Learning
Classical
Conditioning
- Components
of classical conditioning
- Generalization
- Discrimination
- Habituation & Extinction
- Spontaneous
recovery
- Higher order, i.e., second order conditioning
- Explanations
of how classical conditioning works
- Classical
conditioning in humans
Biological
preparedness
- Operant
conditioning
- Thorndike's
Law of Effect
- Reinforcement
- positive and negative
- Punishment
- postive and negative
- Principles
of operant conditioning
- Primary
and Secondary reinforcers
- Schedules
of reinforcement
- Observational
learning
- Watson
- Skinner
- Lepper
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Memory
Encoding & Storage
- Types of
information in memory (e.g., explicit vs. implicit)
- Traditional
information-processing model
- Basic memory
systems
- Sperling
- Memory
Processes
- Context,
State, & Mood dependent retrieval cues
- Levels
of processing model
- PDP model of
memory
- Working
memory model
- Retrieval
- Forgetting
- Problems with eyewitness testimony
- Amnesia
- Seven Sins of Memory
- Biological
bases of memory
- Schemas and memory distortions
- Loftus
- Baddeley
- Atkinson & Schiffrin
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Cognition
Concept Formation
Problem
solving
- Mental
set
- Functional
fixedness
- Heuristics
- Algorithms
- Decision
making
- Impediments
to problem solving
- Reasoning
- Topics that will NOT be on the test
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Intelligence
Models of intelligence
- Binet
- Spearman
- Gardner
Factor
analysis
- Triarchic
model of intelligence
- g and s
- reliability
and validity
- Wechsler
- Measuring Intelligence
- Ratio IQ
-
- Deviation
IQ
- Mental
age
- percentiles
Crystalized
and fluid intelligence
- Nature versus Nurture, genes & SES
Stereotype
Threat
- Sternberg
Topics that will NOT be on the test
Making kids smart or making smart kids
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Stress
and Coping
- General
adaption syndrome
- Illness
and the immune system
- Effects
of stress on immune function
- Personality
factors in stress
- Hardiness
- Environmental
factors in stress
- Control
- Social
support
- Appraisal
and coping
- Relaxation
- Optimism
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