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.

 

q    Teratogens (e.g., fetal alcohol syndrome)

q    Nongenetic familial intergenerational effects (glucose metabolism as presented in lecture, DES, handling of pregnant rats)

q    Prenatal stages (zygote, embryo, fetus), Postnatal stages (infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood)

q    Piaget stages (what they are called, their order and their characteristics)

q    Schema formation (assimilation & accommodation)

q    Object permanence

q    Egocentrism

q    Conservation

q    Stranger anxiety

q    Attachment (secure, anxious resistant, anxious avoidant)

q    Separation anxiety

q    Child rearing and the experience of choice, parenting (authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, rejection-neglect)

q    Kohlberg’s three basic levels (preconventional, conventional, postconventional)

q    Love (marriage, divorce)

q    Styles of love (from handout)

q    Sexual orientation vs. gender identity

q    Sexual orientation (frequency and causes, social-cultural, hormones, genetic)

 

 

q    Freud’s structure of the mind (Id, Ego, and Superego)

q    Pleasure and reality principles

q    Oedipus and Electra complexes and identification

q    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)

q    Relations between Freud’s ideas and modern psychological theory

q    Latent versus manifest, libido versus aggressive instinct (presented in lecture)

q    Civilization and its discontents (presented in lecture)

 

 

 

 

q    Controlled versus automatic processes

q    Circadian rhythms (24 hour) and ultradian rhythms (less than 24 hours)  (presented in lecture)

q    Melatonin and sleep

q    Jet lag, shift work

q    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)

q    Sleep cycle stages  (know the stages and the order of these stages across the night in detail)

q    Sleep deprivation and REM rebound

q    Sleep disorders (insomnia, narcolepsy, and apnea), sleepwalking, sleeptalking (lecture).

q    Dreams (lucid dreams, nightmares, night terrors – know the stages of sleep in which these occur)

q    Memory consolidation during REM sleep.

q    Drugs (Know examples, actions and subclasses of depressants, opiates, stimulants, hallucinogens, Marijuana, agonist, antagonist)

q    Addiction, Tolerance, Withdrawal, Relative danger of frequently abused drugs

q    Harm reduction