Juliana H 2023 Psychology Blog

     I'd like to preface this letter by reassuring you that earning a good grade in AP Psych isn't difficult; however, you do need to earn it. The majority of the grades you'll receive are based on completion and diligence, so if you simply complete your work, you won't need to approach the classroom feeling stressed about an project or quiz. You may be tempted to test Mrs. Halfen's generously lax approach to due dates, but I'd suggest knocking out the assignments of each unit a couple days before the target deadline. Each project has the potential to help you learn more about Psychology and thus bolster your knowledge for vocab quizzes and, later, the AP exam. The best thing you can do in this class is to be proactive and genuinely try to engage with the material - which shouldn't be difficult with Mrs. Halfen as your teacher.      Initially, I struggled in forming interest for the first couple of units. I was expecting to take personality quizzes or anal...

                              Go here for a more in depth look at the complexities of the bystander effect                                     Don't go here , it has frankly too much information about the psychosexual stages. Click here to learn more about the procedures and implications about Asch's conformity experiment. This site has more information on Ivan Pavlov's classical conditioning. Look here to find out more about the serial position effect and how it changes based on context.