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Dear future AP Psychology student,
Thanks for your interest in the AP Psychology course. I will be preparing this
summer for the class and would like to offer you the opportunity to do the same.
YOUR PREPARATION: Create a set of note cards on the top psychologists and
vocabulary words listed on the back. Cards should be 3X5 format. The top card
should list your name in the upper left-hand corner and “Summer Assignment” in
the center. Each of the cards should be numbered. The cards should be
formatted as follows:
- Front of Card: # of card (top right corner) and Psychologist’s name or
Vocabulary word (center of card).
- Back of Card: Contributions – This should detail (succinctly) what the
major contribution/idea of the psychologist is. Or, a detailed definition
of the word. Must be handwritten and in pen (feel free to color-code,
your brain likes it!!!). This work is faithful to what we will be studying.
From the work you will have an extra test grade or it can serve as a
replacement for your lowest test grade at any time during the year.
If you have questions or need further clarification, email me and I will try to get
back to you ASAP
Sincerely,
Brandy Long
AP Psychology
[email protected]
Psychology’s “Top 100” Terms
1.Absolute Threshold
2.Action potential
3.Aggression
4. Acquisiton
5.Anxiety disorder
6.Axon
7. Altruism
8.Attachment
9.Attitude change (factors
influencing)
10.Attitudes and behavior
11.Attribution theory
12.Avoidance learning
13.Binocular depth cues
14.Central nervous system
15.Cerebellum
16.Cerebral cortex
17.Cerebral hemispheres
18. Corpus Collosum
19.Classical conditioning
20.Cognitive development
21.Cognitive dissonance theory
22.Conditioned stimulus
23.Conditioned reflex
24.Conformity
25.Consciousness
26.Confounding Variable
27.Control group
28.Correlational coefficient
29.Correlational method
30.Dendrite
31.Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
32.Dependent variable
33.Depression
34.Depth perception
35.Determinism
36.Developmental stages (theories
of)
37.Distance cues
38.Ego
39.Electroencephalograph
40.Empiricism
41.Etiology
42.Evolution and functionalism
43.Experimental group
44.Extinction
45.Forgetting curve
46.Free association
47.Free recall
48.Frequency (audition)
49.Gestalt principles of
organization
50.Gestalt psychology
51.Hypothesis testing
52.Id
53.Independent variable
54.Infant-mother attachment
55.Information-processing
approach
56.Instrumental behavior
57.Intelligence
58.Intelligence quotient
59.Introversion-extroversion
60.Just noticeable difference
61.Law of effect
62.Long-term memory
63.Longitudinal research
64.Meaning
65.Mental illness
66.Mental imagery
67.Milgram’s obedience
experiment
68.Nature-nurture controversy
69.Naturalistic Observation
70.Neurotransmitter
71.Normal distribution
72.Operant conditioning
73.Origin of Species
74.Personality
75.Phobia
76.Placebo effect
77.Positive reinforcement
78.Prejudice
79.Prosocial behavior
80.Psychoanalytic Theory
81.Psychosis
82.Psychosomatic Disorders
83.Psychotherapy
84.Rehearsal
85.Reinforcement
86.Right hemisphere
87.Sample (random)
88.Semantic memory
89.Serial-position effect
90.Short-term memory
91.Significance level (statistical)
92.Significant difference
93.Social influence
94.Socialization
95.Socioeconomic status
96.Traits
97.Unconscious
98.Unconscious motivation
99.Visual depth perception
100. Young Helmholtz Trichromatic
Theory of Color
Top 50 Psychologists
1. Sigmund Freud
2. Eleanor Gibson
3. Carl Jung
4. Erik Erickson
5. Lawrence Kohlberg
6. Carol Gilligan
7. William James
8. William Wundt
9. B. F. Skinner
10. John B. Watson
11. Jean Piaget
12. Harry Harlow
13. Carl Rogers
14. Abraham Maslow
15. Karen Horney
16. Alfred Adler
17. Gordon Allport
18. Hermann Rorschach
19. Solomon Asch
20. Stanley Schachter
21. Stanley Milgram
22. Philip Zimbardo
23. Jon Bowlby
24. Elizabeth Loftus
25. Robert Sternberg
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Albert Bandura
Raymond Cattell
Arron Beck
Noam Chomsky
Edward Thorndike
Hans Eysenck
Mary Ainsworth
Roger Sperry
Lev Vygotsky
Martin Seligman
Howard Gardner
Kurt Lewin
Ivan Pavlov
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Benjamin Whorf
Robert Rosenthal
Carl Wernicke
Jerome Singer
David Rosenhan
Paul Broca
Charles Spearman
Albert Ellis
Earnest Hilgard
Phineas Gage
Alfred Binet