Ap Psychology Focus Project Approved Reading List

AP PSYCHOLOGY FOCUS PROJECT APPROVED READING LIST

Spring 2016

You may only choose a book from this approved list. Remember that you need to keep a quote journal using a composition journal only. You will need 15 quotes and reflections total for the book (laid out in journal as shown in class.)

Several books are in the SHS library for checkout, but you can also use your public library or buy the book used online. I have a limited number of books available for checkout as well.

Books are categorized by unit, so choose a unit that interests you overall, l as your research project will also need to be in this area as well.

When choosing a book:

Choose a book you will enjoy, not the shortest book on the list. Better to read 350 pages that you enjoy vs. 200 you struggle through.
# indicates that it is a book that the SHS Media Center has in their collection for you to check out.
Go to Amazon.com and search each book. Read the back cover and sometimes the best clue to what the book is about is to read the Table of Contents.
Books with a **** need parent approval (issues of drug use and abuse)

Focus Area / Title of Book / Author / Pages
Social Psychology / “Influence” / Robert Cialdini / 336
Social Psychology / “Gang Leader for a Day” / SudhirVenkatesh / 320
Social Psychology / “Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People” / MahzarinBandji / 272
#Social Psychology / “Freakonomics” / Levitt and Dubner / 315
#Bio Basis/Neuroscience / “The Naked Brain” / Richard Restak / 272
Bio Basis/Neuroscience / “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain” / David Eagleman / 304
Bio Basis/Neuroscience / “Phantom’s in the Brain” / V.S. Ramachandran / 353
Sensation/Perception / “The Tell-Tale Brain” / V.S. Ramachandran / 384
Sensation/Perception / “Drunk Tank Pink and Other Unexpected Forces…” / Adam Alter / 272
Sensation/Perception / “Wednesday’s are Indigo Blue” / Richard Cytowic / 320
Motivation/Emotion / “The Emotional Life of Your Brain” / R. Davidson/S. Begley / 301
Motivation/Emotion / “Meet Your Happy Chemicals” / Loretta Bruening / 210
Development/Personality / “Generation Me” / Jean Twenge / 304
#Development/Personality / “Born on a Blue Day” / Daniel Tammet / 256
#Development/Personality / “Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are” / Daniel Nettle / 240
Cognition / “Witness for the Defense” / Elizabeth Loftus / 312
Cognition / “Think Like a Freak” / Levitt and Dubner / 304
Cognition / “This Is Your Brain on Music” / Daniel J. Levitin / 322
#Intelligence / “The Smartest Kids in the World & How They Got That Way” / Amanda Ripley / 320
Intelligence / “Why Smart People Hurt” / Eric Maisel / 256
Abnormal Psychology / “Touched With Fire” / Kay Redfield Jamison / 384
Abnormal Psychology / “Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift Psych ER / Julie Holland, MD / 320
Abnormal Psychology / “The Quiet Room” (Schizophrenia) / L. Schiller / 288
States of Consciousness / “Beautiful Boy” / David Sheff / 336
#States of Consciousness / “Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep” / David K. Randall / 304
States of Consciousness / “Dying to Survive: A Journey Though Drug Addiction” ***** / Rachel Keogh / 240

AP PSYCHOLOGY FOCUS PROJECT APPROVED READING LIST

Spring 2016

Several books are in the SHS library for checkout, but you can also use your public library or buy the book used online. I have a limited number of books available for checkout as well.

Books are categorized by unit, so choose a unit that interests you overall, l as your research project will also need to be in this area as well.

When choosing a book:

Choose a book you will enjoy, not the shortest book on the list. Better to read 350 pages that you enjoy vs. 200 you struggle through.
# indicates that it is a book that the SHS Media Center has in their collection for you to check out.
Go to Amazon.com and search each book. Read the back cover and sometimes the best clue to what the book is about is to read the Table of Contents.
Books with a **** need parent approval (issues of drug use and abuse)