AP Psych Enrichment Activities
AP Psych Enrichment Activities
AP Psych Enrichment Activities
of content understanding to be able to dive deeper into topics. In my classroom I use these after weekly
vocab quizzes, using those scores to determine proficiency. These activities are not meant to be
burdensome, just as a learning extension. I hope these can be useful in the classroom to help your
students continue to love the field of psychology!
INTRO TO PSYCHOLOGY
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
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Why Do We Still Teach Freud If U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics- Crash Course- Intro to
He Was So Wrong? Psychology as a Profession Psychology refresh
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PSYCH EXPERIMENTATION
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
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Placebos Work Even If You Crash Course- Psychological How the Coronavirus Pandemic
Know They’re Placebos! Research Has Led to the Biggest
Psychological Studies
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PSYCH STATS
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
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ETHICS
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
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5 Psych Experiments You Tom the Dancing Bug Ethical APA Ethical Code of Conduct
Couldn't Do Today Considerations
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UNIT 2- BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
When Did Modern Behavior Can the Legacy of Trauma be Khan Academy- Heritability
Evolve? Passed Down the Generations?
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NEURAL COMMUNICATION
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
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Is There An fMRI Crisis? What Really Happened to APA- Scanning the Brain
Phineas Gage?
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BRAIN ANATOMY
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
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The Teenage Brain Explained What Happens In The Brain Dyslexia: When Your Brain
During A Coma? Makes Reading Tricky
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Football, Dementia, and the Hacking The Brain: The Future Myth: Some People Are Left-
Future of Sports Of Prosthetics Brained, Some People Are
Right-Brained
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PSYCHOACTIVE DRUGS
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
OPTION 1 OPTION 2 OPTION 3
Mouse Party Why Does Skipping Coffee The Opioid Epidemic in Illinois
Give Me Headaches?
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Sleep: Why We Need It and What Being A Night Owl Does Why Do We Jump in Our Sleep?
What Happens Without It To Your Health
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PRINCIPLES OF SENSATION
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
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Does Sensory Deprivation The Stroop Task: The Psych Myth: Subliminal Messages Can
Really Help You Think? Test You Cannot Beat Persuade People to Purchase
Products
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PRINCIPLES OF PERCEPTION
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
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Hearing Colors, Seeing Sounds: How Stores Manipulate Your Why You Think Your Phone
Synesthesia Senses To Sell You Stuff Just Buzzed
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VISUAL ANATOMY
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
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Are Colors Real? Why You’ll Never See Your Those Maddening Eyeball
Eyes Move In A Mirror Floaters!
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VISUAL PERCEPTION
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
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8 Mind-Blowing Optical These Strawberries Aren’t Red Visual Illusions: Why You See
Illusions Things That Aren’t There
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HEARING
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
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How Auditory Illusions Trick How The Right Tunes Can What If Your Ears Switched
Your Brain Into Hearing Things Improve Your Workout Sides Of Your Head?
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OTHER SENSES
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
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Are You a Supertaster? Does Swearing Kill Pain? How Smells Trigger Memories
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UNIT 4- LEARNING
CLASSICAL CONDITIONING
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
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Why Are We Afraid Of The Humanity’s Deepest, Darkest You Can Inherit Fear?
Dark? Fear
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OPERANT CONDITIONING
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
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Why We’re So Superstitious Positive Reinforcement and Dog The Case Against Rewards and
Training Praise
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SCHEDULES OF REINFORCEMENT
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
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How the Brain Gets Addicted to Smartphones and Classical Social Media is Making Us
Gambling Conditioning Behave Like Rats
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Why Is Yawning Contagious? How Losing Your Job Changes Does Having Abusive Parents
You Mean You’ll Become One?
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UNIT 5- COGNITION AND INTELLIGENCE
Learning Mnemonics: Can You Does Photographic Memory Why Is Riding a Bike "Just Like
Really Hack Your Memory? Exist? Riding a Bike?"
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How Much Data Can Our Brains What It’s Like To Have Near- How Do You Make Memories?
Store? Perfect Memory
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Why You’re More Afraid Of Why You Don't Really Know Here’s When You Should Trust
Sharks Than Cows the Size of a Walrus Your Gut
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LANGUAGE
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
OPTION 1 OPTION 2 OPTION 3
Dialect Quiz Should You Stop Saying ‘Like’ Why Do Some Words Sound
And ‘Um’? So... Lumpy?
