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\n6-8% methods and approaches –(chapter 1)  \n8-10% biological bases of behavior –(chapter 2, 3, 14) 7-9% sensation and perception –(chapter 5, 6)  \n2-4% states of consciousness –(chapter 7)  \n7-9% learning –(chapter 8)  \n8-10% cognition –(chapter 9, 10)  \n7-9% motivation and emotion –(chapter 12, 13)  \n7-9% developmental psychology –(chapter 4)  \n6-8% personality –(chapter 15)  \n5-7% testing and individual differences –(chapter 11) 7-9% abnormal psychology –(chapter 16)  \n5-7% treatment of psychological disorders –(chapter 17) 7-9% social psychology –(chapter 18)  \nFamous People to Know  \nFrances Galton: maintained that personality and ability depend almost entirely on genetic inheritance (human traits are inherited)  \nCharles Darwin: theory of evolution, survival of the fittest-origin of the species  \nWilliam Wundt: introspection-psychology became the scientific study of conscious experience (rather than science); father of modern or scientific psychology; structuralism was the approach and introspection was the methodology  \nJohn Watson: founder of behaviorism; generalization; applied classical conditioning skills to advertising; most famous for Little Albert experiment, where he first trained Albert to be afraid of rats and then to generalize his fear to all small, white animals  \nAlfred Adler: Neo-Freudian; believed that childhood social, not sexual, tensions are crucial for personality formation; believed that people are primarily searching or self-esteem and achieving the ideal self  \nCarl Jung: disciple of Freud who extended his theories; believed in a collective unconscious as well as a personal unconscious that is aware of ancient archetypes which we inherit from our ancestors and we see in myths (young warrior, wise man of the village, loving mother, etc.); coined the terms introversion and extroversion  \nGordon Allport: three levels of traits--1. cardinal trait-dominant trait that characterizes your life, 2. central trait-common to all people, 3. secondary trait-surfaces in some situations and not in others  \nAlbert Ellis: father of Rational Emotive Therapy, which focuses on altering client’s patterns of irrational thinking to reduce maladaptive behavior and emotion (like,“if I fail the AP exam my life will come to an end”)  \nAlbert Maslow: humanist psychologist who said we have a series of needs which must be met; you can’t achieve the top level, selfactualization, unless the previous levels have been achieved; from bottom to top the levels are physiological needs, safety, belonging, self-esteem, self-actualization; lower needs dominate and individual’s motivation as long as they are unsatisfied  \nCarl Rogers: humanistic psychologist who believed in unconditional positive regard; people will naturally strive for selfactualization and high self-esteem, unless society taints them; reflected back clients thoughts so that they developed a selfawareness or their feelings; client-centered therapy  \nB.F. Skinner: operant conditioning--techniques to manipulate the consequences of an organism’s behavior in order to observe the effects of subsequent behavior; Skinner box; believed psychology was not scientific enough; wanted it to be believed everyone is born tableau rosa (blank slate); NOT concerned with unconscious or cause, only behavior  \nIvan Pavlov: father of classical conditioning--an unconditional stimulus naturally elicits a reflexive behavior called an unconditional response, but with repeated pairings with a neutral stimulus, the neutral stimulus will elicit the response  \nNoam Chomsky: believed there are an infinite number of sentences in a language and that humans have an inborn native ability to  \ndevelop language; words and concepts are learned but the brain is hardwired for grammar and language  \nJean Piaget: four-state theory of cognitive development--sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational","cbCairmyOP9ncfTV","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairmyOP9ncfTV","pdf",290568,12,"English","# Breakdown of Question Categories\n## 2-4% history\n## 6-8% methods and approaches\n## 8-10% biological bases of behavior\n## 7-9% sensation and perception\n## 2-4% states of consciousness\n## 7-9% learning\n## 8-10% cognition\n## 7-9% motivation and emotion\n## 7-9% developmental psychology\n## 6-8% personality\n## 5-7% testing and individual differences\n## 7-9% abnormal psychology\n## 5-7% treatment of psychological disorders\n## 7-9% social psychology\n# Famous People to Know\n## Frances Galton\n## Charles Darwin\n## William Wundt\n## John Watson\n## Alfred Adler\n## Carl Jung\n## Gordon Allport\n## Albert Ellis\n## Abraham Maslow\n## Carl Rogers\n## B.F. Skinner\n## Ivan Pavlov\n## Noam Chomsky\n## Jean Piaget\n## Erik Erikson\n## Lawrence Kohlberg\n## Carol Gilligan\n## Hans Eysenck\n## S. Schacter\n## Mary Cover Jones\n## Benjamin Whorf\n## Robert Sternberg\n## Howard Gardner\n## Albert Bandura\n## E.L. Thorndike\n## Alfred Binet\n## Lewis Terman\n## David Wechsler\n## Charles Spearman","[{\"question\":\"How is the AP Psychology exam content distributed by question category?\",\"answer\":\"The review lists approximate percentage ranges for each domain, including history, methods, biological bases, sensation and perception, learning, cognition, motivation and emotion, developmental psychology, personality, testing and individual differences, abnormal psychology, treatment, and social psychology.\"},{\"question\":\"Which famous theorists are included and what are they known for?\",\"answer\":\"The packet highlights major figures such as Darwin, Wundt, Watson, Skinner, Pavlov, Jung, Maslow, Rogers, Chomsky, Piaget, Erikson, Kohlberg, and others, each paired with a concise summary of their key theories or experiments.\"},{\"question\":\"What learning and conditioning topics are emphasized in the review?\",\"answer\":\"The review connects learning content with major conditioning frameworks through theorists like Watson (behaviorism), Skinner (operant conditioning), and Pavlov (classical conditioning), along with related concepts such as generalization and experimental approaches.\"}]","AP Psychology Exam Review - Breakdown of Question Categories - Famous People to Know | PDF",1790052026]