Psychology Regular (RE)
Cost: $399 per semester
Prerequisites: None
Length: One semester (18 weeks)
Required Course Materials: None
Course Description: Market Square Education’s online Psychology course provides a solid overview of the field’s major domains: methods, biopsychology, cognitive and developmental psychology, and variations in individual and group behavior.
By focusing on significant scientific research and on the questions that are most important to psychologists, students see psychology as an evolving science. Each topic clusters around challenge questions, such as “What is happiness?” Students answer these questions before, during, and after they interact with direct instruction.
This course is built to state standards and informed by the American Psychological Association’s National Standards for High School Psychology Curricula. The teaching methods draw from the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) teaching standards.
AP Psychology
Cost: $399 per semester
Prerequisites: Biology
Length: One semester (18 weeks)
Required Course Materials:
- • Psychology, 13th ed. David G. Myers (Worth Publishing, 2020).
ISBN-10: 1319132103 / ISBN-13: 9781319132101 / $345.00
Acceptable alternate: Psychology, 12 ed (2017). ISBN-10: 10131905062X / ISBN-13: 139781319050627 Acceptable alternate: Psychology, 11th ed (2015). ISBN-10: 1464140812 / ISBN-13: 9781464140815
Course Description: Market Square Education’s online AP Psychology course provides an overview of current psychological research methods and theories. Students will explore the therapies used by professional counselors and clinical psychologists and examine the reasons for normal human reactions: how people learn and think, the process of human development and human aggression, altruism, intimacy, and self-reflection. They will study core psychological concepts, such as the brain and sense functions, and learn to gauge human reactions, gather information, and form meaningful syntheses. Along the way, students will also investigate relevant concepts like study skills and information retention. The equivalent of an introductory college-level survey course, AP Psychology prepares students for the AP exam and for further studies in psychology or life sciences.
This course has been authorized by the College Board® to use the AP designation.