Psyc 001 -- Exam 3 study sheet

Read over the general points, study tips, and exam tips provided on the previous review sheets. They apply here as well.

Overall concepts covered on the exam: (These are to guide your studying. You should make sure you thoroughly understand all the material related to each of these topics. If I mention experiments make sure you understand the purpose, method, and results).

• Classical Conditioning (Pavolvian conditioning) -- be able to identifiy the following concepts and understand how they relate to one another.
  • unconditioned stimulus
  • unconditioned response
  • conditioned stimulus
  • conditioned response
  • understand examples of this type of conditioning and real world situations where it is applied
• phenomena of classical conditioning
  • stimulus generalization
  • stimulus discrimination
  • extinction
  • spontaneous recovery
• applications of classical conditioning -- how they are explained by (or use) classical conditioning
  • phobias
    • counterconditioning
  • drug dependence & tolerance
  • taste aversions
  • advertising
• Operant Conditioning (Thorndike & Skinner)
  • Behavioral contingencies
    • positive reinforcement
      • premack principle
      • primary reinforcer
      • secondary reinforcer
      • shaping
      • chaining
      • Schedules of reinforcement
        • continuous schedule of reinforcement
        • partial schedules of reinforcement
          • fixed-ratio
          • variable-ratio
          • fixed-interval
          • variable-interval
          • behavioral response patterns to each type of reinforcement schedule (the graph) -- understand what the general trend is for fixed schedules vs variable schedules and ratio vs interval schedules.
    • negative reinforcement -- how it affects a behavior (make sure you understand how it is not the same as punishment)
      • escape learning
      • avoidance learning
    • punishment & ways to be most effective
• Observational Learning
  • Bandura's Studies -- what did they tell us about children's behavior following watching a type of video clip?

• Memory
  • Sensory Memory
    • Iconic Memory
    • Echoic Memory
    • understand the capacity, durtion, etc of each
  • Short-term Memory -- understand how it differs from LTM
    • capacity, duration, etc.
  • Long-term Memory
    • capacity, duration, etc
    • Levels of processing theory & understand the experiment & results
    • Tulving's Types of Long-term Memories -- understand how they differ.
      • Semantic
      • Episodic
        • Flashbulb memories
      • Procedural
  • 3 main reasons for Forgetting
    • Diverted Attention
    • decay
    • interference
      • proactive interference
      • retroactive interference
  • memory distortions
    • misinformation effect
    • false memories
  • Memory Disorders & Fugue State
    • anterograde amnesia
    • retrograde amnesia
    • infantile amnesia
  • Causes of Memory Disorders
    • Drugs
    • Alzheimer's Disease
    • Korsakoff's Syndrome
    • Ataxia
    • Diabetic Neuropathy
    • Encephalitis
  • Treatment and prognosis of disorders
  • Ways to improve memory
    • general methods
    • overlearn material
    • take time during encoding
    • take breaks during encoding
    • distributed practice
    • generate
    • connect
    • mnemonic devices

NOTE: there may be more or less on the exam depending on what we get through on Tuesday. I'll make an announcement on the web if this review sheet gets altered after Tuesday's lecture.