PSY 201
Fall 2015 Study Guide
What is Psychology?
What are the three contributors to Psychology?
What are the goals of psychology?
The roots of psychology are based in _____________________
Review the History chart in your powerpoint.
What is Structuralism?
Who established Structuralism? When? Where?
Who is the father of Modern Psychology?
Who is Edward Titchener?
Who is Margaret Washburn? What was her contribution?
When did Structuralism die out?
What is Functionalism? Who proposed it?
What influence did Functionalism have on other phsychologies?
Who is Max Wertheimer?
What is Gestalt translated as?
Describe Gestalt Psychology.
What is Psychoanalysis? Who developed it?
What are the main ideas and concepts behind Psychoanalysis?
Who is Ivan Pavlov? What is he responsible for? What were the subjects of his experiment?
Who is John B. Watson?
Discuss the Case of “Little Albert”
B.F. Skinner developed theory of how what is learned?
What is the behavioral perspective, what’s it’s influence?
What is the difference between cognitive perspective and evolutionary perspective? Define each.
What is the humanistic perspective? Who were early contributors?
Modern Humanism was used in____________________________ and _______________________________
What is the difference between psychodynamic perspective and sociocultural perspective? Define each.
Define each:
Psychiatrist:
Psychoanalyst:
Psychiatric social worker:
Psychologist:
What is the Scientific Method?
What are the steps in the Scientific Method?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of Naturalistic Observation?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of Descriptive Observation?
What is case study?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of a case study?
Describe a survey. What are the advantages and disadvantages of a survey?
Describe data.
What are three ways to characterize an average response? Describe each.
What is the Bell Shaped Curve? How do you read it in terms of data?
What is a positive skew and a negative skew?
What are two ways to present a distribution? Define each.
Define correlation.
What is a correlation coefficient?
What is the difference between a positive and a negative correlation?
What does each correlation look like on a scatterplot? Draw them out.
What is the third variable problem?
What is a longitudinal study?
What is an experiment?
Define operational definition.
What is the difference between independent variable and dependent variable?
What is the difference between experimental group and control group?
What is a random assignment in an experiment?
What is the difference between the placebo effect and experimenter effect?
What is the difference between single-blind study and double-blind study?
What does it meant to have statistical significance in an experiment?
What does it mean to have power in an experiment?
When did ethics surface in psychological research? To what extent?
What are the seven common ethical guidelines?
What are some things to consider in animal research?
What is critical thinking?
What are the four basic criteria behind critical thinking?
What is the nervous system?
Define neuroscience.
What does biological psychology focus on?
What are the four characteristics of the nervous system?
Fill in the chart of the Nervous System.
What is a neuron?
What are the parts of a neuron? Describe and define each. (be able to identify each on a picture)
How is the neuron structured?
What is a glial cell?
What is the myelin sheath?
How is a message generated within neurons?
What is resting potential?
What is the difference between resting potential and action potential?
What happens during the All-or-None Principle?
What are axon terminals (terminal branches)?
What is the difference synaptic knob and synaptic vesicles?
What is a synapse/synaptic gap?
What are receptor sites?
In Neuron Communication what happens to the excitatory synapses and the inhibitory synapses?
Define agonists.
What is the difference between agonists and antagonists?
What does ACh stand for? Define. Give example.
What does GABA stand for? Define. Give example.
What is the difference between norepinephrine and dopamine?
What is the difference between serotonin and endorphins?
Define reuptake?
What is enzymatic degradation?
What functions are the brain and the spinal cord to the central nervous system?
What does the reflex arc do?
What is the benefit of the sensory neuron? What is another name for it?
What is the motor neuron’s function? What is another name for a motor neuron?
Define interneuron.
What happens during a spinal cord reflex?
What is neuroplasticity?
When is plasticity at its highest level?
What is an example of plasticity?
What is the peripheral nervous system?
What is an example of somatic and autonomic nervous system? What are other names for both?
What is the division of PNS mean in the somatic nervous system and in the autonomic nervous system?
What is the difference between sensory pathway and motor pathway in the division of PNS in the Somatic nervous
system?
What is the difference between sympathetic and parasympathetic division?
What is the difference between deep lesioning and shallow lesioning?
What does ESB stand for? Define.
What does DSB stand for? Define.
What is the acronym for transcranial direct current stimulation and what does it mean?
What is a CT Scan and what does it do? How does it differ from an MRI?
What is an MRI and what does it do?
What is the difference between an EEG (what does that stand for?) and a PET (what does that stand for?)?
What is the acronym for functional magnetic resonance imaging? What is its function?
Be able identify the major structures of the human brain!
What is the function of the medulla?
What are pons?
What is the limbic system?
What is the cingulate cortex?
What si the cortex forebrain?
What are the four lobes of the brain? Be able to identify each and locate each.
What is Reticular formation?
What is the function of the cerebellum?
What happens in the limbic system? Where is it located?
What is the function of the thalamus?
What is the function of the hypothalamus?
What is the function of the hippocampus?
What is the function of the amygdala?
What happens when you split the brain? Why is that surgery necessary sometimes?
Who has done split brain research? When?
What are endocrine glands?
What is the function of the pituitary gland?
What is the difference between the pineal gland and the thyroid gland?
What does the pancreas do?
What is Broca’s Aphasia?
What is the difference between Broca’s Aphasia and Wernicke’s Aphasia?
What is Unilateral Spatial Neglect?
Define cerebral hemispheres. What is the difference between the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere?
Give examples of the specialization of the two hemispheres.
What are gonads?
What are adrenal glands?