Exam 3 Review F/08 -40 multiple choice questions -Total Points Possible for Course: 132: 120 from exams; 12 from Experiments(12 credits/6 credit hours) or Readings( 6 summaries) -Grading: No plus/minus grades -Last Day to turn in summaries is Dec 9. TEXT: You are responsible for material in the following pages; focus especially on Blue Boxes Chaps 7 Memory: p 267-273; 279-284 Chap 15 Social Psych:607-628; 634-640 Chap 13 Disorders: p 519-537; p543-548 LECTURE: Memory 1. Anatomy of Memory: know what each part below does -hippocampus -frontal lobe -amygadala -cerebellum 2. Memory Construction A. Suggestibility: -Loftus Car Video Study (1974) -Loftus ‘Lost in the Mall” StudyB. Memory Misattribution -Source Memory: Real Life Examples; Lindsay & Poole Dr. Science Expt -False Recognition: Class demonstration C. Implications for Eyewitness Testimony Social Psychology 1. Social Thinking Attribution Theory: definition; personal vs. situational explanations -Fundamental Attribution Theory -Self-serving bias Attitudes: definition -Cognitive Dissonance: definition -Festinger Experiment: $1 vs. $20 conditions 2. Social Influence a). Zimbardo’s prison experiment: social roles; power of the situation; deindividuation; ethics b). Conformity: Definition -Asch Experiment -Conditions that Strengthen Conformity -Reasons for Conforming: normative vs. informational influences c). Compliance: Definition -reasons for compliance -foot-in-the-door ; door-in-the-face techniquesd). Obedience: definition - Milgram experiment -Conditions that Strengthen Obedience: Legitimate authority; distance from target, etc. Abnormal Disorders How are Abnormal Behaviors Defined? -Criteria Used to Judge Behavior as Abnormal: Atypical; Disturbing ; Maladaptive -Diagnosis and Classification System; DSM-IV TR: Rosehan Study on labels Anxiety Disorders -Generalized Anxiety Disorders: symptoms , causes -Panic Disorders: Symptoms; causes -Phobic Disorders: Simple; Social, agoraphobia ; cause: learning vs. Freudian theories (Little Hans) -Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: definitions; causes Schizophrenia - Symptoms & Subtypes -Subtypes: Positive vs. Negative: Symptoms; Prognosis - Proposed Causes : Biological(Dopamine Hypothesis; Genetic Components); Role of stress, flu virusDrug Addiction -Animal Self-administration Studies:Methodology & results; which drugs are self-administered -what neurotransmitter effects do self-administered drugs have in common -PET scans in cocaine-abusers: where does cocaine work in the human brain -Why are some people more likely to become addicted? -Role of Dopamine A1 Allele Happiness -Do Money, Marriage, Children, Gender make us happy? -Do we know what makes us happy? -Impact Bias -Hedonic
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