Exam 2 Study Guide

Review these topics- be able to make a statement about each one in preparation for Exam 2.

Learning

Classical Conditioning

Operant Conditioning

Fixed/Variable Ratio/Interval rates of responding

Which ones produce the best/worst results

Bandura/Watson/ Skinner/ Pavlov (know what they’re associated with)

Memory

Encoding

Types of Storage (sensory, short term, long term memory)

Amnesia

Implicit/Explicit memory

What helps/hurts our memory

Thinking

Insight/Problem solving/Decision making

Language

Know about babbling and ethnicity

Language’s influence on thinking

Intelligence

Aptitude/Achievement

IQ’s stability over time

(g)

Stages of Mental Retardation

Heredity general concepts

Gender differences

Emotional intelligence

Social Psychology

Field Theory

Attributional Theories (all of them)

Cognitive Dissonance

What changes our attitudes (source, message, etc)

inoculation

Kitty Genovese

Major studies

Zimbardo, Asch, Milgram, Rosenhan, Hawthorne

Group dynamics

-social loafing, deindividuation, group think/polarization etc.

ingroup/ outgroup

Facts about aggression (parenting, punishment)

Media and aggression

sexually explicit material and its effects

Emotions Stress and Health

Theories of Emotions-James Lange, Cannon Bard, Two Factor Theory

Yerkes Dodson Curve

Health Psychology

Hans Selye- General Adaptation Syndrome

Type A/ Type B personalities

Perceived control and ulcers

Positive/Negative effects of stress on the body

How to combat stress on your own

Sensation/Perception

Thresholds (Absolute/Subliminal, etc.)

Just noticeable differences

5 Senses

Gate control theory

States of Consciousness

Circadian rhythms

Stages of sleep (include alpha waves and REM)