Study guide Exam 1 February 21 Psychology 200

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Chapter 1 Introduction

-How do we develop scientific knowledge? Where do “new” discoveries come from?

-What is the relationship between genes and environment in determining behavior?

-What are the basic principles of evolutionary psychology

-Understand what is meant by levels of analysis and how each perspective interprets behavior?

-What is the difference between structuralism vs functionalism?

-What are the basic principles of behaviorist; understanding of the mind?

-What are the basic assumptions of psychodynamics (Freudian); limitations

-What or the basic other perspectives, e.g. humanism, cognitive, social/cultural etc.

-How does neuroscience approach to mind?

Chapter 2 Research

-know types of variables: independent vs dependent

-what is the theory and hypothesis connection...what is a good theory

-what is meant by parsimony and serendipity

-what is the difference between descriptive and experimental studies

-what are the characteristics of experimentation (control, random assignment, variables)

-what are confounds? What are the sources of bias in experimentation

-what is placebo effect?

-what is meant by Hawthorne effect, John Henry effect?

-what is the difference between experimentation and correlation with regard to establishing cause and effect?

-what are the strengths and weaknesses of survey/questionnaire data collection?

-observation and sources of bias?

-positive vs negative correlation?

-role of physiological/ behavioral data in understanding psychological process

-the role of IRB and the concept of ethics and informed consent

-why do we use statistics? What is the difference between

-mean, mode, median, standard deviation

Chapter 13 Personality

-What are the Freudian stages of psychosexual development and how does fixation affect personality?

-What are the three components of the personality (ala Freud) and how do they relate to consciousness?

-Understand the different types defense mechanisms.

-What are the basis assumptions of humanism? How did humanism changed the view of personality?

-What are type theories?

-What are traits? To what degree are they biologically and genetically based?

-What is self monitoring and how does it relate to personality?

-What are the Big Five? What factors are genetically influenced?

-How is personality measured? What are projective measures? What aspect of personality do they reveal?

-How stable is personality over the lifespan?

-What is a sensation seeking personality?

-What evidence do we have of the connection between brain chemistry and personality? (Specifically the effects of dopamine, seratonin on personality and recreational psychotropics)

-What is the difference between nomothetic vs ideographic views of personality?

-How do we maintain self esteem? What is existential angst?

Chapter 14 Psychopathology

-The film shown in class: A Brilliant Madness, regarding John Forbes Nash

-How does insanity differ from psychopathology?

-What characteristics must be considered in determining mental illness?

-What is the DSM? Why is it useful? What are its down sides?

-What is the connection between neurochemistry and mental illness?

-What are the symptoms of depression? anxiety disorders? (these are the most common disorders) What is SAD?

-How is bipolarity different from depression?

-What are the characteristics of OCD? What brain structures are involved?

-What is the difference between panic attacks and phobias?

-What are positive and negative symptoms w/ respect to schizophrenia? Why is schizophrenia primarily a biological disorder?

-What is a pervasive etiology of dissociative (multiple personality) personality disorder?

-What is meant by the diathesis stress model?

-What are the characteristics of borderline personality disorder? How is it different from antisocial personality disorder?

-Why are personality disorders controversial?

-What are the characteristics of autism?

-What are the characteristics of ADHD? How does the disorder change w/ age?