Intro to Sociology & Intro to Physc Clep HELP PLEASE!

[rzrmaster]

Hey im a newb here but ive taken the english comp and intro to computing tests and passed and know im getting ready to take intro to sociology and intro to physc clep test this thursday and wanted to see if anybody could offer me advice on what to study and or any study guides they may have...

thanks for your help!

[P00057870]

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Good luck!

[MCunningham]

rzmaster,

I PM'ed you back.

I would also check out (all free)

1. the "101s" guide for Psychology at SparkNotes: Today's Most Popular Study Guides
2. Psychology Classroom at AllPsych Online (very helpful)


Also know the following terms/people (wikipedia can help a LOT):

Accommodation
Amnesia
Anxiety
Arousal Theory
Assimilation
Attachment
Authoritarian (Parent)
Heuristic
Aversion Therapy
Parts of the brain: Axon, cell body etc...
Behavior Modification
Behavior Therapy
Behaviorism
Classical Conditioning
Client Centered Therapy
Cognition
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Dissonance
Cognitive Therapy
Compulsion
Conditioned Response
Conditioning Stimulus
Conditioning
Conformity
Consciousness
Conservation
Consolidation
Continuous, positive, negative Reinforcement
Control & Experimental Group
Correlation
Defense Mechanisms
Delusion
Dependent & independent Variable
Threshold
Dissociation
Divergent Thinking
Id, ego, & superego
Emotion
Emotional Intelligence
Experimental Method
Experimenter Bias
Expert power
Locus of Control
Factor Analysis
Fixed interval & fixed ratio schedule
Frequency effect
Freud and his theories
Free association
Frontal lobe
Hallucination
Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Higher order conditioning
Homeostasis
Humanistic psychology
Hypnosis
Innate
Instinct
Intelligence Quotient
Intrinsic motivation
Latent learning
Learned helplessness
Learning theory
Libido
Mean, medium, mode
Central Tendency
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
Motivation
Naturalistic Observation
Negative & positive correlation
Operant Conditioning
Panic attack
Personality disorder
Persuasion
Phobia
Prejudice
Primary & secondary reinforcer
Projection
Projective Techniques
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
Punishment
Regression
Reliability
Carl Rogers
Self Serving bias
Sensory memory
Shaping
BF Skinner
Stimulus
Survey
Systematic Desensitization
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Trait
Unconditional Positive
Unconditioned response
Unconditioned stimulus
Unconscious
Validity
Variable
Variable interval & ratio schedule
WAIS-III Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, 3rd edition
Somatoform disorders
Conversion disorders
hypochondriasis
Erikson's theroies
OCD
Generalized anxiety disorder
dissociative disorders
schizophrenia
bipolar
inferential statistics
reticular formation
limbic system
occipital, temporal, parietal lobes
kinesthesis
Piaget's theories (a lot on this)
statistical significance
longitudinal studies
cross sequential study
cross sectional study
psychosexual stages
Kohlbergs moral development
Visual cliff experiment
general adaptation syndrome
functionalism
structuralism
social identification function
resistance
existential therapies
implosive therapy
modeling
John B Watson
Somolon Asch
Ivan Pavlov
Wilhelm Wundt
Introspection
Edward Titchener
William James
Gestalt psychology
behaviorism
humanism
John Locke
Empiricism
sensory adaptation
observational methods
Mnemonic device
observer bias
synapse
prinicple of proximity
all the nervous systems
galvanic skin response
pituitary gland
parts of the eye
gustation
vestibular system
stimulants and depressants
synthesthesia
wave frequency, amplitude
decibel scale
REM
escape conditioning
avoidance conditioning
strategy
algorithm
Carl Jung
electro convulsive therapy (ECT)

Good luck! Let us know how you do!

MC

[learflyer]

Why do you guys schedule your cleps with little or no study time? I study and study and THEN I sched my test.:confused:

[entwive]

Hi RZ,

I took them both today and passed. The Sociology was more difficult and the Psych a bit easier than I expected. The Sparks notes are good prep and the very impressive vocabulary list by MCunningham is outstanding. I had quite a few questions on brain area of function, Weber, Durkheim, Freud and Merton so know the major players and schools of thought. Understand operant conditioning, cognitive therapy and psychoanalysis. Be familiar with the terms in the list and have a general understanding of theory and you should do fine. Good Luck!

[flutefreak]

Both of those tests are pretty easy. They overlap so some of it will be review. Personally I used the Instantcert questions and the REA guide for both of them.
Once you've taken those two, it might be worth it to take Human Growth and Dev. and Ed. Psych. They are all similar and cover some of the same material. I was able to take all 4 related tests within 2 months.