Please note that this outline of lectures is NOT final until
after the lectures have been delivered.
Learning
- Learning in the behaviorist framework (p. 97, Q 7)
- Reflexes and habituation (pp. 92; Q 1)
- Classical conditioning (pp. 92-94; Q 2-3)
- Extinction & recovery (pp. 94-95; Q 4)
- Generalization & discrimination (p. 95; Q 5)
- Fear conditioning (pp. 100-101; Q 11)
- Conditioned drug reactions (p. 102-104, Q 14-16)
- Operant conditioning (pp. 104-108; Q 17-18)
- Shaping (p. 109; Q 20)
- Extinction and schedules of reinforcement (pp. 109-110; Q
21-23)
- Discrimination training (pp. 113; Q 26)
- Positive and negative reinforcement; reinforcement and
punishment (pp. 111-112; Q 24-25)
- Learning in the cognitive framework
- Food aversion learning (pp. 124-125; Q 38)
- Means-ends analyses (pp. 115-116; Q 29)
- Relative values of rewards (p. 116; Q 30)
- Observational learning (pp. 122-124; Q 36-37)
The Brain
- Wilder Penfield and the brain
- Basic neuronal features (pp. 134-136; Q 1-2)
- CNS vs. PNS
- The PNS:
- Spinal nerves & cranial nerves (p. 147)
- Autonomic & skeletal motor system (pp. 147-148; Q 10)
- Sympathetic & parasympathetic portions
- The CNS:
- The spinal cord (pp. 149; Q 11)
- Brainstem & thalamus (pp. 150-151; Q 12)
- Cerebellum & basal ganglia (pp. 151-152; Q 13)
- Limbic system & hypothalamus (pp. 152-153; Q 14-15)
- Cortex:
- Lobes and areas (p. 153-154; Q 16)
- The hemispheres & the split brain (pp. 159-162; 22-24)
- Topographic organization (pp. 154-155; Q 17)
- The action potential (pp. 136-140; Q 3-6)
Perception
- Sensation vs. perception (p. 225-226)
- The chain of sensation (p. 226; Q 1)
- The physical stimulus
- The properties of light (pp. 268-269, Q 7)
- The physiological response (p 264-265; Q 2-3)
- Physical structures of your eye
- Photosensitive properties of the retina
- The sensory experience
- The differences between rods and cones (pp. 266; Q 4)
- Wavelengths of visible light and color vision
- Additive color mixing (pp. 269-271; Q 9)
Midterm 1 stops here
Midterm 2 starts here
- Trichromatic theory of color vision
- Three channels and three cones (pp. 272; Q 10)
- Absorption properties and subtractive color mixing (pp.
268-269; Q
8)
- Color blindness (p. 272-273; Q 11)
- Opponent-process theory (pp. 273-274; Q 12)
- Combining trichromatic & opponent-process theory (pp. 275; Q
13)
- Top-down vs. bottom-up perception (pp. 285; Q 22)
- Feature integration theory (pp. 278-280; Q 16-17)
- Gestalt psychology
- Principles of grouping (pp. 280-281; Q 18)
- Figure and ground (pp. 282; Q 19)
- Illusory contours (pp. 283-284; Q 20)
- Recognition-by-components (pp. 289-291, pp. 27-28)
Memory
- Definition (p. 304)
- Modal model of memory, executive processes therein (pp. 304-307
Q 1-5)
- Sensory memory
- Iconic memory (pp. 310-311)
- Echoic memory (p. 310; Q 8)
- Sperling's partial report procedure (not in book)
- Working memory
- 7 +/- 2
- Chunking (p. 321; Q 20)
- Phonological loop (pp. 315-316; Q 13)
- Visuospatial sketchpad (pp. 316; Q 14-15)
- Serial position curve
- Long-term memory
- Maintenance & encoding rehearsal (p. 319)
- Evidence of value of elaboration (p. 320; Q 19)
- Encoding specificity (p. 329; Q 30)
Midterm 2 stops here
About two-thirds of the final
exam will cover material below
- Guest lecture: Colin Ard
- H.M.
- The hippocampus
- Anterograde vs retrograde amnesia
- Mirror tracing
- Declarative and procedural memory
Higher Order Processes
- Conceptual representations
- Two positive properties of concepts
- Formal & natural concepts
- Definitional theory of concepts; necessary and sufficient
features
- Prototype theory
- Characteristic features
- Family resemblance structure
- Typicality, effects thereof
- Automaticity (pp. 312-313; Q 11)
- Automatic vs. Controlled processes
- Stroop effect
- Nature of the effect
- How it diagnoses automaticity
- Development of automaticity
- Kids
- Macleod & Dunbar experiment
- Advantages & disadvantages of automaticity
- Deductive reasoning (pp. 348-351; Q 9-12)
- Definition
- Validity
- Mental models
- Inductive Reasoning (pp. 345-347; Q 4-8)
- Definition
- Validity
- Heuristics
- Availability
- Representativeness
- Testing hypotheses
- Base rates
- Confirmation bias
Development
- Piagetian Theory
- General picture
- Schemes, assimilation, and accommodation (pp. 391; Q 9)
- Operations (p. 392; Q 10)
- The four stages of development (pp. 392-394; Q 11)
- Limitations (pp. 394-395; Q 12)
- Social development:
- Definition and "symptoms"of attachment (pp. 425-426; Q 2-3)
- Cupboard theory and Harlow's experiment (p. 424-425; Q 1)
- Adaptive basis of attachment; evidence thereof
- Strange situation; three kinds of attachment; limitations (pp.
426; Q 4)
- Where attachment patterns come from (p. 427; Q 5-6)
- Consequences of attachment (pp. 427-428; Q 7)
- Cross-cultural issues (pp. 428-430; Q 9-10)
Social Psychology
- Attitudes (pp. 493-497; Q 30-34)
- Definition, 4 functions
- Social norms & utilitarian function
- Cognitive dissonance
- Definition
- Avoiding information
- Firming up an attitude
- Insufficient justification effect
- just-world bias, victim blaming
- Conformity (pp. 506-508; Q 5-8)
- Asch's experiments
- Failing to help someone in need (p. 510; Q 11)
- Compliance (pp. 514-521; Q 15-23)
Personality
- Psychodynamics (pp. 558-561; Q 26-31) (Reading
that might help, if you want it)
- Conscious and unconscious
- Id, ego, and superego (NOT IN BOOK!)
- Conflicts and defenses
- Methods of investigating the unconscious (pp. 634-635; Q 12)
- Criticisms
Psychopathology
- Basic issues (pp. 577-589; Q 1-10)
- Definitions and prevalence
- The DSM
- Labelling concerns and medical students' disease
- Perspectives on mental disorders
- Mood disorders (pp. 596-603; Q 20-28)
- Major depression and dysthymia
- Double depression
- Mania
- Bipolar disorder and hypomania