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College Board AP Psychology psychology
123 points in 5 topics, with College Board's codes and titles.
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1 Biological Bases of Behavior
- 1.1 Interaction of Heredity and Environment
- 1.1.A Heredity and environment
- 1.2 Overview of the Nervous System
- 1.2.A Subsystems of the nervous system
- 1.3 The Neuron and Neural Firing
- 1.3.A Neurons and behaviour
- 1.3.B Neural transmission
- 1.3.C Psychoactive drugs
- 1.4 The Brain
- 1.4.A Brain structures and functions
- 1.5 Sleep
- 1.5.A The sleep/wake cycle
- 1.6 Sensation
- 1.6.A Sensation
- 1.6.B The visual system
- 1.6.C The auditory system
- 1.6.D The chemical senses
- 1.6.E The sense of touch
- 1.6.F Pain
- 1.6.G Vestibular and kinaesthetic senses
2 Cognition
- 2.1 Perception
- 2.1.A Influences on perception
- 2.1.B Visual perception and misperception
- 2.2 Thinking, Problem-Solving, Judgments, and Decision-Making
- 2.2.A Thinking, problem-solving and decision-making
- 2.3 Introduction to Memory
- 2.3.A Types and structures of memory
- 2.4 Encoding Memories
- 2.4.A Encoding
- 2.5 Storing Memories
- 2.5.A Memory storage
- 2.6 Retrieving Memories
- 2.6.A Memory retrieval
- 2.7 Forgetting and Other Memory Challenges
- 2.7.A Forgetting and memory errors
- 2.8 Intelligence and Achievement
- 2.8.A Theories of intelligence
- 2.8.B Measuring intelligence
- 2.8.C Systemic issues in intelligence testing
- 2.8.D Academic achievement and intelligence
3 Development and Learning
- 3.1 Themes and Methods in Developmental Psychology
- 3.1.A Themes in developmental psychology
- 3.1.B Cross-sectional and longitudinal research designs
- 3.2 Physical Development Across the Lifespan
- 3.2.A Prenatal development
- 3.2.B Physical development in infancy and childhood
- 3.2.C Physical development in adolescence
- 3.2.D Physical development in adulthood
- 3.3 Gender and Sexual Orientation
- 3.3.A Sex, gender and socialisation
- 3.4 Cognitive Development Across the Lifespan
- 3.4.A Theories of cognitive development
- 3.5 Communication and Language Development
- 3.5.A Components of language and communication
- 3.5.B Language development
- 3.6 Social-Emotional Development Across the Lifespan
- 3.6.A Social development
- 3.7 Classical Conditioning
- 3.7.A Classical conditioning
- 3.8 Operant Conditioning
- 3.8.A Operant conditioning
- 3.9 Social, Cognitive, and Neurological Factors in Learning
- 3.9.A Social learning
- 3.9.B Cognitive factors in learning
4 Social Psychology and Personality
- 4.1 Attribution Theory and Person Perception
- 4.1.A Attribution theory
- 4.1.B Locus of control
- 4.1.C Person perception
- 4.2 Attitude Formation and Attitude Change
- 4.2.A Stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination
- 4.2.B Belief perseverance and cognitive dissonance
- 4.3 Psychology of Social Situations
- 4.3.A Effects of the social situation
- 4.3.B Group influence on individuals
- 4.3.C Prosocial behaviour
- 4.4 Psychodynamic and Humanistic Theories of Personality
- 4.4.A Psychodynamic theory of personality
- 4.4.B Humanistic theory of personality
- 4.5 Social-Cognitive and Trait Theories of Personality
- 4.5.A Social-cognitive theory of personality
- 4.5.B Trait theories of personality
- 4.6 Motivation
- 4.6.A Theories of motivation
- 4.6.B Eating and belonging as motivators
- 4.7 Emotion
- 4.7.A Theories of emotion
- 4.7.B Social influences on expressing emotion
5 Mental and Physical Health
- 5.1 Introduction to Health Psychology
- 5.1.A Health psychology
- 5.1.B Stress
- 5.1.C Reactions to stress
- 5.1.D Coping with stress
- 5.2 Positive Psychology
- 5.2.A Positive psychology
- 5.2.B Positive subjective experiences
- 5.3 Explaining and Classifying Psychological Disorders
- 5.3.A Defining psychological disorders
- 5.3.B Psychological perspectives on disorders
- 5.3.C Interaction models of disorders
- 5.4 Selection of Categories of Psychological Disorders
- 5.4.A Neurodevelopmental disorders
- 5.4.B Schizophrenia spectrum disorders
- 5.4.C Depressive disorders
- 5.4.D Bipolar disorders
- 5.4.E Anxiety disorders
- 5.4.F Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders
- 5.4.G Dissociative disorders
- 5.4.H Trauma and stressor-related disorders
- 5.4.I Feeding and eating disorders
- 5.4.J Personality disorders
- 5.5 Treatment of Psychological Disorders
- 5.5.A Research on the effectiveness of psychotherapy
- 5.5.B Trends in treatment: medication and deinstitutionalisation
- 5.5.C Ethics in treating psychological disorders
- 5.5.D Techniques of psychological therapies
- 5.5.E Group and individual therapy
- 5.5.F Uses of hypnosis
- 5.5.G Biological interventions