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[cassiiia]

AP Psychology notes + Resources and stuff

notes + flashcards that I used 2 study (not all my resources, found online)

Notes

Summary of every unit (16 pages)

A longer summary of every unit (53 pages)

Knowt AP Psych Guide

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Unit 1 Notes - Intro to Psychology

Unit 2 Notes - Biological Psychology

Consciousness/Drugs Notes

Unit 3 Notes - Sensation/Perception

Unit 4 Notes - Learning

Unit 5 Notes - Cognitive

Intelligence Notes

Unit 6 - Developmental Psychology

Unit 7 - Motivation/Emotion/Stress

Personality Notes

Unit 8 - Disorders

Clinical Treatment Notes

Unit 9 - Social Psychology Notes

Flashcards

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Important People

Domains of Psychology

Terms

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Knowt

AP Psychology Ultimate Guide

AMSCO AP Psych Chapters

Ch. 1 - Intro to Psychology

Ch. 2 - Research Methods

Ch. 3 - Statistics

Ch. 4 - Understanding the Brain: Its Structures and Functions

Ch. 5 - Neurons, Neural Communication, and Behavioral Genetics

Ch. 7 - Perception

Ch. 13 - Motivation

Ch. 15 - Infancy and Childhood

Ch. 16 - Adolescence and Adulthood

Ch. 17 - Personality Theories, Approaches, and Assessment

Ch. 20 + 21 - Abnormal Behavior

Ch. 22 + 23 - Treatment of Abnormal Behavior

Ch. 24 + 25 - Social Psychology

Websites

Fiveable Study Guides for each unit

Youtube - Tim Steadman

Youtube - The School of Ireland

Youtube - Crash Course Playlist - Psychology Playlist

Youtube - Mandy Rice

Youtube - College Board - AP Psychology Playlist

Youtube - Social Science Simplified

AP Psychology Reddit

Other Tumblr blogs with more resources!

@ap-psych-ology

@nuroscience

[communistkenobi]

I know this isn’t a novel observation but I’ve been reading a lot of articles about colonial and imperial policy (specifically demography history papers) & one pattern that keeps coming up is that colonial/imperial governments try to institute what can reasonably be described as “good” social policies in colonised places (like vaccine programs, funding for schools, etc, things that are associated with the smooth functioning of a state), and these are often rejected by local colonised governments and people because like obviously they don’t trust colonial/imperial administrators wanting to become involved with their healthcare or education. And what often ends up happening is this backlash against “progressive” policies because they’re being pushed by colonial governments, so you get shit like the Catholic Church running all the primary schools in Ireland because they refuse to open British-funded state schools, or people refusing to immunize their children because those “public goods” are (rationally & understandably) associated with things like US imperial population management programs. And then these colonial & imperial administrators turn around and say look! These people won’t even accept money for schools and vaccines! Look how backwards they are! And paint colonised populations as Great Rejectors of Democracy which western populations then readily eat up. Just a really horrendous feedback loop of misery that generates a lot of ‘secondary’ death and violence on top direct colonial oppression and plunder

[lionofchaeronea]

Venice, Queen of the Adriatic, Crowning the Lion of St. Mark, Domenico Tintoretto, ca. 1595-9

[handweavers]

any understanding of irish history of the last 500 yrs has to explicitly contend with ireland functionally having a caste system wherein your specific religious denomination roughly determined your class status ie. relationship to land ownership and the means of production. the common presentation of ireland being simply a matter of 'religious conflict' obfuscates that if you lived in the island of éire your position in society was nearly entirely determined by the religious sect you were born into, with some degree of economic movement (should you convert to a different sect but even then you would still be distrusted) and variability of the precise nature of one's economic status, ex. you could have some degree of land and wealth as a catholic but it was constantly being cut apart and taxed heavily, you couldn't attend school, you were often terrorized by both official and unofficial roving gangs of protestant soldiers and settlers, etc. but it often wasn't enough to simply be a protestant, you had to be anglican - a follower of the church of england - and if you were presbyterian (like most scots-irish) or from another protestant denomination your position was somewhere in between anglicans and catholics, and the rights of nonconformists (the term used for non-anglican protestants) often fluctuated depending on the material demands of the anglican ruling class, and whether it economically benefited them to gain favour with nonconformists or not. but the primary conflict was the mass extraction of capital from the catholic majority, to line the pockets of the anglican land (and later factory) owners and most importantly the coffers of the british empire. this relationship between religion and class is fundamental to having any degree of understanding of irish history

[watermelllonarchive]

Nour is an attorney and educator who has been teaching children at various camps in Gaza. As she says in the above video, an uneducated population is one of the goals of the occupation. As we have seen in other posts, children have already missed valuable months of schooling.

