AP Psychology Science Practices Note Guide
Before you begin reading, consider the following:
• To maintain academic integrity and maximize your learning, each response should
be answered in your own words. Please do not copy and paste from the textbook or another
source.
• Successful students:
• develop their own note-taking strategies as they work through the course.
You can use bullets, paraphrasing, acronyms, etc. The goal is to create a way to process
the information you are reading in a way that makes sense to you and helps you
remember it most accurately.
• master the definitions for the key vocabulary for each lesson. You can
define the terms in your note guide or use note cards. Some students use an online source
to create digital flashcards.
• Note that modules in your e-text are not aligned with modules in the course. Read
the modules in the e-text that are assigned with each lesson.
Lesson 1.01 The Scientific Attitude, Critical Thinking, and Developing Arguments
Read Unit 0 Introduction and Modules 0.1–0.2 in the e-text. Complete the note guide as you read.
Key Vocabulary
Be sure you know the meaning of the following terms from the lesson:
• critical thinking
• hindsight bias
• confirmation bias
• overconfidence
Module 0.1 The Scientific Attitude, Critical Thinking, and Developing Arguments
⇒ In Your Own Words
Summarize what it means to have a “scientific attitude.” How do you think this will
be applied to your work in this course? How does this apply to you in real life?
scientific attitude means how you think on something. In this course I think it’ll be
applied to how you should always question things and how to gather evidence and
let it lead you to how it should go. I think t apples in real life on how we question
how to do assignments or how food is processed.
Module 0.2 The Need for Psychological Science
Guided reading questions:
0.2-1.1 How does the text explain common sense? That even if common sense may seem right its not
100 percent right it needs to scientifically proven
0.2-1.2 Explain the “roadblocks” to critical thinking. Give personal examples of each.
When thinking about roadblock I think like its me trying to figure out why my friends upset at me
Roadblock
Explanation
, Personal example
Hindsight bias
“I-knew-it-all-
along”
Its when you though of something and after it happened and it had the same outcome you were
thinking of you get that satisfactorily of knowing it
When I take a test and I have a strong appeal that that answer is wrong and when I see the results
it is wrong
Overconfidence
Being over confident in thinking that its right but its not justified
When I think doing one chore should take me 10 minute but instead took me an hour
⇒ In Your Own Words
Why are science-based answers to questions more reliable than common sense?
When looking at common sense you have nothing to prove or project on compared
if its scientifically proven there’s nothing that could prove you wrong
From the Lesson
Write a summary of each psychological perspective described in the lesson. Include a list of key
vocabulary. The first one has been completed for you as an example.
Perspective
Explanation
Psychodynamic
the belief that the unconscious drives thoughts and behaviors; unconscious, repressed
Behavioral
When thinking that you can change how a kid behaves just by favoring the others and giving
better grades
Humanistic
Humans should be given there own rights to live up to there potential with no one to hold them
back with free self explanation
Cognitive
How you mentally process knowledge and how its thought out
Biological
Understanding the phycology behind the behavior, chemical, and nervous system in a human
brain
Sociocultural
How every culture has there own regality that a lot of others think it irregularly
Evolutionary
This is how genes are processed and passed on
Biopsychosocial
How thoughts and action come to play when biological, psychological, and sociocultural
Lesson 1.02 The Scientific Method, Correlation, and Experimentation
Read Unit 0, Modules 0.3–0.4 in the e-text. Complete the note guide as you read.
Key Vocabulary
Be sure you know the meaning of the following terms from the lesson:
Before you begin reading, consider the following:
• To maintain academic integrity and maximize your learning, each response should
be answered in your own words. Please do not copy and paste from the textbook or another
source.
• Successful students:
• develop their own note-taking strategies as they work through the course.
You can use bullets, paraphrasing, acronyms, etc. The goal is to create a way to process
the information you are reading in a way that makes sense to you and helps you
remember it most accurately.
• master the definitions for the key vocabulary for each lesson. You can
define the terms in your note guide or use note cards. Some students use an online source
to create digital flashcards.
• Note that modules in your e-text are not aligned with modules in the course. Read
the modules in the e-text that are assigned with each lesson.
Lesson 1.01 The Scientific Attitude, Critical Thinking, and Developing Arguments
Read Unit 0 Introduction and Modules 0.1–0.2 in the e-text. Complete the note guide as you read.
Key Vocabulary
Be sure you know the meaning of the following terms from the lesson:
• critical thinking
• hindsight bias
• confirmation bias
• overconfidence
Module 0.1 The Scientific Attitude, Critical Thinking, and Developing Arguments
⇒ In Your Own Words
Summarize what it means to have a “scientific attitude.” How do you think this will
be applied to your work in this course? How does this apply to you in real life?
scientific attitude means how you think on something. In this course I think it’ll be
applied to how you should always question things and how to gather evidence and
let it lead you to how it should go. I think t apples in real life on how we question
how to do assignments or how food is processed.
Module 0.2 The Need for Psychological Science
Guided reading questions:
0.2-1.1 How does the text explain common sense? That even if common sense may seem right its not
100 percent right it needs to scientifically proven
0.2-1.2 Explain the “roadblocks” to critical thinking. Give personal examples of each.
When thinking about roadblock I think like its me trying to figure out why my friends upset at me
Roadblock
Explanation
, Personal example
Hindsight bias
“I-knew-it-all-
along”
Its when you though of something and after it happened and it had the same outcome you were
thinking of you get that satisfactorily of knowing it
When I take a test and I have a strong appeal that that answer is wrong and when I see the results
it is wrong
Overconfidence
Being over confident in thinking that its right but its not justified
When I think doing one chore should take me 10 minute but instead took me an hour
⇒ In Your Own Words
Why are science-based answers to questions more reliable than common sense?
When looking at common sense you have nothing to prove or project on compared
if its scientifically proven there’s nothing that could prove you wrong
From the Lesson
Write a summary of each psychological perspective described in the lesson. Include a list of key
vocabulary. The first one has been completed for you as an example.
Perspective
Explanation
Psychodynamic
the belief that the unconscious drives thoughts and behaviors; unconscious, repressed
Behavioral
When thinking that you can change how a kid behaves just by favoring the others and giving
better grades
Humanistic
Humans should be given there own rights to live up to there potential with no one to hold them
back with free self explanation
Cognitive
How you mentally process knowledge and how its thought out
Biological
Understanding the phycology behind the behavior, chemical, and nervous system in a human
brain
Sociocultural
How every culture has there own regality that a lot of others think it irregularly
Evolutionary
This is how genes are processed and passed on
Biopsychosocial
How thoughts and action come to play when biological, psychological, and sociocultural
Lesson 1.02 The Scientific Method, Correlation, and Experimentation
Read Unit 0, Modules 0.3–0.4 in the e-text. Complete the note guide as you read.
Key Vocabulary
Be sure you know the meaning of the following terms from the lesson:
