Exam 3 Review W/09
-40 multiple choice questions
-Total Points Possible for Course: 132: 120 from exams; 12 from
Experiments(12 credits/6 credit hours) or Readings( 6 summaries)
-Grading: No plus/minus grades
-Last Day to turn in summaries is May 4
TEXT: You are responsible for material in the following pages; focus
especially on Blue Boxes
Chaps 7 Memory: p 267-273; 279-284
Chap 15 Social Psych:607-628; 634-640
Chap 13 Disorders: p 519-537; p543-548
LECTURE:
Memory
1. Anatomy of Memory: know what each part below does
-hippocampus
-frontal lobe
-amygadala
-cerebellum
2. Memory Construction
A. Suggestibility:
-Loftus Car Video Study (1974)
-Loftus ‘Lost in the Mall” Study
B. Memory Misattribution
-Source Memory: Real Life Examples; Lindsay & Poole Dr. Science
Expt
-False Recognition: Class demonstration
C. Implications for Eyewitness Testimony
-cotton case
-how to improve reliability of information
Social Psychology
1. Social Thinking
Attribution Theory: definition; personal vs. situational explanations
-Fundamental Attribution Theory
-Self-serving bias
Attitudes: definition
-Cognitive Dissonance: definition
-Festinger Experiment: $1 vs. $20 conditions
2. Social Influence
a). Zimbardo’s prison experiment: social roles; power of the situation;
deindividuation
b). Conformity: Definition
-Asch Experiment
-Conditions that Strengthen Conformity
-Reasons for Conforming
c). Compliance: Definition
-reasons for compliance
-foot-in-the-door ; door-in-the-face techniques
d). Obedience: definition
- Milgram experiment
-Conditions that Strengthen Obedience: Legitimate authority;
distance from target, etc.
Abnormal Disorders
How are Abnormal Behaviors Defined?
-Criteria Used to Judge Behavior as Abnormal: Atypical;
Disturbing ; Maladaptive
-Diagnosis and Classification System; DSM-IV TR: Rosehan
Study on labels
Anxiety Disorders
-Generalized Anxiety Disorders: symptoms , causes
-Panic Disorders: Symptoms; causes
-Phobic Disorders: Simple; Social, agoraphobia ; cause: learning vs.
Freudian theories (Little Hans)
-Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: definitions; causes
Schizophrenia
- Symptoms
-Subtypes: Positive vs. Negative: Symptoms; Prognosis
- Proposed Causes : Biological(Dopamine Hypothesis; Genetic
Components); Role of stress, flu virus
Personality Disorders
- General Cluster Traits
Know Symptoms of: Paranoid Personality disorder; Schizoid Personality
Disorder; Schizotypal Personality Disorder; Antisocial Personality
Disorder; Borderline Personality Disorder; Avoidant Personality
Disorder; Dependent Personality Disorder; Obsessive-Compulsive
Personality Disorder