General Psychology
PSY 101
Dr. George Boeree
Outline: Part Two
Perception
active, involves movement
figure-ground
depth perception
movement
binocular vision
the visual cliff experiment
Gestalts
phi phenomenon
closure
similarity
proximity
symmetry
continuity
perception of utility
affordances
person perception
sense
psychoid entities
anticipation
imagery
thought
Emotion
facial expressions
distress
fear
anxiety
anger
sadness
delight
happiness
eagerness, hope
theories of emotion
common sense
james-lange
cannon-bard
Motivation
Motivation in general
desires, libido, actualization
curiosity, play
social needs
positive self regard
the inferiority complex
habit
rituals
Garfinkling
higher motivations
awe
flow
creativity
love
compassion
freedom
Maslow's hierarchy of needs
deficit needs
physiological
safety
belonging
esteem
being needs
self-actualization
Hunger
the physiology of hunger
stomach contraction
glucose levels and the hypothalamus
satiety
leptin
metabolism and set point
the psychology of hunger
taste aversion
eating disorders
bulimia
anorexia
obesity
Sexuality
the sexual response cycle
excitement
plateau
orgasm
resolution
refractory period
multiple orgasms
non-deviant deviations
masturbation
oral sex
sexual orientation (percentage)
sexual problems
sexual dysfunctions
hypoactive sexual desire
sexual aversion
female sexual arousal disorder
male erectile disorder
male and female orgasmic disorder
premature ejaculation
dyspareunia
vaginismus
paraphilias
exhibitionism
voyeurism
frotteurism
fetishism
other sexual disorders
sadism
masochism
bondage
discipline
bestiality
pedophilia
gender identity disorders
transvestism
transsexualism
Learning
Basic principles
association
differentiation
repetition (rehearsal)
Classical (Pavolvian) conditioning
reflexes
unconditioned stimulus and unconditioned response
neutral stimulus
conditioned stimulus and conditioned response
generalization
discrimination (differentiation)
Operant (Skinnerian) conditioning
reinforcing stimulus (reinforcer)
extinction
schedule of reinforcement
continuous
fixed ratio
fixed interval
variable
shaping
the aversive stimulus
punishment
negative reinforcement
Other forms of learning
vicarious learning
imitation or modeling
Albert Bandura
the bobo doll experiment
language and learning
warnings, recommendations, threats, promises
symbolic learning
Memory
sensory register
iconic and echoic memory
working (short-term) memory
phonological loop
7 plus or minus 2
chunking
visuo-spatial sketchpad
long-term memory
long term potentiation
encoding
organizational hierarchies
meaningfulness
imagery
cognitive structure
concepts
features ("has feathers")
qualities ("is yellow")
prototypes ("like a sparrow")
affordances ("makes good eating")
kinds of long term memory
semantic memory
episodic memory
procedural memory
cerebellum
remembering and forgetting
recall
recognition
amnesia
anterograde
hippocampus
retrograde
interference
repressed memories
reconstruction
altering memories