Introduction to Psychology

EXAM THREE STUDY GUIDE

Exam three will cover the following topics; Personality, Social Psychology, Psychopathology,
Treatment, Stress and Health. Students will be responsible for all topics covered in class lectures,
during activities, in the text and listed on the syllabus. Special emphasis will be placed on the
concepts, vocabulary and people listed below. The exam will consist of 45-55 multiple choice
questions. Questions will include simple recognition items as well as critical thinking items
where you will be asked to apply your knowledge of the material to the examples given. After
the exam there will be an item analysis of the test questions, if there is a problem test question or
if more than 60% of the class gets the question wrong, it will be discarded.

Personality:
Minnesota Multi-Phasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
Freuds Theory of Personality
Lexical Hypothesis
The Big Five
Multiple Social Selves
The role of Situations on Personality
- Situational Specificity
- Strong vs. Weak Situations
- Situational Selection
The Machiavellian Personality
Gender Differences in the Big Five traits
Behavioral Residue
Flow (Csikszentmihalyi)
the Looking Glass Self
Self-Serving Bias

Social Psychology:
Approval motive and Accuracy Motive
Conformity and Obedience
Asch experiments
Milgram Experiments
The Information vs. Normative explanations of conformity
Authoritarian Personality
Norm of Reciprocity
Group dynamics
- Group think
- Social Facilitation
- Social Inhibition
- Social Loafing
- Deindividuation

The Stanford Prison Study
Stockholm Syndrom
Cognitive Dissonance
Stereotypes, and why theyre so darn hard to get rid of...
Attribution
Correspondence Bias
Actor-Observer effect
Aggression
- Proactive vs. Reactive aggression
- Sex differences
- Frustration/Aggression hypothesis
- Social Aggression
- Social Learning theory
- Ethological Theory
The Bystander Effect and Kitty Genovese
The evolutionary theory of attraction
Evidence that attractiveness matters (presented in class)

Psychopathology:
Why is the concept of normal a difficult way to define psychopathology?
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)
Comorbidity
Why does comorbidity make diagnoses more difficult?
Diathesis-Stress Model of psychopathology
Biopsychosocial theory of psychopathology
Have a basic understanding of the following psychological disorders
- Anxiety disorders
o Generalized Anxiety Disorder
o Phobias
o Panic Disorder
o Agoraphobia
o Obsessive-Compulsive disorder
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Somatoform disorders
o Hypochandriasis
o Somatization Disorder
o Conversion Disorder
o Body dysmorphic disorder
- Mood Disorders
o Unipolar vs. Bipolar Depression
o Major depressive disorder vs. Dysthymia
o Double depression
o Seasonal Affective disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Dissociative Disorders
o Dissociative amnesia
o Dissociative fugue
o Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Personality Disorders
- Uncommon Psychiatric Disorders discussed in class
- Developmental Disorders
- ADHD

Treatment:
Psychdynamic Therapy (and all it entails)
Cognitive Therapy
Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Humanistic and Existential Therapies (and all it entails)
Psychopharmecology
pros and cons
How antidepressants work
Biological Treatments
Dangers of treatment

Stress and Health Psychology:
The effect of stress
- Chronic stressors
- Perceived control
- Stress reactions
o Physical
o Psychological
Stress management
Coping with stress (and all it entails)
Recognizing Illness
The role of optimism (and all it entails)