EXAM REVIEW Chapter 1 Defining psychology Mind behavior

EXAM REVIEW

Chapter 1 Defining psychology Mind, behavior and processes ○ Subject-object distinction ○ Intentionality ○ Problem of Other minds ○ Positivism and Logical Positivism Careers ○ Clinical Psychology ○ Experimental Psychology ○ Applied Psychology Industrial/Organizational Human Factors/Ergonomics

Chapter 1 Theoretical approaches Intentionality ○ Voluntarism ○ Phenomenology ○ Gestalt ○ Humanistic psych Psychology without intentionality ○ Empiricism, materialism ○ Behaviorism Modern Psychology ○ Cognitive Psych and Cog Neuroscience

Chapter 2 Construct-variable problem Validity Scientific method Theories and hypotheses Independent and dependent variables Extraneous and confounding variables Experimental groups, control groups, placebo groups Manipulation, control, and causality Observational/correlational research and lack of causality

Chapter 3 Neurons Basic neuron anatomy Mechanism of action potential and synaptic transmission Peripheral nervous system Somatic, motor systems Autonomic system ○ Parasympathetic and Sympathetic

Chapter 3 Central Nervous system Brain and spinal cord Hindbrain structures and their function Midbrain structures and their function Forebrain structures and function ○ 4 lobes of the cortex, functions found within each Neuroscience methods

Chapter 4 Problem of other Minds Turing Test Theory of Mind Hard problem of consciousness Qualia Biorhythms Types of rhythms Circadian control: suprachiasmatic nucleus Stages of sleep Methods of measuring sleep stages Function of sleep