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Every AP Psych Mnemonic I Found
Here are all the AP psych mnemonics I found on reddit!
Hippocampus: "Hippos never forget" - Deals with memory
Amygdala : "Amy is emo" - Deals with emotions, fear, etc.
OCEAN : The 5 Big Five personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
Really Cool Buffalo Grove Octopus: Rods and Cones to the Bipolar, Ganglion Cells and finally optic nerve
Short waves are blue - short & blue like Smurfs Long waves are red - “long and red” like Clifford Big (long) Red Dog.
Stages of Piaget Cognitive Development
Some people can fly - piaget’s stages: sensorymotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
My Sims game is running in slow devices - Erikson’s second word: Mistrust, Shame, Guilt, Inferiority, Role Confusion, Isolation, Stagnation, Despair
PCP - Kohlberg’s Moral development: Preconcentional, Conventional, Postconventional
Psych PORN: Proactive interference - Old learning interferes new, Retroactive interference - New learning interferes old
SAME: Sensory neurons Afferent, Motor neurons Efferent
Amygdala “angry amy” (volatile emotions)
Wernicke’s area - Wernicke’s What? - comprehensions problem
Broca’s Area - “broken speech” - inability to talk normally
Hyppothalamus - HyppothalaMOUTH - responsible for eating Laternal (i’m late for dinner) - makes u hungry if stimulated Ventoramedial (fat rat in V shape) - makes u feel full when stimulated
Hippocampus (i remember i saw a hippo on our campus): responsible for declarative explicit memories (i know, i remember)
cerebellum (little brain): responsible for movement and balance
pons (ponzzzz): responsible for REM sleep
SODA for the FRQs - Spacing, Order, Define, Analyze
Sally Pets Cats Frequently - Piaget Stages: Sensory Motor, Preoperational, Concerete, Former Operational
PEPSI: Proximity, Emotional, Physical, Similarity, Intellectual (why we form relationships)
Other Links I Found
Topic | Mnemonic Device | Meaning |
History/Approach | Woodstock Wolverines -Suck | Way to remember the creation of structuralism William Wundt-Structuralism |
History/Approach | Won’t James Fight | WJ-F William James- Functionalism |
History | Da’ Nerve of Descartes | Descartes first suggested the idea of pathways (Nerves) that carried signals from parts of our body to our brains…in a time in history when this wasn’t accepted…The nerve of him! |
Waves of Psychology through history | Individuals Getting Prepared Because its Expected IGPBE (speaking of you getting ready for the test…because…it’s expected) | Introspection, Gestalt, Psychoanalysis, Behaviorism, Eclectic |
Perspectives of Psychology | PCB=HENDS Panama City Beach= Hedonistic Endeavors Never Dare Stop | Psychoanalysis, Cognitive, Behavioral, Humanistic, Evolutionary, Neuroscience, Developmental, Socio-cultural |
Topic | Mnemonic Device | Meaning |
Neurotransmitters | GENES DAG | GABA , Endorphins, Norepinephrine, Epinephrine, Serotonin, Dopamine, Acetylcholine, Glutamate |
Broca’s Area | If Broca is broke no words you spoke | Way to remember the Broca’s area works to create speech. |
Wernicke Area | Wernicke’s says—She mak frern smeck? | Shows you don’t understand what is being said. |
Neural/ nerve direction | SAME | Sensory Afferent/Moto Efferent |
Lobes of the Brain | F-POT | Frontal, Parietal, Occipital, Temporal |
MPRTC | My Psychology Roommate Freaking Talks Crap Constantly | Parts of the brain working up from simple to more complex Medulla, Pons, Reticular Formation, Thalamus, Cerebral Cortex |
Piaget’s Stages | Stupid Piaget Creates Fuss | Sensory motor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, Formal Operational |
Erickson’s Stages | It's a song, to the tune of the Mickey Mouse song (M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E): "MSG, IRI, la la la(doesn’t mean anything, SD". | Each letter represents the second part of the stage (the negative thing), in order: |
Freud’s Psychosexual stages of Development | Owls Always Play Late Games (because owls are out at night…get it!...FUNNY) | Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genital |
