Psychology

Grant Clay Period 3 10/5/08 AP Psychology Outline Chapter 7: Memory Red ? Definition Blue - Important Points Green - Important People & Contributions Memory Encoding ? Forming Memory Code. Storage ? Maintaining Encoded Information in Memory over Time. Retrieval ? Recovering Information from Memory Stores. Forgetting is due to deficiencies in any of 3 Processes in Memory. Encoding: Getting Information into Memory Attention ? Focusing Awareness on a narrowed range of Stimuli or Events. You need to pay attention to Information if you intend to remember it. Focusing your attention in 2 or more places at once causes large reduction in memory performance and motor performance. Levels of Processing

Grant Clay Period 3 10/19/08 AP Psychology Outline Chapter 9: Intelligence & Psychological Testing Red ? Definition Blue - Important Points Green - Important People & Contributions Key Concepts in Psychological Testing Psychological Test ? Standardized Measure of a Sample of a Person?s Behavior. Used to Measure Individual Differences. Types of Tests Mental Ability Tests Intelligence Tests ? Measure General Mental Ability. Aptitude Tests ? Measure Specific Types of Mental Abilities. Verbal Reasoning, Perceptual Speed, Accuracy, etc. Achievement Test ? Measure a Person?s Mastery and Knowledge of Various Subjects. Reading English, History, etc. Personality Tests ? Measure Various Aspects of Personality, including Motives, Interests, Values, and Attitudes.

Grant Clay Period 3 11/2/08 AP Psychology Outline Chapter 11: Human Development across Lifespan Red ? Definition Blue - Important Points Green - Important People & Contributions Development ? Sequence of Age-Related Changes that occur as a Person Progresses from Conception until Death. Prenatal Development Zygote ? 1 Celled Organism formed by Union of Sperm and an Egg. Prenatal Period ? Period from Conception to Birth, usually 9 Months of Pregnancy. Prenatal Development Germinal Stage ? First Phase of Prenatal Development, encompassing the first 2 Weeks after Conception. Placenta ? Structure that allows Oxygen & Nutrients to pass into Fetus from the Mother?s Bloodstream and Bodily Waste to Pass Out the Mother.

Grant Clay Period 3 11/11/08 AP Psychology Outline Chapter 13: Stress, Coping, and Health Red ? Definition Blue - Important Points Green - Important People & Contributions Biopsychosocial Model ? Physical Illness is caused by an interaction of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors. Health Psychology ? How Psychosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of health and with the causation, prevention, and treatment of illness. Stress ? Any Circumstance that threatens or is perceived to threaten one?s well being and that thereby tax ones coping abilities. Stress has a Cumulative Nature. The Feeling of Stress depends upon how one interprets a situation. Acute Stressors ? Threatening Events that have a Relatively Short Duration and a clear Endpoint.