Psychology

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Intro to Psychology

• What is Psychology?
• The Development of Clinical Psych
• The History of Psych

Methods in Psychology

• Empiricism: How to Know Stuff
• Observation: Discovering What People Do
• The Ethics of Psychology

Neuroscience and Behavior

• Neurons and Behavior
• Structure of the Brain
• Investigating the Brain

Consciousness

• Conscious and Unconscious
• Sleep and Dreaming
• Drugs and Consciousness
• Hypnosis
• Meditation and Higher Consciousness

Memory

• Encoding: Turning Perceptions to Memories
• Storage: Maintaining Memories
• Retrieval: Bringing Memories to Mind
• Memory Failures

Learning

• Classical Conditioning
• Operant Conditioning
• Observational Learning
• Implicit Learning

Emotion and Motivation

• Emotional Experience
• Emotional Communication
• Motivation

Language and Thought

• Language and Communication
• Concepts and How We Think
• Decision Making and Rationale
• Problem Solving and Conclusions

Intelligence

• Measuring Intelligence
• What is Intelligence?
• Improving Intelligence

Development

• Prenatal
• Infancy
• Childhood
• Adolescence
• Adulthood

Personality

• What is Personality?
• Patterns of Behavior
• Psychodynamic Approach
• Humanistic Existential Approach
• Social Cognitive Approach
• Self-Personality

Social Psychology

• Social Behavior and Interaction
• Social Influence and Control
• Social Cognition and Understanding People

Psychological Disorders

• Anxiety Disorders
• Mood Disorders
• Dissociative Disorders
• Schizophrenia
• Personality Disorders
• Treatment

Stress and Health

• Sources of Stress
• Reactions to Stress
• Stress Management
• Psychology of Illness and Health

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• What is the relationship between men and women? Are women’s opinions ignored? Who has the power?
• According to the social learning theory, how do child learn to associate gender schemas? Why is this not a very good way of looking at gender roles and development?
• What causes a human being to feel fear?
• How long does an Iconic Sensory memory last?
• What is antisocial personality disorder?
• Marijuana falls under what category of psychoactive drug?
• What does logorrhea mean?
• Who is Elizabeth Gould, and how did her research affect the accepted understanding of the brain?
• How are negative and positive reinforcement different and how are they the same?
• How does conducting a double-blind study attempt to remedy the experimenter expectancy effect?
• Why would mentioning a sensitive issue, such as divorce or infidelity, in a survey question influence how respondents answer later questions?
• What causes aggression?
• What causes aggression in animals?
• What is the difference between Autonomic nervous system, Central nervous system Somatic nervous system?
• What are the disadvantages of cross-cultural research in psychology?
• What is an example of Stratified Random Sampling?
• How do you take a stratified sample?
• Is there a formula for stratified sampling?
• What is the difference between block and stratified sampling?
• What is the average human reaction time?
• Will younger people have faster reaction times than older people (or vice versa) and why?
• Can a human's reaction time be increased or decreased?
• How and why does psychosis manifest?
• Is psychosis treatable?
• What are the differences between psychosis and schizophrenia?
• Is Psychosis hereditary?
• What is the difference between a nervous breakdown from stress and a psychotic break? Is there a difference?
• Is psychosis permanent?
• Can vitamins treat someone with psychosis?
• What is a negative/postive feedback system in homeostasis?
• How does the brain maintain homeostasis?
• Why is maintaining homeostasis important to brain function?
• Can mental illness impact homeostasis?
• Describe examples of your body utilizing homeostasis in psychological ways?
• Can depression impact the body's ability to maintain homeostasis?
• Is there a process for homeostasis of neurotransmitters?
• In a nutshell, what is the function of each segment of the brain?
• =Who developed the about the power of the part of the mind called the unconscious?
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• What is the Feel-Good, Do-Good Phenomenon?
• How does culture influence expression of emotion?
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• How is alcohol classified?
• What is the common element of all therapies?
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• What is the active drug in marijuana?
• What is the difference between intensional orientation and extensional orientation?
• Do you think racism still exists today? Why or why not?
• Where is the location of adrenal glands?
• What are major risks of electroconvulsive therapy?
• What might happen if a drug blocked neurotransmitter receptors?
• According to the General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS), how many stages of stress are there?
• At which stage of stress does your body get exhausted, do you become "burned out?"
• Which psychologist developed a theory of psychosocial development?
• When can individuality and self-fulfillment become destructive or negative forces?
• How is a dyad different than a triad?
• How do interest groups influence public policy?
• What is the term for a period of deep depression following the birth of a child that affects approximately 10% of all new mothers for months or even years?
• What is the learning effect?
• If your little sister watches you and tries to copy everything you do, she is exhibiting which type of learning?
• What does research on pre-marital cohabitation suggest?
• Why do some people feel threatened by diversity?
• What did Piaget discover while testing children's lQs?
• During which of Piaget's stages does a teen learn abstract thinking skills?
• According to Kubler-Ross, what is the first step people pass through as they move toward death?
• What is the physiological basis for night terrors?
• What is the lowest level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
• What does it mean to recognize your grief triggers?
• How many stages are listed in the theory of psychosocial development?
• According to the theory of psychosocial development, what years are defined as the adolescent years?
• What is the correct sequence of Freud's psychosexual stages?
• What are the main components of Freud's theory?
• What areas of humanity did Sigmund Freud attempt to understand?
• A Wechsler test is what type of test?
• Which of Freud's ideas is one of the most controversial personality theories?
• According to Carl Jung, every person's conscious sense of self can be characterized by what four functions of the mind?
• What are the four basic fluids, or humors, that Hippocrates believed were the basis of personality traits?
• What is a weakness of the social-learning approach to personality?
• What have PET scans revealed about emotions?
• How does a person respond to eustress?
• What is likely to happen if people experience too many life changes in a short period of time?
• Why does stress eventually exhaust people?
• Why has the reliability and validity of the inkblot test been questioned?
• What should you do if a person confides in you his or her suicidal thoughts and makes you promise not to tell anyone?
• Who studied what motivates human behavior?
• What's the definition of observational learning?
• What are good ways to calm down before you speak to a person with whom you're upset?
• What strategy can you use to ensure that a happy memory is never forgotten?
• What is gender socialization?
• Where is information that you use to ride a bicycle stored in memory?
• How are long-term memories formed, and how can this process lead to inaccuracies in memory?
• What is the relationship between person perception and social cognition?
• Tracy is holding something in short term memory but she is too distracted to rehearse it, about how long does she have before the information is lost?
• How does alcoholism affects the brain function of an individual?
• Why has hypnosis been questioned as a means of helping eyewitnesses remember crime scene events?
• Giving a hungry rat food for pressing a bar before the rat has a chance to engage in other incidental behaviors like running or scratching best illustrates what?
• What is the term used to describe love that will never be returned?
• After learning to fear a white rat, Little Albert responded with fear to the sight of a rabbit. This best illustrates the process of?
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