PSY 101
Mid-Term 2 Study Guide
Spring 2023: Philip Schatz, Ph.D.
Learning
- Classic Conditioning-components, extinction, spontaneous recovery
- Operant Conditioning
- components, extinction, spontaneous recovery
- positive and negative reinforcement
- schedules of reinforcement (4)
- reinforcement vs. punishment
- Social Learning-Cartoons versus movies versus real life models
Memory
- Sensory, Short-term, Long-term:
- duration and capacity
- "Chunking"
- "cocktail party" phenomena (filter theory)
- Anterograde and Retrograde Amnesia
- Semantic, Episodic and Procedural Memory
- Flashbulb memory
Intelligence
- IQ testing - verbal vs. performance
- What is "normal" or average inteliigence
- Normal curve
- Notion of test norms
Motivation/Health
- Locus of Control
- Yerkes-Dodson
- James/Lange vs Cannon-Bard
- Maslow-Heirarchy of needs