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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
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