Not Your Mother...
He’s the psychologist most associated with studying how we forget information by having respondents study nonsense syllables.
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?
--Know very well the forgetting curve.
psychiatrist
medical psychologist
life coach
psychiatric nurse practitioner
physician
What is a life coach?
--does not require a graduate degree nor a license
--cannot prescribe medication
Sir Francis Galton
Carl Rogers
Aaron Beck
Sigmund Freud
Who is Sir Francis Galton?
--Is not a psychotherapist (be able to associate these names with their styles of psychotherapy)
It's the field of psychology concerned with how behaviors and psychological traits can have an effect on your physical health.
What is health psychology?
Review types of psychologists, fields of psychology.
It's the mechanism by which experts in a scientific field carefully screen the work of their colleagues, which adds legitimacy and trust to research literature.
What is peer review?
He’s the psychologist most associated with studying conformity by asking respondents to name the longest line amid peer pressure from a cohort of actors pretending to be other respondents in the study.
Who is Solomon Asche?
Know the study and its implications.
thought distortions
dream analysis
free association
transference
What are thought distortions?
--is not a tool of psychoanalysis
ECT
DBS
ketamine
SSRI
What is an SSRI?
--is not a third-line treatment (reserved for severely ill patients)
This group of disorders in the DSM might be biologically best explained as the body's hypothalamus being overactive, since it's responsible for the "Four Fs."
What are Anxiety Disorders?
Though this modality of psychotherapy doesn't usually have any primary original therapists associated with it, its origins can be found in the work of scientists such as B.F. Skinner and Ivan Pavlov. Examples coming out of this modality include flooding and systematic desensitization.
What is behavioral therapy?
They’re the two psychologists responsible for the model of memory stores and control processes.
Who are Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin?
Know this model well (in order).
MDD
Bipolar Disorder
OCD
What is OCD?
--is not a mood disorder
SSRI
Mood Stabilizer
TCA
MAOI
What is a mood stabilizer?
--is not an antidepressant
Interestingly a social factor found in individuals, it's when an individual has two thoughts that are inconsistent with each other and, most importantly--as a result--experiences motivation to reduce the discrepancy by changing their behavior, belief, or attitude.
What is cognitive dissonance?
It's the lobe of the cerebral cortex responsible for vision processing.
What is the occipital lobe?
Know the four lobes of the cerebral cortex, the parts of the limbic system, and their relative functions.
He’s the psychologist most associated with studying obedience by asking respondents to engage in a teacher-learner paradigm, ultimately seeing if the respondents would administer lethal shocks to their compatriots.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
Know the study and its implications.
first letter technique
chunking
method of loci
acronyms
--Is not a mnemonic primarily used to aide recall of long-term memory.
internal attribution
self-fulfilling prophecy
self-serving bias
fundamental attribution error
What is the self-fulfilling prophecy?
--Is not a part of/error in the attribution process.
Also known as "just noticeable," it designates the smallest change in stimuli that humans can perceive.
What is the difference threshold?
Know sensation and perception and terms of thresholds.
It's the part of the neuron produced by glial cells that primarily functions to speed up the neural impulse.
What is myelin sheath (or Schwann Cells)?
They’re the pair of psychologists most associated with targeting thought distortions through a process called cognitive restructuring.
Who are Aaron Beck and Alfred Ellis?
Know very well CBT and what cognitive restructuring is and how it targets thought distortions (ABC Triangle).
working memory
short-term memory
sensory memory
visuospatial sketchpad
rehearsal
What is sensory memory?
--Is not associated with the short-term memory store.
social loafing
groupthink
mimicry
group polarization
What is mimicry?
--Is not a factor associated with social behavior in response to groups (is mimicking individual behavior).
In statistical hypothesis testing, it's the statistical component that is increased when the sample size is increased in order to improve the likelihood of statistical significance of the findings.
What is statistical power?
It's the "control center" of the working memory, which coordinates attention and the exchange of information among storage components such as the phonological loop, the visuospatial sketchpad, and the episode buffer.
What is the central executive?
Know how these four components work together.