AP Psychology

This unit explores the basic foundations of psychology, covering historical figures, psychological perspectives, correlational studies, descriptive methods, experimental method and statistical reasoning. 

This unit explores the sensory systems and how these senses are perceived, covering vision and visual interpretation, basic principles of sensation and perception, audition, and influences on perception. 

This unit explores cognitive psychology, or how our brains process information. Review of this unit covers memory building, construction, and retrieval, thinking, language, intelligence, intelligence assessment and intelligence dynamics. 

This unit explores the theories of motivation, aspects of personality, and nature of emotions. This unit covers the various different types of motivations, emotions, expressions, stress, psychoanalytics, defense mechanisms, psychodynamics, humanistics, traits, and the social-cognitive perspective.

This unit explores human thought, sensation, and behavior in social situations, covering attribution, group behavior, expectations, differential treatment, attitudes and social relationships. 

This unit explores the biological aspects of psychology, covering brain structures, neuroplasticity, the nervous system, chemical connection, neural communication, neurotransmitters, and human nature. 

This unit explores various types of learning, covering classical and operant conditioning, reinforcement schedules, important figures, observational learning, and pivotal learning experiments to know. 

This unit explores the social/mental development of individuals, covering lifespan, infancy, childhood, cognitive development, Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development, attachment, parenting, Erikson's 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development, moral development, and gender/sexuality. 

This unit explores various mental illnesses and disorders as treatment/psychological wellbeing, covering abnormal behavior, disorders such as anxiety or schizophrenia, treatment models, and different therapies.