Psychology Study Guide 12.2

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Boost Your grades with this fully illustrated quick-study guide. You will use it from an undergraduate school all the way to medical school. Audience Intended for everyone interested in psychology, particularly undergraduate and graduate students, medical students, nursing, and dental students. Table of Contents I. Introduction II. Neuropsychology III. Sensory Systems IV. Perception V. Learning and Memory VI. Thinking, Language, Intelligence VII. Development VIII. Personality, Mind, and Social Psychology IX. Abnormal Psychology X. Psychoactive Drugs I. Introduction Introduction: History | Principles | Scope | Research psychology | Applied psychology | Research methods | Criticism II. Neuropsychology Neuron: Axon | Dendrite | Synapse | Neurotransmitters | Action Potential | Postsynaptic Potential Nervous System Organization: Brain | Spinal cord | Central nervous system | Peripheral nervous system | Somatic nervous system | Autonomic nervous system Brain Stem: Medulla oblongata | Pons | Midbrain Diencephalon: Thalamus | Hypothalamus | Pituitary gland Telencephalon: Brain | Gyri and sulci | Brodmann area | Cerebral cortex | Cerebral hemisphere | Lateralization of brain function | Frontal lobe | Occipital lobe | Parietal lobe | Temporal lobe | Corpus callosum | Fornix Limbic System: Amygdala | Cingulate gyrus | Fornicate gyrus | Hippocampus | Hypothalamus | Mammillary body | Nucleus accumbens | Orbitofrontal cortex | Parahippocampal gyrus III. Sensory Systems Visual system: Eye | Lateral geniculate nucleus | Optic radiation | Visual cortex Auditory system: Outer ear | Middle ear | Cochlea | Medial geniculate nuclei | Primary auditory cortex Olfactory system: Olfactory receptor neurons | Piriform cortex Gustatory system: Tongue | Taste bud | Basic tastes | Primary gustatory area Somatosensory system: Nociception | Thermoreception | Vestibular system | Mechanoreception | Proprioception | Golgi organ | Muscle spindle IV. Perception Perception: Weber-Fechner law | Stevens' power law | Absolute threshold | Just noticeable difference | Psychometric function | Limen Perceptual Cues: Perceptual constancy | Visual perception | Depth perception | Motion perception Attention: Top-down and bottom-up information processing | Cocktail party effect | Stroop effect V. Learning and Memory Learning: Habituation | Classical conditioning | Backward conditioning | Second-order conditioning | Rescorla-Wagner model | Eyeblink conditioning | Operant conditioning | Sensitization Memory: Short-term memory | Long-term memory | Working memory | Cortical plasticity | Hebbian learning | Forgetting | Amnesia VI. Thinking, Language, Intelligence Thinking: Abstraction | Concept | Mental image | Animal cognition | Problem solving : Algorithm | Heuristic | Reasoning: Deductive reasoning | Inductive reasoning | Abductive reasoning | Analogy Language: Phoneme | Morpheme | Syntax | Language acquisition | Aphasia: Broca's (expressive) aphasia | Wernicke's (receptive) aphasia Intelligence: IQ | Stanford-Binet IQ test | Raven's Progressive Matrices | Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale VII. Development Developmental Psychology: Theory | History | Stages of development | Schools of psychology | Research methods | Theorists & theories