Study
Guide: Exam 3
You are
responsible for all lectures,
as well as Chapter 10, Chapter 9 (337-345, 372), Chapter 11 (431-439), Chapter 5
(154-189), Chapter 12 (500-502) in the book.
Know
the following concepts well. When you can explain it, with
examples, to someone not in psychology, and answer their questions, you
probably understand the concept well.
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Teratogens (e.g., fetal alcohol syndrome)
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Nongenetic familial
intergenerational effects (glucose metabolism as presented in lecture, DES,
handling of pregnant rats)
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Prenatal stages
(zygote, embryo, fetus), Postnatal stages (infancy, childhood, adolescence,
adulthood)
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Piaget stages (what
they are called, their order and their characteristics)
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Schema formation
(assimilation & accommodation)
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Object permanence
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Egocentrism
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Conservation
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Stranger anxiety
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Attachment (secure,
anxious resistant, anxious avoidant)
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Separation anxiety
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Child rearing and
the experience of choice, parenting (authoritative, authoritarian, permissive,
rejection-neglect)
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Kohlberg’s three
basic levels (preconventional, conventional, postconventional)
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Love (marriage,
divorce)
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Styles of love (from
handout)
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Sexual orientation
vs. gender identity
q Sexual orientation (frequency and causes,
social-cultural, hormones, genetic)
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Freud’s structure of
the mind (Id, Ego, and Superego)
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Pleasure and reality
principles
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Oedipus and Electra
complexes and identification
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Freud’s pscyhosexual
stages (oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital)
q Freud’s defense mechanisms (repression, denial,
intellectualization, rationalization, reaction formation, projection,
displacement, and sublimation)
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Relations between Freud’s ideas and modern
psychological theory
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Latent versus
manifest, libido versus aggressive instinct (presented in lecture)
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Civilization and its
discontents (presented in lecture)
q Controlled versus automatic processes
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Circadian rhythms
(24 hour) and ultradian rhythms (less than 24 hours) (presented in lecture)
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Melatonin and sleep
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Jet lag, shift work
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Methods for studying
consciousness presented in lecture (verbal reports or experience, measures of
performance, physiological correlates of experience and/or performance (EEG,
eye movements, muscle tone)
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Sleep cycle
stages (know the stages and the order of these
stages across the night in detail)
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Sleep deprivation
and REM rebound
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Sleep disorders
(insomnia, narcolepsy, and apnea), sleepwalking, sleeptalking (lecture).
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Dreams (lucid dreams,
nightmares, night terrors – know the stages of sleep in which these occur)
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Memory consolidation
during REM sleep.
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Drugs (Know
examples, actions and subclasses of depressants, opiates, stimulants,
hallucinogens, Marijuana, agonist, antagonist)
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Addiction,
Tolerance, Withdrawal, Relative danger of frequently abused drugs
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Harm reduction