OCR Exam Review PDF

Exam is on October 3: Will include ~67 multiple Stress (definition & types) (lect & text) choice and 8 short answer questions on Chapters 3, Eustress vs. distress 11, and 5 Acute vs. chronic/daily hassles...

Exam is on October 3: Will include ~67 multiple Stress (definition & types) (lect & text) choice and 8 short answer questions on Chapters 3, Eustress vs. distress 11, and 5 Acute vs. chronic/daily hassles Be able to give examples Chapter 3: Biology & Behavior HPA-axis, relation to sympathetic nervous system, Types of neurons (lect & text) what cortisol does (lect & text) Parts of the neuron & their functions (lect & text) what two neurotransmitters are released (lect Resting potential, action potential, all-or-none law & text) (lect & text) General adaptation syndrome: 3 stages (lect & text) Neurotransmitters & how they work generally, What’s the body’s biological response to stress? (lect including reuptake (lect & text) & text) Major neurotransmitters & their functions (text, in the alarm phase Table 3.1) in the resistance phase Difference between agonist & antagonist (lect & in the exhaustion phase text) Primary & secondary appraisal (lect & text) Central nervous system (lect & text) Coping (lect & text) Peripheral nervous system Role of perceived control in stress (lect & text) Somatic (skeletal) nervous system vs. Type A/B personality & stress (lect & text) Autonomic nervous system (lect & text) Stress & memory (lect) Sympathetic/Parasympathetic nervous system Stress & the immune system (lect & text) Generally, what each one does (lect & text) Stress & heart disease (lect & text) 4 lobes of the cerebral cortex, their general locations, Coping strategies: problem- vs. emotion-focused & their functions (lect & text) (lect & text) Primary somatosensory cortex, function & location be able to identify types & give examples (lect & text) (lect) Primary motor cortex, function & location (lect & identify some effective & ineffective coping text) strategies (lect) Contralateral control (lect) Social support & coping (lect & text) Split-brain patient; understanding what the patient Social support & immune system (lect & text) would answer (lect & text) Benefits of exercise (lect & text) Hemispheric specialization (lect) Hemineglect (lect & text) Parts of the limbic system & their functions (lect & Chapter 5: Sensation & Perception text) Sensation vs. perception (lect & text) Parts of the brainstem & their functions (lect & text) Transduction (lect & text) Cerebellum (lect & text) Psychophysics-general method (lect & text) Endocrine system-general function & how works absolute threshold, just noticeable difference (i.e., via secreting hormones) (lect & text) threshold (lect & text) Genotype vs. phenotype (text) Sensory adaptation & examples (lect & text) How does the brain change w/ experience? For sight, hearing, taste, touch: know stimuli, Times when plasticity occurs (lect & text) receptors, what is the pathway the info follows in the brain, and an example of resulting perception (lect & Case of Michelle (lect) text) London taxi driver study (lect & text) How light travels through eye and enters the brain (lect & text) Chapter 11: Health & Well-being Optic chiasm (text) Biomedical vs. Biopsychosocial model (lect & text) Rods vs. Cones (lect & text) Applications of 3 factors (biological, Opponent process theory of color vision; know pairs psychological, social) to example health of colors (lect & text) problems Gestalt laws of organization (lect & text) Tend-and-Befriend stress response (text) Be able to apply to an image Binocular cues, monocular cues (lect & text) Know each type of cue and be able to identify particular cues in an example Visual illusions: ponzo illusion, ames room, motion aftereffects (lect & text) What (ventral) & where (dorsal) pathways/ processing streams (lect & text) Prosopagnosia, damage to what brain area? (lect & text) Bottom-up vs. top-down processing (lect & text) Be able to differentiate in examples How sound travels through the ear and enters the brain (lect & text) How smell travels through the nose & enters the brain (lect & text) Pheromones (text) How taste travels from the tongue and enters the brain (lect & text) Types of taste buds (lect & text) How touch is registered and travels to brain (lect & text) Gate control theory (lect & text) Kinesthetic sense (lect & text) Vestibular sense (lect & text)