General Psychology Midterm Study Guide Know and be prepared to apply the following : Psychology definition Behavioral approach Evolutionary psychology Biopsychology Personality psychology Freud’s contribution to Psychology Margaret Floy Washburn’s contribution to psychology Mamie Clark’s contribution to Psychology Hypothesis Dependent and independent variables Theory Falsifiable Different research methodologies Positive & negative correlations Genotype vs. phenotype Range of reaction Synapse Neurotransmitters and their functions Agonists and Antagonists Circadian rhythm Consciousness Stages sleep Sleep disorders Manifest vs. latent content of dreams Collective unconscious Lucid dreams Reactions to disruptions is sleep/wake cycle Brain lateralization Frontal lobe Amygdala Hippocampus Cerebral cortex Consciousness definition Physical vs psychological addiction tolerance Different categories of substances that change consciousness Meditation Sensation vs. perception Subliminal messages Implicit biases Absolute threshold vs. noticeable difference Sensory adaptation Top down vs. bottom up processing Gestalt psychology principles Different types of pain Congenital analgesia Psychological definition of learning Classical vs Operant conditioning vs. Observational Learning Concepts & prototypes Problem solving strategies Obstacles to problem solving Triarchic theory of intelligence Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligence Stages of memory Sensory, short term & long term memory Different type of long term memories Anterograde vs. retrograde amnesia
