Post 9 - Dear AP Psych Students

 

Dear Future AP Psych Students,

Psychology is quite the awesome sauce course ! All the things you learn about how the brain functions and overall just how humans work is very intriguing and it's also very good knowledge. The Nearpods have tons of fun activities so make sure you participate in them, you can learn a lot about yourself through the numerous personality tests. Social Psych in my opinion was the coolest unit because it's the most applicable to us all because its the basics of how us humans function and you can come to understand the reasoning behind human actions. 

Advice-wise, my best tip is to stray away from last minute cramming. 90% of the grades, though very easy, are just extremely tedious. The work you get is time consuming but the instructions are very clear and the work itself doesn't require an inane amount of brain power. The Vocabulary takes a smooth second but she gives a good amount of time to work on it, so I would recommend doing 1 day of vocab every day as intended instead of doing all of them together on the last day. For quizzes, study the vocab well and make sure you know the units relatively well. Fiveable is super helpful for every quiz and the collegeboard questions follow the same format as the quizzes.

As for feedback, I think the most appreciated thing to incorporate would be possible FRQ feedback if we personally asked and also quiz reflections/review, also if we personally asked. I think time constraint is a reason why this was unable to be incorporated, but I think doing this outside of class, as in over Remind, could be of great help to our grades. I was very appreciative of the semi-lax teaching environment with the occasional Nearpods and movies and such, so I think that should be kept. I think having some additional extra credit major opportunities for the last term would be greatly appreciated as well. I think leaving out the point-table system like you ended up doing was a great idea, even for next year.

Psychology isn't an unbelievably hard course if you do the work. Don't stress, it's all good 🍦

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-Hasanain Memon