In general our test questions focus on material covered in class as well as material that I specifically call your attention to  in class (by giving you page numbers or figure or table numbers in our book, or calling your attention to videos or summary tables linked to our syllabus) . I do not mean that reading the book is not important - it is very important to hear/read more than one explanation of biopsych material, and get additional examples and images to reinforce your learning. Working through the chapters, using the figures and study aids, should strengthen your learning of material presented in class. It may help to clear up points you were a bit confused about in class. And the practice questions in the book (DO pay attention to the "Q" questions and concept checks throughout the reading and the end of chapter quizzes!) are excellent examples of what our test questions will be like. DO test yourself before I test you!! (Note: the practice questions on the material we specifically covered in class are the most important - I do not always assign all pages within a chapter). Our tests will be a combination of MY questions, Carrie's questions (our TA) AND Garrett's questions (our text author).
    
The majority of our tests will be multiple choice with some short answers (define or describe, compare/contrast questions, matching, list the parts of or characteristics of, give an example of, label some simple figures)

Here are some suggestions to guide your studying for our first exam:

You should know the basic information on the field of biopsychology and its subareas presented in class, including the related fields and careers, including Table 1.2 in the linked first assigned reading.
You should be familiar with the specific research methods and terminology that we mentioned (AND those covered in the assigned pages in the Research Methods or linked in the reading column of the syllabus).This includes things like the different types of brain imaging (and the examples linked to the syllabus).


Our little genetics quiz and genetics family assignment already "tested" your understanding of Mendelian genetics, but the other genetics topics in lecture or the assigned genetics readings
will be on the test. This includes: 
structure of DNA and genes
our genetics videos
genetics terminology (nucleotide bases, mutations or SNPs, gene expression, polygenic, etc)
sex-linked genes 
sex-limited genes 
heritability estimates
the genetics of and characteristics of the 2 genetic disorders we covered (PKU and Huntington's disease and the extra pages assigned on these)
nature-nurture (heredity-environment) interaction
genetic research strategies (family and twin research, adoption research)
epigenetics and the epigenome and how it influences the genes on the DNA of chromosomes


Consider the Brain Game Neuroanatomy Notes assignment an extension of this studylist - I won't re-list all those terms here since hopefully you are already working on the assignment.
Remember I'll be collecting the assignment Monday before our test so you may want to make yourself a second copy.