The Royal Road to Deeper Understanding:

Psychology Across the Curriculum

Erin Hall and Erin MitchellAP Psychology

Manifest

GAVS teachers can work together to collaborate weekly Adobe synchronous sessions to enable intellectually rich cross curricular opportunities that benefit both students and teachers. With our psychology course as an example, we will

share how teachers can accomplish these benefits through attributes such as attitude,

willingness, cooperation, and conceptualization.

Latent

• Comments students make about their courses• Ease of not reinventing the wheel• Ensuring students have mastered content in a

meaningful way

Activation Synthesis

Information Processing

• Sort out content and help them envision why it is useful and meaningful.

Cognitive Development

• Reflects dreamers’ knowledge and understanding

Statistics and Psychology

• True Experimental Design

Experimental, Correlational, and Clinical Research

ExperimentsMethods of Data Collection

Correlational StudiesClinical Research

Ethics in ResearchStatistics

-Discussion about treatment of mentally ill circa time period

-Engage in a discussion addressing the root causes of

depression, specifically the psychological and social

aspects -Discussion about therapy in

the form of writing

American Literature:

Emily Dickinson

Psychological Disorders:Depression

Motivation – Self Actualization – Post

Conventional Morality

World History – leaders like Gandhi, Jefferson, MLK, Abraham Lincoln

Obedience

Authority

Personal

Conscience

Stanley Milgram’s study on obedience was inspired by the Nuremburg Trial following WWII. The Nazi’s on trial for acts of genocide used the defense that they “were just following orders”. Their actions were an act of obedience.

-Fight or Flight Reactions

-Motivation and Behavior

-http://www.psychologytoday.com/

Health The Central and

Peripheral Nervous System

Psychology and Science

How to make this work for your classroom:

• Reach out to your colleagues…. Collaborate.• Set up a common Adobe Office.• Plan no more than 1-2 lessons a semester to

start. • Create shells or templates to present cross

curricular studies.• Be creative in finding ways to get your

students to participate.

Shared Adobe Office Space

• Hall and Mitchell CC Office