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PSYCH 101-001/003 CONTENT REVIEW FOR TEST 1

This review sheet is intended to provide a guide to study key concepts that may appear on this upcoming test. Keep in mind that
several of the test questions will come from the reading assigned in the textbook that may not have been covered in the lectures.

MODULE 1: DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY

1. Definition of Psychology
2. Goals of Psychology
3. Approaches to Understanding Behavior
a. Biological, Cognitive, Behavioral, Psychoanalytic, Humanistic, & Cross-Cultural
4. Historical Approaches and Key Pioneers
a. Structuralism – Wundt
b. Functionalism – James
c. Gestalt – Wertheimer
d. Behavioralism – Watson
5. Careers in Psychology
a. Psychologist versus Psychiatrist
6. Research Areas in Psychology
a. Social & Personality, Developmental, Experimental, Biological, Cognitive, & Psychometrics
7. Test Anxiety; Setting Goals; Taking notes; Procrastination

MODULE 2: PSYCHOLOGY & SCIENCE

1. Types of Research Methods


a. Surveys, Case Study, Experiment
i. Advantages
ii. Disadvantages
2. Placebos
3. Correlations and Correlation Coefficient
a. What does the coefficient tell you? (positive, negative or no relationship)
4. Research Techniques
a. Questionnaires & Interviews; Laboratory Experiments; Standardized Tests; Animal Models
5. Research Settings
a. Naturalistic versus Laboratory
6. Scientific Method
a. Seven Rules

MODULE 25: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

1. Definitions of Social Psychology, Cognitive Social Psychology & Social Neuroscience


2. Person Perception & Factors that Influence Judgment
a. Social Context
i. Pseudopatient Study
3. Stereotypes
a. Prejudice
b. Discrimination
c. Functions of Stereotypes
4. Schematas/Schemas
a. Kinds of Schemas
b. Advantages & Disadvantages
5. Attributions
a. Dimensions
i. Dispositional versus Situational
ii. Stable versus Unstable
iii. Specific versus Global
b. Fundamental Attribution Bias
c. Actor-Observer Effect
d. Self-Serving Bias
6. Attitudes
a. Components (cognitive, affective & behavioral)
b. Cognitive Dissonance Theory
c. Self-Perception Theory
d. Persuasion (Attitude Change)
i. Central Route versus Peripheral Route
ii. Characteristics of the Communicator (Source)
iii. Characteristics of the Communication (Message)
iv. Characteristics of the Audience
7. Social Influence
a. Conformity
i. Autokinetic effect
ii. Asch’s Study
b. Obedience
i. Milgram’s Study
c. Compliance
d. Minority Influence
e. Psychological Reactance
8. Prosocial Behaviors
a. Cooperation
i. Robber’s Cave Study
b. Decision-Stage Model of Helping versus Arousal-Cost-Reward Model
c. Bystander Apathy
9. Aggression
a. Frustration-Aggression hypothesis
b. Social Learning Theory
i. Effects of Media Violence
ii. Effects of Pornography
c. Deindividuation Model
d. Social Roles
i. Prison Study
ii. Cartharsis Hypothesis
iii. Threat of Retaliation
e. Sexual Harassment
f. Rape and Rape Myths

AUTISTIC DISORDER

ATTENTION DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVTY DISORDER

RESEARCH DESIGN

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