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Introductory Psychology
Final Exam Study Guide
T= Text L=Lecture R=Reading
Personality (Chapter 12)
Personality Defined (T&L)
Trait Perspective (T&L)
Infant Temperament and Traits (T&L)
The “Big Five” (T&L)
Evaluation of Trait Perspective (T&L)
Learning Perspective (T&L)
Behaviorism & Social-learning (T&L)
Reciprocal Determinism (L)
Personal Control (T&L)
Evaluation (T&L)
Humanistic Perspective (T&L)
Maslow’s “Needs Hierarchy” (T&L)
Rogers and the Conditions of Growth (T&L)
Assessing the Self (T&L)
Evaluation (T&L)
Socio-cultural Perspective (T&L)
Collectivist vs. Individualist Societies (T&L)
Evaluation (T&L)
Psychoanalytic Perspective (T&L)
Id, Ego, and Superego (T&L)
Freud’s and Erikson’s stages (T&L)
Evaluation (T&L)
Developmental Psychology (Chapter 5)
Definition of Development (L)
Stability and Change (T&L)
Are adults prisoners of childhood?
Nature and Nurture in prenatal development (T&L)
The Competent Newborn (T&L)
Crying, reflexes, learning, and perception
Language (T&L)
Attachment (T&L)
Physical development in Infancy & Childhood (T)
Cognitive Development
Piaget’s theory (T&L)
Stages (T&L)
Moral Development (T&L)
Kohlberg’s theory & Critique (T, L)
Gender Development (T&L not covered)
Role of Parents (T&L)
Power & Limits of Parental Influence (T&L)
Adolescence & Puberty (T&L)
Maturation and Adjustment (T&L)
Turmoil in Adolescence (T&L)
Wings and Roots (T&L)
Adulthood and Aging (T)
Psychological Disorders (Chapter 13)
Folk Psychology and Mental Illness (L)
Scientific Approaches to Mental Illness (L)
Characterizing Mental Disorders (T&L)
Statistical Deviance, Norm Violation
Subjective Distress, Harmful Symptoms
Textbook Definition (T&L)
Classification: DSM IVR (T&L)
Criticisms (T&L)
Psychological Tests (T&L)
Projective and Objective (T&L)
Mood Disorders (T&L)
Major Depressive Disorders (T&L)
Depression and Suicide (T&L)
Bipolar Disorder (T&L)
Anxiety Disorders (T&L)
Generalized Anxiety Disorder, PostTraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Panic
Disorder, Phobias, Obsessive Compulsive
Disorder (OCD) (T&L)
Schizophrenia (T&L)
Other Disorders (T)
Therapy (Chapter 12)
Psychological and Biological Therapies (T&L)
Psychodynamic Therapies (T&L)
Assumptions & Techniques
Behavioral Therapies (T&L)
Assumptions & Techniques
Cognitive Therapies (T&L)
Assumptions & Techniques
Humanistic and Existential Therapies (T&L)
Assumptions & Techniques
Family Therapy (T)
Evaluating Psychotherapies (T&L)
Patients, Therapists, & Alliance (T&L)
Bio-medical Therapies (T&L)
Drug Therapies (T&L)
Drug Types, Testing Effectiveness (T&L)
Surgery & Electroshock Therapy (T&L)
Assessing Therapies (T&L)
The NIMH Study (T&L&R)
The Exam
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35 multiple-choice questions
2 short answer 1 extra credit question