Psy 101
Review Sheet for Final Exam
One cheat sheet (both sides) is allowed!
Scantron 888E (or any that has 50 sets of bubbles on EACH side!)
The final exam will consist of matching, multiple choice and true-false items.
The material comes from Chapter 1 and chapters 6, 8-14
Chapter 1 – Research Methods and History and perspectives
Father of psychology
Perspectives in psychology
Current definition of psychology
Know the different types of research:
Case studies, observational studies, correlational, surveys & questionnaires, and the experiment.
Know terms: independent and dependent variables, random assignment, experimental and control group.
Know that the experiment has the most control of any research type because it has: random assignment and
keeping the situation as similar as possible for the different groups( except that the experimental group
receives the independent variable and the control group does not). Correlational studies are good for seeing
relationships, for prediction, for detecting risk factors but they do NOT demonstrate causation – ONLY the
experiment can show causation because it has the most control. Correlations suffer from direction and third
variable problems. Handout from class is helpful!
Chapter 6 – Learning
My powerpoints/lectures are important
Classical conditioning – people, terms
Operant conditioning – people, terms
Insight learning
Observational learning – Bandura, terms
Class handout
Parenting, time- outs
Examples given in class
Chapter 8 – Thinking and Intelligence
Video: Judgment and Decision Making
Binet, Terman, Wechsler, difference between Stanford Binet and WAIS (intelligence tests) (powerpoint)
Chapter 9 – Motivation and Emotion
Powerpoint on different theories of motivation, Maslow’s hierarchy, etc.
Dweck article (How not to talk to your kids) (was also mentioned in learning)
Chapter 10- Stress and Health
Powerpoint lectures
Chapter 11 – Personality
lecture notes and powerpoints are helpful
Psychoanalytic:
Freud – terms and concepts from class (psychosexual stages, models of the mind (id, ego, superego,
conscious, preconscious, unconscious), what motivates us (pleasure and reality principles, sex and
aggression drives, life and death instincts), Oedipus and Electra Complexes and how superego develops in
the phallic stage, fixations and why they occur.
Adler and inferiority, superiority and birth order, social interest
Horney and basic anxiety, moving toward, away or against others
Jung and collective unconscious, archetypes, anima, animus, shadow, self, and persona
Humanistic/Existential
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and two examples from class of self-actualized individuals, why so many
people don’t reach the highest level
Rogers’ three important qualities of a therapist (positive regard, genuineness, empathy), incongruence, selfactualizing tendency, conditions of worth
Frankl and the existentialists’ emphasis on death, meaning, and choice
Trait: Big Five, OCEAN – know what they are, Costa and McCrae
Social-Cognitive (behavioral and cognitive psychology combination):
Rotter and internal and external locus of control
Chapter 12– Social Psychology
The video “Power of the Situation” is important as well as my lecture handout.
Terms you should know:
fundamental attribution error, self-serving bias, bystander effect, group think, altruism & helping behavior,
social loafing and diffusion of responsibility, deindividuation, groupthink, actor-observer bias, self-serving
bias (some of these may not be covered in class – use your textbook!)
Conformity and Ash’s study and conditions that influence it
Milgram and his study of obedience. Situational factors that impact obedience.
Zimbardo’s prisoner-guard study
My lecture notes!
Who was Kitty Genovese and what did her situation illustrate?
Why do people help? Why do people not help? Linda Hamilton clip.
Chapter 13– Disorders
My powerpoint notes are helpful and I may refer to video clips I showed in class.
DSM-V – Bible of diagnosis.
Know: anxiety disorders, OCD and related disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenias, and dissociative
disorders – be sure to know the individual disorders within each of these categories – focus on the disorders
given in the powerpoint/lecture
Know the information from the homework assignment on diagnoses and therapies.
Terms: obsessions, compulsions, hallucinations, and delusions.
Common types of compulsions that people with OCD exhibit.
What are the old names for Dissociative Identity Disorder and Bipolar Disorder?
What is the “common cold” of mental illness and what is the “cancer?”
What is the “diathesis-stress” (vulnerability-stress) model?
Chapter 14 Therapies
Know psychoanalysis – free association, dream interpretation, and transference.
Know Person-Centered (Client-centered) Therapy – and qualities of therapist.
Behavioral therapy- systematic desensitization, flooding (ordeal therapy on video)
Cognitive therapy- Ellis, RET and ABC model; Beck and depression (BDI).
Know the different types of biological (biomedical) treatment.
Is psychotherapy effective? See text
Know the different therapies from the homework assignment.
Know what types of biological treatments (ECT, different kinds of drugs) are used for different disorders.
My powerpoint is helpful.
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