This method of pop-up travel schools has a long history among oppressed peoples. For example, women's education was forbidden in 1990s (and is still forbidden in 2020s) Afghanistan under the Taliban. Women and girls seek education in secret. Likewise, in 18th century Ireland, English occupation mandated that only Anglican schools were able to operate. Catholic and Presbyterian education was not permitted. From the early 1700s through mid 1800s, Irish "hedge schools" educated children in reading, mathematics, writing, local history and culture, and religious education. (Sources: link 1 link 2)

Knowledge is power and education is resistance!

You can support Nour's education work through her Go Fund Me and follow her on Instagram @ noor._.nassar

Available Go Fund Me campaigns for people whose stories have been shared on watermelllonarchive can be found in the resources post.

[reasonsforhope]

"Parents of tweens will likely be aware of the daily battle over when to give their child a smartphone. They are probably forced into discussing it over breakfast, on the school run, at bedtime – after all, no kid wants to be left out if their friends all have one.

Which is why a town in Ireland came together to devise a solution.

Parents and teachers in Greystones, County Wicklow, launched a town-wide ‘no-smartphone code’ in May, when headteachers from the town’s eight primary schools wrote to parents asking them to sign up to the ban. By coming together en masse, the thinking went, parents could do away with the peer pressure around smartphone ownership.

Now, ministers in the Irish cabinet have approved new guidelines on the banning of smartphones in school, which were brought by education minister Norma Foley on 7 November. The proposals would help parents to collectively implement smartphone bans, with government support. Ministers are also considering outlawing the sale of smartphones to all children of primary school age.

“We can already see smartphones creeping into our primary schools,” explained Rachel Harper, headteacher at St. Patrick’s school, which led on the initiative. “Parents, even at the junior end, were already getting worried about what age their kids were going to be asking for smartphones.”

Parental concerns around the dangers of smartphones are justified, according to the latest scientific research. In 2020, a systematic review of academic studies investigating smartphones, social media use and youth mental health found that, in the last 10 years, mental distress and treatment for mental health conditions had risen in parallel with the use of smartphones by children and adolescents...

There’s also a desire, said Christina Capatina, a Greystones parent whose daughters are aged 11 and nine, to prioritise face-to-face interactions over digital ones for as long as possible. “Childhood is getting shorter,” she said. “It’s really important for them to be in a place where they can be happy and enjoy being out, just being children.”

Parents in Greystones are now empowered to hold off giving their kids access to the devices until the age of 12, when they transition to secondary school in Ireland.

Eight months since the ban came in, what has its impact been? “It has completely solved the problem,” said Capatina. “Instead of having long conversations about it, this is so simple.”

The code is voluntary, so some parents have chosen not to take part, but enough have signed up to create a sense of phoneless-ness being the norm. While some in the media have argued that the code demonises technology, Harper refutes this: “We’re not against technology. We’re not against phones. We’re just simply asking them to wait till secondary school.” [Again, that's age 12 in Ireland.]

She said the launch of their no-smartphone code led to school principals all over the world getting in touch with messages of support, an indication it seems of how universal parents’ fears over childhood smartphone use are.

And with ministers now working on guidelines for communities that wish to follow in Greystones’ footsteps, Harper is proud of all she and fellow parents have achieved. “It’s nice to be an ambassador in a positive way,” she said.

