AP Psych Unit 2A: Perception - 29 terms
AP Psych Unit 2B: Cognition - 88 Terms
AP Psych Unit 2C: Intelligence and Testing - 23 terms
Unit 2 Science Practices Materials Page for Unit 2 Slides (in Google Classroom - you'll need permission to see it if you are not enrolled in the course)
Types of Memory - Get an interactive look at the information processing model. From the University of Utah Genetic Science Learning Center
How We Make Memories - Crash Course Psychology #13 - 9:54 - A good intro to memory (recall, recognition, and relearning), and many memory related ideas...like the information processing model (sensory, short term and long term memories), working memory, explicit and implicit processing, some types of long term memory types (procedural and episodic), and tips for remembering things (mnemonics, chunking, shallow and deep processing, and making personal connections to information to better remember it.)
Remembering and Forgetting - Crash Course Psychology #14 - 10:17 - A really good rundown of all sorts of memory and forgetting issues, including explicit and implicit memories, retrieval cues, context dependent and mood congruent memories, the serial position effect (primacy and recency), storage decay, retrieval failure, proactive and retroactive interference, the misinformation effect, and source misattribution.
Cognition: How Your Mind Can Amaze and Betray You - Crash Course Psychology #15 - 10:41n-nConcepts and prototypes (and how these can speed thinking, help us solve problems and also form prejudices), problem solving strategies (trial and error, algorithms and heuristics, insight), cognitive errors (confirmation bias, belief perseverance, functional fixedness, mental sets, the availability heuristic, and framing).
Language: Crash Course Psychology #16 - 10:01
Here are some videos from Tim Steadman's "Get Psyched with Tim Steadman" that you might find helpful.
Unit 5 Review - Cognition (33:46)
Experimenting with Sensory Memory (7:12)
Testing Your Memory (11:54)
Thinking and Problem Solving (9:16)
Memory: Proactive & Retroactive Interference (1:30) - ByPass Publishing's Difficult Topics Explained series. Quick enough to run through several times, in case you're experiencing some kind of interference.
Proactive versus Retroactive Interference (2:44) - Not exactly a professional presentation, but this one contains numerous examples with practice.
Controversy of Intelligence: Crash Course Psychology #23 - 12:39
Brains Vs. Bias: Crash Course Psychology #24 - 11:04
How "gritty" are you? Why not give Angela Duckworth's "Grit Scale" Assessment a try?
The Real Rain Man - a documentary about savantism 46:08