Exam #4 Study Guide
Spring 2000

Chapter 15: Intelligence

  • Mental Tests
    • variation
    • correlation
  • Evaluating Mental Tests
    • reliability vs. validity
    • standardization
  • Intelligence Testing
    • Alfred Binet
    • I.Q.
    • different intelligence tests
    • mental retardation
  • Structure of Mental Abilities
    • Spearman (G)
    • Thurstone (group-factor)
    • Fluid intelligence vs. crystallized intelligence
  • Information Processing
    • reaction time
    • working memory and attention
  • Beyond I.Q.
    • practical vs. analytic vs. creative intelligence
    • multiple intelligence
  • Nature vs. Nurture
    • genetic factors
    • twin studies
    • environmental factors
    • cultural influences
 

Chapter 16: Personality I (Trait Theory)

  • Methods of assessment
    • Structured personality tests
      • MMPI
      • CPI
    • Projective personality tests
      • Rorschach inkblots
      • TAT
  • Validity
    • Predictive validity
    • Construct validation
    • Incremental validity
  • Trait theory
    • Big five
    • Eysenck's classification
    • Attacks on trait theory
    • Traits and biology
      • Personality and temperament
      • Genes
      • Interactions between genes and environment
  • Behavioral cognitive approach
    • Radical behaviorism
    • Social learning theory 
 

Chapter 17 : Personality II: (Psychodynamic, Humanistic, and Sociocultural Approaches)

  • The Psychodynamic Approach: Freud and Psychoanalysis
    • The origins of psychoanalytic thought
    • Unconscious conflict
    • Unconscious conflict and the formation of personality
    • Windows into the unconscious
    • A critical look at Freudian theory
  • The Psychodynamic Approach: Personality Differences
    • Patterns of conflict
    • Coping patterns and mental health
  • Humanistic Approach
    • Main features of the humanistic movement
    • Evaluating the humanistic approach
  • The Sociocultural Perspective
    • Human diversity and personality
    • Human sameness and universal patterns of personality
    • Collectivism and individualism 
 

Chapter 18: PSYCHOPATHOLOGY (or, Abnormal psychology)

  • Psychopathology as a Disease
    • general paresis
    • hysteria (conversion disorder) and psychogenic disorders
    • Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV)
  • The Underlying Pathology Model
    • biomedical, psychodynamic and learning models
    • classifying mental disorders
      • clinical interview: symptoms, signs and syndromes
      • diagnosis
      • organic brain syndromes, neurosis and psychosis
    • explaining disorders
      • proximate and ultimate causes
      • diathesis-stress model
  •  Schizophrenia
    • signs and symptoms
      • social reality testing
      • restitutional symptoms: delusions and hallucinations
      • disorganized vs. catatonic schizophrenia
    • underlying pathology
      • dopamine hypothesis and classical antipsychotics
      • dopamine-serotonin hypothesis and atypical antipsychotics
      • positive vs. negative symptoms
  • Mood Disorders
    • bipolar and unipolar syndromes
      • hypomania
      • depression
      • seasonal affective disorders
    • organic and psychogenic factors
  • Anxiety Disorders
    • phobias
    • obsessive-compulsive disorder
    • generalized anxiety disorder
    • panic disorder
    • post-traumatic stress disorder
  • Dissociative Disorders
    • dissociative amnesia
    • factors underlying disorder
  • Somatoform and Psycho-Physiological Disorders
    • conversion disorder
    • coronary heart disease
  • Social Deviance
    • sociopaths
    • antisocial personality disorder
 

Chapter 19: Treatment of Psychopathology

  • Biological Therapies
    • pyschotropic drugs
    • antipsychotics
    • antidepressants (MAO, tricyclics, SSRIS)
    • anxiolytics
    • spontaneous improvement & placebo effects
    • double-blind technique & outcome measures
    • psychosurgery
    • electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
  • Psychotherapy
    • classical psychoanalysis
    • psychodynamic therapy
    • behavior therapy
    • cognitive therapy
    • humanistic therapies
    • group and relationship therapies
  • Evaluating Therapeutic Outcome
    • meta-analysis and therapy outcome
    • deterioration effects
    • dodo bird verdict
    • prescriptionism