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General Psychology

Final Exam Study Guide

Gender and Sexuality

1. What is the difference between a person’s gender and a person’s sex?

2. How are men and women similar?

3. Define social power.

4. What is the difference between gender role and gender identity?

5. What are the four phases of the Sexual Response Cycle?

6. What are the four sexual response disorders discussed in class?

Social Psychology

1. What are attributions?

1. Define and provide an example of both a situational and a dispositional attribution that professors may make to explain why students are tardy to class.

1. The fundamental attribution error states that we overestimate which—situational or dispositional attributions?

1. What is the term for the rules for accepted and expected behaviors within a culture, such as how you greet a person?

1. Define conformity.

1. Define obedience.

1. What are the 3 components of prejudice?

Personality

1. Who was Sigmund Freud?

1. How did Freud develop his theory?

1. According to Freud, what are the influences on personality?

1. What drives personality according to Freud? And what are the other names for it?

1. What are the components of the human mind? What are the purpose, guiding principle, and level of awareness for each one?

1. What is a defense mechanism?

4. What are the defense mechanisms? Know the definitions of each.

1. What are Freud’s psychosexual stages of personality development?

Personality Part 2

1. What is the definition of personality?

1. What is a trait?

1. What is personality according to the behavioral perspective?

1. What is Maslow’s Self-Actualization?

1. What is self-concept, actual self, and ideal self?

1. According to the Biological and Evolutionary perspective how much of personality is biologically determined?

Psychopathology

1. Define abnormal psychology.

1. What is the difference between a symptom and a syndrome?

1. What are the 5 Axes of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), what belongs on each axis?

1. Name and describe 2 Anxiety and Mood Disorders.

1. Define Anxiety, Mood, Schizophrenia, Personality, Dissociative, and Somatoform Disorders.