Development & personality
Developmental Psychology: Adolescence Lecture Slides
A brief lecture slide deck introducing adolescence in developmental psychology, covering physical, cognitive, and moral development during the adolescent period.
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Social behavior
Economics: Behavioral Economics Concepts
A multi-part behavioral economics unit (IB-level) covering how psychology challenges rational-choice assumptions, including bounded rationality, biases, and nudge theory, with a slide deck, definitions worksheet, video question sheet, and practical-application essay questions.
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Wellbeing & disorders
AP Psychology Unit Slides: Abnormal Behavior
Provide a unit-length lecture presentation on abnormal psychology, covering the history, definition, and diagnosis of psychological disorders, beginning with anxiety disorders.
Brain & cognition
Brain Anatomy Lecture Slides
A lecture slide deck teaching the structures and functions of the human brain and how they relate to behavior and mental processes, aligned to AP Psychology content standards.
Brain & cognition
Eyewitness Testimony (Engaging Lesson and Activity on Memory)
A memory/eyewitness-testimony lesson (slide deck plus student notes handout) that has students role-play as an eyewitness to a staged 'crime' (a stolen laptop), then teaches the three types of memory and the encoding-storage-retrieval process, and uses statistics and classic psychology studies (Loftus & Palmer, Wells & Olson) to show…
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Language Development Slides & Guided Notes
A social-studies/psychology unit resource teaching human language acquisition and developmental stages (phonemes, morphemes, grammar; reflexive communication through complex sentences) alongside a video-companion note-taking activity.
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Development & personality
Freud on Personality and Psychology (Slides and Follow Along Notes)
Introduce middle/high school students to Sigmund Freud's theories of personality and psychology, including the id, ego, and superego, repression, Freudian slips, defense mechanisms, and psychosexual development, via a slide presentation with an accompanying follow-along notes handout.
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Genetics of Psychology Unit
An AP Psychology unit bundle covering the genetics/biological basis of behavior (heredity, epigenetics, evolutionary perspective, twin/family/adoption studies) plus related biopsychology and cognition review activities.
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Social behavior
AP Social Psychology Lecture Slides: Attribution Theory and Person Perception
Introduce AP Psychology students to social psychology concepts around attribution theory and person perception.
Development & personality
Freud Psychology Slides + Guided Notes
Introduce middle/high school students to Sigmund Freud's theories of personality and psychology, including the id, ego, and superego, repression, Freudian slips, defense mechanisms, and psychosexual development, via a slide presentation with an accompanying follow-along/guided notes handout.
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Development & personality
Behavior-Genetics Lecture Slides
A high-school psychology lecture presentation introducing behavior genetics, nature vs. nurture, and evolutionary psychology's explanation of human behavior.
Social behavior
Power, Obedience, and Conformity (Lesson Slides and Worksheet)
A sociology/psychology lesson (slides plus a worksheet) exploring power, obedience, and conformity through classic social psychology experiments: the Stanford Prison Experiment, the Milgram Shock Experiment, and the Asch Line/Conformity Study, plus the concept of fundamental attribution error.
Development & personality
AP Psychology: Parenting Lecture Slides
Introduce AP Psychology students to key parenting/attachment theories and theorists.
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Social behavior
Financial Literacy Unit: Spending (Consumer Skills and Habits)
Teaches middle/high school students responsible consumer skills and habits, covering consumer protections, intentional purchasing, installment payments, consumer psychology, and responsible/sustainable consumption.
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Brain & cognition
AP Psychology: The History of Intelligence Lecture Slides
This presentation moves from historical and cultural views of intelligence to theories associated with Spearman, Sternberg, Goleman and Gardner. Later slides introduce heredity and environment, test use, and the concepts of standardization, reliability and validity. Use the slides to guide a lecture and pause at the theory-review prompt for students to compare the models they have studied.
Wellbeing & disorders
Positive Psychology
A secondary-level presentation introducing students to the field of positive psychology: its origins, core principles (positive experiences, character strengths, flow, PERMA), plus an accompanying student worksheet.
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Brain & cognition
AP Psychology: Cognition and Intelligence Bundle
AP Psychology unit bundle covering cognition and intelligence: a free-response exam applying memory/cognition concepts to a scenario, and lecture slides on intelligence testing and its use in death-penalty legal cases.
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Social behaviorLearning & behavior
Social Media and the Psychology of Phone Use (Screen Time Slides and Experiment)
Explores the psychology of social media and phone use - covering usage statistics and negative effects such as anxiety, loneliness, FOMO, addiction, and attention/academic impacts - and guides students through a personal screen-time tracking experiment.
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Brain & cognition
Sensation: Vision and Audition Lecture Slides
Introduces the psychology of sensation, focusing on vision and audition (hearing): how sense organs transduce stimuli into neural signals, feature detection and parallel processing, color vision theories, color blindness, and the anatomy of the eye and ear.
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Social behavior
Financial Literacy: Spend
Teaches students consumer skills and habits: consumer rights/protections, making informed purchases, paying in installments, consumer psychology, and responsible/sustainable consumption.
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Brain & cognition
AP Psychology: Memory and Emotion Lecture Bundle
AP Psychology lecture-slide bundle covering three topics: memory, emotion, and thinking and language.
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Wellbeing & disorders
Positive Psychology Slides + Guided Notes
A high-school presentation with guided notes introducing students to positive psychology: its origins, core principles (positive experiences, character strengths, flow, PERMA).
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Learning & behavior
Operant and Classical Conditioning (Slides, Class Activity, Worksheets, Videos)
A psychology lesson package teaching operant and classical conditioning through a 24-slide presentation, an introductory class activity, embedded video prompts, and two note-taking worksheets.
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Brain & cognition
Memory and Thinking
A psychology lesson package on how human memory works: sensory, short-term, and long-term memory, encoding/storage/retrieval, the Clive Wearing case study, and memory distortion effects (primacy/recency, flashbulb memories).