AP Psychology Summer Readings/Assignments
Journal # 1: FRQ pg. 17
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Day
Monday
Topics Covered
 What is Psychology?
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Tuesday
 Psychological Science
Develops
 Contemporary
Psychology
3
Wednesday  Unit 1 Review
4
Thursday
 Memory: Encoding,
Storage & Retrieval
5
Friday
 Encoding
6
Monday
 Storage
7
Tuesday
 Retrieval
8
Wednesday  Forgetting
9
Thursday
10 Monday
August 24th
 Memory Construction
 First day of School
 All Work Due
 Vocab & Unit Quiz (Unit
1 Only)
Readings/Work
 Read pg. 1-7
 Complete Notes Organizer
for pages 1-7
 Vocabulary Notecards Unit 1
 Read pg. 9-15
 Complete Notes Organizer
for pages 9-15
 Psychology Timeline
Worksheet
 Pg. 17 Question 1-15 (you do
not need to write out the
questions, but you must
write out the answer in its
entirety for credit) Complete
Notes Organizer for pages 915
 Journal # 1 (Response must
be typed)
 Read pg. 255-258
 Vocabulary Note Cards Unit
7A
 Read pg. 258-265
 PsychSim 5: Iconic Memory
 Read pg. 265-274
 PsychSim 5: Short-Term
Memory
 Read pg. 274-278
Objectives
 1.1 & 1.2
 Read pg. 279-284
 PsychSim 5: Forgetting
 Read pg. 285-294
 Unit 7A Review Sheet
 Get Syllabus Signed
 7.9a & 7.10a
 1.3, 1.4, & 1.5
 1.3, 1.4, & 1.5
 7.1a
 7.2a, 7.3a
 7.4a, 7.5a, 7.6a
 7.7a & 7.8a
 7.11a & 7.12a
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benchmarks
1.1 Describe the evolution of scientific psychology from its early pioneers to contemporary concerns
1.2 Describe the evolution of psychology as defined from the 1920’s through today
1.3 Summarize the nature-nurture debate in psychology and describe the principle of natural selection
1.4 Identify the three main levels of analysis in the biopsychosocial approach, and explain why
psychology’s varied perspectives are complementary
1.5 Identify some of psychology’s subfields, and explain the difference between clinical psychology and
psychiatry
7.1a Describe Atkinson-Shiffrin’s classic three-stage processing model of memory, and explain how the
concept of working memory clarifies the processing that occurs in short-term memory
7.2a Describe the types of information we encode automatically, and contrast effortful processing with
automatic processing, giving examples of each
7.3a Compare the benefits of visual, acoustic, and semantic encoding in remembering visual information,
and describe some memory-enhancing encoding strategies
7.4a Contrast two types of sensory memory, and describe the duration and capacity of working/short-term
memory
7.5a Describe the capacity and duration of long-term memory, and discuss the biological changes that may
underlie memory formation and storage
7.6a Distinguish between implicit and explicit memory, and identify the main brain structure associated with
each
7.7a Contrast the recall, recognition, and relearning measures of memory, and explain how retrieval cues
help us access stored memories
7.8a Describe the impact of environmental contexts and internal emotional states on retrieval
7.9a Explain why we should value our ability to forget, and discuss the roles of encoding failure, and
storage decay in the process of forgetting
7.10a Explain what is meant be retrieval failure, and discuss the effects of interference and motivated
forgetting on retrieval
7.11a Explain how misinformation, imagination, and source amnesia can distort our memory of an event,
and discuss why it is difficult to distinguish between true and false memories
7.12a Discuss whether young children’s eyewitness reports are reliable and the controversy over reports of
repressed and recovered memories
7.13a Explain how an understanding of memory can contribute to effective study techniques
Unit 1 Vocab Words/People1
Empiricism
Structuralism
Functionalism
Experimental Psychology
Behaviorism
Humanistic Psychology
Cognitive Psychology
Unit 7A Vocab/People
Encoding
Storage
Retrieval
Sensory Memory
Short-Term Memory
Long-Term Memory
Rehearsal
Spacing Effect
Serial Position Effect
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Psychology`
Nature v. Nurture Issue
Natural Selection
Biopsychosocial Approach
Biological Psychology
Evolutionary Psychology
Evolutionary Psychology
Psychodynamic Psychology
Social-Cultural Psychology
Basic Research
Applied Research
Clinical Psychology
Psychiatry
Semantic Encoding
Mnemonics
Chunking
Long-Term Potentiation (LTP)
Flashbulb Memory
Amnesia
Implicit Memory
Explicit Memory
Recall
Recognition
Priming
Mood Congruent Memory
Proactive Interference
Retroactive Interference
Misinformation Effect
Source Amnesia
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Elizabeth Loftus
Know all of the people from the psychological timeline worksheet