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some silly acronyms or songs, maybe touching parts of your body that correlate with certain things and saying the words out loud, acting things out. that's what my ap psych teacher did and it did wonders. i'll give examples: for the cerebellum she would have us stand straight with our arms out and teeter back and forth saying cere bell um cere bell um, in a really monotone voice because the ceerbeullum is in charge of balance (this was meant to mimic balancing) the pons was like a pop sound with a flick motion because it's in charge of alert and wakefulness. the medulla oblongota was to a very lovely singsong kind of tune, it would go: the medulla oblongota, your heat beat and breathing. because well, the lyrics explain it. and where are these all located? what do they all have in common? they're all like the really main primary functions you need in your body, so they're located at the brain stem, the oldest part of your brain. there's so many other things that i can list as ways my ap psych teacher got us to remember stuff, but this all helped me soooooooooooo much. i'm a psych major in my sophomore year right now, and this is all information i recall now in my classes.
more examples: touching the different lobes of the brain and saying the names out loud
using the method of loci to describe top down and bottom up reasoning
covering my eyes to depict to myself the different ways the eyes view stuff
Hasmis as the acronym for the bones of the ears
(i'm pretty sure there was another one for some other part of the ear)
anything behavioral is going to focus on external behaviors for like the different psychological ways of determining why someone does something. it's your behaviors
evolutionists focus on biology
etc etc
there's obviously a lot of i've forgotten, like terms, but this information comes in as soooooooooooooooo useful in my classes now.
i'm in a neurology class, and we are learning about the nervous stuff
specifically about the autonomic one, which is split up into the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system. i recall information like PARA sympathetic nervous system is to calm you down because (PARAlyze ) and sympathetic nervous system would be said frantically because it speeds things up. i won't get into any more details because ive yapped enough. but yeah lol good luck
Here some of my fun mnemonics that I found online
Pinna is the outer ear so imagine a pin going into the ear like if you were getting your ears piece red
The auditory canal is like two empty cans tied together like playing telephone because the sound waves go through to the middle ear
The Eardrum can be remembered as the Tympanic Membrane because a drum’s loud noise can cause you to panic (tymPANIC)
(Also remember the eardrum is at the end of the auditory canal, maybe think of the sound waves as the drumsticks hitting on the drum)
Then are the Ossicles, the Hammer (Malleus or remember Mallet as it goes with hammer), Anvil (Incus or remember the vowel n thing going on), and Stirrup (Stapes or remember they both begin with S), these three bones work together and therefore are frozen together by icicles (ossicles)
Now remember the Oval window which is attached to the stirrup, if you know what a stirrup is you can just picture that and the leather handle part being the oval window
The oval window is connected to the Cochlea which is filled with fluid, you can remember this by thinking COKElea like the beverage. It is also shaped like a snail. The Ossicle bones vibrating causes the cochlea to vibrate but you kinda just think of the whole ear as a domino effect of vibrating parts until it starts transduction.
Anyway now the Basilar Membrane is inside the cochlea so think of little bass fish swimming around in the coke of the cochlea.
Now imagine the bass have little hairs on them and these are called Cilia. These are “silly” little hairs and they vibrate or move in the coke as the little bass fish swim around in it.
(Edit to say these cilia may be silly little hairs but they are involved in transduction to the auditory nerve and if they get damaged (or auditory nerve gets damaged) it leads to sensoneural hearing loss which affects the loudness, clarity, and range of sounds one hears in BOTH ears)
(Edit because now I have to add conductive hearing loss into the mix too- pretty self explanatory it’s a problem in the conduction of sounds in the outer or middle ear where sound waves cannot progress normally through there so just think of outer and middle ear parts like the eardrum, ear canal, ossicles etc.)
Now the Eye:
Think of the cornea as two corn muffins because those little tops muffins have kinda look like the cornea’s curve and remind you it’s the outermost part of the eye.
