Guide Study for Test #1
Psychology 120 Hybrid Class Spring 2012
Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
Understand the basic tenets of structuralism and functionalism and who founded each viewpoint.
Understand the basic tenets of the modern schools of thought in psychology (biological, cognitive, etc.).
Understand what human factors psychology is.
Understand the various types of modern psychologists (developmental, social, clinical, I/O etc.).
Understand the basic steps in the scientific method.
Understand the concept of an operational definition.
Understand the concept of a representative sample.
Understand correlational studies.
Understand how to interpret a correlation coefficient.
Understand the experimental method and the terms associated with it (IV, DV, random assignment etc.)
Distinguish between an experiment and a quasi-experiment.
Understand what a measure of central tendency is (ex. mean, median and mode).
Understand what a measure of variability is.
What are the parts of the neuron?
Understand how neural communication occurs (including the process of depolarization and the action
potential)
Understand and identify some key neurotransmitters and their link to certain diseases schizophrenia,
Alzheimers, (e.g., Parkinsons etc.).
Understand the functions of the hindbrain (brainstem), midbrain and forebrain.
What are the four lobes of the cortex and what do they do?
What happens to someone who has had the split-brain operation?
Understand the function of the pituitary gland in the endocrine system.
Distinguish between the various hormones that are involved in endocrine function.
Distinguish between monozygotic and dizygotic twins.
Understand the pre-natal stages of development.
Understand the sensory abilities of newborns.
Understand habituation, assimilation, and accommodation
Understand all of the information about infant attachment (e.g., the strange situation experiment,
attachment styles, how attachment impacts adult relationships etc.).
Know Piagets stages.
Understand Harlows research with rhesus monkeys.
Understand the different styles of parenting (e.g., authoritarian etc.).
Know the parts of the eye.
What is Webers Law?
Understand the Gestalt principles of perceptual organization.
Understand perceptual constancy.
How do we perceive depth?
What is the phi phenomenon?
What is looming?
How do we perceive the location of sound?