AP Psychology Myers Text Reading Lists by Unit:
Unit 1: History and Approaches
1. What is Psychology?
1-7
2. Contemporary Psychology
8-15
Unit 2: Research Methods
3. The Need for Psychological Science
19-24
4. How do Psychologists ask and answer questions?
24-36
5. Statistical Reasoning in Everyday Life
37-42
6. Frequently Asked Questions About Psychology
42-46
Unit 3: Biological Bases of Behavior
Unit 3A: Neural Processing and the Endocrine System
7. Neural Communication
52-61
8. The Endocrine System
62-63
Unit 3B: The Brain
9. Tools of Discovery: Having Our Head Examined
67-68
10. Older Brain Structures
69-73
11. Cerebral Cortex
74-83
12. Our Divided Brain
83-86
13. Right-Left Differences in the Intact Brain
86-89
14. The Brain and Consciousness
89-91
Unit 3C: Genetics, Evolutionary Psychology, and Behavior
15. Behavior Genetics: Predicting Individual Differences 95-103
16. Evolutionary Psychology: Human Nature
103-108
17. Reflections on Nature and Nurture
108-110
Unit 4: Sensation and Perception
18. Sensing the World: Some Basic Principles
116-124
19. Vision
124-133
20. Hearing
133-140
21. Other Senses
141-150
22. Perceptual Organization
150-159
23. Perceptual Interpretation
159-165
24. Is There Extrasensory Perception?
165-169
Unit 5: States of Consciousness
25. Sleep and Dreams
175-181
26. Sleep and Dreams con’t.
181-185
27. Sleep and Dreams con’t.
185-191
28. Hypnosis
192-196
29. Drugs and Consciousness
197-205
30. Drugs and Consciousness con’t.
205-210
Unit 6: Learning
31. How Do We Learn?
215-217
32. Classical Conditioning
218-227
33. Operant Conditioning
228-240
34. Learning by Observation
242-249
Unit 7: Cognition
Unit 7A: Memory
35. The Phenomenon of Memory
255-256
36. Information Processing
256-260
37. Information Processing con’t.
261-267
38. Information Processing con’t.
268-278
39. Forgetting
279-284
40. Memory Construction
285-293
41. Improving Memory
293-294
Unit 7B: Thinking, Problem Solving, Creativity, and Language
42. Thinking
299-304
43. Thinking con’t.
304-313
44. Language
313-318
45. Thinking and Language
319-322
Unit 8: Motivation and Emotion
Unit 8A: Motivation
46. Motivational Concepts
328-331
47. Hunger
331-339
48. Hunger con’t.
340-348
49. Sexual Motivation
348-359
50. The Need to Belong
359-362
Unit 8B: Emotions, Stress, and Health
51. Theories of Emotion
366-368
52. Embodied Emotion
369-376
53. Expressed Emotion
377-384
54. Experienced Emotion
384-396
55. Stress and Health
397-406
Unit 9: Developmental Psychology
56. Prenatal Development and the Newborn
411-415
57. Infancy and Childhood
415-426
58. Infancy and Childhood con’t.
426-434
59. Infancy and Childhood con’t.
434-441
60. Parents and Peers
441-444
61. Adolescence
445-454
62. Adulthood
455-465
63. Adulthood con’t.
465-471
64. Reflections on Three Major Dev. Issues
471-473
Unit 10: Personality
65. The Psychoanalytic Perspective
480-490
66. The Humanistic Perspective
490-493
67. The Trait Perspective
493-502
68. The Social-Cognitive Perspective
503-510
69. Exploring the Self
511-518
Unit 11: Testing Individual Differences
70. What is Intelligence?
524-531
71. Assessing Intelligence
532-539
72. The Dynamics of Intelligence
539-544
73. Genetic and Environmental Influences
544-556
Unit 12: Abnormal Psychology
74. Perspectives on Psychological Disorders
562-567
75. Anxiety Disorders
568-576
76. Somatoform Disorders
576-577
77. Dissociative Disorders
577-579
78. Mood Disorders
579-589
79. Schizophrenia
589-596
80. Personality Disorders
596-599
81. Rates of Psychological Disorders
599-600
Unit 13: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
82. The Psychological Therapies
606-614
83. The Psychological Therapies con’t.
614-618
84. Evaluating Psychotherapies
619-628
85. The Biomedical Therapies
628-637
86. Preventing Psychological Disorders
637-638
Unit 14: Social Psychology
87. Social Thinking
643-650
88. Social Influence
651-661
89. Social Influence con’t.
661-664
90. Social Relations
664-672
91. Social Relations con’t.
672-678
92. Social Relations con’t.
678-685
93. Social Relations con’t.
685-692