PSY 201 midterm topics study guide
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Research:
What is the difference between reliability and validity with research?
Validity helps us understand how valid the findings of the study are.
Reliability indicates the consistency of or a study or experiment.
With Research what is Bias?
Bias in general?
Confirmation Bias?
Anchoring Bias?
Gender Bias?
What is replication?
What is standardization?
Different types of research are?
What is a theory?
Memories:
Formulation and recollection of memories, how do we construct memories and
then reconstruct memories.
Understand the difference between explicit memories and implicit memories.
Which part of the brain/brain stem is responsible for this function?
Which part of the brain manages our “fear” reactions?
Looking at sematic memory, and the concepts that are attached to a memory when
thinking of the memory?
Memories con’t:
What is the process called when we repeat a memory to help us cement the
information to memory?
Episodic memory and what is the process?
We often use our senses before a memory is encoded. What is this called?
If we are not reconstructing a memory but need to bring a memory back to our
conscious state, what is the process called?
Intelligence:
How can studying twins help researchers understand intelligence?
Robert Sternberg created what theory of intelligence?
How can we describe the portion of triarchic theory of intelligence?
With language development what are Morphemes and words?
Meaning of Lexicon?
What is Schema?
What is incorporated into cognition?
Learning:
What is learning theory?
What is classical conditioning and its components?
What is operant conditioning and its components?
What is observational learning and its components?
What did B.F. Skinner contributes to learning?
What is learning?
Gestalt Psychology:
What is Gestalt Psychology?
What role does closure have?
What role does proximity play?
Sensation/Perception:
What is vestibular?
What roles do olfaction and gustation play and why are they considered chemical
senses?
What is the difference between binocular disparity and oculomotor convergence?
What are sensation and perception?
Consciousness:
Sleep disorders:
What is insomnia?
What is Sleep Apnea?
What is Narcolepsy?
Restless Leg Syndrome?
What did Rosalind Cartwright contribute to either sleep or dreams?
What is Latent content?
Sleep deprivation, what will this do to the human mind and behavior?
What human functions are part of awareness?
Biopsychology:
What is a biological rhythm? This is not related to the biological clock or sleep.
What role does homeostasis play in human life?
Focusing on Brain trauma and injuries?
What was the key element of Terri Schiavo after the heart attack and lack of oxygen
to the brain, what was the only way she could communicate?
What role does the hypothalamus play in human life?
Which part of the brain controls breathing?
What is the role of the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system?
Neurotransmitters play many roles in our lives, which ones affect appetite
suppression?
What are the parts of a neuron?
What is evolution by natural selection?
Foundations of Psychology:
What is Psychology?
What is Mary Whiton Calkins’ experience at the end of her studies?
What is Francis Cecil Sumner know for?
What is humanism?
What I Behaviorism?
What is Structuralism?
Maslow’s theory:
He proposed that we can look at human needs and what motives behavior.