Psychology 20 Lesson Learning Goals
Psychology 20 Lesson Learning Goals
I can analyze how social psychology has changed over time, including shifts in cultural industries such as fashion, music, media, and technology, and how it explains human social behaviour. I can compare different theoretical and cultural perspectives used to explain why people think, feel, and behave as they do.
I can evaluate psychological research methods by considering their validity, reliability, and ethical implications. I can justify which research method would be most appropriate for investigating a particular question about human behaviour.
3. Different Ways of Understanding People
I can compare how different cultural perspectives and psychological theories explain human behaviour, including the challenges individuals face when transitioning between cultures, communities, or countries. I can analyze how worldview influences the way people interpret the actions of others.
I can analyze how biological, cognitive, emotional, spiritual, and social influences—including customs, lifestyles, and values—interact to shape thoughts, feelings, behaviour, and relationships. I can compare holistic Indigenous Ways of Knowing with other approaches to understanding human behaviour.
I can analyze how the brain processes sensory information and distinguish among sensation, perception, and subliminal perception. I can explain how differences in perception can influence behaviour and relationships.
6. Motivation, Attitude and Emotion
I can analyze how motivation, attitude, and emotion—including the influence of symbols, logos, and media—influence performance and behaviour. I can apply these concepts to explain behaviour in real-life situations.
7. How We See Other People
I can analyze how stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination, and other social perceptions are formed and changed. I can examine how my own assumptions and perceptions can influence the way I interpret other people.
8. Growing Up Social
I can analyze how social and emotional development changes from childhood through adolescence, including the role of emotional intelligence in recognizing and responding to others' emotions. I can explain how culture, relationships, and social experience influence socioemotional development.
9. Family, Attachment and Parenting
I can analyze how attachment, parenting styles, birth order, and family relationships—including economic and social status—can influence a young person's development. I can evaluate how different family and community experiences, including community worldviews, may affect behaviour, decision-making, and self-concept.
10. Friends, Peers and Belonging
I can evaluate how friendship, peer pressure, bullying, belonging, and exclusion affect social and emotional development. I can analyze how relationships with peers can influence the way people see themselves and others.
11. What is Personality?
I can compare social-cognitive, dispositional, biological, and First Nations and Métis approaches to personality. I can evaluate the strengths and limitations of different explanations of personality.
12. Biology and Behaviour
I can analyze how biological influences, including the brain, nervous system, endocrine system, and temperament, can affect behaviour, and explore how substances such as stimulants, depressants, and hallucinogens affect the body's ability to process information. I can explain how changes or injuries to biological systems may influence thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and behaviour.
13. Culture, Identity and Personality
I can analyze how culture, worldview, experiences, media and entertainment techniques, and social schemas shape personality, attitudes, and perceptions. I can compare how different cultural perspectives influence ideas about identity and personality.
14. Thinking, Learning and Intelligence
I can compare different psychological and cultural explanations of thinking, learning, and intelligence, including how gender may influence learning. I can evaluate claims about intelligence and learning by considering the assumptions and evidence behind them.
15. How We Make Sense of Other People
I can analyze how people form judgements about the behaviour of others. I can explain how culture, experience, self-schema, and assumptions can influence those judgements.
16. What Makes a Healthy Relationship?
I can evaluate the characteristics of a healthy relationship, including how needs such as those described in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs motivate behaviour, and justify why they matter. I can analyze how individual behaviour can strengthen or damage relationships.
17. Communication, Technology and Conflict
I can evaluate how verbal, non-verbal, and digital communication can strengthen or damage relationships. I can compare strategies for resolving conflict, including community supports such as healing circles and healing lodges, and justify which approaches are most constructive in different situations
18 Violence, Abuse and Community Safety
I can analyze the effects of violence, aggression, and different types of abuse—including the stages of the cycle of abuse—on individuals and communities. I can research supports available to survivors and examine Saskatchewan-specific realities, including missing and murdered Indigenous women and other forms of domestic violence.
19. Mental Health and Personal Environment
I can analyze the effects of violence, aggression, and different types of abuse—including the stages of the cycle of abuse—on individuals and communities. I can research supports available to survivors and examine Saskatchewan-specific realities, including missing and murdered Indigenous women and other forms of domestic violence.
20. Stress, Anxiety and Resilience
I can analyze how culture, worldview, spirituality, self-esteem, relationships, and environment can influence mental health and behaviour, and identify misconceptions that limit access to mental health support. I can compare different cultural perspectives on mental health and well-being, including how society's views of physical and mental health can differ.
21. Substance Use and Addiction
I can analyze how substance use and addiction can affect the brain, mental health, behaviour, relationships, and communities. I can evaluate evidence about the effects of substance misuse, particularly during adolescence.
22. Power, Conformity and Obedience
I can distinguish between compliance, conformity, and obedience and analyze why people respond to social pressure in different ways. I can analyze how power, privilege, social norms, and values influence individual and group behaviour.
23. Groups, Groupthink and Social Action
I can distinguish between compliance, conformity, and obedience and analyze why people respond to social pressure in different ways. I can analyze how power, privilege, social norms, and values—including definitions of justice—influence individual and group behaviour.
24. Media, Beauty and Social Influence
I can evaluate how media, culture, and social norms influence beliefs about beauty, identity, and acceptable behaviour. I can analyze the assumptions and values behind messages that shape attitudes and self-perception.
25. Dysfunctional Behaviour and Mental Health Support
I can evaluate dysfunctional behaviours—including mood disorders, eating disorders, addictions, self-harm, defiance, intimidation, and manipulation—and analyze their impact on individuals and social development. I can investigate roles within the community that provide mental health support.
26. Attraction and Romantic Relationships
I can explain factors that influence attraction and compare socio-cultural views on intimacy, respect, and communication in healthy romantic relationships. I can distinguish between liking and loving and apply this understanding to my own relationships.
27. Screen Time, Identity and Social Change
I can investigate possible consequences of extended screen time on well-being, behaviour, and social skills. I can examine how family, culture, and worldview shape social relationships, and analyze challenges that arise when diverse worldviews interact in a culturally diverse society.
28. Equity and the Impact of Trauma
I can distinguish between equity and equality of condition and evaluate how these concepts shape society. I can explore how psychological trauma affects mental well-being and influences human behaviour.
29. Student-Directed Psychology Inquiry
I can design and carry out an inquiry into a psychology question that is meaningful to me. I can evaluate evidence, draw a supported conclusion, communicate my findings, and reflect on the quality of my own inquiry.