ON THIS PAGE YOU WILL FIND ALL OF YOUR DOCUMENTS FOR UNIT #2/EXAM #2.
IN ORDER, THEY ARE AS FOLLOWS: YOUR STUDY GUIDE, REGULAR GOOGLE SLIDES, PRINTER-FRIENDLY PDFs, AND THE RECORDED LECTURES. NOTE THAT THE RECORDED LECTURES UTILIZE THE SAME SLIDES.
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PSYC-2301 STUDY GUIDE EXAM #2 SUMMER 2025
IMPORTANT! Print your Study Guide, GOOGLE SLIDES, and your PDFs BEFORE listening to the Recorded Lectures. This will provide you with the best way possible to take notes ON your printed files while listening to your Recorded Lectures. You may have noticed that I elaborate upon certain points in the recordings that will be useful on the exam.
ETHICAL ISSUES IN PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH & PRACTICE
~ Be able to correctly identify examples of ethical issues in psychological research
and practice when given a description. We will discuss five that are common to
psychology, psychiatry, sociology, and criminal justice (to a lesser extent).
BRAIN & BIOLOGY
~ Provide a simplified explanation of the transmission of the neural impulse.
~ Be able to define and/or recognize an example of the synaptic cleft, also
known more simply as the synapse.
~ Distinguish between the functions of excitatory neurotransmitters and
inhibitory neurotransmitters; understand why we must have both in order to function.
~ Correctly identify/describe the three possible outcomes that may occur in the
synaptic cleft during the transmission of the neural impulse. Which ones constitute
successful communication? Which ones constitute a communication failure?
~ Apply a basic understanding of the neurotransmitter dopamine and its behavioral
effects in both a deficient state (not enough), and a state of overutilization (use too
much, too much available, too much produced).
~ Be prepared for SEVERAL additional questions from the slides on dopamine
i.e., why might somebody use too much? Why do we administer Thorazine? How
does Thorazine work? What happens if an individual is over-medicated with a
drug like Thorazine?
~ Recognize the importance of the role that the neurotransmitters norepinephrine
and serotonin play in depression.
~ Understand the implications (above) for the use and manufacture of antidepressants.
~ Define and/or recognize some of the technological ways in which
we have attempted to study the brain.
~ Given the variables of age, amount of damage, and location of damage:
recognize the variable that is arguably the most important in determining
whether or not, or to what extent, an individual is likely to recover from brain trauma.
~ Apply a basic understanding of the functions of the primary lobes of the brain,
along with the amygdala, and the hippocampus.
~ Know the four major lobes of the brain and what happened when Penfield
stimulated each of them.
~ Understand the role that the amygdala plays in fear, anxiety and memories
with fear attached to them.
~ What are some of the psychological problems associated with dysfunction
of the amygdala?
~ Define and/or recognize examples of anterograde amnesia.
~ Understand the impact of the constant stress associated with
post-traumatic stress syndrome.
~ Define and/or recognize examples of the role of the hippocampus
with regard to spatial navigation, and the construction of cognitive maps.
~ Provide examples of hippocampal dysfunction with respect to the
psychological problems that may result.
SENSATION & PERCEPTION, abbrev.
~ Distinguish between sensation and perception.
~ What is individual reality? What is consensus reality?
~ Know the two factors useful in fundamentally distinguishing
individual reality from consensus reality.
~ Recognize/provide examples of both monocular and binocular
cues in depth perception; understand the importance to artists.
~ Define and/or recognize examples of “motion.”
~ Correctly identify examples of apparent motion, in particular
some examples of stroboscopic motion.
~ Distinguish an illusion from a hallucination.
~ Recognize at least one example of cultural differences in how we
perceive individuals who hallucinate.
Dopamine-Thorazine.jpgDopamine-Thorazine-2.jpgIn the absence of a recorded lecture, please refer to this UNIT 2.2B SUMMARY:
~ Know the four major lobes and what happened when Penfield stimulated each of them.
~ If memory has an element of fear attached to it, it is more likely to be remembered.
~ The amygdala plays a key role in fear, anxiety and memories with fear attached to them. Dysfunction of the amygdala is associated with anxiety disorders, mood disorders, PTSS, phobias, and personality disorders.
~ The primary characteristic of anterograde amnesia is the inability to form new memories.
~ The constant stress associated with post-traumatic stress syndrome triggers the release of cortisol, signaling to the body that there is danger, even if, objectively, this is not true.
~ The hippocampus plays a crucial role in spatial navigation, and the construction of cognitive maps.
~ Hippocampal dysfunction is beleived to play a role in Alzheimer's, depression, amnesia, PTSS (PTSD) and epilepsy.
DO NOT USE COLOR INK WHEN PRINTING THE GUIDED NOTE-TAKING PDFs
ETHICAL ISSUES CURRENT.pdfUNIT 2.1.pdfUNIT 2.2A.pdfUNIT 2.2B PDF.pdfUNIT 2.3 SPRING 2023.pdf
frogger.pdf
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