AP Psychology
  • Course Overview
    • Syllabus
    • Class rules and expectations
  • Subjects
    • History and Approaches >
      • Research Methods
    • Biological Bases of Behavior
    • Sensation and Perception
    • States of Consciousness
    • Learning
    • Cognition
    • Motivation and Emotion
    • Developmental Psychology
    • Personality
    • Testing and Individual Differences
    • Abnormal Behavior
    • Treatment of Abnormal Behavior
    • Social Psychology
  • Summer Work
    • Module 1
    • Module 2
    • Module 3
    • Module 4
    • Module 5
    • Module 6
  • Review Materials Days 1 & 2
  • Review Materials Days 3 & 4
  • Review Material Day 5

Cognition

Textbook Reading

Chapter 7: pages 245 - 274
Chapter Summary- memory
Chapter Summary-cognition
Go Cognitive
Review Key Terms
Psychology Today Articles
Study Shack Review Games
Loftus on Eyewitness Testimony
H.M.'s Brain and the History of Memory
VII. Cognition (8–10%)
In this unit students learn how humans convert sensory input into kinds of 
information . They examine how humans learn, remember, and retrieve information .
This part of the course also addresses problem solving, language, and creativity .
AP students in psychology should be able to do the following:
• Compare and contrast various cognitive processes:
— effortful versus automatic processing;
— deep versus shallow processing;
— focused versus divided attention .
• Describe and differentiate psychological and physiological systems of memory 
(e .g ., short-term memory, procedural memory) .
• Outline the principles that underlie effective encoding, storage, and construction 
of memories .
• Describe strategies for memory improvement .
• Synthesize how biological, cognitive, and cultural factors converge to facilitate 
acquisition, development, and use of language .
• Identify problem-solving strategies as well as factors that influence their 
effectiveness .
• List the characteristics of creative thought and creative thinkers .
• Identify key contributors in cognitive psychology (e .g ., Noam Chomsky, 
Hermann Ebbinghaus, Wolfgang Köhler, Elizabeth Loftus, George A . Miller) 
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