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Personal Financial Literacy is a semester-length elective designed to help high school students prepare for success in making financial decisions throughout their lives.
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Topics in the course address the advantages of making sound financial decisions in both the short and long term, income planning, money management, saving and investing, and consumer rights and responsibilities. 

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Psychology

UNIT 1 – INTRODUCTION AND METHODS

  1. Course Overview
  2. Introduction to Psychology
  3. Experimental Psychology and Schools of Thought
  4. More About Psychological Perspectives
  5. Report: Influential Psychologists
  6. Psychology Fields and Careers
  7. Report: Understanding More about Careers in Psychology
  8. Quiz 1: Introduction to Psychology
  9. Research and Methods
  10. Statistics
  11. Balancing Right and Wrong (Ethics)
  12. Experiment: Bouba-Kiki Effect
  13. Essay: What Would You Do?
  14. Quiz 2: Research and Methods
  15. Review
  16. Test
  17. Alternate Test
  18. Glossary and Credits

UNIT 2 – BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

  1. The Biology Behind Our Behavior
  2. Sensory Processes
  3. Project: Blind Spots
  4. Project: Smell vs. Taste
  5. Quiz 1: Biology and Sensory Processes
  6. Motivation
  7. Essay: What Motivates You?
  8. Values and Expectations
  9. Stress
  10. Essay: Reflecting on Stress in Your Life
  11. Quiz 2: Motivation, Emotion, Stress
  12. Review
  13. Test
  14. Alternate Test
  15. Glossary and Credits

UNIT 3 – DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

  1. Lifespan Development
  2. Piaget and Erikson: Theories of Development
  3. Critical Periods
  4. Research: Hereditary Conditions and Deformities
  5. Quiz 1: Lifespan Development
  6. What is Personality?
  7. Free Will vs. Determinism
  8. Essay: Do You Have a Choice?
  9. Personality Tests
  10. Essay: Character Counts
  11. Quiz 2: Personality
  12. Review
  13. Test
  14. Alternate Test
  15. Glossary and Credits

UNIT 4 – COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

  1. What is Learning?
  2. Conditioning
  3. Observational Learning
  4. Essay: Who is Your Role Model?
  5. Quiz 1: Learning
  6. Memory
  7. The Brain and Memory
  8. Project: Serial Position Effect
  9. Quiz 2: Memory
  10. Thinking
  11. Language
  12. Consciousness and Sleep
  13. Dreams
  14. Report: Dream Analysis
  15. Research: Hypnosis
  16. Quiz 3: Thinking, Language, Consciousness, and Sleep
  17. Review
  18. Test
  19. Alternate Test
  20. Glossary and Credits

UNIT 5 – ABNORMAL AND GROUP BEHAVIOR

  1. Abnormal Behavior
  2. Mental Disorders
  3. Treating Disorders
  4. Report: Medication
  5. Quiz 1: Abnormal Behavior
  6. Obedience to Authority
  7. Altruism
  8. Social Influence and Conformity
  9. Project: Conformity
  10. Essay: How Can You Use Influence for Good?
  11. Quiz 2: Group Behavior
  12. Review
  13. Test
  14. Alternate Test
  15. Glossary and Credits

UNIT 6 – COURSE REVIEW AND EXAM

  1. Review
  2. Exam
  3. Alternate Exam—Form A