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AP Psychology lessons

5 sections · 35 skills · work through the full outline skill by skill — read the long-form lesson or flip through the slide-style version.
Long-form lessonsSlide-style lessons

AP Psychology

Practice 35 skills across this outline.

Recommended next
Psychology of Social Situations
Social Psychology and Personality
Long-form lesson
Weighting distribution
5 categories
Social Psychology and Personality
20%
Cognition
20%
Development and Learning
20%
Mental and Physical Health
20%
Biological Bases of Behavior
20%

Skills

The comprehensive taxonomy of ap psychology — drill into a card to work its skills.

Social Psychology and Personality

7 core skills20% total weight
0/7 completed
7 skills to mastery
1
Psychology of Social SituationsRecommended
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2
Attitude Formation and Attitude ChangeAvailable
Long-form
3
Attribution Theory and Person PerceptionAvailable
Long-form
4
EmotionAvailable
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5
MotivationAvailable
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6
Psychodynamic and Humanistic Theories of PersonalityAvailable
Long-form
7
Social-Cognitive and Personality Trait TheoriesAvailable
Long-form

Cognition

8 core skills20% total weight
0/8 completed
8 skills to mastery
1
Retrieving MemoriesAvailable
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2
Introduction to MemoryAvailable
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3
Encoding MemoriesAvailable
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4
Forgetting and Other Memory ChallengesAvailable
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5
Intelligence and AchievementAvailable
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6
PerceptionAvailable
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7
Storing MemoriesAvailable
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8
Thinking, Problem-Solving, and Decision-MakingAvailable
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Development and Learning

9 core skills20% total weight
0/9 completed
9 skills to mastery
1
Classical ConditioningAvailable
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2
Cognitive Development Across the LifespanAvailable
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3
Communication and Language DevelopmentAvailable
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4
Gender and Sexual OrientationAvailable
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5
Operant ConditioningAvailable
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6
Physical Development Across the LifespanAvailable
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7
Social-Emotional Development Across the LifespanAvailable
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8
Social, Cognitive, Neurological Factors in LearningAvailable
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9
Themes and Methods in Developmental PsychologyAvailable
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Mental and Physical Health

5 core skills20% total weight
0/5 completed
5 skills to mastery
1
Explaining and Classifying Psychological DisordersAvailable
Long-form
2
Positive PsychologyAvailable
Long-form
3
Introduction to Health PsychologyAvailable
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4
Selection of Categories of Psychological DisordersAvailable
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5
Treatment of Psychological DisordersAvailable
Long-form

Biological Bases of Behavior

6 core skills20% total weight
0/6 completed
6 skills to mastery
1
Interaction of Heredity and EnvironmentAvailable
Long-form
2
Overview of the Nervous SystemAvailable
Long-form
3
SensationAvailable
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4
SleepAvailable
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5
The BrainAvailable
Long-form
6
The Neuron and Neural FiringAvailable
Long-form