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Concept Understanding
U.1
Unit
Scientific Foundations of Psychology
U.2
Unit
Biological Bases of Behavior
U.3
Unit
Sensation and Perception
U.4
Unit
Learning
U.5
Unit
Cognitive Psychology
U.6
Unit
Developmental Psychology
U.7
Unit
Motivation, Emotion, and Personality
U.8
Unit
Clinical Psychology
U.9
Unit
Social Psychology
CS.1
Course Skill
Define, explain, and apply concepts, behavior, theories, and perspectives.
1.A
Learning Objective
Recognize how philosophical and physiological perspectives shaped the development of psychological thought.
1.B
Learning Objective
Identify the research contributions of major historical figures in psychology.
1.C
Learning Objective
Describe and compare different theoretical approaches in explaining behavior.
1.D
Learning Objective
Recognize the strengths and limitations of applying theories to explain behavior.
1.E
Learning Objective
Distinguish the different domains of psychology.
1.F
Learning Objective
Differentiate types of research with regard to purpose, strengths, and weaknesses.
1.G
Learning Objective
Discuss the value of reliance on operational definitions and measurement in behavioral research.
1.H
Learning Objective
Identify independent, dependent, confounding, and control variables in experimental designs.
1.I
Learning Objective
Describe how research design drives the reasonable conclusions that can be drawn.
1.J
Learning Objective
Distinguish between random assignment of participants to conditions in experiments and random selection of participants, primarily in correlational studies and surveys.
1.K
Learning Objective
Predict the validity of behavioral explanations based on the quality of research design.
1.L
Learning Objective
Apply basic descriptive statistical concepts, including interpreting and constructing graphs and calculating simple descriptive statistics.
1.M
Learning Objective
Distinguish the purposes of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics.
1.N
Learning Objective
Identify how ethical issues inform and constrain research practices.
1.O
Learning Objective
Describe how ethical and legal guidelines protect research participants and promote sound ethical practice.
2.A
Learning Objective
Discuss psychology's abiding interest in how heredity, environment, and evolution work together to shape behavior.
2.B
Learning Objective
Identify key research contributions of scientists in the area of heredity and environment.
2.C
Learning Objective
Predict how traits and behavior can be selected for their adaptive value.
2.D
Learning Objective
Discuss the effect of the endocrine system on behavior.
2.E
Learning Objective
Describe the nervous system and its subdivisions and functions.
2.F
Learning Objective
Identify basic processes and systems in the biological bases of behavior, including parts of the neuron.
2.G
Learning Objective
Identify basic process of transmission of a signal between neurons.
2.H
Learning Objective
Discuss the influence of drugs on neurotransmitters.
2.I
Learning Objective
Describe the nervous system and its subdivisions and functions in the brain.
2.J
Learning Objective
Identify the contributions of key researchers to the study of the brain.
2.K
Learning Objective
Recount historic and contemporary research strategies and technologies that support research.
2.L
Learning Objective
Identify the contributions of key researchers to the development of tools for examining the brain.
2.M
Learning Objective
Discuss the role of neuroplasticity in traumatic brain injury.
2.N
Learning Objective
Identify the contributions of key researchers to the study of neuroplasticity.
2.O
Learning Objective
Describe various states of consciousness and their impact on behavior.
2.P
Learning Objective
Identify the major psychoactive drug categories and classify specific drugs, including their psychological and physiological effects.
2.Q
Learning Objective
Discuss drug dependence, addiction, tolerance, and withdrawal.
2.R
Learning Objective
Identify the contributions of major figures in consciousness research.
2.S
Learning Objective
Discuss aspects of sleep and dreaming.
3.A
Learning Objective
Describe general principles of organizing and integrating sensation to promote stable awareness of the external world.
3.B
Learning Objective
Discuss basic principles of sensory transduction, including absolute threshold, difference threshold, signal detection, and sensory adaptation.
3.C
Learning Objective
Identify the research contributions of major historical figures in sensation and perception.
3.D
Learning Objective
Discuss how experience and culture can influence perceptual processes.
3.E
Learning Objective
Discuss the role of attention in behavior.
3.F
Learning Objective
Describe the vision process, including the specific nature of energy transduction, relevant anatomical structures, and specialized pathways in the brain for each of the senses.
3.G
Learning Objective
Explain common sensory conditions.
3.H
Learning Objective
Explain the role of top-down processing in producing vulnerability to illusion.
3.I
Learning Objective
Describe the hearing process, including the specific nature of energy transduction, relevant anatomical structures, and specialized pathways in the brain for each of the senses.
