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Study Guide: EXAM 2

As with our study guide for Exam 1- you may define, describe the function of, and share study tips or questions about a few of the following topics. You may use notes and books, and take this home for use as a study aide.

I suggest you attempt one or two of the following learning techniques:

a) Simple Saying/ Visual Aide

(ex: the graph that represents rates of happiness from young to old age looks like a slight smile because across the lifespan, both younger and older people tend to be slightly more happy than those in middle age)

b) Poem/Song

(ex: I look you up and down once more… from the bottom up you are figure and form, from the top down you are the man I adore - bottom-up and top-down processing)

c) Personal Story

(ex: When I was 5 or 6 years old –before learning conservation during Piaget’s concrete operational stage- I would spread my Halloween candy out over the whole floor, because it took up more space and made me think there was more of it!)

d) Vivid example

(ex: linguistic determinism theory explains why the first generation of signers at the Nicaraguan school (who had few signed words for thinking) had less ‘theory of mind’ than the younger signers (who had developed more complex signs including one meaning ‘I know something you don’t know’) )

e) Quiz yourself - take turns trying to get your classmates to guess the concept by offering clues as in the game Taboo or Password

(ex: free-association, unconscious conflicts, therapy couch, Freud…. –psychoanalysis)

Chapter 4 - Developmental Psychology

· Nature vs. Nurture

· Attachment Theory

· Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development (and associated tasks)

· Erickson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development

· Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood

· Happiness across the Lifespan

Chapter 6- Sensation and Perception

· Sensation vs. Perception

· Sensory Adaptation

· Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processing

· BioPsychoSocial Model of Pain

· Distance Perception

Chapter 7- Learning

· Associative Learning

· Classical Conditioning:

· US

· UR

· NS

· CS

· CR

· Acquisition, Generalization, Extinction

· Operant Conditioning:

· (Positive & Negative) Reinforcement

· (Positive & Negative) Punishment

· Observational Learning

Chapter 9- Language and Intelligence

· Stages of Language Development

· Linguistic Determinism

· Spearman’s G

· Multiple Intelligences (including emotional intelligence)

· Psychological Tests (Standardization, Reliability, Validity)

Chapter 14- Disorders

· Defined

· DSM (pros and cons)

· Anxiety Disorders (types, symptoms, and possible causes)

· Mood Disorders (types, symptoms, and possible causes)

Chapter 15- Therapies (theories and techniques)

· Psychoanalysis

· Humanistic (client-centered therapies)

· Behavior Therapy

· Cognitive Therapy

· Commonalities of Diverse Therapies

· Positive Expectancies

· Therapeutic Alliance

· Evidence Based Practice