-via Positive.News, November 17, 2023

[emmyappleheart]

Just posting to let everyone know that i am currently on the way to an airport about to move overseas for a year to attend university on an island that is famously full of horses and folklore and equestrianism so just in case anything happens to me and i find out i need to save the world from a tentacled god imprisoned in the sea instead of doing my assignments you know what happened…

[ghoul-night]

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[vintage-tigre]

Kathy Ireland, 1987

[waspgrave]

Working for government and seeing people who proudly told me they voted that fucko into office looking quite Miserable today. I can’t even feel snide about it. I’m miserable too lmao

[bugwolfsstuff]

I might not be online tomorrow cause Ireland's been united but only in weather warnings so my power may go out

[virtuosicstudyblr]

Arrived in Ireland today! My internship will start tomorrow and I am very excited! || 31.07.2023

[fictionadventurer]

Potential September Reading

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (ideally in audio)

An English Squire by Christabel R. Coleridge

A Sherlock Holmes story (and/or a screen adaptation)

C.S. Lewis nonfiction

A sensation or mystery novel

A piece of one of the Psmith stories

Some kind of nonfiction book

[allthingstv]

❤️Michelle Mallon

🧡Orla Mccool

💚James Maguire

🩵Erin Quinn

💜Claire Devlin

[slaymybreathaway]

WASTELAND, BABY! [prologue]

Masterlist

Chapter List

[Word Count: 762]

July 30th 1994 ○ Neville's Bedroom

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It was 11pm when Neville Longbottom heard a tapping sound on his bedroom window.

He was sitting ontop of his patchwork bed covers, in his pyjamas, reading a muggle book that he had found in an old bookshop near his house earlier that day.

At first he took no notice of the noise, it was often that branches hit against his window whenever the wind blew a certain way. However, when these 'branches' started making a squawking noise, he turned his attention away from the book in his hands.

The boy walked over to his window, where he saw a white barn owl sitting on the outside windowsill. The bird looked up at him, an ivory envelope held in it's beak. Neville opened his window slowly, trying his best not to scare the owl away.

"Thanks mate," he spoke, taking the envelope from the bird and watched as it flew away into the dark summer night.

He shut his window before turning the envelope over in his hands. It was thick and felt like it had something  rectangular inside of it.

The address on the front was written in a neat-but-slanted way, which he recognised almost immediately to be the handwriting of Y/n Finnigan. Neville smiled, letting the excitement show on his face.

Y/n and Neville had known each other since their first year at Hogwarts. She was his friend, Seamus's twin sister so naturally, he was friends with her also.

The odd thing was, that over the summer months, Neville found himself feeling a strange buzz of happiness whenever she sent him a letter. It even got to the point where every letter that wasn't from her seemed unimportant.

He couldn't quite explain what he felt or why he felt it. So instead, he just put it down to the lonely-ness of Summer.

The front and the back of the envelope was covered with small doodles of stars and balloons. The smile on Neville's face, somehow, grew wider at the thought of her taking the time to draw them on, individually.

The boy opened the envelope just above the green wax seal on the back and out fell both a letter and a casette tape. He picked up the letter and started to read:

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Dear Nev,

Happy Birthday!!! I was going to give you your present on the train to school but I just couldn't wait. I hope you like the mixtape (it's for the walkman, by the way)

See you soon,

Y/n

(PS. Tell your granny that I was asking for her)

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After reading it a few times, Neville took the box out from under his bed that contained all of the letters she had sent over the past two months and placed the new one on top. He slid the box far enough under his bed that it couldn't be seen by anyone that walked into his room.

The boy rifled through the drawer in his bedside locker until he found what he was looking for, his walkman. When he bought the muggle device, he didn't realise that the music wasn't included so he couldn't use it... until now.

When he looked at the tape closely, he could see that it was labeled on either side with ☆Neville's Mixtape☆ written in red marker. He opened the walkman and carfully placed the tape in before putting the headphones on and pressing the "play" button.

The boy turned off the light and lay in his bed, pulling the covers up to his shoulders as he heard the acoustic guitar play softly through the opening bars of the first song on the tape.

He couldn't help but imagine where Y/n was the first time she heard this song. Did it come on in the radio in her Dad's car? Or did she find the album that this song belonged to in a dusty old casette shop and waited until later that day to listen to it, when she was lying in bed. Just like he was doing right now. He smiled at the thought

A male voice sang softly the lyric:

"All the fear and the fire of the end of the world.

Happens each time a boy falls in love with a girl,"

Neville swore that he would remember those words forever beacause it was in that moment that he finally realised what that buzz of happiness was.

The was falling in love with her...

And man, did he feel the fear and the fire of the end of the world.

_____________________

[facelesstheghost]

You guys don’t understand how freaked out I am I met FREAKING MARIN IRELAND. NOT ONLY THAT BUT SHE WENT TO MY HIGHSCHOOL. I’m so freaked out like she was the nicest ever. For context Marin is who played sissy in tua