Psychology 101
Final Study Guide
(Chapters 10, 11, 13, and 14)
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 principle characteristics of obsessive-compulsive
disorder.
3- Distinguish among depression, mania, and bipolar disorders.
4- Explain the various theories that account for depression.
5- Describe the features of antisocial personality disorder and theories
explaining the causes.
6- Describe the current controversy about the validity and nature of
dissociative identity disorder.
7- Distinguish between the disease model of addiction and the learning
model of addiction.
8- Describe the negative and the positive symptoms of schezophrenia.
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 and cognitive, humanistic and existential, 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?