.
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Read pages 40-47 in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook. The textbook provides focus questions that provide a purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Given the current ethical standards in psychology, why would the experiment be denied by an Institutional Review Board?
Provide three reasons why you would deny the research study.
Be prepared to share the study and your reasons and evidence with the class.
All group members have a speaking role if your group is called on to share.
Provide three reasons why you would deny the research study.
Be prepared to share the study and your reasons and evidence with the class.
All group members have a speaking role if your group is called on to share.
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Read pages 32-39 in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook. The textbook provides focus questions that provide a purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Instructions:
Students are to log into myap.collegeboard.org.
Students can only have ONE College Board account. If they have already taken the PSAT, SAT or an AP test, then they have an account.
Students are to use their LEGAL name (as it appears in Aeries Portal) for their College Board account.
Students are to use their PERSONAL email address (not their school Gmail address) with their College Board account.
Our school code is 052696
Active Join Code: G4VNR3
If students you accidentally make a second account or include the incorrect information above, I cannot help you - you will have to contact College Board for the fix (which can be a challenge).
The district will be paying for the exams this year. At the end of September, I will send students a Google Form asking for their intent on taking the exam in May. If they said “yes” before November, but later change their mind, they will be charged the $40 unused College Board exam fee.
The AP Psychology exam is on Friday, May 14, 2027 and will be fully digital this year.
Students are to log into myap.collegeboard.org.
Students can only have ONE College Board account. If they have already taken the PSAT, SAT or an AP test, then they have an account.
Students are to use their LEGAL name (as it appears in Aeries Portal) for their College Board account.
Students are to use their PERSONAL email address (not their school Gmail address) with their College Board account.
Our school code is 052696
Active Join Code: G4VNR3
If students you accidentally make a second account or include the incorrect information above, I cannot help you - you will have to contact College Board for the fix (which can be a challenge).
The district will be paying for the exams this year. At the end of September, I will send students a Google Form asking for their intent on taking the exam in May. If they said “yes” before November, but later change their mind, they will be charged the $40 unused College Board exam fee.
The AP Psychology exam is on Friday, May 14, 2027 and will be fully digital this year.
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Read pages 22-31 in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook. The textbook provides focus questions that provide a purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Identify and explain TWO of the following concepts you encountered during the playing card activity: - Confirmation bias - Falsification - Hindsight bias - Overconfidence - Perceiving order in randomness - The limits of human intuition
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Read pages 14-21 in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook. The textbook provides focus questions that provide a purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Which psychological perspective—Behavioral, Biological, Cognitive, or Sociocultural—do you believe most accurately explains the thoughts and actions of Andrea Yates? Choose one perspective and provide at least two pieces of evidence from the case study or video to support your response. After submitting your response to the discussion question, read and reflect on at least one of your classmate's posts. Provide at least one thoughtful reply offering additional insights, respectfully challenging their viewpoints, or building on their ideas.
Discussion Question:
Which of the following psychological perspectives do you believe most accurately explains the thoughts and actions of Andrea Yates? Choose one perspective and provide at least two pieces of evidence from the case study or video to support your response:
Behavioral
Biological
Cognitive
Sociocultural
Peer Feedback Instructions:
After submitting your response to the discussion question, read and reflect on at least one of your classmate's posts. Provide at least one thoughtful reply offering additional insights, respectfully challenging their viewpoints, or building on their ideas.
I agree/disagree with this post because _______.
Your point about _________ was interesting because _________.
What did you find interesting or compelling about this submission?
How did this post change your mind about the issue?
How is this submission similar or different to your opinion?
Can you build on their ideas?
Which of the following psychological perspectives do you believe most accurately explains the thoughts and actions of Andrea Yates? Choose one perspective and provide at least two pieces of evidence from the case study or video to support your response:
Behavioral
Biological
Cognitive
Sociocultural
Peer Feedback Instructions:
After submitting your response to the discussion question, read and reflect on at least one of your classmate's posts. Provide at least one thoughtful reply offering additional insights, respectfully challenging their viewpoints, or building on their ideas.
I agree/disagree with this post because _______.
Your point about _________ was interesting because _________.
What did you find interesting or compelling about this submission?
How did this post change your mind about the issue?
How is this submission similar or different to your opinion?
Can you build on their ideas?
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Read pages 9-13 in your textbook. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your spiral notebook. The textbook provides focus questions that provide a purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Reflecting on the video, what do you believe is the most significant contribution of psychology to society, and why?
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Before class, read the Andrea Yates case study carefully.
As you read, keep this guiding question in mind:
Which psychological perspective do you think best explains Andrea Yates’s behavior, and what details from the case support that explanation?
You do not need to take detailed notes. The goal is simply to understand the major events, influences, and psychological factors in the case so that you are prepared for the next day’s lesson and class discussion.
As you read, pay attention to:
Important details that could help explain Andrea Yates’s behavior
Evidence that seems to support one or more psychological perspectives
Details that might challenge the perspective you initially think is strongest
Come to class prepared to discuss your ideas and support them with evidence from the case study.
As you read, keep this guiding question in mind:
Which psychological perspective do you think best explains Andrea Yates’s behavior, and what details from the case support that explanation?
You do not need to take detailed notes. The goal is simply to understand the major events, influences, and psychological factors in the case so that you are prepared for the next day’s lesson and class discussion.
As you read, pay attention to:
Important details that could help explain Andrea Yates’s behavior
Evidence that seems to support one or more psychological perspectives
Details that might challenge the perspective you initially think is strongest
Come to class prepared to discuss your ideas and support them with evidence from the case study.
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Read the attached PDF, pages 1-17: Today’s Psychology and Its Approaches. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your notebook. The textbook includes focus questions and key terms to guide your reading and note-taking.
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Course Syllabus & Confirmation
Step 1: Read & Discuss
Open the attached Course Syllabus and read it alongside your parent or guardian.
Review the grading policies, classroom expectations, and key policies together.
Step 2: Complete the Confirmation Form
Open the linked Google Form.
Fill out the student section and have your parent/guardian complete their designated section to confirm you reviewed the document together.
Due Date: Submit the form by Friday, August 14 to receive credit.
Step 1: Read & Discuss
Open the attached Course Syllabus and read it alongside your parent or guardian.
Review the grading policies, classroom expectations, and key policies together.
Step 2: Complete the Confirmation Form
Open the linked Google Form.
Fill out the student section and have your parent/guardian complete their designated section to confirm you reviewed the document together.
Due Date: Submit the form by Friday, August 14 to receive credit.
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Please provide a screenshot of your personality test results.
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After taking the Big 5 Personality Assessment, you now have a snapshot of your personality traits across openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Question: Which of your Big 5 results surprised you the most, and why? Do you think this trait accurately reflects you in real life, or does it feel off? Give at least one real-life example that supports your answer.
Respond to the question in 3–5 complete sentences.
Be specific and give at least one real-life example.
After posting, share your response with your elbow partner.
Be ready to share with our response with your elbow partner and the whole class if you feel comfortable.
Be specific and give at least one real-life example.
After posting, share your response with your elbow partner.
Be ready to share with our response with your elbow partner and the whole class if you feel comfortable.
Submit your tip here