PSYC 1130 Psychology Final Exam Study Guide PDF

**PSYC 1130 Psychology for Social Service Workers Study Guide: Final Exam ONLINE** **Questions for Final Test may include:** - **True/False** - **Multiple choice** - **Multi-select** - **Matching/ordering** **Worth 20% of final grade** +------------------------------------------------...

**PSYC 1130 Psychology for Social Service Workers Study Guide: Final Exam ONLINE** **Questions for Final Test may include:** - **True/False** - **Multiple choice** - **Multi-select** - **Matching/ordering** **Worth 20% of final grade** +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | The Final Test is based on the following: | | | | **Module 7: Chapter 12- Reinforcement Theory: BF Skinner** | | | | **Module 8: Cognitive Theory- Aaron Beck** | | | | **Module 9: Chapter 10- Self-Actualization Theory- Carl Rogers** | | | | **Module 10: Chapter 8 -- The Five Factor Theory- McCrae & Costa** | | | | **Module 11: Chapter 14: Mini Theories -- Julian Rotter, Marvin | | Zuckerman, Martin Seligman** | | | | **Module 12: Chapter 6- Identity Theory - Erik Erikson** | | | | **AND** | | | | **Theoretical Approaches** | | | | - **Psychoanalytic Approach** | | | | - **Neo-psychoanalytic Approach** | | | | - **The Humanistic Approach** | | | | - **The Cognitive Approach** | | | | - **The Behavioural Approach** | | | | - **The Genetics Approach** | | | | - **The Lifespan Approach** | | | | **AND** | | | | **Know how each (major) theorist (i.e., Freud, Horney, Adler, Rogers, | | Beck, Skinner, Erikson) would answer the questions related to human | | nature** | | | | - **Free will vs. determinism** | | | | - **Nature vs. nurture** | | | | - **Past vs. present** | | | | - **Uniqueness vs. universality** | | | | - **Growth vs. satisfaction** | | | | - **Optimism vs. pessimism** | +=======================================================================+ | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ **[Checklist of Learning: questions to assist with studying]** - **Define each of the major theoretical approaches. Compare and contrast: How are they the same? How are they different?** - **Make yourself a chart for each major theorist (i.e., excluding the mini-theorists and McCrae & Costa). How does each theorist compare on the questions of human nature?** - **In Skinner's Reinforcement theory, what do the following terms mean: reinforcement, extinction, operant behaviour, operant conditioning, positive vs. negative, stimulus** - **What is the different between positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, omission and punishment? Can you give examples of each?** - **Describe the four schedules of reinforcement and provide examples of each** - **How has operant conditioning been used to modify behaviour? Discuss examples of applications (e.g., token economy)** - **Reflections and criticisms of Skinner** - **Thought Feeling Behaviour Links in CBT. What are they?** - **What is the difference between automatic vs. controlled thoughts according to Beck?** - **How do Schemas/core beliefs develop?** - **Cognitive distortions: what are they and give examples.** - **What is the Cognitive Triad?** - **Sociotropic vs. Autonomous Dimensions of personality** - **Roger's self and actualization; organismic valuing process** - **What is Roger's congruence vs. incongruence?** - **Discuss the concepts of conditional vs. unconditional positive regard. What impact do these have on the development of the self?** - **How does someone become a fully functioning person according to Rogers?** - **Roger's defense mechanisms** - **Roger's assessment and research concepts** - **Who contributed to the Genetics approach?** - **What is factor analysis?** - **How would a "Trait" theorist define a personality trait?** - **How did each of the trait theorists (we studied in class) categorize traits?** - **Name and describe the five factors of Costa and McCrae's Big Five?** - **What has research told us about Costa & McCrae's Big Five?** - **Role of the Big Five in employment** - **How does Rotter's Locus of Control compare to Seligman's concept of Learned Helplessness?** - **How does Learned Helplessness explain depression?** - **What has research revealed about differences in people with internal vs external locus of control?** - **What are the four components of sensation seeking?** - **What has research revealed about the characteristics of sensation seekers?** - **What is Seligman's Explanatory Style?** - **How has Seligman contributed to the study of positive psychology?** - **What has research revealed about the three "Happy" lives?** - **Name Erikson's eight Psychosocial Stages of Personality Development** - **Describe how Erikson's stages are governed (i.e., how one moves through a stage and describe the important events within the stage).** - **What are the basic strengths associated with each stage?** - **Do you know the following Erikson terminology? (Epigenetic, crisis, maladaptive, adaptive, maldevelopment, malignant)**