Developmental Psychology

• Ainsworth’s attachment and strange situation experiment 

• Piaget’s stages of development

• Baumrind’’s parental types

• Primary and secondary sex characteristics

• Kohlberg’s morality development

• Erikson’s stages of development

• Harlow’s monkeys

• The development of gender roles

• Changes in the focus of developmental psychology

• Self-concept

• Social identity

Social

• Obedience

• Halo effect

• Social facilitation

• Mere-exposure effect

• Superordinate goals

• In-group bias

• Self-fulfilling prophecy

• Attraction

• Lucifer effect

• Bystander effect

• Conformity

• Social loafing

• Normative social influence

• Cognitive dissonance

• Individualistic vs. collective cultures

• Out-group bias

• Fundamental Attribution Error

• Scapegoat theory

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Motivation, Emotion, & Personality

• The theories of emotion

• Freud’s defense mechanisms

• Theories of personality

• Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

• Big Five Factor traits

• Freud’s views on disorder

• Carol Rogers’ views on humanistic psychology

• Intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation

• Neurotransmitters involved with motivation

• General Adaptation Syndrome

• Arousal theory

• The effects of meditation

Clinical 

• Symptoms and cause of chronic and acute schizophrenia

• SSRIs

• Antipsychotic drugs

• Illness anxiety disorder (Hypochondriasis)

• Phobias

• Conversion and somatic symptom disorders

• Side effects of antipsychotics

• Types of therapy

• Antisocial personality disorder

• Narcissistic personality disorder

• Depression

• Client-centered therapy

• Rumination

• Avoidant personality disorder