Live AP Psych Review Session - Part 1: Top 100-51 FRQ Terms (Old Test Format)

This is part one in a two part series that covers the TOP 100 most important AP Psychology Free Response Question (FRQ) Terms.

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Additional Important Info:

39:47 If any of the Kurt Lewin's Types of Conflict come up on the FRQ, be sure to mention that one may feel TENSION when making a decision between any of the choices.

57:39 Self-actualization: If the FRQ prompt wants you to talk about how a person performing a certain task relates to self-actualization, you can say something like, "If Bobby dedicates himself to becoming the BEST basketball (or whatever the skill/task is) player ever, he will achieve self-actualization."

1:08:39 A theory behind why your muscles are immobile during REM sleep is so that you don't act out while dreaming. For example, if you're dreaming about running, you don't want to be moving your arms and legs as if you were running while laying down in bed.

1:40:35 Please note: The endocrine system is the body's slow messenger system because it transmits its hormone messages via the BLOODSTREAM, and it can take a long time for those hormone messages to travel around the circulatory system to deliver its messages.

Additionally, even after an event that increases one's arousal (a car accident, being chased by a bad guy, etc.) is OVER, one can often still feel the LINGERING effects of the hormones that the endocrine system secreted during the event because it just takes longer for those messages to do their job and dissipate throughout the body. For example, if someone knocks on your door at night and you don't know who it is, your body's alert system is going to kick in. One of the processes that will happen when your body's alert system kicks in is that the hormone adrenaline will be released into the blood stream. Well, as it turns out, the person who knocked on your door is your best friend; but, even after finding out that it was your best friend who knocked on your door, you may still feel the linger effects of that adrenaline which is still traveling through your bloodstream even though the "emergency" is over.

A key term that didn't make the list, but tends to show up a lot is the MERE EXPOSURE EFFECT, which is where an individual begins to like a stimulus (like a song, painting, etc.) or person after repeatedly encountering said stimulus or person. In other words, the INITIALLY don't like that person/stimulus, but they start to LIKE that person/stimulus after repeatedly encountering or interacting with it.

0:00 Intro
1:57 (Bonus) Serial Position Effect
3:20 100) Closure (Gestalt Psychology)
4:22 99) Proximity (Gestalt Psychology)
5:08 98) Figure Ground
6:11 97) Reciprocity Norm
6:33 96) Group Polarization
8:07 95/94) Confirmation Bias & Belief Perseverance
10:50 93) Self-serving Bias
12:05 92) Stereotype Threat
13:42 91/90) Foot-in-the-Door & Door-in-the-Face Phenomenon
16:09 89) Hostile & Instrumental Aggression
17:07 88) Afferent (Sensory) vs. Efferent (Motor) Neurons
18:26 87) Long Term Potentiation
20:10 (Bonus) Arousal
22:06 Nervous System Overview (Sympathetic & Parasympathetic)
23:58 86) Arousal Theory
25:35 85) Theories of Emotion
31:12 84) Cerebellum
33:14 83) Language and the Brain (Broca’s & Wernicke Areas + Angular Gyrus)
36:40 82) Inattentional Blindness (Selective Attention)
38:16 81) Cocktail Party Effect
39:07 80) Tolman’s Cognitive Maps
39:47 79) Kurt Lewin’s Types of Conflict
41:47 78) Habituation
42:42 77) Algorithm
44:04 76) Framing
44:47 75) Source Amnesia/Source Misattribution
45:27 74) Chunking
48:08 73) Functional Fixedness
49:54 72) Mental Set
50:56 71) Reciprocal Determinism
52:20 70/69) External & Internal Locus of Control
53:32 68) Learned Helplessness & Positive Psychology
57:15 (Bonus) Humanistic Psychology
57:39 67) Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
59:19 66) Carl Rogers’ Unconditional Positive Regard
1:02:27 65) Self-esteem
1:04:00 64) Measures of Central Tendency & Range
1:05:48 63) Standard Deviation
1:08:12 62) Circadian Rhythm
1:08:39 61) REM Sleep
1:10:50 60) Correlation Coefficient (r-values)
1:14:11 59) Parenting Styles
1:16:09 58) Freud’s Defense Mechanisms
1:17:25 57) Kohlberg’s Moral Development
1:22:28 56) Piaget’s Cognitive Development Stages
1:29:40 55) Erikson’s Psychosocial Development
1:35:32 54) Absolute Threshold (Gustav Fechner)
1:38:29 53) Difference Threshold (Just Noticeable Difference)
1:40:35 52) Adrenal Glands (Endocrine System)
1:41:47 51) Hans Selye’s General Adaptation Syndrome (G.A.S.)
1:45:19 Additional Test Tips & Terms

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[peytonstiles]

for broca’s and wernicke’s i like to think “if broca is broken no word is spoken, and understanding is tricky if you damage wernicke”!!

