Psychology 101
Final Study Guide
Based on Exploring Psychology, 5th Edition
(Chapters 10, 11, 13, 14, and 15)
Chapter 10
Motivation
1- Drive reduction theory
2- The psychology of hunger (external/internal incentives, taste preferences)
3- The physiology of hunger (body chemistry, the brain)
4- Eating disorders
5- Obesity (set-point theory, leptin, fat cells, basal metabolic rate, genes,
6- The hypothalamus and hunger
7- Discuss the need for affiliation as a source of human motivation.
8- Describe the importance of contact comfort in early life and the research
finding on attachment.
3- Explain John Alan Lee’s six distinct kinds of love.
4- Explain Sternberg’s Triangular theory of love.
5- What determines compatability (homagamy, marriage gradient theory)
6- Theories on the origin of sexual orientation.
7- What motivates people to work.
Chapter 11
Emotions
1- What are the three elements of emotion?
2- Explain Ekman’s neurocultural theory of facial expressions.
3- How do the two hemispheres differ in processing emotion?
4- How do the amygdala and the cortex play a key role in emotion?
5- “Hormones produce the energy of emotion.” Explain this statement.
6- Discuss the physiological changes that accompany emotional experience.
7- What is facial feedback?
8- Explain the two-factor theory of emotion.
9- Explain the adaptation-level phenomenon and the relative adaptation
principle
10-Type A and type B personalities
11-Stress and susceptibility to disease (heart disease and cancer)
12-Stress and the immune system (lymphocytes)
13-Happiness and anger
Chapter 13
Psychological Disorders
1- Discuss the function of the DSM.
2- Describe the causes and symptoms of
Anxiety Disorders: generalized anxiety, panic attacks, phobias,
obsessive-compulsive, posttraumatic stress disorder
Mood Disorders: depression, mania, bipolar
Personality Disorders: paranoid personality, narcissistic personality,
antisocial personality
Dissociative Disorders: amnesia, fugue, dissociative identity disorder
Schizophrenia
3- Distinguish between the disease model of addiction and the learning
model of addiction.
Chapter 14
Therapy
1- Discus the use of antipsychotic drugs, antidepressants, minor
tranquilizers, and Lithium.
2- What are the problems inherent in treating psychological disorders with
drugs.
3- Explain the principles of the four major schools of psychotherapy:
psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, humanistic, and therapy in social
context.
4- When is therapy effective?
5- When is therapy harmful?
6- What are the alternatives to psychotherapy?
7- How does forgiveness affect your psychological health?
8- What is the difference between classical conditioning and operant
conditioning?
Chapter 15
Social Psychology
1-Attribution theory: situational and dispositional
2-Fundemental attribution error
3-Attitudes: the foot-in-the-door phenomenon, role playing
4-Cognitive dissonance theory
5-Conformity: mood linkage, chameleon effect
6-Reasons for conformity: normative social influence, informational social
influence
7-Obedience: The Prison Study
8-Group Influence:
a. Social facilitation
b. Social loafing
c. Deindividuation
d. Group polarization
e. Groupthink
9-Social and emotional roots of prejudice:
a. Social inequalities
b. Us and them
c. Scapegoating
10-Cognitive roots of prejudice:
a. Categorization
b. Vivid cases
c. The-just world phenomenon
11-The biology and psychology of aggression
12-Conflict: social traps, mirror image perception
13-Attraction:
a. Proximity
b. Familiarity
c. Physical attractiveness
d. Similarity
14-Altruism:
a. Bystander effect
b. Social exchange theory