2ND SEM - INTRO & RESEARCH, BRAIN & BEHAVIOR, SENSATION & PERCEPTION, CONSCIOUSNESS,
LEARNING & PROBLEM SOLVING, , PSYCH. DISORDERS
VOCAB
Hormones
Serotonin, dopamine, etc
“brain is plastic”
Methods of research: case study, longitudinal, survey, interview,
naturalistic observation, field experiment laboratory experiment, crosssectional, psychological tests
Influence of brain on behavior
Key parts of the brain: cerebrum, corpus callosum, “lower brain”,
thalamus, cerebellum, hypothalamus, RAS, medulla, motor strip,
sensory strip, etc.
4 lobes: frontal, parietal, temporal occipital
Phineas Gage
Methods for studying the brain: MRI, EEG, electr. Stim, PET, CAT
Endocrine system: pituitary, thyroid, adrenal, gonads
5 major senses: sight, smell, taste, touch, hear
3 types of touch
Key parts of each sense organ:
cornea, retina, pupil, iris, lens, rods, cones, optic nerve, blind spot,
tympanic membrane, cochlea, auditory nerve, semicircular canals, etc
Binocular v. monocular depth cues
Gestalt laws: ex. figure-ground, similarity, proximity
closure, continuity,
Constancies, depth perception & how we know
ESP & types
Subliminal perception
Consciousness – definition & levels
Sleep – characteristics & stages
4 dream theories
Hypnosis can be helpful for…
Benefits of mediation
CONSCIOUSNESS
Continuum, construct, chronobiology, circadian rhythm,
biological clock, free running clocks, entrainment
Unconscious v. unconscious mind (Freud’s theory)
Altered states of consciousness (sleep, hypnosis, meditation
& substance use)
REM v. NREM, REM Rebound
Sleep disorders: narcolepsy, incubus attacks, insomnia, sleep apnea,
Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment
SENSATION & PERCEPTION
Olfaction, cutaneous, audition,
Absolute threshold, meaningless, transduction
Amplitude, frequency
White light – electromagnetic spectrum
Afterimage, nearsighted v. farsighted, color blindness
Deafness
Phantom limb
Lasik eye surgery
Binocular disparity
Visual cliff
Illusions
cognitive, psychoanalytic, humanistic, sociocultural, eclecticism,
Workplace possibilities
APA – American Psychological Association
Ethical guidelines
BRAIN & BEHAVIOR
terminals, terminal buttons, synapse, neurotransmitters, etc.
MAIN TOPIC
What is psychology? Main goals
Early founders/influential people (ex. Wundt, Freud)
7 Approaches to viewing behavior: neurobiological, behavioral,
INTRO & RESEARCH
pseudo psychology, graphology, phrenology
introspection
cognition
psychologist v. psychiatrist
scientific method
research v. applied
hypothesis
placebo
control group v. experimental
Independent variable v. dependent variable
Double blind study
brain – characteristics
Right v. left hemisphere
Neuron & parts of: dendrite, nucleus, axon, myelin sheath, axon
REM sleep disorder
Ivan Pavlov
John Watson & Baby Albert
B.F. Skinner
PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS / ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR
- General Information: What is “abnormal”? Characteristics/components, challenges
- DSM-IV TR – Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV
- Therapy/treatment possibilities
ANXIETY DISORDERS
MOOD (AFFECTIVE) DISORDERS
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Panic Disorder
Phobic Disorder
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
DISSOCIATIVE & SOMATOFORM DISORDERS
Amnesia
Dissociative Fugue
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Conversion Disorder
Hypochondriasis
Dysthymic Disorder
Major Depression
Bipolar Disorder
PERSONALITY DISORDERS
Antisocial Personality
Borderline Personality
SCHIZOPHRENIA
AUTISM
LEARNING
Classical conditioning
UCS, UCR, CS, CR
Operant conditioning
Reinforcement (positive v. negative), schedules of
reinforcement, punishment
Social learning
Acquisition, extinction, generalization, shaping