Intro to Psychology

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Has anyone used anything good for High School Intro to Psychology?

 

I found this: http://www.homeschoolpsych.com/ and I would love opinions on it.

[Veronica in VA]

My dd did psychology last year. We used Holt's Psychology Principles in Practice. It is designed for the high school psych. I found it at the used book store, with both the teacher and student books for $8.00, which is why I chose to use this one.;) I liked it, but I'm sure there are others out there, too. One a lot of people use for AP Psych is written by David Myers. I have that one, too, also a find at the used bookstore. But since she was only a freshman at the time, I used the Holt one. I haven't used the homeschool psych book but it looks good, and I have heard good things about it, too.

 

Veronica

[Jan in MO]

My freshman dd (last year) did AP Psych with the Myers book. It's a college-level text but it was very solid and not at all outside her reading/comprehension level.

[Jenny in Atl]

I loved Peter Gray's Intro to Psychology. It's at the college freshman level but not hard. I plan on using my older ed. with dd12 in a couple years.

 

 

http://bcs.worthpublishers.com/gray5e/default.asp?s=&n=&i=&v=&o=&ns=0&uid=0&rau=0

[Barb_]

My freshman dd (last year) did AP Psych with the Myers book. It's a college-level text but it was very solid and not at all outside her reading/comprehension level.

 

We also used Meyers. Intro to Psych isn't terribly difficult to understand and if the interest level is high, you may as well go for the meatier text.

 

Barb

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Thanks - I'll check it out. I wish I could find more specific info on the Homeschool one. It looks so good. :)

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Yes, the interest level is there - I'm going to look for this one. :)

[Kareni]

No personal experience with the course; however, Oak Meadow also offers a syllabus for a Psychology course.

 

Regards,

Kareni