🧠AP Psychology
Key Terms

6725 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your AP Psychology exam

🧠AP Psychology
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Unit 1 – Biological Bases of Behavior

1.1 Interaction of Heredity and Environment

1.2 Overview of the Nervous System

1.3 The Neuron and Neural Firing

1.4 The Brain

1.5 Sleep

1.6 Sensation

Unit 2 – Cognition

2.1 Perception

2.2 Thinking, Problem-Solving, Judgments, and Decision-Making

2.3 Introduction to Memory

2.4 Encoding Memories

2.5 Storing Memories

2.6 Retrieving Memories

2.7 Forgetting and Other Memory Challenges

2.8 Intelligence and Achievement

Unit 3 – Development and Learning

3.1 Themes and Methods in Developmental Psychology

3.2 Physical Development Across the Lifespan

3.3 Gender and Sexual Orientation

3.4 Cognitive Development Across the Lifespan

3.5 Communication and Language Development

3.7 Classical Conditioning

3.8 Operant Conditioning

3.9 Social, Cognitive, and Neurological Factors in Learning

Unit 4 – Social Psychology and Personality

4.1 Attribution Theory and Person Perception

4.2 Attitude Formation and Attitude Change

4.3 Psychology of Social Situations

4.4 Psychodynamic and Humanistic Theories of Personality

4.5 Social-Cognitive and Trait Theories of Personality

4.6 Motivation

4.7 Emotion

Unit 5 – Mental and Physical Health

5.1 Introduction to Health Psychology

5.2 Positive Psychology

5.3 Explaining and Classifying Psychological Disorders

5.4 Selection of Categories of Psychological Disorders

5.5 Treatment of Psychological Disorders

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