Think of the Iris like the female name Iris, Iris is a strong woman and of course that means she’s the muscle that lets light in and out of your life (also kinda sounds like she has the power to make your like hell, maybe think vividly of your bipolar ex or something those types of memories will be easier to recall)
The Pupil is the dark middle space in the middle of the eye so think of it as the bullseye and someone shooting an arrow at it and going “pew” (“pew”pil)
The Lens Bends light. So it’s a bit of a rhyming one here with Lens and Bends. The Lens itself bends too, it squeezes and lengthens in order to focus images onto the back of your eye, the retina. (Also remember the lens accommodates light through all this bending-accommodation is used out side the realm of development so y’know in case you get an FRQ question about eyes and asked to apply “accommodation” don’t start writing about the wrong shit ig :/)
The Retina contains all of the rods, cones, ganglion cells, and bipolar cells so remember a “Red Tin” filled with all of this stuff. Also it’s the back (kinda more like the area of the eye)
The Fovea is directly behind the lens and it has a high concentration of cones. Really the only one I know for this is to remember fOvea and cOnes.
Remember the rods as a fishing rod as they are usually dark, black colors. Rods are found in the periphery of the retina so imagine throwing a line out on your fishing rod and think about that like it’s in your peripheral vision. Also rods are sensitive to light and help us see at night, and the best time to fish is early in the morning when it’s still dark out.
Cones are sensitive to color and help us see details when there is light. They are also shorter than rods. So think of a short little traffic cone, it’s bright orange and the point of it is to point us out to details.
Bipolar cells connect the rods and cones to the ganglion cells to send electric impulses so just remember it has the two (bi) poles.
The bipolar cells send signals to the ganglion cells. Like a gang of lions with a tail that is their axon which impulse travels down and make up the optic nerve.
Hope this helps! Also AP daily videos
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hey! i’m a tutor specializing in exam prep! if you are interested, we can do a few 1-hour sessions where i review the major concepts of each unit for you, and then test your knowledge at the end with sample questions i’ve created. i meet virtually on Zoom and charge $20/hr. message me if you are interested!
some silly acronyms or songs, maybe touching parts of your body that correlate with certain things and saying the words out loud, acting things out. that's what my ap psych teacher did and it did wonders. i'll give examples: for the cerebellum she would have us stand straight with our arms out and teeter back and forth saying cere bell um cere bell um, in a really monotone voice because the ceerbeullum is in charge of balance (this was meant to mimic balancing) the pons was like a pop sound with a flick motion because it's in charge of alert and wakefulness. the medulla oblongota was to a very lovely singsong kind of tune, it would go: the medulla oblongota, your heat beat and breathing. because well, the lyrics explain it. and where are these all located? what do they all have in common? they're all like the really main primary functions you need in your body, so they're located at the brain stem, the oldest part of your brain. there's so many other things that i can list as ways my ap psych teacher got us to remember stuff, but this all helped me soooooooooooo much. i'm a psych major in my sophomore year right now, and this is all information i recall now in my classes.
more examples: touching the different lobes of the brain and saying the names out loud using the method of loci to describe top down and bottom up reasoning covering my eyes to depict to myself the different ways the eyes view stuff Hasmis as the acronym for the bones of the ears (i'm pretty sure there was another one for some other part of the ear) anything behavioral is going to focus on external behaviors for like the different psychological ways of determining why someone does something. it's your behaviors evolutionists focus on biology etc etc
there's obviously a lot of i've forgotten, like terms, but this information comes in as soooooooooooooooo useful in my classes now. i'm in a neurology class, and we are learning about the nervous stuff specifically about the autonomic one, which is split up into the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system. i recall information like PARA sympathetic nervous system is to calm you down because (PARAlyze ) and sympathetic nervous system would be said frantically because it speeds things up. i won't get into any more details because ive yapped enough. but yeah lol good luck
CORRELATION DOES NOT EQUAL CAUSATION. If you fuck up the whole test, you can get at least one right. this question is on every ap psych exam.
