Psy 1101:  Test 3 Objectives

 

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