Psychology 20 Lesson Learning Goals

1. What is Social Psychology?

I can analyze how social psychology has changed over time 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.

2. How Do Psychologists Know?

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. I can analyze how worldview influences the way people interpret the actions of others.

4. The Whole Person

I can analyze how biological, cognitive, emotional, spiritual, and social influences interact to shape thoughts, feelings, behaviour, and relationships. I can compare holistic Indigenous Ways of Knowing with other approaches to understanding human behaviour.

5. Sensation and Perception

I can analyze how the brain processes sensory information and turns it into 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 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. I can explain how culture, relationships, and social experience influence socioemotional development.

9. Family, Attachment and Parenting

I can analyze how attachment, parenting styles, and family relationships can influence a young person’s development. I can evaluate how different family experiences 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. 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, 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. 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 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 and justify which approaches are most constructive in different situations.

18. Mental Health and Personal Environment

I can analyze how culture, worldview, spirituality, self-esteem, relationships, and environment can influence mental health and behaviour. I can compare different cultural perspectives on mental health and well-being.

19. Stress, Anxiety and Resilience

I can evaluate strategies and supports used to cope with stress and anxiety. I can create a practical plan that identifies resources and strategies for developing resilience and well-being.

20. 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.

21. 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.

22. Groups, Groupthink and Social Action

I can analyze how group membership, social norms, and groupthink influence individual behaviour and decision-making. I can evaluate how collective behaviour and social movements can create both positive and harmful change.

23. 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.

24. Contemporary Social Psychology

I can use psychological concepts and evidence to analyze a contemporary social psychology issue. I can evaluate competing explanations and perspectives before forming and defending a conclusion.

25. 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.