Alabama Social Studies SS24.P.1c
The Standard
- SS24.P.1
- Trace the development of psychology as a scientific discipline, including its evolution from other fields of study.*
Describe how modern psychologists utilize multiple perspectives to understand behavior and mental processes, citing examples.*
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Introduction to Psychology
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain one behavior in more than one way. For a student who avoids presentations, they might consider past teasing, fear of judgment, and a racing heart.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can use two or more perspectives to explain the same case. They can say what each perspective would look for, such as past experiences or beliefs, without claiming one explanation tells the whole story.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat a perspective as a diagnosis or assume that one explanation rules out the others. They may also confuse a physical stress response with a person's thoughts about what might happen.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A student stops eating lunch with friends after being laughed at once. Explain this choice using a learning perspective and a cognitive perspective. Name one detail each would investigate.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups four clue cards about a student avoiding presentations: racing heart, fear of judgment, past teasing, and classmates' reactions. Sort them by perspective.
Ask: Why might a student avoid presentations even after practicing? Write two explanations from different perspectives and one question each would ask.
Play perspective match: read 'A teen studies after praise.' Pairs race to give a learning explanation and a cognitive explanation.
Use a school sleep survey to compare how psychologists might study screen habits, bedtime beliefs, and early bus schedules.
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Related Standards
- SS24.P.1b
Differentiate among various schools of thought and perspectives that have developed in psychology since 1879.*
- SS24.P.1a
Investigate and describe the history of psychology from its beginning to the modern era, including key contributors to the field.*
- SS24.P.16
Describe major psychological disorders and their treatments and explain how examples of abnormal behavior differ from normal behavior.*
- SS24.P.16a
Describe various approaches for explaining mental illness, including biological and medical, cognitive, and sociocultural models.
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