Psychology as Science & Social Psychology
Define Social Psychology, in your own words.
1. The need to belong
2. Social stress
An analogy for Memory.
Wikipedia page.
The 4 Lobes. Bonus: their functions
Frontal = higher order functions/thinking
Occipital = vision
Temporal = sound and smell
Parietal = touch and taste
Your preferred Counseling Therapeutic Orientation. Bonus: share your reasoning/why
Psychoanalytic/dynamic, Behavioral, Cognitive-Behavioral, Mindfulness-Based, etc...
Two types of Coping. Bonus: Which is more helpful longterm?
Emotion-Focused Coping
Problem Focused Coping
The Fundamental Attribution Error and an Example
The tendency to emphasize another person’s personality traits when describing that person’s motives and behaviors and overlooking the influence of situational factors.
e.g. You're late because of traffic, they're late because they're inconsiderate
3 Types of Learning.
Classical Conditioning
Operant Conditioning
Observational Learning
The Big 5: What is it and what are they.
Personality Assessment.
OCEAN: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism
Themes of Addictions.
ACEs, trauma, environmental influences, lack of social supports/isolation, survival/defense/coping mechanism, nonlinear path, comorbid, doesn't discriminate
Main Functions of Emotion(s).
Act/React (prepare to act) fast, without needing to think
Communication and Information system (taken from environment)
The key differences between experimental and correlational research
Experimental: causation, experimental and control groups, randomized selection
Correlation: association between two groups, observed/no manipulation
The best ways to study and why.
Practice tests, you're working on retrieval of the information, not just encoding/re-encoding.
And Distributed practice or spaced-repetition, rather than "cramming" or mass practice. You're having to retrieve each time you practice, combatting the forgetting curve.
The big validity problem with Objective Personality Assessments.
Response biases
Main difference between Bipolar I and II. Bonus: functional difference.
Mania/Hypomania
Mania: >7 days, > symptom severity
3 Key Character Strengths to the Good Life
Forgiveness
Gratitude
Humility
Build a Study: Does exercise improve mood? 1. Correlational Design 2. Experimental Design
Correlational: survey participants and ask how often they exercise and to scale their general mood.
Experimental: three groups - one group exercises 4x/week for 4 weeks, another group does not exercise, the last group continues their normal exercise habits. Scale mood pre, during, and post experiment.
What babies cognitively understand by 18 months
Theory of Mind
Also, Object permanence and self-awareness/sense of self
The 4 main neurochemicals discussed in class. Bonus: what triggers their production? e.g. Cortisol = Stress Hormone
Dopamine = reward hormone
Seratonin = mood stabilizing hormone
Oxytocin = love/connection hormone
Endorphins = pain killer hormone
Name 3 Personality Disorders. Bonus: explain a few of their symptoms
Schizotypal, Paranoid, Schizoid, Borderline, Narcissistic, Histrionic, Antisocial, Dependent, OCPD, Avoidant
3 Types of Happiness + Identify 1 Cause for each.
Life Satisfaction = income, goal achievement, high esteem
Postive Feelings = support network, extroversion, interest in work
Low Negative Feelings = low neuroticism, positive outlook, goal harmony
Examples of Social Influence.
1) Commercials, Advertisements, Marketing
2) Reviews
3) Political Debates
4) Algorithms
5) Documentaries
Types of parenting styles and attachment styles. Bonus: which parenting and attachment style most promotes wellbeing?
Parenting: uninvolved, permissive, authoritative, authoritarian
Attachment: secure, and insecure (avoidant ambivalent, and disorganized)
The 2 branches of the Autonomic Nervous System. Bonus: their functions.
PNS = "rest and digest"
SNS = "fight or flight" (or freeze)
2 Negative and 2 Positive Symptoms of Schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
Negative: amotivation, anhedonia, flat affect, alogia
Positive: Delusions, Hallucinations, disorganized speech/bx
5 Factors influencing Resiliency (health-protective)
Coping
Control and Self-Efficacy
Social Relationships
Dispositions and Emotions
Stress Management