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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!

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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!)

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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)

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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 

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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

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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.

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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

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Cognitive Psychology

Review Materials

• Notes
• Vocab Review:  Quizlet | Study Stack

Handouts

• Grade Aid Ch 11 - Cognitive Psych

Links

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Intelligence

Review Materials

• Notes
• Vocab Review:  Quizlet | Study Stack

Handouts

• Grade Aid Chapter 10

Links

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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)
  

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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
  

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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

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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)

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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
  

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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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