AP Psychology Exam Review
AP Psychology Exam Review
Breakdown of Question Categories:
2-4% history – (prologue)
6-8% methods and approaches – (chapter 1)
8-10% biological bases of behavior – (chapter 2, 3, 14)
7-9% sensation and perception – (chapter 5, 6)
2-4% states of consciousness – (chapter 7)
7-9% learning – (chapter 8)
8-10% cognition – (chapter 9, 10)
7-9% motivation and emotion – (chapter 12, 13)
7-9% developmental psychology – (chapter 4)
6-8% personality – (chapter 15)
5-7% testing and individual differences – (chapter 11)
7-9% abnormal psychology – (chapter 16)
5-7% treatment of psychological disorders – (chapter 17)
7-9% social psychology – (chapter 18)
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Famous People to Know
Frances Galton: maintained that personality and ability depend almost entirely on genetic inheritance (human traits are inherited)
Charles Darwin: theory of evolution, survival of the fittest-origin of the species
William Wundt: introspection-psychology became the scientific study of conscious experience (rather than science); father of modern or scientific psychology; structuralism was the approach and introspection was the methodology
John Watson: founder of behaviorism; generalization; applied classical conditioning skills to advertising; most famous for Little
Albert experiment, where he first trained Albert to be afraid of rats and then to generalize his fear to all small, white animals Alfred Adler: Neo-Freudian; believed that childhood social, not sexual, tensions are crucial for personality formation; believed that people are primarily searching or self-esteem and achieving the ideal self
Carl Jung: disciple of Freud who extended his theories; believed in a collective unconscious as well as a personal unconscious that is aware of ancient archetypes which we inherit from our ancestors and we see in myths (young warrior, wise man of the village, loving mother, etc.);
Breakdown of Question Categories:
2-4% history – (prologue)
6-8% methods and approaches – (chapter 1)
8-10% biological bases of behavior – (chapter 2, 3, 14)
7-9% sensation and perception – (chapter 5, 6)
2-4% states of consciousness – (chapter 7)
7-9% learning – (chapter 8)
8-10% cognition – (chapter 9, 10)
7-9% motivation and emotion – (chapter 12, 13)
7-9% developmental psychology – (chapter 4)
6-8% personality – (chapter 15)
5-7% testing and individual differences – (chapter 11)
7-9% abnormal psychology – (chapter 16)
5-7% treatment of psychological disorders – (chapter 17)
7-9% social psychology – (chapter 18)
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Famous People to Know
Frances Galton: maintained that personality and ability depend almost entirely on genetic inheritance (human traits are inherited)
Charles Darwin: theory of evolution, survival of the fittest-origin of the species
William Wundt: introspection-psychology became the scientific study of conscious experience (rather than science); father of modern or scientific psychology; structuralism was the approach and introspection was the methodology
John Watson: founder of behaviorism; generalization; applied classical conditioning skills to advertising; most famous for Little
Albert experiment, where he first trained Albert to be afraid of rats and then to generalize his fear to all small, white animals Alfred Adler: Neo-Freudian; believed that childhood social, not sexual, tensions are crucial for personality formation; believed that people are primarily searching or self-esteem and achieving the ideal self
Carl Jung: disciple of Freud who extended his theories; believed in a collective unconscious as well as a personal unconscious that is aware of ancient archetypes which we inherit from our ancestors and we see in myths (young warrior, wise man of the village, loving mother, etc.);