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PSY 120 EXAM #5 STUDY GUIDE CHAPTER 13: Personality Theory -­‐ Define personality -­‐ Know Freud’s Psychodynamic Theory of Personality o Personality structure –iceberg analogy o Id, Ego, Superego: What does each represent and what does it do, according to Freud o Defense Mechanisms o Criticisms of Freud -­‐ Know about the Neo-­‐Freudians – Adler, Horney, Jung o How were they different from Freud? -­‐ Psychodynamic Methods o Projective Tests – Free Association, Dream Analysis, TAT, Rorschach o Know criticisms of these methods -­‐ Know the Humanistic Perspective of Personality o Know Maslow and Rogers and what they emphasized -­‐ Know the Trait Perspective of Personality o Know Big 5 Factors CHAPTER 14: Psychological Disorders -­‐ Define “disorder” as psychologists and psychiatrists do. -­‐ How has the medical model changed how we approach psychological disorders? -­‐ The DSM o Know its full name and what it is used for. o Know the 5 Axes o Pros and cons of “labeling” -­‐ Anxiety Disorders o Know the general symptoms of the anxiety disorders  Generalized Anxiety Disorder  Panic Disorder  Phobias  Obsessive Compulsive Disorder  Post-­‐Traumatic Stress Disorder o Fears vs. phobias o How would the following perspectives explain anxiety disorders?  Freud’s Psychodynamic Perspective  Learning Perspective (to explain phobias)  Biological Perspective (to explain phobias) -­‐ Dissociative Identity Disorder o What are some of the criticisms of the inclusions of Dissociative Identity Disorder in the DSM? -­‐ Mood Disorders CHAPTER 15: Therapy -­‐ Define psychotherapy and biomedical therapy -­‐ Know the basic elements of the four forms of psychotherapies discussed in class and how they differ from each other o Psychoanalytic: free association, resistance, and general criticisms of psychoanalytic theory o Humanistic: active listening, unconditional positive regard, and general criticisms of humanistic therapies Behavioral: counterconditioning, exposure therapy, aversive conditioning, and token economies. o Cognitive: stress inoculation training. group therapy and family therapy o
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CHAPTER 16: Social Psychology -­‐ Define Social Psychology -­‐ Solomon Ash – Group Pressure and Conformity (line experiments) o What factors increase conformity? o Be able to describe and identify the reasons for conformity. What is the difference between them?  Normative social influence  Informative social influence  Mindless conformity o When are you more likely to see informative social influence increase conformity? -­‐ Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiment -­‐ Be able to describe Zimbardo’s prison study. -­‐ Be able to describe Chartrand and Bargh’s work on the Chameleon effect? -­‐ What is the bystander effect? o Be able to talk about three reasons for the effect  Pluralistic Ignorance  Social Inhibition  Diffusion of Responsibility -­‐ What is cognitive dissonance? How do we reduce this dissonance? -­‐ What is the fundamental attribution error? -­‐ Be able to define “attitude.” -­‐ Know the foot-­‐in-­‐the-­‐door phenomenon