PSYC 100 Final: Exam Content & Terms.doc

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Daniel Levitin

Document Summary

Know: descartes, human genome project, cultural norms: purpose / how are formed, wilhelm wundt: view on measuring psych effects, why revolutionary. What are the different forms: different methods of social persuasion: low-balling and foot-in-the-door theory. Reification: mere exposure effect: when applicable (advertising) who was the founder, actor observer discrepancy, cognitive dissonance, explicit / implicit attitude: how to measure. Solomon ash: contributions to conformity: milgram study, zajonc: contributions to social facilitation. Strange situation test: methodologies for studying children (with infants, since can"t talk, memory in childhood: when children are prone to certain information. Piaget"s stages of development: language development (telegraphic speech) Judith harris: gender development and identity development (kohlberg and ericson"s chart) Identity challenge ( identity crisis ): trust / mistrust, chart on p. 512: chomsky: contributions to language acquisition. Psychodynamic approach: freud: carl rogers: humanistic approach to personality, eyeinsck: hierarchical organization (neuroticism, psychoticism, , rotter"s locus of control (internal / external): distinctions between.