PSY 2012 Study Guide - Final Guide: Bipolar Disorder, Systematic Desensitization, Explicit Memory
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Non-experimental methods (surveys, case studies, naturalistic observation) Experimental method (independent and dependent variable, control and experimental groups, random assignment) Correlations: magnitude (-1. 00 to 1. 00) and direction (positive and negative) Placebo effect and double-blind design inferring causation from a correlation (should never be done!) Parts of a neuron: cell body, axons, myelin sheath, axon terminals, dendrites. Methods of studying brain function: eeg, pet, fmri, tms. Neurogenesis limbic system (thalamus, hypothalamus, amygdala, hippocampus) Vision: pupil, iris, cornea, lens, retina, fovea, optic nerve; rods, cones. Hearing: basilar membrane, cochlea, ear drum, hammer, anvil, stirrup top-down and bottom-up processing. Classical conditioning (ucs, neutral stimulus, cs, ucr, cr) Memory importance of hippocampus (consolidation) and amygdala (emotion) for memory recall, recognition. Semantic and episodic memory implicit and explicit memory retrograde and anterograde amnesia. Prenatal stages and names of forming organism. Piaget"s four stages of development (know order, what happens at each stage)
