PART ONE: Questions on information you have not yet been tested on-this consists of:

• The Love lectures (approximately 8-12 questions)
• The excerpts from the Social Psych chapter (chap 12) (approximately 8-12
questions)

PART TWO: Questions on previous topics-approximately 25 questions.

To get ready for this part of the exam, study the following from previous lectures and documents I created (There will not be questions from any other chapters in the textbook except chapter 12-above):

• Definition of psychology:
  • The study of human mind and behavior
• Independent and dependent variables
  • A dependent variable is the outcome, what is affected, while the independent is what is tested.

Experiments, correlations, correlation coefficients

• Three possible outcomes
  • Positive Correlation
  • Negative Correlation
  • No Correlation
• A correlation coefficient is either positive or negative number. - means negative association while positive association. The further something is way from 0 in either direction, the stronger the relation

Synaptic transmission and related terms such as neurotransmitters, axons, etc.

D. Neurotransmitters

1. Dozens of types
2. NTTs only march with some receptors
3. threshold: neuron must simultaneously receive message from many neurons for it to fire.
4. Examples of NTS
   1. Acetylcholine--memory. Alzheimer's
   2. endorphins-- natural painkiller, boost mood
   3. Serotonin--sleep, appetite, mood. Depression
   4. Reuptake
   5. SSRI's: eg Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft

4 lobes of the brain

1. Frontal Lobe
   1. Functions: reasoning, language, pronunciation, speech, writing, grammar, movement, planning, emotions, social behavior
   2. Damage:
      1. Can't talk or with difficulty (but can sing)
      2. inertia (Lack of motivation to move)
      3. bland emotionally, don't care about pain
      4. stuck on tasks
      5. Phineas Gage (man in 1800s)
         1. supervisor for men laying railroad track
         2. He blew up rocks with tamping rods
         3. He accidentally blew himself up, survived with damaged frontal lobe.
         4. Huge change in personality, he became very rude, crude, and hostile.
2. Temporal Lobe
   1. Major Functions: Hearing (left temp lobe processing means of speech sounds)
   2. Vision, memory, personality
   3. Damage:
      1. Aphasia--hear but can't comprehend speech
      2. Compulsive talking
      3. Can't recognize people by face (right-side)
      4. egocentric(selfish), suspicious
3. Parietal lobe
   1. Functions: touch, vision, perception of space, locating the source of speech sounds, some language skills
   2. Damage
      1. lose ability to read
      2. lose ability to write
      3. perceive part of picture, but not whole
      4. Neglect syndrome-- (right parietal lobe)
4. Occipital lobe
   1. Major Function: process Vision
   2. Hit head (Seeing stars)
   3. Damage:
      1. Hole in Field Of Vision
      2. Blindness (severe damage)
      3. Visual Agnosia (lack of knowledge of what you are seeing)

Development lectures-all

• Study tips from memory lectures and review my lecture from day one on note-taking
• Basic emotions
• Seligman and happiness
• Psychoactive drugs-key terms, effects of alcohol, cigarettes, and alcohol
• Sleep lectures-all
• Classical and operant conditioning, Pos reinforcement, neg reinforcement, punishment, UCS, UCR, CS, CR
• Big Five
• DSM-5
• Depression