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)

• 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)

• 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)
  
• Principles of compliance
  
• Obedience

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