Chapter 1: empirical approach, critical thinking, structuralism (know important people related to all of the schools of thought/branches of psych listed here), functionalism, behav... Chapter 1: empirical approach, critical thinking, structuralism (know important people related to all of the schools of thought/branches of psych listed here), functionalism, behaviorism, humanistic psychology, cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychology, nature-nurture, natural selection, evolutionary psychology, behavior genetics, culture, positive psychology, biopsychosocial approach, levels of analysis, basic research, applied research, counseling psychology, clinical psychology, psychiatry, community psychology, hindsight bias, peer reviewers, theory, hypothesis, operational definition, replication, meta-analysis, case study, naturalistic observation, survey, random sample, population, correlation, correlation coefficient, experiment, experimental group, control group, random assignment (remember this differs from a random sample), double-blind procedure, placebo effect, independent variable, confounding variable, dependent variable, informed consent, debriefing, testing effect Chapter 2: biological psychology, neuroplasticity, neuron, cell body, dendrites, axon, myelin, glial cells, action potential, threshold, refractory period, all-or-none response, synapse, neurotransmitters, reuptake, endorphins, agonist, antagonist, nervous system, central nervous system, peripheral nervous system, nerves, sensory neurons, motor neurons, interneurons, somatic nervous system, autonomic nervous system, sympathetic nervous system, parasympathetic nervous system, reflex, endocrine system, hormones, adrenal glands, pituitary gland, lesion, EEG, MEG, PET, MRI, fMRI, hindbrain, midbrain, forebrain, brainstem, medulla, thalamus, reticular formation, cerebellum, limbic system, amygdala, hypothalamus, hippocampus, cerebral, frontal lobes, parietal lobes, occipital lobes, temporal lobes, motor cortex, somatosensory cortex, association areas, neurogenesis, corpus callosum, split brain, right vs. left hemisphere, environment, heredity, behavior genetics, chromosomes, DNA, genes, genome, identical twins, fraternal twins, interaction, epigenetics, evolutionary psychology, natural selection, mutation Chapter 3: consciousness, cognitive neuroscience, selective attention, inattentional blindness, change blindness, dual processing, blindsight, parallel processing, sequential processing, sleep (and theories why), circadian rhythm, REM sleep, stages N1-3, alpha waves, hallucinations, delta waves, SCN, insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea, night terrors, dreams (and theories why), manifest content, latent content, REM rebound, psychoactive drugs, substance use disorder, depressants, alcohol use disorder, tolerance, addiction, withdrawal, barbiturates, opioids, stimulants, amphetamines, nicotine, cocaine, methamphetamine, ecstasy, hallucinogens, near-death experience, LSD, THC Chapter 4: developmental psychology, cross-sectional study, longitudinal study, zygote, embryo, fetus, teratogens, fetal alcohol syndrome, habituation, maturation, critical period, cognition, schema, assimilation, accommodation, sensorimotor stage, object permanence, Piaget, preoperational stage, conservation, egocentrism, concrete operational stage, formal operational stage, scaffold, Vygotsky, theory of mind, stranger anxiety, attachment, Harlow, imprinting, temperament, basic trust, Erikson, adolescence, puberty, identity, social identity, intimacy, emerging adulthood, moral thinking, Kohlberg, teenager brain development, menopause, social clock, physical changes in adulthood, aging and memory, death and dying Chapter 6: sensation, sensory receptors, perception, bottom-up processing, top-down processing, transduction, absolute threshold, signal detection theory, subliminal, priming, difference threshold, Weber's law, sensory adaptation, perceptual set, wavelength, hue, intensity, retina, accommodation, rods, cones, optic nerve, blind spot, fovea, young-Helmholtz trichromatic theory, opponent-process theory, feature detectors, parallel processing, gestalt, figure-ground, grouping, depth perception, visual cliff, binocular cue, convergence, retinal disparity, monocular cue, phi phenomenon, audition, frequency, pitch, middle ear, cochlea, inner ear, sensorineural hearing loss, conduction hearing loss, cochlear implant, place theory, frequency theory, gate-control theory, hypnosis, dissociation, posthypnotic suggestion, gustation, olfaction, kinesthesia, vestibular sense, sensory interaction, embodied cognition, extrasensory perception, parapsychology Chapter 7: learning, nonassociative learning, habituation, sensitization, associative learning, stimulus, respondent behavior, operant behavior, cognitive learning, classical conditioning, Watson, Pavlov, behaviorism, neutral stimulus, unconditioned stimulus, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned response, acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization, discrimination, operant conditioning, law of effect, Thorndike, operant chamber, reinforcement, Skinner, shaping, positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, primary reinforcer, conditioned/secondary reinforcers, reinforcement schedule (continuous, partial, fixed/variable, ratio/interval), punishment (positive/negative), (biological) preparedness, taste aversion, instinctive drift, expectancy, cognitive map, latent learning, observational learning (Bobo + Bandura), modeling, mirror neurons, prosocial behavior Chapter 8: memory, recall, recognition, relearning, Ebbinghaus, General stages of memory, encoding, storage, retrieval, parallel processing, Atkinson + Shiffrin information processing model, sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory, working memory, explicit memory, effortful processing, automatic processing, implicit memory, iconic memory, echoic memory, chunking, mnemonics, spacing effect, shallow processing, deep processing, semantic memory, episodic memory, hippocampus, memory consolidation, flashbulb memory, long-term potentiation, retrieval cues, priming, encoding specificity principle, mood-congruent memory, serial position effect, forgetting, anterograde amnesia, retrograde amnesia, proactive interference, retroactive interference, repression, reconsolidation, Loftus, misinformation effect, source amnesia, déjà vu, false memories, improving memory Read more