AP Psychology flashcards

What's in it

Every deck follows the course outline, with tags you can study or suspend topic by topic. Open a deck to study its free sample right here.

Study guide

Topics covered

The decks follow the order of the course outline. Numbers are cards per topic.

• Research Methods 14
• Biological Bases 46
  • Brain Structures 11
  • Hemispheres 3
  • Nervous and Endocrine Systems 3
  • Neurons and Neurotransmitters 10
  • Sensation 6
  • Sleep and Dreams 8
  • Vision and Hearing 5
• Cognition 37
  • Perception 7
  • Intelligence 7
  • Memory 15
  • Thinking and Problem Solving 8
• Development and Learning 41
  • Classical Conditioning 8
  • Cognitive and Social Learning 5
  • Operant Conditioning 10
  • Cognitive Development 8
  • Language 3
  • Social Development 7
• Social Psychology and Personality 28
  • Motivation and Emotion 7
  • Personality 9
  • Social Psychology 12
• Mental and Physical Health 24
  • Disorders 11
  • Stress 4
  • Treatment 9

A study plan

• 7 new cards a day covers everything in a month, leaving the last weeks for review.
• 5 new cards a day covers everything in two months, leaving the last weeks for review.

Willys schedules reviews for you (FSRS spaced repetition), so the daily number above is only for new cards; reviews of what you have learned come back on their own. Study a topic's cards right after you meet it in class, suspend topics you have not reached yet, and use the app's quiz mode in the final two weeks.

How to get these decks

1. Install Willys on your iPhone, iPad or Mac — App Store. 14-day free trial, then $14.99 a year.
2. In Willys, tap Exam Library at the top of your Decks (or Browse Exam Library… under the + button), find the exam on its shelf or by search, tick it and tap Add.
3. Study. The exam comes in as its own collapsible folder, every card scheduled by FSRS spaced repetition. Nothing you already have is changed.

About these cards

Review status: Second-reader reviewed, with corrections applied.

Checked against:

• Checked against Myers' Psychology for the AP Course (reference only; no text copied).
• Topic coverage follows the five-unit AP Psychology course framework taught from 2024–25 (the AP name is used nominatively; no exam or course material reproduced).
• APA Dictionary of Psychology (dictionary.apa.org), NIH and MedlinePlus pages and the original studies, consulted as references; no text copied.
• Disorder descriptions follow the DSM-5-TR criteria at the level of detail taught in the AP course (reference only; no text copied).
• Facts also checked against the American Psychiatric Association's patient pages summarizing DSM-5-TR, NIMH and NIDCD health information pages (public domain U.S. government works), and the published research the cards draw on, including Loftus and Palmer (1974), Festinger and Carlsmith (1959), Dutton and Aron (1974), Fischer et al. (2011) and Philpot et al. (2020) (reference only; no text copied).
• APA Dictionary of Psychology (dictionary.apa.org), the MSD Manual Professional Version, PubMed records and the original studies, consulted as references; no text copied.
• Facts follow this folder's two study decks, which were checked against the references below and Myers' Psychology for the AP Course (reference only; no text copied).
• Disorder descriptions follow the DSM-5-TR criteria at the level of detail taught in the AP course (reference only; no text copied); scenarios are hypothetical and describe no real person.

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