The study guide covers the following topics for the Intro Psychology final exam:
- Sensation and perception including thresholds, adaptation, visual system, color vision, Gestalt principles, and depth perception
- Consciousness including attention, sleep, dreams, and hypnosis
- Lifespan development from prenatal through identity vs role confusion
- Abnormal psychology including approaches to understanding disorders, anxiety, dissociative, mood, and schizophrenia disorders, and therapies
The study guide covers the following topics for the Intro Psychology final exam:
- Sensation and perception including thresholds, adaptation, visual system, color vision, Gestalt principles, and depth perception
- Consciousness including attention, sleep, dreams, and hypnosis
- Lifespan development from prenatal through identity vs role confusion
- Abnormal psychology including approaches to understanding disorders, anxiety, dissociative, mood, and schizophrenia disorders, and therapies
The study guide covers the following topics for the Intro Psychology final exam:
- Sensation and perception including thresholds, adaptation, visual system, color vision, Gestalt principles, and depth perception
- Consciousness including attention, sleep, dreams, and hypnosis
- Lifespan development from prenatal through identity vs role confusion
- Abnormal psychology including approaches to understanding disorders, anxiety, dissociative, mood, and schizophrenia disorders, and therapies
The study guide covers the following topics for the Intro Psychology final exam:
- Sensation and perception including thresholds, adaptation, visual system, color vision, Gestalt principles, and depth perception
- Consciousness including attention, sleep, dreams, and hypnosis
- Lifespan development from prenatal through identity vs role confusion
- Abnormal psychology including approaches to understanding disorders, anxiety, dissociative, mood, and schizophrenia disorders, and therapies
All items from the midterm 1 and midterm 2 study guides should be reviewed .
Sensation and Perception
Perception Sensation + interpretation = perception Patternicity and Agenticity Sensation Detection, Discrimination, Scaling Absolute thresholds Subliminal stimulation Weber-Fechner Law Difference threshold or Just Noticeable Differences (JND) Sensory adaption The Eye What do we see and how do we see it Cornea Lens Iris Pupil Retina Fovea Periphery Receptors Rods and Cones The Blind Spot Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic Theory of Color Vision Hering Opponent-Process Theory of Color Vision Afterimages Gestalt Psychology Separation of figure and ground Gestalt grouping principles Proximity Similarity Continuity Connectedness Closure Depth perception Binocular depth cues Binocular convergence Retinal disparity Monocular depth cues Relative size Interposition Relative height Linear perspective Aerial perspective Motion parallax Light and shadow Perceptual constancy (Size and Shape constancy) Consciousness Consciousness defined Selective attention Inattentional blindness Change blindness Circadian rhythms Sleep Sleep deprivation Sleep disorders Insomnia Narcolepsy Sleep apnea Night terrors Sleep paralysis Brain waves Sleep spindles K Complexes Sleep stages REM sleep REM rebound Dreams Freudian interpretation of dreams Manifest content Latent content Activation-Synthesis Theory Memory Facilitation Hypnosis Effects Lifespan Development Developmental psychology Nurture via Nature Stage development vs. Continuous development Prenatal development Zygote Embryo Fetus Teratogens Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) Capacities of newborns Preferences Rooting reflex Smiling Physical development Maturation Cognitive Development Schemas Jean Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development Sensorimotor stage Object permanence Stranger anxiety Preoperational stage Egocentrism Theory of the Mind Concrete operational stage Conservation Mathematical Transformations Formal operational stage Attachment Harry Harlow’s Surrogate Mother experiments Basic Trust (Erik Erikson) Identity Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development Trust vs. Mistrust Autonomy vs. shame Initiative vs. guilt Competence vs. inferiority Identity vs. role confusion Intimacy vs. Isolation Gernerativity vs. stagnation Integrity vs. despair Abnormal Psychology & Therapy Psychological (or mental) disorder – a “harmful dysfunction” when a behavior is: Atypical Disturbing Unjustifiable Maladaptive Approaches to understanding psychological disorders Psychoanalytic Humanistic Behaviorist Medical Model Developed Thorozine, (first FDA approved psychotropic drug, 1952-1954) DSM-5 Labeling people with disorders (possible dangers) Bio-Psycho-Social approach (interactionist) Psychological Disorders & Therapies Anxiety Disorders Generalized Anxiety Disorder Panic Disorder Phobias Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Dissociative Disorders Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality) Mood Disorders Major Depressive Disorder Bipolar Disorder (formerly called Manic Depressive Disorder) Schizophrenia