[theschoolofireland]

Best wishes to the students taking the test tomorrow (2024)!!!!

[coldmommy-pepi]

Honestly the best review video for AP psych
I got a 5 on this year's exam, and this video definitely played a big part in it. I felt really nervous taking the exam, and i kept forgetting the terms, so this video really helped me more that you can ever imagine

Thanks a lot

Definitely reccomending this to anybody taking the psych exam

[rosasgf]

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[miasavino]

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[Riri-xeuc]

I have the AP psych exam this Thursday and I feel completely prepared thanks to you, so thanks so much!!!

[arianna.rodriguez]

AP exam tomorrow at 12:00 pm hope this helps me out. thanks for the video sir !!

[theschoolofireland]

Additional Important Info:

39:47 If any of the Kurt Lewin's Types of Conflict come up on the FRQ, be sure to mention that one may feel TENSION when making a decision between any of the choices.

57:39 Self-actualization: If the FRQ prompt wants you to talk about how a person performing a certain task relates to self-actualization, you can say something like, "If Bobby dedicates himself to becoming the BEST basketball (or whatever the skill/task is) player ever, he will achieve self-actualization."

1:08:39 A theory behind why your muscles are immobile during REM sleep is so that you don't act out while dreaming. For example, if you're dreaming about running, you don't want to be moving your arms and legs as if you were running while laying down in bed.

1:40:35 Please note: The endocrine system is the body's slow messenger system because it transmits its hormone messages via the BLOODSTREAM, and it can take a long time for those hormone messages to travel around the circulatory system to deliver its messages.

Additionally, even after an event that increases one's arousal (a car accident, being chased by a bad guy, etc.) is OVER, one can often still feel the LINGERING effects of the hormones that the endocrine system secreted during the event because it just takes longer for those messages to do their job and dissipate throughout the body. For example, if someone knocks on your door at night and you don't know who it is, your body's alert system is going to kick in. One of the processes that will happen when your body's alert system kicks in is that the hormone adrenaline will be released into the blood stream. Well, as it turns out, the person who knocked on your door is your best friend; but, even after finding out that it was your best friend who knocked on your door, you may still feel the linger effects of that adrenaline which is still traveling through your bloodstream even though the "emergency" is over.


A key term that didn't make the list, but tends to show up a lot is the MERE EXPOSURE EFFECT, which is where an individual begins to like a stimulus (like a song, painting, etc.) or person after repeatedly encountering said stimulus or person. In other words, the INITIALLY don't like that person/stimulus, but they start to LIKE that person/stimulus after repeatedly encountering or interacting with it.

[emilytodd]

i want to sincerely thank you. i watched your top 100 frq terms last night and that is seriously the only reason why i cooked the frq. if i didn’t watch you video i would’ve been cooked and in all honesty i would’ve known zero of the vocab on the frq. thank

[havensong]

I found you on tiktok and this is so helpful. THANK YOU

[yuckciera]

i’m only 30 minutes in but i feel way more confident regarding the test, thank you so much!

[ashleyosorio]

Also Broca’s area can be remembered by saying boca! Boca in Spanish means mouth! :)

[alexdaman]

After watching this, I do indeed feel like an all-star

[bogatti]

I have my exam tomorrow. Pray for me 🙏

[Cat-ikp]

Thank you so much Mr. Ireland! This is incredibly helpful!

[mannxel]

For afferent and efferent think SAME (sensory afferent motor efferent)

[abby.tucker]

reciprocal determination- environment, person, and behavior all influence each other

[rosasgf]

This helped me understand so much. Thank you!!

[nekkomemes]

Made Flashcards before the test, hopfully my internal locus of controll will have my back before this test.🙏🙏🙏🙏

[cristinalopez]

Thank you so much, your videos have helped me so much