Study Guide for Exam I Chapter 1 Goals of psychology: survey, naturalistic, case study method: surveys:collecting info through

questionaries, results may not be so real since they depend on the peoples honesty. naturalistic: observing in its natural environment, its collecting info about behavior w/out trying to change it, but you have less control over what happens case study:in depth study on one individual correlational predictability and limitations: experimental method & dependent/independent variables: animal research ethics: there used as subjects in investigations cause its cheaper father of psychology: wilhelm wundt, he founded the 1st psychological laboratory in 1879 at lepzig humanistic, cognitive, evolutionary, phsyiological, psychodynamic perspective: humanistic: people control themselves, emphasis on free will and positive nature of humans cognitive: behavior is determined by how info is stored and precessed by the brain phsyiological: the believe that everything a person does or feel is controlled by the brain reliability and validaty in testing: Chapter 2 stressor and impacts: copying: selyes GAS model: glucocoricoid effects: immune system suppressors: primary and secondary appraisals: type A & type B personalities: alcoholism, impacts of abuse: tobacco use-related problems: gender/cultural use patterns: Chapter 3 sensation and perception: figure/ground, ambiguous figures: bottom-up, top-down processing: transduction:

sensory adaption: differential/ absolute thresholds: perceptual organization/grouping principles: perceptual sets and constancies: monocular/ binocular cues: illusions and delusions: Chapter 4 consciousness and altered states: sleep stages, NREM and REM sleep: rebound effect: age sleep patterns: circadian, restorative, psychoanalytic theories of sleep: innsomnias ans parasomnias: dream theories, esp. psuchoanalytic and activation synthesis: psychoactive drugs: