3. Control group = no treatment
Experimental Design
Control group = no treatment

5. *IQ tests: mean =100 Standard deviation = 15
Z score
*IQ tests: mean =100 Standard deviation = 15

6. Measures of Central Tendency

7. *medulla

9. The Neuron

11. Agonists and Antagonists
Agonists - drugs that mimic or copy neurotransmitters, make it MORE likely the next neuron will fire. Fit into receptor cells.
Antagonists - drugs that BLOCK neurotransmitters. Fill the receptor sites on the dendrites. Prevent the *real* neurotransmitter from working.

12. Endocrine System

17. Opponent Process Theory
Color Vision
Trichromatic Theory
Opponent Process Theory
(*explains afterimage)

18. Closure - closing up the spaces
Symmetry - similar parts face each other
Proximity - close things must be together
Continuity - things continue in a fluid line (even if blocked)
Figure Ground (black space/white space)
Similarity - things that are alike are together

19. Parts of the Ear

20. Properties of Sound

21. The Senses

25. Pavlov’s Classical Conditioning

26. Watson’s Little Albert Experiment (Classical Conditioning)

27. Skinner’s Operant Conditioning

28. Premack Principle
You can operantly condition someone to do something they don’t like by providing an incentive they do.
Want the car?

29. Aversive Conditioning
Pairs a habit (smoking) with something unpleasant (nausea) to stop the behavior.
Aversive = means sucky

30. Language Acquisition Device
Noam Chomsky
Language in innate
We have a LAD...an innate ability to learn language
Evidence: most people learn language in recognizable steps
We learn language so easily is must be inborn
a.k.a. - Nativist Theory of Language Acquisition

31. Linguistic Relativity
Whorf-Sapir Hypothesis
Whorf Hypothesis
Linguistic Determinism
Languages we use control and limits our thinking
Definitely influences it

32. Bandura’s Observational Learning

33. Lev Vygotsky Culture influences development, cognitive development
The ZONE OF PROXIMAL DEVELOPMENT
Scaffolding
What you can accomplish with the help of a more experienced person

34. Memory Long Term Memories Declarative/Explicit
Semantic Memory - general facts, not personal
Episodic - personal, biographical events
Prospective Memory - memory for a future event
Implicit/Non-declarative
Procedural - how to do something
Emotional Memories
Flashbulb Memories

35. Projective Tests
Rorschach Inkblot
Thematic Apperception Test

36. Defense Mechanisms Repression Regression Sublimation Denial
Reaction Formation
Displacement
Projection
Rationalization

37. Theories of Emotion

38. Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development

39. No conservation
No object permanence
egocentrism

40. Piaget’s Assimilation + Accommodation

42. Big Five Personality Traits (McCrae and Costa)

43. Rotter’s Locus of Control

44. Freud’s Components of Personality

45. Defense Mechanisms

47. Milgram Experiment

48. *Asch experiment

49. Fundamental Attribution Error