|
1. |
Concepts of biological and
circadian rhythms |
2. |
Functions of sleep |
3. |
Stages of sleep (including EEG wave patterns) |
4. |
Age and the sleep cycle |
5. |
Sleep disturbances and
problems/disorders |
6. |
Dreaming and why we dream
(theoretical explanations) |
6. |
Key processes in memory |
7. |
Sensory memory, short-term/working memory,
and long-term memory; their processes, types (e.g., declarative versus
non-declarative), relative storage periods, functions, subcomponents, and
capacity |
8. |
Retrospective and prospective memory |
9. |
The serial position, recency, and primacy
effects |
10. |
Flashbulb memory |
11. |
Forms of amnesia |
12. |
Schemas, semantic networks, connectionist
networks, and other factors that aid information storage and retrieval (text only) |
13. |
Why we forget and explanations
for forgetting |
14. |
Strategies to improve everyday memory (see
text “Personal Application”) |
15. |
Definition of problem solving |
16. |
Types of problems/barriers to effective
problem solving (e.g., irrelevant information, etc.) |
17. |
Problem solving approaches |
18. |
Definition of decision making |
19. |
Compensatory and noncompensatory strategies
for making decisions |
20. |
Availability and representativeness
heuristics |
21. |
Impact of framing on decision making |
22. |
Common problems and pitfalls when making
decisions (e.g., ignoring base rates, conjunction fallacy, gambler’s fallacy,
law of small numbers, etc.) |
23. |
Psychological testing (includes reliability
and validity |
24. |
History of intelligence testing (includes
Galton, Binet, Terman,
Wechsler, WAIS, Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory, Gardner) |
25. |
Assessing contribution of heredity vs.
environment on intelligence (includes twin and adoption studies) |
26. |
The "general" vs.
"specific" debate (includes examples or analogies for each) |
27. |
Components of Spearman's ("g
factor") vs. Sternberg's explanation of intelligence vs. Gardner’s
explanation |
28. |
Correlates of creativity with personality and
mental health |