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Unit 2 Cheat Sheet

One-page visual infographic summarizing every key concept in Cognition.

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AP Psychology Unit 2: Cognition cheat sheet infographic

What’s covered in this cheat sheet

This infographic covers the core content of Unit 2: top-down and bottom-up processing; Gestalt principles; schemas and perceptual sets; heuristics (availability, representativeness); cognitive biases (confirmation bias, framing effect, functional fixedness); the three-stage memory model (sensory, working, long-term); explicit vs. implicit memory; levels of processing; forgetting (interference, decay, misinformation effect, source amnesia); and intelligence testing concepts (reliability, validity, standardization, stereotype threat).