3.J
Learning Objective
Describe taste and smell processes, including the specific nature of energy transduction, relevant anatomical structures, and specialized pathways in the brain for each of the senses.
3.K
Learning Objective
Describe sensory processes, including the specific nature of energy transduction, relevant anatomical structures, and specialized pathways in the brain for each of the body senses.
4.A
Learning Objective
Identify the contributions of key researchers in the psychology of learning.
4.B
Learning Objective
Interpret graphs that exhibit the results of learning experiments.
4.C
Learning Objective
Describe the essential characteristics of insight learning, latent learning, and social learning.
4.D
Learning Objective
Apply learning principles to explain emotional learning, taste aversion, superstitious behavior, and learned helplessness.
4.E
Learning Objective
Provide examples of how biological constraints create learning predispositions.
4.F
Learning Objective
Describe basic classical conditioning phenomena.
4.G
Learning Objective
Distinguish general differences between principles of classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational learning.
4.H
Learning Objective
Predict the effects of operant conditioning.
4.I
Learning Objective
Predict how practice, schedules of reinforcement, other aspects of reinforcement, and motivation will influence quality of learning.
4.J
Learning Objective
Suggest how behavior modification, biofeedback, coping strategies, and self-control can be used to address behavioral problems.
5.A
Learning Objective
Compare and contrast various cognitive processes.
5.B
Learning Objective
Describe and differentiate 0psychological and physiological systems of memory.
5.C
Learning Objective
Identify the contributions of key researchers in cognitive psychology.
5.D
Learning Objective
Outline the principles that underlie construction and encoding of memories.
5.E
Learning Objective
Outline the principles that underlie effective storage of memories.
5.F
Learning Objective
Describe strategies for retrieving memories.
5.G
Learning Objective
Describe strategies for memory improvement and typical memory errors.
5.H
Learning Objective
Describe and differentiate psychological and physiological systems of short- and long-term memory.
5.I
Learning Objective
Identify problem-solving strategies as well as factors that influence their effectiveness.
5.J
Learning Objective
List the characteristics of creative thought and creative thinkers.
5.K
Learning Objective
Identify problem-solving strategies as well as factors that create bias and errors in thinking.
5.L
Learning Objective
Define intelligence and list characteristics of how psychologists measure intelligence.
5.M
Learning Objective
Discuss how culture influences the definition of intelligence.
5.N
Learning Objective
Compare and contrast historic and contemporary theories of intelligence.
5.O
Learning Objective
Identify the contributions of key researchers in intelligence research and testing.
5.P
Learning Objective
Explain how psychologists design tests, including standardization strategies and other techniques to establish reliability and validity.
5.Q
Learning Objective
Interpret the meaning of scores in terms of the normal curve.
5.R
Learning Objective
Describe relevant labels related to intelligence testing.
5.S
Learning Objective
Synthesize how biological, cognitive, and cultural factors converge to facilitate acquisition, development, and use of language.
5.T
Learning Objective
Debate the appropriate testing practices, particularly in relation to culture-fair test uses.
6.A
Learning Objective
Explain the process of conception and gestation, including factors that influence successful pre-natal development.
6.B
Learning Objective
Discuss the interaction of nature and nurture (including cultural variations), specifically physical development, in the determination of behavior.
6.C
Learning Objective
Discuss maturation of motor skills.
6.D
Learning Objective
Describe the influence of temperament and other social factors on attachment and appropriate socialization.
6.E
Learning Objective
Identify the contributions of major researchers in developmental psychology in the area of social development in childhood.
6.F
Learning Objective
Discuss the interaction of nature and nurture (including cultural variations), specifically social development, in the determination of behavior.
6.G
Learning Objective
Explain how parenting styles influence development.
6.H
Learning Objective
Explain the maturation of cognitive abilities (Piaget's stages, Information process).
6.I
Learning Objective
Identify the contributions of major researchers in the area of cognitive development in childhood.
6.J
Learning Objective
Discuss maturational challenges in adolescence, including related family conflicts.
6.K
Learning Objective
Characterize the development of decisions related to intimacy as people mature.
6.L
Learning Objective
Predict the physical and cognitive changes that emerge through the lifespan, including steps that can be taken to maximize function.
6.M
Learning Objective
Identify the contributions of key researchers in the area of adulthood and aging.
6.N
Learning Objective
Identify the contributions of major researchers in the area of moral development.
6.O
Learning Objective
Compare and contrast models of moral development.
6.P
Learning Objective
Describe how sex and gender influence socialization and other aspects of development.
7.A
Learning Objective
Identify and apply basic motivational concepts to understand the behavior of humans and other animals.
7.B
Learning Objective
Compare and contrast motivational theories, including the strengths and weaknesses of each.
