PSYC 2000 (PSYC101)

This is intro. to Psychology class notes on memory. This document goes into detail about memory defined, the basic elements of memory, encoding, visual encoding, acoustic encoding, encoding specificity, storage, the Atkinson-Shiffrin model, sensory memory, working memory, long term memory, explicit/declarative memory, implicit/non-declarative memory, retrieval, the brain and memory, memory problems, and enhancing memory & study skills.

This is intro. to Psychology class notes on psychological research. This document goes into detail about the importance of research, the use of research, conducting research, the scientific method, hypothesis, approaches to research, correlational research, correlations, correlation direction, size, correlation and causation, confounding variables, illusory correlation, confirmation bias, experimental research, experimental design, biases, the placebo effect, potential solutions, reliability & v...

This is intro. to Psychology class notes on emotion & motivation. This document goes into detail about motivation, emotion, research on motivation, theories on motivation, drive theory, arousal theory (arousal/stress as motivation), Yerkes-Dodson law, self-efficacy & social motives, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, physiological mechanisms, metabolism & body weight, obesity, eating disorders, physiological mechanisms, Kinsey's Research, Masters and Johnson's research, sexual orientation, gender i...

This is intro. to Psychology class notes on personality. This document goes into detail about personality, the history behind it, Freud's psychodynamic theory, stages of psychosexual development, Neo-Freudians, Alfred Adler, Erik Erikson, Carl Jung, Karen Horney, Julian Rotter & locus of control, Walter Mischel & self-regulation, humanism, trait theorists, Eysencks' 2-factor personality, five factor model, personality assessments, and projective tests.

This is intro. to Psychology class notes on social psychology. This document goes into detail about social psychology, situational vs. dispositional attributions, the fundamental attribution error, culture, self-attributions, social roles & norms, Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment, attitudes, cognitive dissonance, changing attitudes internally, persuasion, elaboration likelihood model, persuasion tactics, conformity, Asch effect, influences on conformity, obedience, Milgram's obedience stu...

This is intro. to Psychology class notes on industrial organizational psychology. This document goes into detail about industrial psychology, industrial psychology, areas of I-O psych, the historical roots, selecting & evaluating employees, job analysis, employee selection, training, employee evaluation, discrimination in hiring, the social dimensions of work, management structure, teamwork & organizational culture, negative relationships within the workplace, and human factors psych.

This is intro. to Psychology class notes on lifestyle, stress, & health . This document goes into detail about stress, eustress & distress, prevalence of stress, health psychology, Selye's general adaptation syndrome, the physiology of stress, stressors, psychophysiological disorders, stress & the immune system, cardiovascular disorders, stress & other illnesses, stress regulation, stress reduction, happiness, factors in happiness, and positive psychology, .

This is intro. to Psychology class notes on psychological disorders. This document goes into detail about psychopathology, dysfunction, examples of things that are NOT psychopathology, why we need psychological diagnoses, standardized diagnostic tools, controversies in diagnosis of psychological disorders, origins of psychopathology, anxiety disorders, specific phobias, social anxiety disorder (social phobia), panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorders, etiology...

This is intro. to Psychology class notes on lifespan development. This document goes into detail about what lifespan development is, why development psychology is so important, the major issues in developmental psychology, nature/nurture, continuity/stages, one course, many courses, how we measure development, measure development, psychosexual theory (Sigmund Freud), psychosocial theory (Erik Erikson), cognitive theory (Jean Piaget), Piaget's cognitive theory (discontinuous), preoperational st...

This is intro. to Psychology class notes on therapy & treatment . This document goes into detail about early treatment for mental illness, the aftermath of deinstitutionalization, treatment today, barriers to treatment, the sociocultural model of treatment, decreasing stigma, therapy, psychotherapy, biomedical therapy, psychoanalysis, modern psychoanalysis, free association, dream interpretation, transference, modern psychoanalysis, play therapy, behavior therapy, aversive conditioning, exposure...