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Explore the science of behavior and mental processes including cognition, development, personality, and disorders.
This AP Psychology course on Study Mondo covers 23 topics organized across 11 categories. Each topic includes detailed written explanations, worked examples, practice problems with step-by-step solutions, flashcards for review, and interactive lessons to help you master the material.
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The origins of psychology, major perspectives, and research methods
Neural communication, brain structure, genetics, and the nervous system
Behavioral genetics, twin studies, gene-environment interaction, and evolutionary psychology
Sensory processing, vision, hearing, and perceptual organization
Classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational learning
Pavlov's experiments, acquisition, extinction, generalization, discrimination, and applications
Thorndike & Skinner, reinforcement types, punishment, schedules, and shaping
Bandura's Bobo doll experiment, mirror neurons, cognitive maps, and latent learning
Problem solving, decision making, heuristics, language, and intelligence
Prenatal development through adulthood and aging
Theories of motivation and emotion, hunger, stress, and coping
Psychoanalytic, trait, humanistic, and social-cognitive theories of personality
Classification, anxiety, mood, psychotic disorders, and therapeutic approaches
Defining abnormality, DSM-5, anxiety disorders, OCD, PTSD, and somatic disorders
Major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, dissociative disorders, and personality disorders
Psychotherapy approaches, CBT, biomedical therapies, group/family therapy, and treatment evaluation
Social influence, conformity, attitudes, persuasion, and group behavior
Conformity, obedience, Asch & Milgram experiments, social facilitation, and deindividuation
Attitude formation, cognitive dissonance, persuasion techniques, and central vs peripheral routes
Prejudice, discrimination, stereotypes, in-group/out-group dynamics, aggression, and prosocial behavior