AP Psychology

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• STEP 1 Set Up Your Study Program, Introduction the Five-Step program, xi
  
  
  • 1 What You Need to Know About the AP Psychology Exam,
  
  
  • 2 How to Plan Your Time,
  
  
  
  


• STEP 2 Determine Your Test Readiness,
  
  
  • 3 Take a Diagnostic Exam,
    
    
    • The Diagnostic/Master Exam: AP Psychology,
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• STEP 3 Develop Strategies for Success,
  
  
  • 4 How to Approach Each Question Type,
    
    
    • Multiple-Choice Questions,
    
    
    • Free-Response Questions,
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• STEP 4 Review the Knowledge You Need to Score High,
  
  
  • 5 History and Approaches,
    
    
    • Roots of Psychology,
    
    
    • Schools of Psychology,
    
    
    • Principal Approaches to Psychology,
    
    
    • Subfields of Psychology,
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • 6 Research Methods,
    
    
    • Experimental Method,
    
    
    • Correlational Research,
    
    
    • Case Study,
    
    
    • Elementary Statistics,
    
    
    • Ethical Guidelines,
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • 7 Biological Bases of Behavior,
    
    
    • Techniques to Learn About Structure and Function,
    
    
    • Organization of Your Nervous System,
    
    
    • Localization and Lateralization of the Brain’s Function,
    
    
    • Structure and Function of the Neuron,
    
    
    • The Endocrine System,
    
    
    • Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology,
    
    
    • Genetics and Behavior,
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • 8 Sensation and Perception,
    
    
    • Thresholds,
    
    
    • Vision,
    
    
    • Hearing (Audition),
    
    
    • Touch (Somatosensation),
    
    
    • The Body Senses,
    
    
    • The Chemical Senses, vi ❯ Contents
    
    
    • Perceptual Processes,
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • 9 States of Consciousness,
    
    
    • Levels of consciousness,
    
    
    • Sleep and Dreams,
    
    
    • Hypnosis,
    
    
    • Meditation,
    
    
    • Drugs,
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• 10 Learning,
  
  
  • Classical Conditioning,
  
  
  • Operant Conditioning,
  
  
  • Biological Factors in Learning,
  
  
  • Cognitive Processes in Learning,
  
  
  
  


• 11 Cognition,
  
  
  • Models of Memory,
  
  
  • Language,
  
  
  • Thinking,
  
  
  
  


• 12 Motivation and Emotion,
  
  
  • Theories of Motivation,
  
  
  • Physiological Motives,
  
  
  • Social Motivation,
  
  
  • Theories of Emotion,
  
  
  • Stress and Coping,
  
  
  
  


• 13 Developmental Psychology,
  
  
  • Key Issues in Development,
  
  
  • Methods of Studying Development,
  
  
  • Physical Development,
  
  
  • Theories of Cognitive Development,
  
  
  • Theories of Moral Development,
  
  
  • Theories of Social and Emotional Development,
  
  
  • Gender Roles and Sex Differences,
  
  
  
  


• 14 Personality,
  
  
  • Personality Theories and Approaches,
  
  
  • Assessment Techniques,
  
  
  
  


• 15 Testing and Individual Differences,
  
  
  • Standardization and Norms,
  
  
  • Reliability and Validity,
  
  
  • Types of Tests,
  
  
  • Ethics and Standards in Testing,
  
  
  • Intelligence and Intelligence Testing,
  
  
  • Heredity/Environment and Intelligence,
  
  
  • Human Diversity,
  
  
  
  


• 16 Abnormal Psychology,
  
  
  • Defining Abnormal Behavior,
  
  
  • Causes of Abnormal Behavior,
  
  
  • Types of Disorders,
  
  
  • 17 Treatment of Psychological Disorders, Free ebooks ==> http://www.Ebook777.com
    
    
    • Mental Health Practitioners,
    
    
    • Brief History of Therapy,
    
    
    • Treatment Approaches,
    
    
    • Insight Therapies,
    
    
    • Behavioral Approaches,
    
    
    • Cognitive Approaches,
    
    
    • Biological Treatments,
    
    
    • Modes of Therapy,
    
    
    • Community and Preventive Approaches,
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • 18 Social Psychology,
    
    
    • Group Dynamics,
    
    
    • Attribution Processes,
    
    
    • Interpersonal Perception,
    
    
    • Conformity, Compliance, Obedience,
    
    
    • Attitudes and Attitude Change,
    
    
    • Aggression/Antisocial Behavior,
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• STEP 5 Build Your Test-Taking Confidence,
  
  
  • AP Psychology Practice Exam 1 and Answers,
  
  
  • AP Psychology Practice Exam 2 and Answers,
  
  
  • Appendixes,
  
  
  • Glossary,
  
  
  • Selected Bibliography,
  
  
  • Web Sites Related to the AP Psychology Exam,