Study AP Psychology with 186 Flashcards: Neurons, Conditioning, Memory and the Units This Deck Skips
Deck KZ5473 covers AP Psychology Units 1 and 2 in 186 clean cards. Real examples, the five blocks, the three cards to repair and what the deck leaves out.
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Deck KZ5473 — AP Psychology (186 cards) is one of the tidiest decks in the category: textbook-accurate definitions, no filler, in the order the course teaches them. But check the last card before you plan your revision. It ends on test validity — this deck covers the front half of AP Psychology and then stops.
Study this deck: AP Psychology
1 / 10What is a neuron?
Tap the card for the answer · swipe right if you knew it, left if not
Five blocks, in order
- Cards 1–40, biological bases: neuron, action potential, synapse, acetylcholine, dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, CNS vs PNS, somatic and autonomic, sympathetic and parasympathetic, medulla, cerebellum, limbic system, amygdala, hippocampus, hypothalamus, thalamus, the four lobes, Broca's and Wernicke's areas, plasticity, corpus callosum, endocrine system, pituitary, adrenal glands, heritability, twin studies, MRI and PET.
- 41–75, sensation and perception: absolute and difference thresholds, Weber's Law, transduction, sensory adaptation, rods and cones, trichromatic and opponent-process theories, cochlea, place vs frequency theory, gate-control theory, inattentional and change blindness, top-down vs bottom-up, the five Gestalt principles, binocular and monocular cues, phi phenomenon, perceptual set.
- 76–92, consciousness: circadian rhythms, REM, activation-synthesis and information-processing theories of dreaming, insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea, tolerance, withdrawal, depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens.
- 93–127, learning: UCS, UCR, CS, CR, acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization, discrimination, Pavlov, Little Albert, Skinner, positive and negative reinforcement and punishment, primary and secondary reinforcers, the four schedules, shaping, Bandura's Bobo doll, latent and insight learning.
- 128–186, memory and cognition: encoding/storage/retrieval, working memory, chunking, elaborative rehearsal, spacing and testing effects, explicit vs implicit, episodic/semantic/procedural, serial position effect, context- and state-dependent memory, the forgetting curve, interference, the misinformation effect, schemas, prototypes, algorithms and heuristics, availability and representativeness, confirmation bias, functional fixedness, framing, fluid vs crystallized intelligence, Stanford-Binet, WAIS, reliability and validity.
Eight cards as they appear
| Front | Back |
|---|---|
| What is negative reinforcement? | Removing an unpleasant stimulus to increase behavior (taking aspirin removes a headache, reinforcing taking aspirin) |
| What is a variable-ratio schedule? | Reinforcement after an unpredictable number of responses (slot machines); highest response rate, most resistant to extinction |
| What is Weber's Law? | For a difference to be noticeable, stimuli must differ by a constant proportion, not a constant amount |
| What is the opponent-process theory? | Color vision processed in opposing pairs (red-green, blue-yellow, black-white); explains afterimages |
| What is proactive interference? | Old information interferes with learning new information |
| What is the representativeness heuristic? | Judging likelihood by how well something matches a typical case, ignoring other relevant information |
| What is latent learning? | Learning not apparent until there is an incentive to show it (Tolman's rats) |
| What is fluid intelligence? | Ability to reason quickly and abstractly; tends to decrease in late adulthood |
What the deck does not contain
No development (Piaget, Erikson, Vygotsky, attachment, Kohlberg). No motivation and emotion (Maslow, James-Lange, Cannon-Bard, Schachter-Singer, stress). No personality (Freud, defense mechanisms, the Big Five, self-efficacy). No disorders or therapy (DSM-5, schizophrenia, CBT). No social psychology (Asch, Milgram, attribution, bystander effect, cognitive dissonance). And no research methods beyond the last two cards — no variables, no random assignment, no correlation, no ethics. Budget a second source: this is Units 1 and 2 done well, not the whole exam.
Three cards to repair
Card 78 asks for the five stages of sleep and its own answer lists four (NREM 1–3 plus REM) — the field merged stages 3 and 4 in 2007, so fix the front. Cards 17 and 149 are the same hippocampus/H.M. card twice; keep 149, in the memory block. Card 30 is half true: left-hemisphere language dominance is real, "left logical, right creative" is the pop version that costs points.
Card 3 also defines the action potential without a single ion: add sodium, potassium, depolarization and the refractory period yourself, plus GABA, glutamate and norepinephrine — only four neurotransmitters get cards, and MRI and PET are there but EEG and fMRI are not.
Two tips the deck hands you
Cards 139 and 140 — the spacing effect and the testing effect — are the operating instructions for the deck itself: short daily sessions, always recall before flipping. Card 150, the serial position effect, is your warning to shuffle: reviewed in order, you will know "neuron" and "validity" cold and lose the 160 cards between them. And cards 158–159 explain why you shouldn't stack another psychology deck right after this one.
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