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Unit One: History and Approaches Nature-Nurture Empiricism Rationalism Structuralism Functionalism Modern Approaches Cognitive Behavioral Biological Psychodynamic Evolutionary Humanistic Psychiatry Unit Two: Research Methods Case Study Survey Populations and Samples Naturalistic Observation Correlation v. Cause and Effect (Causation) Experimental Method Hypothesis Replication Independent and Dependent Variables Mean, Median and Mode Unit Three: Biological Bases of Behavior Synapse Parts of a neuron Dendrites and Axons Threshold Neurotransmitters Central Nervous System Peripheral Nervous System Endocrine System Lesions EEG Cerebral Cortex Frontal Lobe Parietal Lobe Occipital Lobe Temporal Lobe Broca’s and Wernicke’s Area Corpus Callosum All or None Principle Unit Four: Sensation and Perception Absolute and Difference Thresholds Transduction Iris Opponent Process Theory Selective Attention Gestalt Principles Closure Visual Cliff Binocular Cues Retinal Disparity Convergence Monocular Cues Linear Perspective Interposition Phi Phenomenon Unit Five: Consciousness Circadian Rhythm Hallucination Sleep Spindles Stage Four Sleep (aka Delta Sleep) REM Sleep (aka paradoxical sleep) REM Rebound Narcolepsy and Apnea Drug Tolerance Depressants Manifest and Latent Content Mesmer Hypnosis Dissociation Unit Six: Learning Theory Associative Learning Classical Conditioning Pavlov’s example Four elements of classical conditioning Acquisition Extinction Spontaneous recovery Generalization Discrimination Operant Conditioning B.F Skinner Positive reinforcement Negative reinforcement Punishment Partial Schedules of Reinforcement FR, FI, VR, VI Social Learning Theory Albert Bandura Unit Seven: Cognition Encoding, storage and retrieval Three Stage Processing Model of Memory Sensory Short Term Memory Long Term Memory Sperling’s research Automatic processing Serial Position Effect Mnemonics Proactive and Retroactive Interference Concepts and Prototypes Representativeness Heuristic Algorithms Unit Eight: Testing, Intelligence and Differences Aptitude and Achievement Tests Standardization Validity Reliability Heritability Reification Galton Terman Binet