Final Exam Review Sheet
Prologue, Chapters 1 & 2
Psychology
Nature vs. Nurture
Structuralism
Functionalism
Humanistic psychology
Perspectives in Psychology
Types of psychologists
Types of research
Scientific Method
Structure of the Brain (Diagram)
Wilhelm Wundt
William James
Chapter 8 Learning
Learning
Classical conditioning
Unconditioned Response
Conditioned response
Conditioned Stimulus
Unconditioned Stimulus
Ivan Pavlov
Edward Thorndike
John B. Watson
Alfred Bandura
Acquisition
Extinction
Generalization
Discrimination
Operant Conditioning
Shaping
Types of Reinforcement
Schedules of Reinforcement
B. F. Skinner
Cognitive Map
Pro-social
Anti-Social
Observational Learning
Chapter 9 Memory
Memory
Flashbulb memory
Encoding, storage & retrieval
Long & short term memory
Mnemonics
Chunking
Recall vs recognition
Priming
Amnesia
Misinformation effect
Chapter 4 Development
Developmental psychology
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Habituation
Maturation
Critical Period
Imprinting
Social Clock
Schema
Assimilation
Accommodation
Cognition
Stages of Development Theories
(Piaget, Kohlberg, Erikson & Freud)
Sensation & Perception – Reading Packet
Sensation
Perception
Bottom-up & Top-down Processing
Sensory Adaptation
Blind spot
Colorblindness
Color Constancy
Afterimage (opponent color theory)
Timbre
Pitch
Audition
Cutaneous receptors
Olfaction
Taste receptors
Constancies (size, color, brightness, space &
depth)
Visual Cliff
Subliminal Perception
Chapter 7 States of Consciousness
Theories of Dreams:
Freud’s Symbolism & Wish Fulfillment
Information processing
Physiological function
Activation-Synthesthis
Cognitive Theory
Final Exam Review Sheet