Introductory Psychology - Dr. Schatz
Exam Study Guide
Biological Basis of Behavior:
- Luria's Units
- Frontal, temporal, parietal, occipital lobe
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
- Memory disorders
Cognition
- Belief/Confirmation Bias
- heuristics
- Strategies - means end, backwards, analogy
- "functional fixedness"
Intelligence
- Normal curve
- Notion of Norm Groups
- Major Contributers
- IQ Testing - applications
Neuropsychology