Five rooms. Thirty-five official topics.

Interaction of Heredity and Environment

Separate nature, nurture, and interaction — the exam asks which claim a design can support.

Overview of the Nervous System

Map a scene onto CNS vs PNS, and onto somatic vs autonomic branches.

The Neuron and Neural Firing

Walk a signal from dendrite to synapse without mixing electrical and chemical steps.

The Brain

Match a function to a structure at AP grain — not pop-psych 'left brain' stories.

Sleep

Separate circadian timing from sleep stages and from why we sleep.

Sensation

Keep transduction in the sense organ; perception is Unit 2 — do not blur them.

Perception

Treat perception as organization and interpretation of already-transduced input.

Thinking, Problem-Solving, Judgments, and Decision-Making

Name the heuristic or bias that actually fits THIS scene, not a list dump.

Introduction to Memory

Keep the Atkinson–Shiffrin stores distinct from working-memory as a workspace.

Encoding Memories

Apply levels of processing, chunking, and mnemonic strategy to a study plan.

Storing Memories

Distinguish sensory, short-term/working, and long-term storage at AP grain.

Retrieving Memories

Apply cues, priming, serial position, and encoding specificity to a scene.

Forgetting and Other Memory Challenges

Name the forgetting mechanism that fits: encoding failure, decay, or retrieval failure.

Intelligence and Achievement

Define intelligence as the field debates it — not as a mystical IQ aura.

Themes and Methods in Developmental Psychology

Name the design: cross-sectional, longitudinal, or sequential — and its tradeoff.

Physical Development Across the Lifespan

Place a change on the lifespan without treating adolescence as the whole story.

Gender and Sexual Orientation

Keep sex, gender, and sexual orientation distinct as research constructs.

Cognitive Development Across the Lifespan

Keep Piaget, Vygotsky, and information-processing as separable tools, with limits.

Communication and Language Development

Separate phoneme, morpheme, syntax, and semantics in a short stem.

Social-Emotional Development Across the Lifespan

Keep attachment, identity, and later-life social change as distinct tools.

Classical Conditioning

Label UCS, UCR, CS, CR in a novel pairing — no blanks.

Operant Conditioning

Name the exact cell: positive/negative × reinforcement/punishment.

Social, Cognitive, and Neurological Factors in Learning

Apply observational learning, models, and self-efficacy to a scene.

Attribution Theory and Person Perception

Apply fundamental attribution error, self-serving bias, and actor–observer to a scene.

Attitude Formation and Attitude Change

Apply central vs peripheral routes, and cognitive dissonance, to a persuasion scene.

Psychology of Social Situations

Name the ONE force that best explains THIS scene — conformity is not obedience.

Psychodynamic and Humanistic Theories of Personality

Keep Freud's structures and defense ideas distinct from Rogers/Maslow.

Social-Cognitive and Trait Theories of Personality

Apply reciprocal determinism and self-efficacy as social-cognitive tools.

Motivation

Name the theory that fits: drive, incentive, arousal, hierarchy (with limits), self-determination.

Emotion

Keep James–Lange, Cannon–Bard, Schachter–Singer, and appraisal ideas distinct.