PSYC 2000 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Procedural Memory, Memory, Ivan Pavlov
PSYC 2000
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
PSYCH 2000: Brief intro 8/25/15
• Psychology: the science of mental processes and behavior (study of mind, brain,& our
actions
• Modern views: modern psychs are eclectic—approach problems from multiple
perspectives. Believe behaviors have multiple causes
• Studying psych shows us:
o How to help people who have panic disorder, depression, PTSD
o How to design good eyewitness lineups
o How to train pigeons to distinguish btwn paintings by Monet and Picasso
• Impression Formation
o Chapter 12
LSU’s center for assessment and evaluation
• Exams open for 1 week
• You are responsible for scheduling an exam
Research Learning Requirement- SONA software
• Have to have 10
• Can do 2 online studies & 8 person to person
• Or 10 articles and quizzes (must do 5 in first half of semester)
8/27/15: Psychology in Action & History of Psychology
• Time Management
o Mapping out the whole semester vs. living week to week (or day to day)
▪ Calendar + day planer + to do list
o Procrastination
▪ One cycle: think about class-related task -> feel unpleasant-> don’t
work-> feel pleasant
o Things to try:
▪ Breaking things down
▪ Group-based accountability
▪ Rewarding yourself for doing a task
▪ Thinking about how the task relates to your larger goals and values
• Reading textbooks and studying
o SQ3R method- survey, question, read, recite, recall
o Pay attention to the organization
▪ Before reading, look at the learning objectives and chapter headings
▪ After reading, look at the concept maps
▪ Consider reading the summary for a specific part of the chapter before
and after reading that part of the chapter
o Study to your learning style strengths
▪ Test yourself
• Lectures:
o Taking notes
o Writing down everything
• Center for Academic Success
o http://cas.lsu.edu/
▪ Supplemental instruction
find more resources at oneclass.com
find more resources at oneclass.com
▪ Workshops and handouts on studying, note taking, taking exams,
forming study groups etc.
8/27/15 Psychology and Its History
• What is psychology?
o The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
▪ Behavior- any action
• (facial expression, moving back and forth)
▪ Mental Processes- perceptions, thoughts feelings
• (mental representaions/internal)
o latent constructs bc not directly observable (measure
something else that is related to that feeling)
▪ Scientific
o Goals of psychology
• Describe
• What is happening? (observation, phenomenon)
• Explain
• Why is it happening?
• Predict
• Will it happen again? (under what circumstances)
• If… then..
• Control
• How to modify it (change behavior of depressed person)
o Wilheim Wundt
• German man
• father of psychology
• two reasons
1. first attempt to bring objectivity/ measurement in psychology
2. founded the 1st experimental psychology laboratory
• some work involved objective introspective
• Edward titchener
o Student of wundt
o Translated many of wundt’s works into English
o Structuralism
▪ Study consciousness by trying to understand its smallest
most basic elements
• William James
o in some way ypu cant actually break down psychological
phenomenon without losing the essence of the big picture
(summary)
o functionalism: study the function of consciousness- how the
mind allows people to work, play, adapt to new circumstances
• Max Wertheimer
o Gestalt psychology: how we experience the world
▪ the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
• Sigmund Freud
o Worked with patients whose complaints had no identifiable
physical cause
o Forced on the role of the unconscious
▪ Where unwanted urges and desired are pushed towards
o Psychoanalysis: therapy based on Freud’s ideas
find more resources at oneclass.com
find more resources at oneclass.com
Document Summary
Psych 2000: brief intro 8/25/15: psychology: the science of mental processes and behavior (study of mind, brain,& our actions, modern views: modern psychs are eclectic approach problems from multiple perspectives. Lsu"s center for assessment and evaluation: exams open for 1 week, you are responsible for scheduling an exam. Research learning requirement- sona software: have to have 10, can do 2 online studies & 8 person to person, or 10 articles and quizzes (must do 5 in first half of semester) John watson: behaviorism: study of observable behavior, his study grew out of the work he read from pavlov, pavlov, interested in reflexes, discovered that reflexes could be conditioned (learned, food-saliva (natural response, after pairing buzzer-food, get buzzer-saliva. Confirmation bias: tendency to notice, seek out, and interpret information in a way consistent with your own prior beliefs. ****naturalistic observations of beer drinking among college students****
