Review for Exam 1

Lecture and Chapter 1

What is psychology

Areas that relate to psychology

The five perspectives

What psychologists do

Areas of Psychology

Ethics in Research

Nature vs. Nurture

Know from chapter 1 (i.e. important stuff we didn't cover in lecture):

humanist psychology

feminist psychology

critical thinking

Lecture and Chapter 2

What makes research scientific (lecture &section in text)

Case studies

Observational studies

Tests and surveys

standardized

norms

reliability

validity

representative samples

bias

Correlation

positive

negative

coefficient

Experiments

Independent variable

Dependent variable

Ethics

Human

Animal

Know from chapter 2 (i.e. important stuff we didn't cover in lecture):

control conditions

experimenter effects

single-blind study

double-blind study

descriptive statistics

inferential statistics

Lecture and Chapter 3

DNA

chromosomes

genes

evolution

natural selection

fitness

Industrial melanism

Ethology

species specific behavior

fixed action patterns

sign stimuli/releasing mechnisms

supernormal stimuli

imprinting

sensitive periods

Human language

Know from chapter 3 (i.e. important stuff we didn't cover in lecture):

behavior genetics

evolutionary psychology

sociobiology

linkage studies

genetic testing

heritability

origins of intelligence

Lecture and Chapter 4

Parts of the neuron

neurotransmitters

CNS vs. peripheral nervous system

Anatomy of the Brain

hindbrain: medulla, cerebellum,

reticular formation,

forebrain: thalamus, hypothalamus,

cerebral hemispheres, limbic system,

hippocampus, corpus collosum, basal ganglia,

cerebral cortex, projection areas, association areas

apraxia

agnosia

aphasia

expressive aphasia

receptive aphasia

Broca’s area

Wernicke’s area

lateralization

Know from chapter 4 (i.e. important stuff we didn't cover in lecture):

Endocrine system and hormones

eavesdropping on the brain

Lecture and Chapter 5

Sleep

stages of sleep

developmental differences in sleep

functions of sleep

Dreaming

theories of dreaming

Menstrual cycle

PMS

Know from chapter 5 (i.e. important stuff we didn't cover in lecture):

Biological rhythms

circadian

infradian

ultradian

Lecture and Chapter 6

Basic senses

Kinesthetic and Vestibular Senses

Hearing

Touch

Taste

Vision

Smell (Olfaction)

Taste

Taste and smell go together

Basic Taste sensations

Vision: Sensation vs. Perception

Mainstream View

Ecological Approach

Direct Perception

Trichromatic Theory

Receptor types

Opponent-Process Theory

Transduction

Depth Perception (the role of redundancy)

Form Perception

Gestalt concepts:

Sensory Overload

Subliminal Perception

Know from chapter 6 (i.e. important stuff we didn't cover in lecture):

Absolute thresholds

Difference thresholds

Signal detection thoery

Lecture and Chapter 7

Classical Conditioning

US, UR, CS, CR,

Pavlov

Little Albert

generalization

discrimination

extinction

higher order (second order) conditioning

Operant (Instrumental Conditioning)

Thorndike, law of effect

Skinner, operants

positive reinforcement

negative reinforcement

positive punishment

negative punishment

generalization

discrimination

shaping

Partial schedules of reinforcement

Know from chapter 7 (i.e. important stuff we didn't cover in lecture):

Primary and secondary reinforcers

Shaping

Lecture and Chapter 9 Thinking and Intelligence

Representative Intelligence Tests

The IQ Controversy

Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory of Intelligence

Componential Subtheory

Metacognition

Strategy Application

Knowledge Acquisition

Experiential Subtheory

Novelty of Task

Automatization of Skills

Contextual Subtheory

Adapting

Shaping

Selecting

Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Linguistic

Logico-mathematical

Musical

Spatial

Bodily-Kinesthetic

Interpersonal

Intrapersonal

Natural

Achievement Related Attributions

Class Results on mastery performance measure

Know from chapter 9 (i.e. important stuff we didn't cover in lecture):

Elements of cognition

Mind sets

Cognitive dissonance 

Lecture and Chapter 10 Memory

Schema

Types of Memory

Explicit Memory

Implicit Memory

• Acquisition
• Storage
• Retrieval

Information Processing Approach to Memory

Sensory Register

Short Term Memory

Long Term Memory

Recognition and Free Recall

Primacy Effect

Recency Effect

Strategies

How to study

Forgetting

Forgetting curve

Decay

Interference

Retrieval failure

Amnesia

Infantile amnesia

Source amnesia (misattribution)

Disordered Memories

Permastore

Reconstructive Memory

Repressed memories

Chapter 10

Anything in the above list that we missed in lecture

 Review supplement and exam hints

Psychology 111 Fall 2000

Know sleep disorders

parasomnias

insomnia

EDS

narcolepsy

upper airway sleep apnea

Know perception in context

There will be questions from the "40 studies" book.

Know the basic research method, results and conclusions of the following:

Gazzaniga

Rosenzweig et. al.

Dement

Gibson & Walk

Pavlov

Watson & Rayner

Skinner

Bandura

Loftus