Psychology CP Final Study Guide
Directions: For the following terms and people know their definitions, be able to apply to example scenarios,
and if they are associated with any person or another concept.
Unit 5: Psychological Disorders (~50 questions)
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Psychological disorder
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Social phobia
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DSM-V and why it’s trusted
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Medical model
Anxiety disorders (with examples and
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symptoms) – Generalized Anxiety Disorder,
PTSD, OCD, Phobias, Panic
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 Agoraphobia
 Learning perspective of anxiety disorders
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 Dissociative Disorders (with examples and
criticisms): Dissociative Identity Disorder
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and Dissociative Amnesia
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 Definition of abnormality
 Obsessions vs. compulsions
Unit 4: Motivation, Emotions and Personality (~20 questions)
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Instinct
Homeostasis
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (See practice
worksheet for examples)
Drive-Reduction Theory (See practice
worksheet for examples)
Arousal Theory (See practice worksheet for
examples)
Incentive Theory (See practice worksheet
for examples)
Hypothalamus (role in hunger)
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Sensation
Perception
Absolute threshold
Just noticeable difference
Sensory adaptation
Opponent process theory
Depth perception
Monocular and binocular cues
Gestalt principles: figure-ground, proximity,
texture gradient, convergence, interposition
Selective attention
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Normal anxiety vs. anxiety disorder
Schizophrenia (biological and psychological
causes and symptoms)
Personality Disorders (with examples):
Borderline, Antisocial, Paranoid
Mood Disorders (with examples):
Depression, Bi-polar
Psychological Disorders: Medical,
psychoanalytic, bio-psych-social, learning
Most common category of psychological
disorders
Pros and cons of labeling
Historic treatment of the “insane”
Emotion Theories (See practice worksheet
for examples):
o James-Lange Theory
o Lazarus Theory
o Schacter-Singer Theory
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o Cannon-Barn Theory
o Facial Feedback Theory
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 Feel good, do good phenomenon
 Perspectives on personality: psychodynamic,
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trait, social cognitive, humanist
 External and internal locus of control
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 Reciprocal Determinism
Unit 3: Sensation, Perception, and Consciousness (~20 questions)
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Parallel processing
Manifest content and latent content of
dreams
Uses of hypothesis
Drug tolerance
Insomnia
Depressants including examples and impact
on body
Stimulants including examples and impact
on body
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Hallucinogens including examples and
impact on body
Unit 2: Learning and Cognition (~20 questions)
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Learning
Associative learning
Ivan Pavlov and his discovery of classical
conditioning
o Unconditioned stimulus
o Unconditioned response
o Conditioned stimulus
o Conditioned response
Generalization
Acquisition
Discrimination (as it relates to classical
conditioning)
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B.F. Skinner and operant conditioning
(Skinner’s box)
o Positive and negative reinforcement
o Positive and negative punishment
John B. Watson and Little Albert
Observational learning
Memory – encoding, storage, retrieval
Short and long term memory
Noam Chomsky and his theory of language
acquisition
Edward Thorndike
Albert Bandura and the BoBo Dolls
Unit 1: History/perspectives, Nature v. Nurture, and Development (~10 questions)
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Psychology
Goals of psychology
Nature debate
Nurture debate
Piaget Stages of development – be able to
identify the name or age of each stage and
it’s description
Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development be able to identify the name or age of each
stage and it’s description
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Erikson’s Stages of Development - be able
to identify the name or age of each stage and
it’s description
Freud’s Stages of Development - be able to
identify the name or age of each stage and
it’s description
Object permanence
Egocentrism
Parenting Styles (three main types)
Stages of grief