Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Review Session: Exam One

  • Know on Book
    • fair game
    • scientific terms
    • even the prologue
  • Questions
    • Majority: Apply knowledge about terms
  • Brain Location
  • Drugs
    • know differences/types of drugs
    • mechanisms/ what's done to body
      • do they attach or stop neurons etc.
    • pathways and general areas affected , nucleus accumbens 
      • not specific points
  • Specific Studies
  • Dates
  • Dedication to study
    • Biological Portion - most talked about
    • Sleep, Consciousness
  • Hemispheres
    • Left- Speech Generation
    • Right- Speech Comprehension
  • Depressant, Alcohol
    • Impairs Frontal Lobe
      • away with inhibitions
    • Impairs Cerebellum
      • affected balance
  • Sleep
    • stages
    • time spent
      • comparative
      • individual
  • Night Terrors/ Sleep Paralysis Difference
    • conscious- sleep paralysis
    • night terrors
      • more akin to nightmare 
  • Know Different Sleep Theories
    • Protection from dark
    • Allow us to grow
      • pituitary gland
    • Restoration
      • body tissue
      • consolidate memories
      • brain reorganizes
  • Know Dream Theories
    • Freud's Psychoanalytic Perspective
    • Activation-synthesis
    • Neurocognitive theory
    • File Memories away
    • Develop/Preserve Neural pathways
  • Know Attachment styles
    • Avoidant
    • Anxious-ambivalent
    • Secure
  • Strange Situation test
    • what about it makes it work with attachment styles
      • determines attachment style by reaction to reunion with mom
  • Parenting styles (book)
  • Experiment/Research methods
    • Correlation
    • Causation
    • Experimental
    • Cross sectional vs longitudinal
  • Assimilation vs Accommodation - Piaget
    • two processes children understand world
    • accommodation- making schema to learn new info
    • assimilation- add new experiences/knowledge into schema to edit
      • dog = four legs, but moose = dog example
  • Nervous System
    • = chain of neurons
      • send communication through chains
      • neurons vary in size

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