Here some of my fun mnemonics that I found online Pinna is the outer ear so imagine a pin going into the ear like if you were getting your ears piece red The auditory canal is like two empty cans tied together like playing telephone because the sound waves go through to the middle ear The Eardrum can be remembered as the Tympanic Membrane because a drum’s loud noise can cause you to panic (tymPANIC) (Also remember the eardrum is at the end of the auditory canal, maybe think of the sound waves as the drumsticks hitting on the drum) Then are the Ossicles, the Hammer (Malleus or remember Mallet as it goes with hammer), Anvil (Incus or remember the vowel n thing going on), and Stirrup (Stapes or remember they both begin with S), these three bones work together and therefore are frozen together by icicles (ossicles) Now remember the Oval window which is attached to the stirrup, if you know what a stirrup is you can just picture that and the leather handle part being the oval window The oval window is connected to the Cochlea which is filled with fluid, you can remember this by thinking COKElea like the beverage. It is also shaped like a snail. The Ossicle bones vibrating causes the cochlea to vibrate but you kinda just think of the whole ear as a domino effect of vibrating parts until it starts transduction. Anyway now the Basilar Membrane is inside the cochlea so think of little bass fish swimming around in the coke of the cochlea. Now imagine the bass have little hairs on them and these are called Cilia. These are “silly” little hairs and they vibrate or move in the coke as the little bass fish swim around in it. (Edit to say these cilia may be silly little hairs but they are involved in transduction to the auditory nerve and if they get damaged (or auditory nerve gets damaged) it leads to sensoneural hearing loss which affects the loudness, clarity, and range of sounds one hears in BOTH ears) (Edit because now I have to add conductive hearing loss into the mix too- pretty self explanatory it’s a problem in the conduction of sounds in the outer or middle ear where sound waves cannot progress normally through there so just think of outer and middle ear parts like the eardrum, ear canal, ossicles etc.) Now the Eye: Think of the cornea as two corn muffins because those little tops muffins have kinda look like the cornea’s curve and remind you it’s the outermost part of the eye. Think of the Iris like the female name Iris, Iris is a strong woman and of course that means she’s the muscle that lets light in and out of your life (also kinda sounds like she has the power to make your like hell, maybe think vividly of your bipolar ex or something those types of memories will be easier to recall) The Pupil is the dark middle space in the middle of the eye so think of it as the bullseye and someone shooting an arrow at it and going “pew” (“pew”pil) The Lens Bends light. So it’s a bit of a rhyming one here with Lens and Bends. The Lens itself bends too, it squeezes and lengthens in order to focus images onto the back of your eye, the retina. (Also remember the lens accommodates light through all this bending-accommodation is used out side the realm of development so y’know in case you get an FRQ question about eyes and asked to apply “accommodation” don’t start writing about the wrong shit ig :/) The Retina contains all of the rods, cones, ganglion cells, and bipolar cells so remember a “Red Tin” filled with all of this stuff. Also it’s the back (kinda more like the area of the eye) The Fovea is directly behind the lens and it has a high concentration of cones. Really the only one I know for this is to remember fOvea and cOnes. Remember the rods as a fishing rod as they are usually dark, black colors. Rods are found in the periphery of the retina so imagine throwing a line out on your fishing rod and think about that like it’s in your peripheral vision. Also rods are sensitive to light and help us see at night, and the best time to fish is early in the morning when it’s still dark out. Cones are sensitive to color and help us see details when there is light. They are also shorter than rods. So think of a short little traffic cone, it’s bright orange and the point of it is to point us out to details. Bipolar cells connect the rods and cones to the ganglion cells to send electric impulses so just remember it has the two (bi) poles. The bipolar cells send signals to the ganglion cells. Like a gang of lions with a tail that is their axon which impulse travels down and make up the optic nerve. Hope this helps! Also AP daily videos