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INTRO TO INTELLIGENCE
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
OPTION 1 OPTION 2 OPTION 3
Can You Actually Become More Emotional Intelligence Quiz Myth- Students Learn Best
Emotionally Intelligent? When Teaching Styles Are
Matched to Their Learning
Styles
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ASSESSING INTELLIGENCE
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
OPTION 1 OPTION 2 OPTION 3
Does IQ Really Measure How MENSA IQ Challenge Myth- If You’re Unsure of Your
Smart You Are? Answer When Taking a Test,
It’s Best to Stick with Your
Initial Hunch
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EXTREMES OF INTELLIGENCE
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
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How Stereotypes Affect Your Kim Peek- The Inspiration for Self-fulfilling Prophecy
Test Scores Rain Man
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UNIT 6- DEVELOPMENT
Why Can't You Remember Myth: Playing Mozart’s Music How Do Babies Become
Being a Baby? to Infants Boosts Their Bilingual?
Intelligence
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COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
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Babies Are Surprisingly Smart Kids Aren't As Gullible As You Why Is That Baby Staring At
Think Me?
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The Smartphone Morality Are Violent Video Games Bad Are We Inherently Good?
Experiment For You?
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Why Are Challenge Videos A Myth: Adolescence Is Inevitably Are There “Male” And
Thing? a Time of Psychological “Female” Brains?
Turmoil
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ADULTHOOD AND AGING
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
OPTION 1 OPTION 2 OPTION 3
Why Does Time Fly As You Get Myth: Old Age is Typically Does Everyone Have a “Midlife
Older? Associated with Increased Crisis”?
Dissatisfaction and Senility
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UNIT 7- MOTIVATION, EMOTION, PERSONALITY
THEORIES OF MOTIVATION
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
OPTION 1 OPTION 2 OPTION 3
Drive: The Surprising Truth APA: The Science of Motivation Crash Course: The Power of
About What Motivates Us Motivation
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The FOMO Is Real — But You Forget Angry: Here’s How The Research-Backed Secrets to
Can Overcome It Hunger Makes You Impulsive Getting Inspired
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THEORIES OF EMOTION
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
OPTION 1 OPTION 2 OPTION 3
Onions, Emotions, and Why We Why Does Music Make You How to Turn Anxiety Into
Cry Emotional? Excitement
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The Psychology of Emojis Why Do Some People Love How To Get Over That Broken
Horror Movies? Heart- But Also Learn From It
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How Chronic Stress Harms Myth: Ulcers Are Caused Myth: Happiness is Determined
Your Body Primarily or Entirely by Stress Mostly by Our External
Circumstances
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Why Being Introverted Doesn’t What Does Facebook Really Do Personality Tests Mean
Make You Antisocial Know About Your Personality? Anything?
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Can You Become a Morning Identity Politics: How All Your Why Perfectionism Isn’t as
Person? Identities Sway Your Vote Good as You Think
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UNIT 8- CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
We Were Super Wrong About Myth: Psychiatric Labels Cause How Do You Define A
Mental Illness Harm by Stigmatizing People Disorder?
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You Can Inherit Fear? The Complex Bond Between Can Trauma Be Inherited?
Hoarders And Their Stuff
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Me, Myself, and I: Dissociative When People Get Different Factitious Disorder: Why People
Identity Disorder Accents Fake Serious Illness
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Co-Dependency: When Why Do People Stutter? Where Are All the Women with
Relationships Become ADHD?
Everything
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PSYCHOTHERAPY
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
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Myth: All Effective Therapies How Facing Your Fears Can Myth: A Large Proportion of
Force People to Confront the Help You Conquer Them Criminals Successfully Use the
“Root” Causes of Their Insanity Defense
Problems in Childhood
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4 Common Misconceptions Why Diet Might Be A Big Deal Equine Therapy: Why Horses
about Antidepressants For Mental Health Might Make Great Therapy
Animals
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UNIT 9- SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
SOCIAL THINKING
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
OPTION 1 OPTION 2 OPTION 3
Why It's So Hard to Admit Why We’re OBSESSED With How Ads Persuade You
You're Wrong | Cognitive Pumpkin Spice
Dissonance
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SOCIAL INFLUENCE
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
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How Fake Internet Accounts Groups That Chant Together, The Real Secret To Fighting
Divide Us and How to Stop Stay Together Peer Pressure
Yourself From Falling for Them
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ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
OPTION 1 OPTION 2 OPTION 3
Why Do People Riot Myth: It’s Better to Express Why We Love Movie Villains
Anger to Others than to Hold It (According to Psychology)
in
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PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
DIRECTIONS: Select an activity from the options below and read/watch. In the last box summarize what
you read/watched and reflect on how it applies to what we are discussing in class.
OPTION 1 OPTION 2 OPTION 3
Valentine’s Day Is Bad For Is The Bystander Effect Real? The Science Of The 36
Relationships Questions That Help People Fall
In Love
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