Intro. Psychology

[snazzlefrag]

Here's the scoop....

This exam consists almost entirely of questions regarding names, theories, facts, and concepts.

Instantcert has all you need to know. The REA book was great for this subject too.

Here are the specific items that I was tested on today. The questions didn't go very deep. In most cases, you just need to know the basics.

If you know most of the following, you will likely do very well on the exam.

If it's not in this list, it wasn't on my exam. But your version might include additional items. Be warned!


Names and Theories:

Erikson (Pyschoanalytical)
Freud (Psychoanalytical)
Kohlberg (Morality)
Piaget (Cognitive Development)
Rogers (Humanistic, client-centered)
Skinner (Behaviorism, Classical & Operant Conditioning)
Watson (The Father of Behaviorism)
Wundt (Structuralism, first experimental psychology lab)


Concepts and Facts:

Id, ego, superego.
Defense mechanisms.
Free association.
Parts of a Neuron and their functions.
Parts of the brain and their functions.
Visual Cliff experiment.
Parts of the eye and their functions.
Kinesthesis.
Cognition.
Three stages of infant language development (babbling, one-word, two-word).
Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development.
Erikson's Stages of Psycho-social Development.
Kohlberg's Stages of Morality.
Kubler-Ross' Stages of Grief.
Types of Disorders (Very basic....dissociative, mood, personality,schizophrenia, somatoform, behavioral).
Types of Therapy (know the basics about what each therapy focuses on).
Group Behavior (conformity, are we more or less likely to help someone if others are close by? Etc.).
Factors in Obesity (easy question..but it surprised me that it was on the exam).
General Adaptation Syndrome.
Schacter's Two-factor Theory (arousal + label = emotion).
Stages of sexual response (excitement, plateau, orgasm, resolution).
Test reliability.
Test validity.
Correlation (know that the range is -1 to +1, and that -0.85 and +0.85 reveal a stronger correlation than -0.5 or +0.5. Also, it would be good if you could remember that positive correlation skews to the right, and negative correlation skews to the left. As a result, the mean in positively skewed results will be higher than the median...I'm just saying!).
Mean, median, mode (know what they are).
Statistical Significance (ie, likelihood that results of an experiment would occur by chance).
Different types of research: longitudinal, case study, naturalistic observation etc.....just know the difference).
Independent Variable v. Dependent Variable (IV = The Cause, DV = The Effect being measured...several questions on this).

Hope this helps,
Snazzlefrag