Sigmund

Sigmund

Chapter 1. What is the scientific attitude, and why is it important for critical thinking? Chapter 2: How do neurons communicate with each other? How does information flow through your nervous system as you pick up a fork? (summarize) Chapter 3: To predict whether a teen smokes, ask how many of the teen’s friends smoke. One explainationfor this correlation is peer influence. What are some others? What is the biopsychosocial model the book refers to? Chapter 5: What is the basic distinction between sensation and perception? Chapter 6: Your friend insists that he did call you to dinner as you intently watched tv. What principle explains your not perceiving him? What type of evidence shows that, indeed, “there is more to perception than meets the senses? “ Chapter 7: Define hypnosis and give arguments for and against hypnosis as an altered state of consciousness. Compare the major perspectives on why we dream? Chapter 8: Define classical conditioning and behaviorism and describe the basic components of classical conditioning. Chapter 9: Summarize Freud’s concept of repression. Describe source amnesia’s contribution to false memories. Chapter 11: Define intelligence test and discuss the history of intelligence testing. Describe the distribution of scores in a normal curve. (IQ) Define the Flynn Effect and give some possible explanations for it. Chapter 13: Identify three components of emotion, and contrast the James-Lange, Cannon-Bard and two-factor theories of emotion. Describe the role of the autonomic nervous system during emotional arousal. Chapter 15: Describe Freud’s psychosexual stages of development. Discuss Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis. Chapter 16: Discuss common mood disorders. Discuss the medical model, and how it changed the way we treat patients with psychological disorders. Chapter 18: Explain how the foot-in-the-door phenomenon and cognitive dissonance illustrate the influence of actions on attitudes. Define...

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