General Psychology

Introduction

1. What is psychology?

2. What makes psychology a science?

3. What are the steps in the scientific method? And be able to describe each step.

4. In the schools of Structuralism, Functionalism, Psychoanalysis, Behaviorism, Humanistic Psychology, and Cognitive Psychology

a. What are the time periods, who are the main figures, what is their definition of psychology, was the emphasis on consciousness or behavior, what type of research did they conduct, and did they believe in free will or determinism.

5. What is nature vs. nurture?

Research Methods

1. What is a variable?

2. What are participants?

3. What are an independent variable and a dependent variable? Know the difference between them.

4. What are some ways that psychologists collect data?

5. What is a correlation? What are the advantages and disadvantages of a correlation? Be able to distinguish a positive, negative, and no correlation?

6. What is an experimental research design?

7. What is an extraneous variable?

8. What is random assignment and what does it control for?

9. What are the advantages and disadvantages of experimental research?
Neuron and the Human Brain

1. What is a neuron? What do the messages it sends allow us to do?

2. Draw and Label the neuron.

3. What is an action potential? What happens at -70mv? What happens at -60mv? What happens at +30mv?

4. What is the all-or-nothing principle?

5. What is a synapse?

6. What are neurotransmitters?

7. Who was Phineas Gage? What did we learn from his story?

8. What are the two major parts of the nervous system?

9. What does the central nervous system consist of?

10. What does the peripheral nervous system consist of?

11. In the Limbic System what does the amygdala regulate? What does the hippocampus regulate?

12. What is the largest part of the brain?

13. Know the 4 brain lobes and what they do.

14. What is the corpus callosum? How do you know you are missing one?

15. What do the left and right hemispheres control?