General Psychology, Fall 2010

Final Exam Study Guide

What is a dependent variable? Independent variable?

What is the stress response system in the body?

What is the key stress hormone released during stress?

When it comes to heart disease and cancer, which factors are important?

(stress, lifestyle, genes, personality traits)

Does stress cause cancer?

Role of amygdala/functions

What is memory consolidation and when does it usually happen?

Be able to interpret a correlation – what in means when it is negative or positive,

and how to interpret the relative strength of a correlation!

Know difference between declarative and nondeclarative memories; flashbulb

memories, semantic and episodic memories

How depressed individual have distorted thoughts

How do neurons communicate – electronically or chemically?

Know the key distinctions between clinical disorders and personality disorders

Why do we use experimental design is research? Causality!

The major assumptions about personality according to Freud

What type of classical conditioning can happen after only one single learning

trial?

Who is the founder of American behaviorism?

Difference between sensation and perception

Difference between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems

Difference between bottom-up and top-down processing

What are drive theories of motivation and which behaviors do they best explain?

What is the most common psychological disorder in the U.S.?

What is Pavlov famous for in psychology?

Research on shyness – is it a personality trait from birth or one that typically

develops later in life?

The research on men, women and suicide.

Personality – is it considered to be stable or unstable?

Who is responsible for Bobo doll study of aggression and what were the findings?

What happens when you reward children for doing something that was already

intrinsically motivating?

Findings of the research on stress and mindfulness presented in class

Findings on meditation and the changes in the brain presented in class

In classical conditioning, what is the US, CS, UR, CR

Difference between experimental and correlational research

What “disorder” was in the DSM in 1973 but not today? - discussed in class.

What is the diathesis-stress model?

What is diathesis?

What did behaviorists like Watson say was the only valid way to study

psychological activity? What was the proper focus of study?

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General Psychology, Fall 2010 Final Exam Study Guide  What is a dependent variable? Independent variable?  What is the stress response system in the body?  What is the key stress hormone released during stress?  When it comes to heart disease and cancer, which factors are important?  (stress, lifestyle, genes, personality traits)  Does stress cause cancer?  Role of amygdala/functions  What is memory consolidation and when does it usually happen?  Be able to interpret a correlation – what in means when it is negative or positive, and how to interpret the relative strength of a correlation!  Know difference between declarative and nondeclarative memories; flashbulb memories, semantic and episodic memories  How depressed individual have distorted thoughts  How do neurons communicate – electronically or chemically?  Know the key distinctions between clinical disorders and personality disorders  Why do we use experimental design is research? Causality!  The major assumptions about personality according to Freud  What type of classical conditioning can happen after only one single learning trial?  Who is the founder of American behaviorism?  Difference between sensation and perception  Difference between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems  Difference between bottom-up and top-down processing  What are drive theories of motivation and which behaviors do they best explain?  What is the most common psychological disorder in the U.S.?  What is Pavlov famous for in psychology?  Research on shyness – is it a personality trait from birth or one that typically develops later in life?  The research on men, women and suicide.  Personality – is it considered to be stable or unstable?  Who is responsible for Bobo doll study of aggression and what were the findings?  What happens when you reward children for doing something that was already intrinsically motivating?  Findings of the research on stress and mindfulness presented in class  Findings on meditation and the changes in the brain presented in class  In classical conditioning, what is the US, CS, UR, CR  Difference between experimental and correlational research  What “disorder” was in the DSM in 1973 but not today? - discussed in class.  What is the diathesis-stress model?  What is diathesis?  What did behaviorists like Watson say was the only valid way to study psychological activity? What was the proper focus of study?

 Know what the prefrontal cortex functions are  What did the Dalai Lama have to say about how to pursue lasting happiness?  Role of culture in determining what is a mental disorder  Why is self-awareness important?  What was Gardner’s theory of intelligence, and why important?  What is the basic building block of the nervous system?  What is the role of environment and genes in determining differences in intelligence between those from impoverished environments and those from affluent environments? Know the statistics (percentages) for this one!  Differences between crystallized and fluid intelligence  Eysenk’s theory about physiological (arousal) differences between introverts and extroverts  Risks of bipolar disorder  What was the key finding of Tolman and Honzik’s maze study with rats?  Know the characteristics of bipolar disorder, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, schizophrenia  What is a confound in an experiment?

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