Test 3 Study Guide
CHAPTER 6 - MEMORY
1. Definition
of memory?
2. Difference
between encoding, storage and retrieval.
3. Information
processing model of memory
4. Levels-of-processing
model of memory
5. Parallel
distributed processing model of memory
6. Three
parts of the information-processing model of memory
7. Iconic
memory
8. Eidetic
imagery
9. Echoic
sensory memory
10. Selective
attention
11. Magic
7 and chunking
12. Maintenance
rehearsal & Elaborative rehearsal
13. Which
type of long-term memory is most resistant to loss with Alzheimer's disease?
14. Types
of amnesia
15. Procedural
vs. declarative memory
16. Episodic
vs. semantic memory
17. Retrieval
cues
18. Encoding
specificity
19. Serial
position effect
20. Primacy
and recency effect (proactive and retroactive)
21. False
positives in memory recall
22. Flashbulb
memory
23. Forgetting
theories: decay, encoding error,
24. Function
of hippocampus in memory
CHAPTER 7 – COGNITION
1. Definition
of and types of concepts
2. Problem
solving methods
3.
Insight
4.
Confirmation bias
5.
Functional fixedness
6. Mental
set
7. Creativity
8. Convergent
vs. Divergent Thinking
9. Divergent
Thinking techniques
10. Definition
of intelligence
11. Theories
of intelligence: Charles Spearman, Gardner, Sternberg
12. IQ
test scoring: standard curve. Where do majority score?
CHAPTER 8 – LifeSpan
1.
What
is Human development
2.
Longitudinal,
Cross-sequential design, and cross-sectional research strategies
3.
Nature
vs. nurture
4.
Genetics,
genes, DNA, chromosomes
5.
Dominant
and recessive genes
6.
monozygotic
vs. dizygotic twins
7.
Jean
Piaget and his theory of cognitive development (object permanence, egocentrism,
conservation, abstract thinking)
8.
Three
types of temperament described by Thomas and Chess
9.
Attachment:
definitions, work of Ainsworth, types, characteristics of mothers with each
type,
10.
Erickson’s
stages
11.
Imaginary
audience and t he personal fable
12.
Sequence
and details of stages of moral development as identified by Lawrence Kohlberg
CHAPTER 9 – MOTIVATION
1. Instincts
2. Drives:
primary, secondary, acquired,
3. Intrinsic
motivation vs. extrinsic
4. Maslow’s
hierarchy of needs
5. Connection
between hypothalamus and eating
6. Drive
reduction theory
7. 3
types of needs
8. Arousal
approach to motivation
9. Incentive
approach to motivation
10. Self-determination
theory
11. Hunger:
bodily causes and social components
12. Maladaptive
eating problems
13. How do theories of Emotion vary?