Mind

AP Psychology Outline Chapter 5: Variations in Consciousness ? Red?? Definition Blue?- Important Points Green?- Important People & Contributions ? Nature of Consciousness Consciousness ? the awareness of Internal and External stimuli. ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????i.??????You?re ?Stream of Consciousness? Zig-Zags in all directions. Variations in Levels of Awareness ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????i.??????Freud?s Arguments 1.????????Unconscious Needs, Wishes, and Conflicts influence Behavior and Feelings. 2.????????Conscious and Unconscious are Different Levels of Awareness. 3.????????Consciousness is not an All-Or-None process.

Grant Clay Period 3 10/5/08 AP Psychology Outline Chapter 7: Memory Red ? Definition Blue - Important Points Green - Important People & Contributions Memory Encoding ? Forming Memory Code. Storage ? Maintaining Encoded Information in Memory over Time. Retrieval ? Recovering Information from Memory Stores. Forgetting is due to deficiencies in any of 3 Processes in Memory. Encoding: Getting Information into Memory Attention ? Focusing Awareness on a narrowed range of Stimuli or Events. You need to pay attention to Information if you intend to remember it. Focusing your attention in 2 or more places at once causes large reduction in memory performance and motor performance. Levels of Processing

Grant Clay Period 3 10/25/08 AP Psychology Outline Chapter 10: Motivation & Emotion Red ? Definition Blue - Important Points Green - Important People & Contributions Motivational Theories & Concepts Motivation ? Involves Goal-Directed Behavior Drive Theories Homeostasis ? A State of Physiological Equilibrium or Stability. Drive ? An Internal State of Tension that Motivates an Organism to Engage in Activities that should Reduce this Tension. When you Experience Discomfort, An Internal Drive motivates you to Establish Homeostasis again. Drive Theories Don?t Explain All Motivation. Incentive Theory Incentive ? An External Goal that has the Capacity to Motivate Behavior. Incentive Theory revolves around External Stimuli, Not Internal like Drive Theory.

Grant Clay Period 3 11/11/08 AP Psychology Outline Chapter 13: Stress, Coping, and Health Red ? Definition Blue - Important Points Green - Important People & Contributions Biopsychosocial Model ? Physical Illness is caused by an interaction of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors. Health Psychology ? How Psychosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of health and with the causation, prevention, and treatment of illness. Stress ? Any Circumstance that threatens or is perceived to threaten one?s well being and that thereby tax ones coping abilities. Stress has a Cumulative Nature. The Feeling of Stress depends upon how one interprets a situation. Acute Stressors ? Threatening Events that have a Relatively Short Duration and a clear Endpoint.