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Flashcards for AP Psychology, split into the five units of the Course and Exam Description (effective fall 2025, for exams in 2027) and then by its numbered topics in order, with a last set on research methods, statistics and ethics. Covers brain structures, neurotransmitters, named theories and researchers, disorders by category and their treatments. Delete or suspend any subdeck your course leaves out once the deck is yours.

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What is inside (73 subdecks)

  • Science Practices280 cards
    • Practice 2 Research Methods and Design155 cards
      • Ethics in research27 cards
      • Experiments and variables67 cards
      • Non-experimental methods61 cards
    • Practice 3 Data Interpretation99 cards
      • Descriptive statistics and graphs48 cards
      • Distributions and correlation28 cards
      • Statistical significance and inference23 cards
    • Practice 4 Argumentation26 cards
  • Unit 1 Biological Bases of Behavior333 cards
    • 1.1 Interaction of Heredity and Environment23 cards
    • 1.2 Overview of the Nervous System21 cards
    • 1.3 The Neuron and Neural Firing78 cards
      • Hormones10 cards
      • Neurons and neural firing31 cards
      • Neurotransmitters16 cards
      • Psychoactive drugs21 cards
    • 1.4 The Brain55 cards
      • Brain structures and lobes33 cards
      • Split brain, language areas, plasticity and research methods22 cards
    • 1.5 Sleep40 cards
    • 1.6 Sensation116 cards
      • Hearing20 cards
      • Smell and taste17 cards
      • Thresholds and sensory principles22 cards
      • Touch, pain, balance and movement17 cards
      • Vision40 cards
  • Unit 2 Cognition390 cards
    • 2.1 Perception69 cards
    • 2.2 Thinking, Problem-Solving, Judgments, and Decision-Making52 cards
    • 2.3 Introduction to Memory57 cards
    • 2.4 Encoding Memories33 cards
    • 2.5 Storing Memories37 cards
    • 2.6 Retrieving Memories31 cards
    • 2.7 Forgetting and Other Memory Challenges36 cards
    • 2.8 Intelligence and Achievement75 cards
  • Unit 3 Development and Learning457 cards
    • 3.1 Themes and Methods in Developmental Psychology28 cards
    • 3.2 Physical Development Across the Lifespan51 cards
    • 3.3 Gender and Sexual Orientation28 cards
    • 3.4 Cognitive Development Across the Lifespan52 cards
    • 3.5 Communication and Language Development36 cards
    • 3.6 Social-Emotional Development Across the Lifespan97 cards
      • Attachment, temperament and peers35 cards
      • Ecological systems, parenting and adverse experiences29 cards
      • Erikson's psychosocial stages11 cards
      • Identity and adult social development22 cards
    • 3.7 Classical Conditioning59 cards
    • 3.8 Operant Conditioning76 cards
    • 3.9 Social, Cognitive, and Neurological Factors in Learning30 cards
  • Unit 4 Social Psychology and Personality378 cards
    • 4.1 Attribution Theory and Person Perception57 cards
    • 4.2 Attitude Formation and Attitude Change42 cards
    • 4.3 Psychology of Social Situations105 cards
      • Groups, culture and prosocial behavior54 cards
      • Norms, persuasion, conformity and obedience51 cards
    • 4.4 Psychodynamic and Humanistic Theories of Personality46 cards
    • 4.5 Social-Cognitive and Trait Theories of Personality40 cards
    • 4.6 Motivation59 cards
    • 4.7 Emotion29 cards
  • Unit 5 Mental and Physical Health381 cards
    • 5.1 Introduction to Health Psychology45 cards
    • 5.2 Positive Psychology34 cards
    • 5.3 Explaining and Classifying Psychological Disorders39 cards
    • 5.4 Selection of Categories of Psychological Disorders162 cards
      • Anxiety, obsessive-compulsive and trauma disorders45 cards
      • Depressive and bipolar disorders23 cards
      • Dissociative, eating and personality disorders52 cards
      • Neurodevelopmental and schizophrenia spectrum disorders42 cards
    • 5.5 Treatment of Psychological Disorders101 cards
      • Biological treatments24 cards
      • Therapies and their ethics77 cards

Some of its cards

  • Disorders marked by excessive fear or anxiety with related disturbances to behavior
    Anxiety disorders
  • What does ecological systems theory explore?
    How the social environment influences development
  • Neuron
    A neural cell that transmits information
  • A non-experimental method that measures how strongly two variables are related, without manipulating either
    Correlational research
  • The process of detecting information from the environment and transducing stimuli into neurochemical messages
    Sensation
  • A group of disorders with onset in the developmental period, judged by whether behavior fits a person's age or maturity
    Neurodevelopmental disorders
  • Attachment
    A strong emotional bond between an infant and a caregiver
  • A drug that changes the action of specific neurotransmitters in the brain and spinal cord, to treat a possible chemical cause of a disorder
    Psychoactive medication
  • A shared system of arbitrary symbols that is rule-governed and generative
    Language
  • Social learning theory
    The theory that learning can occur by observation, without direct experience of a consequence

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