Barron's Unit Reviews

Unit 0

  1. Statistics (Effect size, Statistical Significance)

Unit 1

  1. Parts of the brain (Broca vs Wernicke’s area, Lobes)

  2. Sensation (Vestibular, Chemical vs Energy, Auditory)

  3. Parts of the ear

  4. Parts of the eye

  5. Types of scanning

  6. Sleep disorders

  7. Drugs

  8. Sleep Stages (REM - Paradoxical Sleep)

  9. Psychiatrists

Unit 2

  1. Heuristics (representative, availability, fallacies)

  2. Processing (top-down, bottom-up)

  3. Reliability and Validity

  4. Types of Memory (Procedural, Episodic)

  5. Types of amnesia

  6. Perception

Unit 3

  1. Behavior (instinctive drift, chaining)

  2. Types of learning

  3. Types of Intelligence

  4. Psychological Stages

  5. Research Designs

  6. Schedules of Reinforcement (Quickest Learning)

  7. Conditioning (Operant vs Classical examples)

  8. Stages of Development

  9. Types of parenting

  10. Theories of Development (Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory)

Unit 4

  1. Theories of Motivation (Drive Reduction Theory, Arousal Theory)

  2. Social Phenomenon (Out-Group Bias, De-individualization, Social Facilitation)

  3. Social Motivation (Achievement Motivation, Extrinsic/Intrinsic Motivation)

  4. Psychodynamic Theories of Personality (Projection)

  5. Prejudice vs Discrimination

  6. Defense Mechanisms

  7. Types of Tests (Achievement, TAT)

  8. Types of Psychologists

Unit 5

  1. Types of Therapy (Cognitive, Psychodynamic)

  2. Random Sampling vs Random Assignment

  3. Treatment Techniques (Aversion Therapy)

  4. Conditions (schizophrenia, bipolar)