Studylist 1 - Do you know and understand:
(from Module 1 - Introduction to the Field of Psychology)
definition of psychology and the basic goals of this discipline? Could you recognize examples of these goals like we gave
in class?
the characteristics of autism, autistic savants, & the kinds of research being done on autism?
what training is necessary to pursue psychology as a career and where psychologists work??
the difference between a clinical psychologist, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst?
the major subareas or areas of specialization of psychology?
who Wundt, James, Watson, & Wertheimer are and the historical approach to psychology each associated with?
(also know Freud, Skinner, Bandura & Maslow in the modern approaches)
6 major modern day perspectives or approaches to psychology?
some of the characteristics of test anxiety or those who have test anxiety
(from Module 2 = Research Methods in Psychology)
the characteristics of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and controversies surrounding it
main research methods, techniques, settings (naturalistic observation, survey/questionnaire, case study, correlational research, experimental method, animal models, standardized tests)
problems with testimonial "evidence"
the characteristics of correlations and the correlation coefficient and the uses & limitations of correlations in research
the basics of the experiment (independent variable, dependent variable, random selection, random assignment,
experimental condition or group, control condition or group, operational definitions, double-blind procedure)? Could you
identify these components in an example of a study?
problems in research (representative or random samples, extraneous/confounding variables, subject and experimenter
bias, what to watch for when drawing conclusions)?
the placebo effect, self-fulfilling prophecy
concerns about research
(from Modules 11 and 12 - Memory and Forgetting)
encoding, storage and retrieval
characteristics of sensory memory, short-term memory (STM), and long-term memory (LTM)
iconic and echoic memories
duration and capacity of different types of memory
chunking
maintenance vs. elaborative rehearsal, importance of distributed practice
serial position effect (primacy and recency effects)
recall vs recognition tests of memory
consolidation
retrograde amnesia vs anterograde amnesia
categories of long-term memories (declarative (episodic & semantic) and nondeclarative (procedural)
network theory of LTM memory organization
automatic and effortful encoding
techniques to improve encoding
tips for avoiding “forgetting”
retroactive vs proactive interference
state-dependent memories
reconstructive nature of memories
motivated forgetting (suppression vs repression)
false memories
distortions in eye witness testimony
brain mechanisms of memory
role of the hippocampus, cerebellum and cortex in memory