Alabama Social Studies SS24.P.15

SS24.P.15 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.P.15a

  Describe theories that explain how biological, cognitive, and social factors influence motivation, including Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, arousal theory...

• SS24.P.15b

  Describe situational cues that cause emotions, including anger, curiosity, and anxiety.

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What Students Need to Do

Students explain how body needs, thoughts, and other people affect what someone does. They compare Maslow's needs, arousal theory, and hunger as a drive to restore balance. They identify events that can spark anger, curiosity, or anxiety.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student can explain hunger through homeostasis and the choice to seek a challenge through arousal theory. They can use Maslow's model to explain a need for belonging. They can name a situation that sparks an emotion and explain how someone's thoughts or peers might change the response.

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Common Misconceptions

Students may think hunger comes only from seeing food, rather than the body's need to restore balance. They may treat Maslow's needs as a fixed order everyone follows or assume arousal always means stress. They may mistake anger, curiosity, and anxiety for fixed traits rather than responses to situations.

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How to Assess It

Exit ticket: After skipping lunch, a student faces a surprise quiz, an unfair accusation, and a puzzling question. Explain the hunger through homeostasis, name three possible emotions, and use Maslow or arousal theory to explain one choice.

1. 01

   Give pairs cards showing skipped lunch, a roller coaster, a surprise quiz, and public praise; sort them by body need, arousal, or social cue.

2. 02

   Ask students to write: Would a surprise quiz make everyone anxious? Explain how past experience and classmates' reactions could change the feeling.

3. 03

   Read 'skipped lunch,' 'rode a roller coaster,' and 'joined a club'; students choose Maslow, arousal, or homeostasis corners and defend their picks.

4. 04

   Show a cafeteria menu and a sports tryout flyer; ask how hunger, belonging, or excitement might shape a student's choices.

• SS24.P.5

  Describe the structure, biochemistry, and circuitry of the brain and nervous system, and explain their roles in human behavior and mental processes.*

• SS24.P.14

  Explain the role of personality development in human behavior and differentiate among theories that seek to explain this development.

• SS24.P.7a

  Explain the role of sensory systems in human behavior.