Strive for a 5: Preparing for the AP* Psychology Exam (Myers AP)

About the Book

Strive for a 5 Preparing for the AP® Psychology Examination provides a thorough review of psychology with essential tips for test preparation. Designed to align with the second edition of Myers’ Psychology for AP®, Strive for a 5 gives you the practice you need to succeed in the AP® Psychology course and on the exam.

The book has a study guide section that corresponds to each textbook unit/module and a test preparation section.

Table of Contents:
Preface.-  UNIT I Psychology’s History and Approaches.- Module 1: Psychology’s History.- Module 2: Psychology's Big Issues and Approaches.- Module 3: Careers in Psychology.- UNIT II Research Methods: Thinking Critically With Psychological Science.- Module 4: The Need for Psychological Science.- Module 5: The Scientific Method and Description.- Module 6: Correlation and Experimentation.- Module 7: Statistical Reasoning in Everyday Life.- Module 8: Frequently Asked Questions About Psychology.- Unit III Biological Bases of Behavior.- Module 9: Biological Psychology and Neurotransmission.- Module 10: The Nervous and Endocrine Systems.- Module 11: Studying the Brain, and Older Brain Structures.- Module 12: The Cerebral Cortex.- Module 13: Brain Hemisphere Organization and the Biology of Consciousness.- Module 14: Behavior Genetics: Predicting Individual Differences.- Module 15: Evolutionary Psychology: Understanding Human Nature.- Unit IV Sensation and Perception.- Module 16: Basic Principles of Sensation and Perception.- Module 17: Influences on Perception.- Module 18: Vision.- Module 19: Visual Organization and Interpretation.- Module 20: Hearing.- Module 21: The Other Senses.- Unit V States of Consciousness.- Module 22: Understanding Consciousness and Hypnosis.- Module 23: Sleep Patterns and Sleep Theories.- Module 24: Sleep Deprivation, Sleep Disorders, and Dreams.- Module 25: Psychoactive Drugs.- Unit VI Learning.- Module 26: How We Learn and Classical Conditioning.- Module 27: Operant Conditioning.- Module 28: Operant Conditioning’s Applications, and Comparison to Classical Conditioning.- Module 29: Biology, Cognition, and Learning.- Module 30: Learning by Observation.- Unit VII Cognition.- Module 31: Studying and Building Memories.- Module 32: Memory Storage and Retrieval.- Module 33: Forgetting, Memory Construction, and Memory Improvement.- Module 34: Thinking, Concepts, and Creativity.- Module 35: Solving Problems and Making Decisions.- Module 36: Thinking and Language.- Unit VIII Motivation, Emotion, and Stress.- Module 37: Motivational Concepts.- Module 38: Hunger Motivation.- Module 39: Sexual Motivation.- Module 40: Social Motivation: Affiliation Needs.- Module 41: Theories and Physiology of Emotion.- Module 42: Expressed Emotion.- Module 43: Stress and Health.- Module 44: Stress and Illness.- Unit IX Developmental Psychology.- Module 45: Developmental Issues, Prenatal Development, and the Newborn.- Module 46: Infancy and Childhood: Physical Development.- Module 47: Infancy and Childhood: Cognitive Development.- Module 48: Infancy and Childhood: Social Development.- Module 49: Gender Development.- Module 50: Parents, Peers, and Early Experience.- Module 51: Adolescence: Physical and Cognitive Development.- Module 52: Adolescence: Social Development and Emerging Adulthood.- Module 53: Sexual Development.- Module 54: Adulthood: Physical, Cognitive, and Social Development.- Unit X Personality.- Module 55: Freud’s Psychoanalytic Perspective: Exploring the Unconscious.- Module 56: Psychodynamic Theories and Modern Views of the Unconscious.- Module 57: Humanistic Theories.- Module 58: Trait Theories.- Module 59: Social-Cognitive Theories and Exploring the Self.- Unit XI Testing and Individual Differences.- Module 60: Introduction to Intelligence.- Module 61: Assessing Intelligence.- Module 62: The Dynamics of Intelligence.- Module 63: Studying Genetic and Environmental Influences on Intelligence.- Module 64: Group Differences and the Question of Bias.- Unit XII Abnormal Behavior.- Module 65: Introduction to Psychological Disorders.- Module 66: Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.- Module 67: Mood Disorders.- Module 68: Schizophrenia.- Module 69: Other Disorders.- Unit XIII Treatment of Abnormal Behavior.- Module 70: Introduction to Therapy, and Psychodynamic and Humanistic Therapies.- Module 71: Behavior, Cognitive, and Group Therapies.- Module 72: Evaluating Psychotherapies and Prevention Strategies.- Module 73: The Biomedical Therapies.- Unit XIV Social Psychology.- Module 74: Attribution, Attitudes, and Actions.- Module 75: Conformity and Obedience.- Module 76: Group Behavior.- Module 77: Prejudice and Discrimination.- Module 78: Aggression.- Module 79: Attraction.- Module 80: Altruism, Conflict, and Peacemaking Enrichment Module.- Module 81: Influences on Drug Use.- Module 82: Psychology at Work.- Module 83: Experienced Emotion: Anger and Happiness.- Module 84: Human Flourishing.- Module 85: Animal Thinking and Language.- Preparing for the AP® Psychology Examination.- Practice Exam 1.- Practice Exam 2

About the Author :
David Myers received his B.A. in chemistry from Whitworth University, and his psychology Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He has spent his career at Hope College, Michigan, where he has taught dozens of introductory psychology sections. Hope College students have invited him to be their commencement speaker and voted him "outstanding professor."