Pick any five questions to answer! You can use a blend of paragraphs, bullet lists, diagrams, and images to answer your questions.
Methods: Design a new psychology experiment testing the effects of a new drug or treatment on attention skills. You must describe in great detail the hypothesis, procedure, IV, DV, expected results/outcomes (in a graph), and any new conclusions that can be learned from your experiment.
Personality: Compare and contrast the basic assumptions of the psychoanalytic and humanistic approaches to personality. Describe the five-factor personality model.
Based on your understanding of personality propose your own theory of personality that demonstrates your ability to integrate various aspects of different personality theories.
Social Psychology: What are implicit personality theories, and how can they potentially lead to faulty perceptions of other people? Give two examples of the fundamental attribution error, and explain how it can influence our explanations for the behavior of other people. How do individuals in collectivistic and individualistic cultures differ in their tendencies to use particular attributional biases?
Psychological Perspectives: Describe at least four major perspectives used in psychology. Explain the major theories used in each perspective and provide examples of findings from each perspective/discipline.
Memory: Describe in great details the three stages of memory and how memories are acquired, retained and retrieved. Provide a formal definition of MEMORY and draw a diagram describing how memory works.
Describe how memories are organized.
Learning: Compare and contrast classical conditioning and operant learning. Describe the basic processes using an original example for each type of conditioning/learning. Make sure to identify each process of conditioning. Explain the validity of the basic principles of behaviorism.
Neuroscience: Draw a diagram of a neuron and label all of its components. Describe in as much detail as possible how neurons communicate. List at least 3 neurotransmitters and their primary role in communication. List at least 5 brain structures are their primary functions.
Psychological Disorders: Describe in detail the core symptoms, possible causes and treatment options for any one Anxiety Disorder, any one Mood Disorder, any one Eating Disorder and any one Personality Disorder.
Therapies: Compare and contrast 3 therapies with regards to the underlying assumptions behind each therapy, what treatment techniques are used in each type of therapy. You must also list the advantages and disadvantages of all 3 therapeutic approaches.
10. Perception: Explain the difference between sensation and perception.
Define bottom-up processing (aka. Data-driven processing) and top-down processing (aka. Conceptually driven processing). Give concrete examples of each and explain how each type of processing affects our daily lives. Give a detailed step-by-step explanation of how vision works (i.e., starting from the eye to the brain) and the theories that explain color vision.
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