Welcome Back AP Psychology! Today: Welcome Back and Announcements Intro to Personality AP Psychology Updates Test Sign-ups Decoding the Multiple Choice Comprehensive Content Review Activities HW: Read Chapter 13 Vocab Quiz Chapters 7,8,9 Friday Chapter 13 Test, with 1-6 CC Test Friday March 6th.

Intro to Personality Personality – an individuals characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting. Psychodynamic Theories – theories of personality that view human behavior as a dynamic interaction between conscious and unconscious mind.

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AP Test Review – Unpacking Multiple Choice Questions Lee was momentarily terrified as a passing automobile nearly side-swiped his car, when one of his passengers joked that he almost had a two-color car Lee yelled at him. Lee’s emotional volatility best illustrates which psychology concept… What is this question asking? What makes this question difficult? What is the answer – why is that the answer?

Unlocking the Multiple Choice According to Maslow our need for…. Love must be met before our need for food Clothing must be met before satisfying our need for self-esteem Religious Fulfillment must be met before satisfying our need for housing Political freedom must be met before satisfying our need for economic security

AP Test Review – Unpacking Multiple Choice Questions Studying initially healthy men over a ten year period, researchers found that pessimistic adult men were more than twice as likely as optimistic men to experience which of the following – 1. Proliferation of Lymphocytes 2. Coronary Heart Disease 3. Low Blood Sugar Levels 4. Spontaneous Remission 5. Relative Deprivation

AP Test Review – Unpacking Multiple Choice Questions Thinking about sex in your brains Cerebral cortex can stimulate a region of the limbic system to secrete hormones. These hormones trigger the pituitary gland to influence hormones released by other glands in the body. Which brain region influence the endocrine system?

Comprehensive Content Review Review Activities Will Be Due with EACH of the Next Three Comprehensive Content Tests. 1-6 Due 3/6 7-12 Due 3/20 13-16 Due Final Day 4/29-4/30 If you turn in ALL of it on the final day you can still get a good prep grade for the semester.

Review Choices: Vocabulary Content Connections: Revisit your vocabulary list and for each term make sure you have a definition, the chapter, an example of how it plays out in real life and a connection to another psychological concept or vocabulary term. Natures vs. Nurture: Trace the key arguments surrounding the Nature vs. Nurture debate as it impacts each of the different Psychology Units we covered. Make sure you are including vocabulary from every unit in your overview of each chapter. People, Theories, Experiments: Identify and describe the key theorists, their theories, and the experiments that they based each of these theories in for each of the chapters we have studied. Make sure you are incorporating the content vocabulary into your explanations for each unit.

AP Test Review – Unpacking the FRQ

Freud – Father of Psychoanalysis – Psychologist who made the unconscious as a driving factor in behavior a popular theory.