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New Habit

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Human behavior
Behavior
Action philosophy)
Learning
Habits
Bad habit
Religious habit
Behaviorism

9/11/2018 How Long Does it Take to Form a Habit? Backed by Science. https://jamesclear.com/new-habit 1/7 JAMES CLEAR How Long Does it Actually Take to Form a New Habit? (Backed by Science) by James Clear (staging.jamesclear.com/about)????| ???? Behavioral Psychology (https://jamesclear.com/behavioral-psychology), Habits (https://jamesclear.com/habits) Maxwell Maltz was a plastic surgeon in the 1950s when he began noticing a strange pattern among his patients. When Dr. Maltz would perform an operation ? like a nose job, for example ? he found that it would take the patient about 21 days to get used to seeing their new face. Similarly, when a patient had an arm or a leg amputated, Maxwell Maltz noticed that the patient would sense a phantom limb for about 21 days before

Unit 8 pt.2 (Myers)

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Lymphatic system
Immunology
Immune system
Sympathetic nervous system
Lymphocytes
Endocrine system
Stress
Psychological stress
Natural killer cell
Macrophage
Psychoneuroimmunology

SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1AP Psychology Name Unit VIII: (Motivation, Emotion) Stress & Health Homework Assignments Read the assigned pages of your textbook for understanding of the content. To do this you need to (1) answer the provided guided reading questions OR (2) take notes on your own. You do NOT need to do both! Modules 43 & 44: pages 441-446 & 448-454 What is stress? Stress is the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging. Explain the difference between the three (3) types of stressors ? catastrophes, significant life changes & daily hassles. Catastrophe: Large unpredictable large-scale events Ex. war, earthquakes, floods, wildfires, famines)

Unit 8 pt.1 (Myers)

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Neuroscience
Brain
Emotion
Psychological theories
Neuropsychological assessment
Neuropsychology
Arousal
Sexual arousal
James–Lange theory
Fear
Motivation

SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1AP Psychology Name Unit VIII: Emotion & Motivation Homework Assignments Read the assigned pages of your textbook for understanding of the content. To do this you need to (1) answer the provided guided reading questions OR (2) take notes on your own. You do NOT need to do both! Module 41: pages 420-429 What are emotions? Emotions are a response of the whole organism, involving: physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience. Explain the differences between the following theories of emotion: James-Lange: our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli

Unit 7 pt. 2 (Myers)

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Cognition
Linguistics
Cognitive science
Human behavior
Language acquisition
Evolution of language
Heuristic
Cognitive bias
Thought
Language
Aphasia
Universal grammar

SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1AP Psychology Name Unit VII: Cognition Homework Assignments Read the assigned pages of your textbook for understanding of the content. To do this you need to (1) answer the provided guided reading questions OR (2) take notes on your own. You do NOT need to do both! Module 34: pages 356-359 Define cognition. Cognition is all the mental activates associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. What is a concept? A prototype? Give examples. A concept is a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people. Ex. chair (all for sitting: high chair, dentist?s chair, reclining chair)

Unit 7 pt.1 (Myers)

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Memory
Cognitive science
Neuropsychology
Neuropsychological assessment
Long-term memory
Encoding
Explicit memory
Storage
Recall
Short-term memory
Flashbulb memory
Forgetting

SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1AP Psychology Name Unit VII: Memory Homework Assignments Read the assigned pages of your textbook for understanding of the content. To do this you need to (1) answer the provided guided reading questions OR (2) take notes on your own. You do NOT need to do both! Module 31: pages 317-326 What is memory? Memory is the persistence of learning over time through the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information. Explain the three (3) step information process used by our memory. Encoding: get information into our brain Storage: retain that information Retrieval: later get that information back out Briefly discuss Atkinson and Shiffrin?s model of memory.

Unit 6 (Myers)

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Psychology
Behaviorism
Neuroscience
Operant conditioning
Reinforcement
Extinction
Classical conditioning
Shaping
B. F. Skinner
Punishment
Learning
Reward system

SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1AP Psychology Unit VI: Learning Homework Assignments Read the assigned pages of your textbook for understanding of the content. To do this you need to (1) answer the provided guided reading questions OR (2) take notes on your own. You do NOT need to do both! Module 26: pages 263-272 Define learning. Learning is the process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviors. What is associative learning? Associative learning is learning that certain events occurs together. The events may be two stimuli or a response and its consequences. Who is Ivan Pavlov and what did he contribute to classical conditioning?

Unit 5 (Myers)

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Neuroscience
Sleep
Biology
Dream
RTT
Neurophysiology
Electroencephalography
Rapid eye movement sleep
Non-rapid eye movement sleep
Insomnia
Slow-wave sleep
Narcolepsy

SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1AP Psychology Name Unit V: Consciousness Homework Assignments Read the assigned pages of your textbook for understanding of the content. To do this you need to (1) answer the provided guided reading questions OR (2) take notes on your own. You do NOT need to do both! Module 22: pages 218-222 Define consciousness. Consciousness is our awareness of ourselves and our environment What is hypnosis? Can anyone experience it? Hypnosis is a social interaction in which one person responds to another person?s suggestion that certain perception, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur. To some extent, we are all open to suggestion, some just more than others. Can hypnosis enhance the recall of forgotten events?

Unit 4 (Myers)

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Perception
Nervous system
Sensory systems
Auditory system
Subjective experience
Cognitive science
Sensory neuron
Sense
Illusion
Sensation
Visual perception
Cochlea

SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1AP Psychology Name Unit IV: Sensation & Perception Homework Assignments Read the assigned pages of your textbook for understanding of the content. To do this you need to (1) answer the provided guided reading questions OR (2) take notes on your own. You do NOT need to do both! Module 16: pages 151-160 Explain the difference between sensation and perception. Sensation is the process where our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment. Perception is the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling s to recognize meaningful objects and events. Sensation: what the senses detect Perception: organizing and making connections

Unit 3 (Myers)

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Neuroscience
Nervous system
Biology
Efferent neurons
Plant cognition
Motor system
Cerebral cortex
Medical terminology
Neuron
Human brain
Axon
Motor neuron

SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1AP Psychology Name Unit III: Biological Bases of Behavior Homework Assignments Read the assigned pages of your textbook for understanding of the content. To do this you need to (1) answer the provided guided reading questions OR (2) take notes on your own. You do NOT need to do both! Module 9: pages 76-80 What is the main focus of biological psychology? The main focus of biological psychology are the links between biological and psychological processes. What is a neuron? A neuron is a nerve cell; the basic building block of the nervous system. Identify the parts of a neuron. Dendrite: a neuron?s bushy, branching extensions that receive messages and conduct impulses toward the cell body

Units 1&2 (Myers)

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Metaphysics
Knowledge
Behavioural sciences
Research
Causal inference
Experiment
Psychological research
Causality
B. F. Skinner
Humanistic psychology
Illusory correlation

AP Psychology Name Units I & II Homework Assignments History & Approaches Modules 1 & 2: pages 1-12 What are four questions early thinkers wondered? How does our mind work? How does our body relate to our minds? How much of what we know comes built in? How much is acquired through experience? Socrates & Plato concluded that: mind is separable from body and continues after the body dies; knowledge is innate. What did Aristotle say about knowledge? Knowledge is not pre-existing, it grows from the experiences stored in our memories. What did Rene Descartes conclude about the relationship between the brain and muscles? The relationship between the brain and muscles were spirits that flowed from the brain through hollow nerves to the muscles, provoking movement.

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