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AP Psychology Unit Resources

On this page, you'll find helpful information for every unit. Here is a brief overview of what you'll find.

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Review Materials
  • PowerPoint notes for each unit
  • Two ways to study the vocabulary: Quizlet.com and StudyStack.com. Both offer a variety of ways to study, including flash cards, games, practice tests, and lots more. Try both sites...maybe you'll find you prefer one to another.
Handouts
  • You'll find copies of most of the documents distributed in class, as well as some bonus materials, almost always in PDF format.
Links
  • These are websites relating to the unit in question.
  • If you find one that you think belongs here, please email it to me!

What Is Psychology?   

Review Materials
  • Notes
  • Vocab Review:  Quizlet | Study Stack  


Handouts/Assignments
  • Grade Aid Packet - What Is Psychology?
  • HW - Identifying Independent and Dependent Variables
  • HW - Practice in Identifying Variables
  • HW - Correlations in Everyday Life
  • HW - Which Research Method
  • HW - Applying Critical Thinking Skills
  • Is Your Bat Speed a Bit Off? Try a Titanium Necklace (NY Times article )
  • Examples of Correlations in Research Articles
  • Stats Graphic Organizer
  • Research Method Table







Links
  • Guidelines for Critical Thinking
  • Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct
  • Psychology Matters
  • Today in the History of Psychology
  • History of Psychology (Wikipedia)
  • History of Psychology quiz
  • Psychological research methods
  • Research in the 21st century
  • Psychology research methods quiz
  • Research methods and statistics links
  • Correlation Does Not Mean Causation! (but you'd never not it from these news items!)

Neuroscience

Review Materials
  • Notes
  • Vocab Review:  Quizlet | Study Stack


Handouts
  • Grade Aid Packet - Neuroscience
  • Brain Project
  • HW - Anatomy of the Central Nervous System
  • Steven Pinker article - Why nature & nurture won’t go away



Links
  • Why identical twins aren't really identical (Slate)
  • Whole Brain Atlas (at Harvard)
  • Scientist Profile - Steven Pinker "Human Nature's Pathologist" (NY Times)
  • Scientist Profile - Michael Gazzaniga "Decoding the Brian's Cacophony" (NY Times)
  • DNA from the Beginning (a great, easy to understand site!)
  • Heredity & Traits
  • Epigenetics
  • Nature vs Nurture (NOVA)
  • My Genome, My Self (Steven Pinker in NY Times)
  • Personal Genome Project (NOVA)
  • What Is Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy? (CTE; Boston University website)
  • Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injuries (CDC)
  • The Secret Life of the Brain (PBS)
  • The Growing Brain (NY Times)
  • Interactive tutorial on brain anatomy
  • Comparative Mammalian Brains
  • Neuroscience for Kids
  • Hemispheric specialization
  • “A Blow to the Brain” (60 Minutes segment on concussions)
  • The Brain from Top to Bottom (massively informative website from Canada’s McGill University)

Sensation & Perception

Review Materials
  • Notes
  • Vocab Review:  Quizlet | Study Stack


Handouts
  • Grade Aid Packet - Ch 5 Sensation & Perception
  • HW - Anatomy of Eye & Ear
  • HW - Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes
  • A Matter of Taste (and Smell)
  • A New Taste Sensation (Umami)
  • Decibel Chart
  • Sensation and Perception Senses Challenge


Links
  • BBC Senses Challenge
  • Visual illusions
  • Should I wear earplugs to concerts?
  • Why can't a blindfolded person tell white wine from red? - Salon.com, 11/26/11 

Consciousness

Review Materials
  • Notes
  • Vocab Review:  Quizlet | Study Stack


Handouts
  • Grade Aid Packet - Ch 6 Consciousness
  • Unit 4 Reading - Freud

  • HW - Dreams: What Are They and What Do They Mean
  • HW - Interpreting Dreams Case Study
  • HW - Long-Term Effects of Drugs on the Brain
  • HW - How Do Drugs Get Into the Brain?
  • Dreams According to Sigmund Freud (a play)
  • Screening for Alcoholism
  • Cancer Causing Chemicals Identified in Cigarettes





Links

Sleep & Dreams
  • National Sleep Foundation
  • The War on Sleep (Slate)
    There’s a military arms race to build soldiers who fight without fatigue.

Hypnosis
  • How Hypnosis Works

Drugs
  • Scientist Profile - Nora Volkow "A General in the Drug War" (NY Times)
  • Why does pot make some people psychotic? (Salon article)
  • 60 Minutes segment -
    Hooked: Why bad habits are hard to break
  • Underage Binge Drinking Can Create Lasting Brain Changes
  • The Grim Neurology of Teenage Drinking
  • Why Nicotine Is a Gateway Drug
  • Help on quitting smoking from the American Lung Association
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
  • Stats on alcohol use in the US (CDC)
  • Not a Cough in a Carload - Stanford Research into the Impact of Tobacco Advertising (incredible collection of vintage tobacco ads, mostly for cigarettes)
  • Adverse Health Effects of Marijuana Use (New England Journal of Medicine, June 2014)
  • The Dutch Cannabis Dependence study

Learning

Review Materials
  • Notes
  • Vocab Review:  Quizlet | Study Stack


Handouts
  • HW - Analyzing Classical Conditioning Situations
  • HW - Operant Condition Examples
  • HW - Reinforcement Schedules




Links
  • Classical conditioning simulation

Famous MIT linguist/philosopher Noam Chomsky wrote two sweeping critiques of B.F. Skinner that many view as having thoroughly demolished the once mighty "House of Skinner." Here they are:
  • "The Case Against B.F. Skinner" in The New York Review of Books, December 30, 1971.
  • "A Review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior" in Language, 35, No. 1 (1959), 26-58.

