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• The Whole of Psychology in under 90 minutes

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Higher Level Cognition

• Availability
• Representativeness
• Base Rate Fallacy
• Gamblers Fallacy
• Anchoring
• Confirmation Bias
• Loss Avoidance
• Status Quo Bias
• Weighting Bias

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Emotions

• Evidence of universality
• Biological Components
• Theories
• James-Lange
• Two Factor
• Current Issues
• Separability of emotion and cognition
• Emotional Intelligence

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Motivation

• Theorists -- why do we do what we do?
• Freud To meet an unconscious need
• Hull To achieve homeostasis
• Skinner To get a reward
• Rotter Because she expected she would get
  across and it was important to her to get across
• Maslow To achieve self actualization

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Motivation

• The effects of rewards
• Lepper study similar
• Learned helplessness attribution
• Depressive style -- internal, stable, global

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Stress

• Types of stress
• acute and chronic physical threat,
  psychological/social threat.
• Stress activates the sympathetic "fight or
  flight" response. Parasympathetic response
  counteracts that.
• Prolonged activation can cause damage heart
  disease, reproduction, growth, digestion, immunity

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Stress

• Eustress
• Methods of coping control, humor, optimism,
  social support, relaxation.
• Individual differences in stress response Type A
  vs. B and hardiness,

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Personality

• Freud
• Contributions, criticisms methods
• Concepts
• Psychic determinism
• Id, Superego, Ego
• Theory of psychosexual stages of development

• Methods of assessment
• Projective
• Paper pencil
• Big Five factors

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Personality

• Defense mechanisms
• Reaction Formation
• Rationalization
• Regression
• Projection
• Denial
• Repression

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The Power of the Situation

• Errors and Biases
• Fundamental Attribution Error
• Just Word Bias
• Conformity
• Asch
• Obedience
• Milgram
• Social Roles
• Zimbardo

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Social Reality Positive Social Psych

• Cognitive Dissonance (Festinger Carlsmith)
• Perceiving Social Reality (Hastorf Cantril)
• Self-Fulfilling Prophesies (Rosenthal Jacobson)
• Stereotyping Prejudice
• Sherif Robbers Cave
• Role of Errors Biases

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Social Reality Positive Social Psych

• Methods of Persuasion
• Reciprocity, Consistency, Social Proof, Liking,
  Authority, Scarcity, Foot in the Door, Door in
  the Face, Even a penny will help, Because . .
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• Helping Liking

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Abnormal

• Three classic symptoms of mental disorder
  hallucinations, delusions and affective
  disturbances
• Some symptoms of mental disorder in all of us,
  not cut dry line betweenwhat is abnormal and
  what is not.
• Medical model vs. psychological model

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Abnormal

• DSM-IV
• divides mental disorders into thematic categories
• diagnoses by using symptom profiles instead of
  hard and fast criteria
• requires distress or impairment in functioning to
  be considered disorder
• Important to remember that must cause problems
  with functioning to be considered a disorder.

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Abnormal

• Know gist of following disorders
• specific phobia
• OCD
• Depression
• schizophrenia

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Abnormality in Social Context

• Definitions of abnormality
• Distress, Maladaptiveness, Irrationality,
  Unpredictability, Unconventionality, Observer
  Discomfort
• Effects of labels
• Social and political uses of labels

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Abnormality in Social Context

• Cultural variations -- reasons
• Personality / cognitive style
• Definitions of mental illness
• Acceptability of mental (as opposed to physical)
  distress
• Usage of medical and psychological services
• Views of the origins and treatment of illness
• Bias of Clinicians?
• Problems with assessment tools?

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Therapy

• Behavioral Therapy
• Flooding
• Systematic Desensitization
• Aversion Therapy
• Social Learning Therapy
• Operant Conditioning Therapy
• Cognitive Therapy
• Family Therapy

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Therapy

• Psychoanalytic Therapy
• Freud
• Jung archetypes and collective unconscious
• Projective Tests
• Humanistic Therapy
• Unconditional Positive Regard, Genuineness,
  Non-Directive Guidance

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Therapy

• Biomedical Therapy
• Drugs
• Surgery
• Electroconvulsive Therapy

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Thank You for Being Such Great Students!

• Good Luck on the Final!!