Download Important Concepts for Social Psych Source: Myers

End-of-Year Rundown for AP Psych
Students: Here are the important concepts we will cover during the next three weeks. We will be flying
through these, so please study them on your own, too! You will be assigned certain sections to have
studied in the books/Internet by certain deadlines. Simply check the box once you have studied the
topic on your own. If there is a name involved with a theory/concept, MEMORIZE IT!
Important Concepts for Social Psych
Source: Myers Modules 56-59
 Attribution theory, fundamental attribution error, self-serving bias
 Group behavior: deindividuation, group polarization, group think, obedience,
conformity (Asch, Milgram)
 Attitudes: central route to persuasion
 Presence of others on our behavior: bystander effect, social facilitation
 Differential treatment of group members: in-group/out-group, ethnocentrism,
prejudice
 Categories on self-concept: gender, race, and ethnicity
 Self-fulfilling prophecy
 Role playing: behavior comes before beliefs (Zimbardo)
 Attitude: persuasion and cognitive dissonance (Leon Festinger)
Complete checklist by F, 4/11
Important Concepts for Developmental Psych
Source: Myers Modules 13-16
 Prenatal development: zygotic, embryonic, and fetal stages
 Impact of drugs and alcohol on prenatal development
 Erik Erikson’s 8 stages of identity development and the psychosocial crisis
 Jean Piaget and his sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal
operational stages
 Lawrence Kohlberg and Carol Gilligan (feminist): stages of moral development
 Attachment and Mary Ainsworth’s “strange situation” experiments
 Attachment and Harry Harlow’s rhesus monkey experiments
 Konrad Lorenz’s (evolutionary psych) animal studies on aggression and imprinting
 Lev Vygotsky’s (educational psychologist) sociocultural theory
 Diana Baumrind: authoritarian, permissive, and authoritative parenting styles
 Agedness
 Socialization: sex vs gender
Complete checklist by W/Th, 4/23-24
Important Concepts for Motivation and Emotion
Source: Myers Modules 36-39
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Drive theory and drivers: instincts (food, sex, social, etc.), incentives, intrinsic versus
extrinsic motivation needs, homeostasis
 Motivational theories: drive reduction theory, arousal theory, general adaptation
theory
 Stress and Hans Selye
 Emotion theories: James-Lange, Cannon-Bard, Schachter two-factor theory
Complete checklist by M/T, 4/28-29
Important Concepts for Consciousness
Source: Myers Modules 7-10
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William James and consciousness
 Sleep stages (1-4, REM)
 Sleep theories (both cognitive and biological)
 Sleep disorders (narcolepsy, apnea, insomnia, somnambulism) For fun, YouTube “rusty
narcoleptic dog”
 Dream Theories
 Ernest Hilgard: hypnotic susceptibility
 Hypnosis: pain control and psychotherapy
 Hypnotic phenomena: suggestibility, dissociation
 Drugs/categories and their effects
 Addiction, tolerance, and withdrawal
Complete checklist by W/Th, 4/30-5/1