Final Review

Brain structures (pg 161)

Be prepared to diagnose physical symptoms (162)

Research – Types (nat. obs, case studies, etc)

Variables (IV, DV)

Groups (sampling)

Sensation

Senses – animalistic senses (smell)

Perception – sensory studies in class

Sensory adaptation – examples of each

Vision (night vision) rods vs cones

Sleep - stages of sleep / circadian rythms

Gender

Sex vs gender

Is gender genetic or learned (arguments for both)

Learning

Classical conditioning – vocab (UCS, USR, NS,etc)

Operant conditioning

Reward vs punishment (negative v. positive)

Schedules of reinforcement

Social Learning Theory - modeling, token economies

Be prepared to explain to following:

Piaget's stages of development

Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal op.

object permanence, conservation, egocentric

Freud's stages of development - oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital

Ego, id, superego and theories of the unconscious (freudian slip)

Erikson's stages of development - (1-5)

Physical abilities of children at age appropriate times (in months)

Sitting up, walking, first words

Stress

Sources

Coping strategies

Psychological Disorders

Anxiety disorders

GAD

Phobias

OCD

PTSD

Somatoform disorders

Dissociative disorders

Mood Disorders

Depression

Bi-polar

Schizophrenia