7.C
Learning Objective
Describe classic research findings in specific motivations.
7.D
Learning Objective
Identify contributions of key researchers in the psychological field of motivation and emotion.
7.E
Learning Objective
Discuss the biological underpinnings of motivation, including needs, drives, and homeostasis.
7.F
Learning Objective
Compare and contrast major theories of emotion.
7.G
Learning Objective
Describe how cultural influences shape emotional expression, including variations in body language.
7.H
Learning Objective
Discuss theories of stress and the effects of stress on psychological and physical well-being.
7.I
Learning Objective
Describe and compare research methods that psychologists use to investigate personality.
7.J
Learning Objective
Identify the contributions of major researchers in personality theory.
7.K
Learning Objective
Compare and contrast the psychoanalytic theories of personality with other theories of personality.
7.L
Learning Objective
Compare and contrast the behaviorist and social cognitive theories of personality with other theories of personality.
7.M
Learning Objective
Compare and contrast humanistic theories of personality with other theories of personality.
7.N
Learning Objective
Speculate how cultural context can facilitate or constrain personality development, especially as it relates to self-concept.
7.O
Learning Objective
Compare and contrast trait theories of personality with other theories of personality.
7.P
Learning Objective
Identify frequently used assessment strategies, and evaluate relative test quality based on reliability and validity of the instruments.
8.A
Learning Objective
Recognize the use of the most recent version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) published by the American Psychiatric Association as the primary reference for making diagnostic judgments.
8.B
Learning Objective
Describe contemporary and historical conceptions of what constitutes psychological disorders.
8.C
Learning Objective
Discuss the intersection between psychology and the legal system.
8.D
Learning Objective
Evaluate the strengths and limitations of various approaches to explaining psychological disorders.
8.E
Learning Objective
Identify the positive and negative consequences of diagnostic labels.
8.F
Learning Objective
Discuss the major diagnostic categories, including neurodevelopmental disorders, neurocognitive disorders, schizophrenia spectrum, and other psychotic disorders, and their corresponding symptoms.
8.G
Learning Objective
Discuss the major diagnostic categories, including anxiety disorders, bipolar and related disorders, depressive disorders, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, and their corresponding symptoms.
8.H
Learning Objective
Discuss the major diagnostic categories, including dissociative disorders, somatic symptom and related disorders, and trauma- and stressor-related disorders and their corresponding symptoms.
8.I
Learning Objective
Discuss the major diagnostic categories, including feeding and eating disorders, personality disorders, and their corresponding symptoms.
8.J
Learning Objective
Describe the central characteristics of psychotherapeutic intervention.
8.K
Learning Objective
Identify the contributions of major figures in psychological treatment.
8.L
Learning Objective
Describe major treatment orientations used in therapy and how those orientations influence therapeutic planning.
8.M
Learning Objective
Summarize effectiveness of specific treatments used to address specific problems.
8.N
Learning Objective
Discuss how cultural and ethnic context influence choice and success of treatment (e.g., factors that lead to premature termination of treatment).
8.O
Learning Objective
Describe prevention strategies that build resilience and promote competence.
8.P
Learning Objective
Summarize effectiveness of specific treatments used to address specific problems from a biological perspective.
8.Q
Learning Objective
Compare and contrast different treatment methods.
9.A
Learning Objective
Apply attribution theory to explain motives.
9.B
Learning Objective
Articulate the impact of social and cultural categories on self-concept and relations with others.
9.C
Learning Objective
Anticipate the impact of self-fulfilling prophecy on behavior.
9.D
Learning Objective
Identify important figures and research in the areas of attitude formation and change.
9.E
Learning Objective
Discuss attitude formation and change, including persuasion strategies and cognitive dissonance.
9.F
Learning Objective
Identify the contributions of key researchers in the areas of conformity, compliance, and obedience.
9.G
Learning Objective
Explain how individuals respond to expectations of others, including groupthink, conformity, and obedience to authority.
9.H
Learning Objective
Describe the structure and function of different kinds of group behavior.
9.I
Learning Objective
Predict the impact of the presence of others on individual behavior.
9.J
Learning Objective
Describe processes that contribute to differential treatment of group members.
9.K
Learning Objective
Describe the variables that contribute to altruism and aggression.
9.L
Learning Objective
Describe the variables that contribute to attraction.
CS.1.A
Learning Objective
Define and/or apply concepts.
CS.1.B
Learning Objective
Explain behavior in authentic context.
CS.1.C
Learning Objective
Apply theories and perspectives in authentic contexts.
Framework metadata
- Source document
- AP Psychology (2020)
- Normalized subject
- Social Studies