AP Psychology: Curricular Requirements

• The teacher has read the most recent AP Psychology Course Description.
• The course provides instruction in each of the following 14 content areas outlined in the AP Psychology Course Description:
  • History and Approaches
  • Research Methods
  • Biological Bases of Behavior
  • Sensation and Perception
  • States of Consciousness
  • Learning
  • Cognition
  • Motivation and Emotion
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Personality
  • Testing and Individual Differences
  • Abnormal Psychology
  • Treatment of Psychological Disorders
  • Social Psychology
• As relevant to each content area, the course provides instruction in empirically supported psychological facts, research findings, terminology, associated phenomena, major figures, perspectives, and psychological experiments.
• The course teaches ethics and research methods used in psychological science and practice.

Resource Requirements

• The school ensures that each student has a college-level psychology textbook (supplemented when necessary to meet the curricular requirements) for individual use inside and outside of the classroom.
• The school ensures that the teacher has his or her own copy of the most recent edition of the textbook used in the course.