Kohlberg | PCP- Like the drug…but not! | Pre-Conventional- reward and punishment decide morals Conventional- Friends and society decide Post-Conventional- You decide |
Topic | Mnemonic Device | Meaning |
Monocular Cues | SLIT-R | Things you can detect with one eye that you can tell distance/position; Size, Linier perspective, Interposition, Texture gradient - Relative size |
Binocular Cues | RC | Things you need both eyes to detect distance/position. Retinal Disparity Convergence |
Laws of Perceptual grouping | Law of - PCCPS Psychology Can Cause Psychosis in Students | Law of Proximity-If they are close you see them as a group Law of Continuity- Gestalt- you brain wants to continue things together Law of (Closure) -Gestalt- things that seem to have edges can be closed together into objects even if they don’t exisit Law of Pragnanz- Gestalt- simplest thing emerges first Law of Similarity- like things are grouped first |
Topic | Mnemonic Device | Meaning |
Stages of Sleep (Sleep Waves) | Awake Stage 1-T Stage 2-S Stages 3-4-D As The Sleep Deepens | Awake- Alpha Waves Stage 1- Theta Waves Stage2- Sleep Spindles Stages 3/4 – Delta Waves |
REM | REM | Rapid Eye Movement ---it’s a Mnemonic on its own |
Sleep Disorders | NSSN IBM New System Software Now! IBM | Narcolepsy: A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks. Somnambulism: Sleepwalking. The sleepwalker can walk, talk and see, but will have little or no memory of the event when they wake up. Night Terrors: A sleep related problem characterized by high alertness and an appearance of being terrified. Sleep apnea: A sleep disorder characterized by a temporary stoppage in breathing forcing the person to wake up. Insomnia: Recurring problems fall or staying asleep. Bruxism: Teeth grinding. Myoclonus: Sudden movement or flinch of a body part occurring in Stage 1 or 2. |
Biological Rhythms of life | ICU- Intensive Care Unit. Where you’d be unconscious…probably | Infradian Rhythms: Occur once a month or a season. Ex. Bears hibernating Circadian Rhythms: Occur once during a 24 hour period. Ex. The sleep-wake cycle. Ultradian Rhythms: Occur more than once a day. Ex. The various stages of sleep each night. |
Major drug categories and actions | SHD She Has Drugs | Stimulates, Hallucinogens, Depressants |
Topic | Mnemonic Device | Meaning |
Classical Conditioning | Cherokee County Police Department (CCPD) | Classical Conditioning-Pavlov’s Dog |
Operant Conditioning | Best Friends Support Our Craziness (BFS-OC) | B.F.Skinner-Operant Conditioning |
Schedules for rewards and punishment in Operant Conditioning | FI VI FR VR | Fixed Internal- set amount of time before reward Variable Interval-changes amount of time before reward Fixed Ratio- set amount of answers before reward Variable Ratio-don’t know how many answers before reward |
Bandura and BOBO | Bandura showed with BOBO that babies would behave badly because they saw beatings | Bandura showed that children who saw violent behavior would act more violent |
Topic | Mnemonic Device | Meaning |
Information/Memory Process | SSSL Sally Sassafras Should Learn Sensory input ->Sensory Memory -> Short-term memory-> Long-term memory | |
Why/How we forget | PMS TABB | Persistence- can’t put other memories out of our mind. Misattribution- wrong association of place or time Suggestibility- others cause us to forget because we are suggested to (this one is un-intentional) Transience- we forget more over time Absent-Mindedness- lapses in attention Blocking- forgetting because of interference in remembering Bias- others influencing us to see it their way (this one is intentional) |
Topic | Mnemonic Device | Meaning |
Defense Mechanisms | R4 D2 ISP | Repression, Regression, Rationalization, Reaction Formation, Displacement, Denial, Intellectualizing, Sublimation, Projection |
Carl Rogers’s Person-Centered Perspective | AGE | Acceptance, Genuineness, Empathy |
Five-Factor Theory | ACE EO All Cell Eventual Evolve Open |
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Topic | Mnemonic Device | Meaning |
Types of Disorders | Think of it like a new medical show about a doctor that helps mental patients Spades… It would be called SPADES MD. | Schizophrenia Personality Anxiety Developmental Eating Somatoform Mood Disassoative |
