Psyc 1200 Revision Topics for Final Exam

Chapter 7: Attribution Theory

  • Internal vs. external attributions

  • Biases:

    • Correspondence bias

    • Fundamental attribution error

    • Self-serving bias

    • Group-serving bias

    • Just world hypothesis

  • Conformity: Asch's line judgment paradigm findings and cultural variations

  • Obedience: Milgram’s study findings, criticisms, and cultural variations

  • Compliance strategies

  • Social loafing, bystander apathy, group polarization

  • Prejudice and discrimination

  • Stanford Prison Study findings and interpretations

  • Self-presentation

Chapter 11: Motivation

  • Theories:

    • Drive-reduction

    • Arousal

    • Incentive

    • Evolutionary

  • Kinsey's research

  • Master and Johnson's sexual response stages

  • Sexual orientation

  • Cass' sexual identity development stages

  • Components of emotion: physiological, cognitive, behavioral

  • Facial feedback and evolutionary theories of emotion

  • Primary emotions

  • Theories of emotion:

    • James-Lange

    • Canon-Bard

    • Schachter-Singer

  • Capilano Suspension Bridge study

  • Display rules

  • Predictors of happiness

Chapter 12: Stress

  • Types of stressors:

    • Microstressors

    • Major life events

    • Catastrophic events

  • Conflict types:

    • Approach-approach

    • Approach-avoidance

    • Avoidance-avoidance

  • Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)

  • Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS)

  • Personality types: Type A - Type B

  • Hardiness

  • PTSD; coping strategies:

    • Meaning-focused

    • Emotion-focused

    • Problem-focused

    • Social coping

  • Benefits of stress

Chapter 15: Disorders

  • Definition components:

    • Deviance

    • Dysfunction

    • Distress

  • DSM and comorbidity

  • Diathesis-stress model

  • Theoretical approaches:

    • Neuroscience

    • Psychodynamic

    • Person-centered

    • Cognitive

    • Behavioral

    • Cognitive-behavioral

  • Disorders:

    • Autism Spectrum Disorders

    • ADHD

    • Depression

    • Bipolar Disorder

    • Anxiety disorders (GAD, phobias, OCD)

    • Schizophrenia

    • Borderline personality disorder

Chapter 16: Therapy

  • Common features across therapies

  • SSRIs

  • Psychodynamic therapy:

    • Free association

    • Transference

    • Resistance

    • Catharsis

  • Behavioral therapy:

    • Systematic desensitization

    • Exposure

    • Aversion

  • Behavioral modification and token economies

  • Person-centered therapy:

    • Empathy

    • Genuineness

    • Unconditional positive regard

  • Cognitive therapy:

    • Rational-emotive therapy

    • Beck's cognitive therapy and errors

  • Group therapy: advantages and disadvantages

  • Biomedical therapy:

    • Drug therapy

    • ECT

    • Psychosurgery