PSYC 100- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 30 pages long!)

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Dylan Selterman

Document Summary

Psychology provides answers: basic knowledge, knowledge that is useful, applications/treatment, public policy. How we know things: repeated exposure, authority, personal experience, hypothesis testing, research, this is what psychology uses for information. Intuition: sometimes accurate, often incorrect, hindsight bias: two equally plausible explanations given, only one has evidence. Opinions & values: often subjective, based on personal opinion. How do we know that these ideas are wrong: scientifically-derived data. Big questions: nature v. nurture, free will v. determinism, control of outcomes, conscious v. implicit processes (awareness, person v. situation. Theories and perspectives: ex: genetic predictors, middle: interpersonal, ex: interactions with other, peer pressure, upper: cultural, ex: legal status, advertising, prevalence. Idiosyncratic experiences: learned or acquired associations: situationist perspective. Theories and perspectives: different, destructive, painful, group does(cid:374)"t tolerate, social cognitive theory: schemas determine activity, beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, memories, mindset (expectations, motivations, cognitive psychology: information processing, mind = a computer, senses input, behavior output.