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The Psychology AP course explores concepts, theories, and behaviors associated with the field and research areas of psychology. Successful students will become familiar with the history of the field, past and current research methods, and the biological and emotional bases for behavior. Because psychology is a rapidly changing field, students should ensure that they prepare for the test with the most current materials available.
For the 2018 exam, all terminology, criteria, and classifications referred to in multiple-choice and free-response questions adhere to the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5). The DATE for the AP PSYCHOLOGY NATIONAL EXAM: 
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FAMOUS PSYCHOLOGISTS, STUDIES & EXPERIMENTSHYPERLINK ON THE FAMOUS PSYCHOLOGISTS IMAGE [LEFT] TO ACCESS THE INCLASS WORKSHEET
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AP NATIONAL EXAMThe Psychology AP exam is one of the shortest AP exams, clocking in at just two hours and comprised of two sections.
The first section takes one hour and 10 minutes, contains 100 multiple-choice questions, and accounts for 66.6% of your total score. The second section takes 50 minutes, contains two free-response questions, and accounts for 33.3% of your score. 2018 NATIONAL EXAM [NATIONAL AVG VS WEST SHORE AVERAGE]
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7 PSYCHOLOGY PERSPECTIVESAt this point in modern psychology, the varying viewpoints on human behavior have been split into eight different perspectives: biological [neuro], behavioral, cognitive, humanistic, psychodynamic, socio-cultural, evolutionary, and biopsychosocial.
The biopsychosocial (BPS) model [not included in the presentation above] incorporates interactions between biological,psychological, and social factors to help determine why an individual might suffer from a disorder. Psychologists and experts in other fields use it to diagnosis and treat patients.
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HISTORY [PROLOGUE]Psychology borders on various other fields including physiology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, sociology, anthropology, as well as philosophy and other components of the humanities. You will find an OVERVIEW of psychology [above, PODCAST].
The history of psychology as a scholarly study of the mind and behavior dates back to the Ancient Greeks. There is also evidence of psychological thought in ancient Egypt. Psychology was a branch of the domain of philosophy until the 1870s, when it developed as an independent scientific discipline in Germany and the United States. Psychology as a self-conscious field of experimental study began in 1879, in Leipzig Germany, when Wilhelm Wundt founded the first laboratory dedicated exclusively to psychological research in Germany. Wundt was also the first person to refer to himself as a psychologist. Other important early contributors to the field include Hermann Ebbinghaus (a pioneer in the study of memory), William James (the American father of pragmatism), and Ivan Pavlov (who developed the procedures associated with classical conditioning). Soon after the development of experimental psychology, various kinds of applied psychology appeared. G. Stanley Hall brought scientific pedagogy to the United States from Germany in the early 1880s. John Dewey's educational theory of the 1890s was another example. Also in the 1890s, Hugo Münsterberg began writing about the application of psychology to industry, law, and other fields. Lightner Witmer established the first psychological clinic in the 1890s. James McKeen Cattell adapted Francis Galton's anthropometric methods to generate the first program of mental testing in the 1890s. In Vienna, meanwhile, Sigmund Freud developed an independent approach to the study of the mind called psychoanalysis, which has been widely influential. The 20th century saw a reaction to Edward Titchener's critique of Wundt's empiricism. This contributed to the formulation of behaviorism by John B. Watson, which was popularized by B. F. Skinner. Behaviorism proposed emphasizing the study of overt behavior, because that could be quantified and easily measured. Early behaviorists considered study of the "mind" too vague for productive scientific study. However, Skinner and his colleagues did study thinking as a form of covert behavior to which they could apply the same principles as overt (publicly observable) behavior. The final decades of the 20th century saw the rise of cognitive science, an interdisciplinary approach to studying the human mind. Cognitive science again considers the "mind" as a subject for investigation, using the tools of evolutionary psychology, linguistics, computer science, philosophy, behaviorism, and neurobiology. This form of investigation has proposed that a wide understanding of the human mind is possible, and that such an understanding may be applied to other research domains, such as artificial intelligence. |
59 FAMOUS PSYCHOLOGISTS & THEIR THEORIESThroughout psychology's relatively brief history, there have been many famous psychologists who have left their mark both on psychology and on the world at large. While some of these individuals do not necessarily fit today's definition of a 'psychologist', a term which indicates a doctoral-level degree in psychology, their influence on psychology is without question.
Learn more about psychologists by browsing through this list [BUTTON BELOW] of some of the most famous thinkers in psychology history. THEORIES OF EMOTIONSEmotion is a complex psychophysiological experience that we experience as a result of our interactions with our environment. There are positive emotions and negative emotions, and these emotions can be related to an object, an event, social emotions, self-appraisal emotions, etc.
Some emotions are innate. For example: love, care, joy, surprise, anger and fear. These are known as primary emotions. Secondary emotions are those that we learn through our experience. For example: pride, rage, shame, neglect, sympathy and horror. Here [BELOW DOCUMENT] are some common theories of emotion in psychology. 
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