PSYCHOLOGY FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Chapter 1
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What is the definition of psychology?
Who coined this concept and what does it mean – “unconscious determinants of behavior?”
What psychological perspective did Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers create?
What are the 4 goals of psychology?
Why do psychologists use the scientific method?
What is phrenology?
What are the main ideas of the following psychological perspectives?
a. Psychoanalytic
b. Behavioral
c. Humanistic
d. Cognitive
e. Biological
Chapter 2
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What is the difference between the independent variable and dependent variable?
What is the difference between correlation and causation?
Define and give example of self-fulfilling prophecy.
Define and give example of the placebo effect.
Stanley Milgram Shock Generator Experiment
12. What did the Milgram experiment demonstrate?
13. How did the participants of this experiment respond to the stress of the situation?
14. What was this experiment testing?
Learning Unit Chapter 9
15. What is learned helplessness?
16. Who discovered and what is classical conditioning?
17. Who discovered and what is operant conditioning?
Memory Chapter 10
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What is the capacity of short term memory?
What are the 3 memory processes?
What are mnemonic devices? Give an example.
What are the 3 types of memory?
Define and give example of primacy-recency effect
Define and give example of semantic memory
Define and give example of episodic memory
Motivation and Emotion Chapter 12
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Who developed the hierarchy of needs?
What is self-actualization?
How does emotional expression differ from culture to culture?
What is motivation inferred from?
What did the baby monkeys prefer in Harry Harlow’s research?
What are fundamental needs?
What are psychological needs?
32. Define and give an example of homeostasis
Psychological Testing and Personality Chapters 13 and 14
33. Define and give an example of the following terms
a. Validity
b. Reliability
c. Introvert
d. Extrovert
34. What are defense mechanisms?
35. According to Sigmund Freud, human personality has what 3 parts?
Stress and Health Chapter 15
36. What happens to your body due to long term stressful situations?
37. Define and give an example of the following:
a. Eustress
b. Distress
Psychological Disorders Chapter 16
38. Define and give examples of the following:
a. Compulsion
b. Obsession
c. Dissociative reaction
d. Abnormal
e. Phobia
f. Hypochondriasis
g. Tolerance
h. Withdrawal
i. Somatoform disorder
j. Delusion
k. Conversion reaction
l. PTSD