Psychology Final Exam Essay Topics

Here are your nine essay topics, you will choose 4 to write on.

Mental Disorders
Memory
Sleep
Psychology vs. Psychiatry
Operant vs. Classical Conditioning
The Great Psychologists (badura, freud, horney, skinner, erickson, etc.)
6 approaches of Psychology
The Brain
Hypnosis

For HW tonight (Monday 1/12) go to phobialist.com choose one phobia to research and bring that info with you to class tomorrow tuesday 1/13.

Thursday 12/4

Here is the study guide for the quiz on freud:

Know and be able to explain frueds 3 divisions of the mind (id, ego, and superego).

Know and be able to explain freuds concept of EROS and Thanatos.

know freuds 7 defense mechanizism's

know and be able to provide examples of freuds 5 stages of psychosexual development

Tuesday 11/18

things to know for fridays test:

operant conditioning
reinforcement
Ivan Pavlov
Classical conditioning
E.L. Thorndike
Albert Bandura
UCR
CR
CS
UCS
NS
B.F. Skinner
Generalization
Bart the Bear experiment
Baby Albert experiment
Pavlov's dog experiment
variable-ration schedule
variable-interval schedule
fixed-ratio schedule
fixed-interval schedule
social cognitive learning
continous reinforcement
negative reinforcement
punishment
reinforcement
shaping
behavior modification
imprinting


Essays
BF Skinner and why he is important
Ivan Pavlov and why he is important

Monday 10/28

Senses and Perceptions study guide

read pgs. 94-111 and 122-133

These are the topics of the T and F questions:
first impressions
different sensations
how your brian responds to sensations
what is a perception
how your brain interacts with sensations and perceptions
apparent montion theory
real motion theory
perceputal sets
decibels and decibel levels
taste
touch
smell
hearing
vision


Terms to know
eardrum
lens
iris
auditory nerve
cold
after image
optic nerve
salty
outer ear
adrenaline
blind spot
taste buds
social custom
psychology
cochlea
cornea
phi


Essay Questions
Which sense would you be willing to live without?
Know how you would use all of your senses in order to complete a certain task?

Brain Teaser


At the end of the last volleyball season, the main results table had been destroyed. Luckily, a number of people could remember the following snippets:

Arlington Wonderers finished above The Golf GTI and Derby Surefires. Eagle Cherrys finished above Arlington Wonderers, The Golf GTI and Derby Surefires. Happy Hours finished above Brookside Magic and Eagle Cherrys. Eagle Cherrys finished above Foxtrot Kilos and Chippy Flippers. The Golf GTI finished below Chippy Flippers and Eagle Cherrys. Foxtrot Kilos finished before Brookside Magic, Derby Surefires and The Golf GTI. Derby Surefires finished below Foxtrot Kilos, Chippy Flippers and Brookside Magic. Arlington Wonderers finished below Chippy Flippers and Eagle Cherrys. Brookside Magic finished below Eagle Cherrys, Foxtrot Kilos and The Golf GTI. Derby Surefires finished below The Golf GTI and Eagle Cherrys. Foxtrot Kilos finished below Arlington Wonderers and Eagle Cherrys.

Can you restore the correct league positions?

Monday 10/13

Study guide for Brain test:
make sure you have notes on these items, and be able to identify them:

brain size
pituitary gland
midbrain
fight-flight response
endocrine system
central nervous system
limbic system
parasympathetic nervous system
somatic nervous system
forebrain temporal
frontal lobe
occipital lobe
forebrain
parietal
autonomic nervous system
sympathetic nervous system
hindbrian
peripheral nervous system
corpus callosum
intelligence
somatic nervous system

Choose 4 topics to write answers for:

Psychosurgey, and discuss advantages and disadvantages
Electronic Brain stimulation, discuss pros and cons
Heredity vs. the Environment, choose a side and discuss
Do animals think, choose a side and use examples
Ethology, is it worth studying why or why not
Alzheimers and Parkinsons disease, causes, symptoms, and treatments

Thursday 9/25

Brain Activity: p. 73 and p. 80 draw the brain and label everything that is on p. 73 and p. 80. Finish for HW.

Tuesday 9/23

Use this link to study the brain and print out the brian diagrams for your notes. If you can print them out in color it will be better.

http://www.american.edu/kbreitt/home/brain.html

Follow this link to read the full story of Phineas Gage:

http://www.brainconnection.com/topics/?main=fa/phineas-gage