Memory

Review Materials
  • Notes
  • Vocab Review:  Quizlet | Study Stack


Handouts


Links
  • HM, The Man with No Memory (the fascinating true story of arguably  the most important man in the history of memory and neuroscience)
  • Memory and cognition demonstrations
  • Memory exhibit at Exploratorium.com
  • 60 Minutes segment -
    Eyewitness: How Accurate Is Visual Memory?
    (man spent many years in prison because his accuser incorrectly identified him in a lineup)
  • 60 Minutes segment -
    Superior autobiographical memory
    (A tiny handful of people can remember every single day of their lives as clearly as if it were yesterday. Beyond incredible.)
  • Do you have trouble recognizing faces? Take a test

Cognitive Psychology

Review Materials
  • Notes
  • Vocab Review:  Quizlet | Study Stack


Handouts
  • Grade Aid Ch 11 - Cognitive Psych


Links

Intelligence

Review Materials
  • Notes
  • Vocab Review:  Quizlet | Study Stack


Handouts
  • Grade Aid Chapter 10


Links

Motivation & Emotion

Review Materials
  • Notes
  • Vocab Review:  Quizlet | Study Stack

Handouts
  • Grade Aid Ch 11
  • HW - Applying the Hierarchy of Needs
  • Stuff the Kids
  • Excerpt from Mindless Eating


Links
  • How Obesity Harms A Child's Body
  • The 59 ingredients in a fast-food strawberry milkshake
  • Unhappy Meals
  • Are You Addicted to Food? (quiz - NY Times)

Development

Review Materials
  • Notes
    Ch. 3  |  Ch. 4
  • Marcia's Adolescent Identity Statuses
  • Vocab Review:  Quizlet | Study Stack


Handouts
  • Grade Aid Ch 3 & 4


Links
  • Scientist Profile - Elizabeth Spelke "Insights from the Youngest Minds" (NY Times)
  • The Visible Embryo Project
  • Zero to Three: The place for info on early child development

Personality & Assessment

Review Materials
  • Notes
  • Vocab Review:  Quizlet | Study Stack


Handouts
  • Grade Aid Ch 12 Personality & Assessment
  • Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI)
  • HW - The Big Five Personality Traits and You



Links

Social Psychology

Review Materials
  • Notes
  • Vocab Review:  Quizlet | Study Stack


Handouts
  • Grade Aid Ch 13 Social Psychology
  • HW - Stanford Prison Study questions
  • HW - Milgram study questions
  • HW - Science of Evil
  • HW - Prejudice & Stereotypes questions
  • HW - Implicit Association Test
  • How Modern Prejudice is Depicted in our Pop Culture


Links
  • Examples illustrating social psychological concepts
  • Ads
  • Not a Cough in a Carload - Stanford Research into the Impact of Tobacco Advertising (incredible collection of vintage tobacco ads, mostly for cigarettes)
  • The Living Room Candidate
  • Social Psychology Network
  • Social Psychology Sites of the Week
  • Propaganda Critic video gallery
  • Stanford Prison Experiment
  • Frontline: A Class Divided
  • A Class Divided Transcript
  • Implicit Associations Test (Harvard)

Psychological Disorders

Review Materials
  • Notes
  • Vocab Review:  Quizlet | Study Stack


Handouts
  • Phobia List
  • Mood Disorders NIMH packet
  • Beck Depression Inventory
  • Schizophrenia Symptoms and Subtypes
  • Personality Disorders info


Links
  • Psychologists fear US manual will widen mental illness diagnosis - Guardian article, 2/9/12
  • Misuse of "Schizophrenic" in the Media
  • Mental illness statistics (NIMH)
  • Can You Fake Mental Illness? - slate.com, 8/7/12


Therapy

Review Materials
  • Notes
  • Vocab Review:  Quizlet | Study Stack


Handouts
  • Organizational Chart for Different Psychotherapy Approaches
  • Albert Ellis Transcript





Links
  • DSM-5 - lots of info about the long-awaited revision of DSM-IV TR, which was released in May 2013
  • Introduction: Mental Health Medications (National Institute of Mental Health)
  • About Psychoanalysis (American Psychoanalytic Association)
  • What Is Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)?
  • Cognitive Behavior Therapy Q&A
  • Significant Aspects of Client-Centered Therapy, 1946 article by Carl Rogers
  • ECT info from The Mayo Clinic
  • The strange and curious history of lobotomy (BBC)
  • American Experience - The Lobotomist
  • Computer “therapist”
  • What is having ECT like? - The Guardian, 5/13/12

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