Psychology Study Guide

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Intended for everyone interested in psychology, particularly undergraduate and graduate students, medical students, nursing, and dental students.
Table of Contents
I. IntroductionII. NeuropsychologyIII. Sensory SystemsIV. PerceptionV. Learning and MemoryVI. Thinking, Language, IntelligenceVII. DevelopmentVIII. Personality, Mind, and Social PsychologyIX. Abnormal PsychologyX. Psychoactive DrugsI. Introduction
Introduction: History | Principles | Scope | Research psychology | Applied psychology | Research methods | Criticism
II. Neuropsychology
Neuron: Axon | Dendrite | Synapse | Neurotransmitters | Action Potential | Postsynaptic Potential
Nervous System Organization: Brain | Spinal cord | Central nervous system | Peripheral nervous system | Somatic nervous system | Autonomic nervous system
Brain Stem: Medulla oblongata | Pons | Midbrain
Diencephalon: Thalamus | Hypothalamus | Pituitary gland
Telencephalon: Brain | Gyri and sulci | Brodmann area | Cerebral cortex | Cerebral hemisphere | Lateralization of brain function | Frontal lobe | Occipital lobe | Parietal lobe | Temporal lobe | Corpus callosum | Fornix
Limbic System: Amygdala | Cingulate gyrus | Fornicate gyrus | Hippocampus | Hypothalamus | Mammillary body | Nucleus accumbens | Orbitofrontal cortex | Parahippocampal gyrus
III. Sensory Systems
Visual system: Eye | Lateral geniculate nucleus | Optic radiation | Visual cortex
Auditory system: Outer ear | Middle ear | Cochlea | Medial geniculate nuclei | Primary auditory cortex
Olfactory system: Olfactory receptor neurons | Piriform cortex
Gustatory system: Tongue | Taste bud | Basic tastes | Primary gustatory area
Somatosensory system: Nociception | Thermoreception | Vestibular system | Mechanoreception | Proprioception | Golgi organ | Muscle spindle
IV. Perception
Perception: Weber-Fechner law | Stevens power law | Absolute threshold | Just noticeable difference | Psychometric function | Limen
Perceptual Cues: Perceptual constancy | Visual perception | Depth perception | Motion perception
Attention: Top-down and bottom-up information processing | Cocktail party effect | Stroop effect
V. Learning and Memory
Learning: Habituation | Classical conditioning | Backward conditioning | Second-order conditioning | Rescorla-Wagner model | Eyeblink conditioning | Operant conditioning | Sensitization
Memory: Short-term memory | Long-term memory | Working memory | Cortical plasticity | Hebbian learning | Forgetting | Amnesia
VI. Thinking, Language, Intelligence
Thinking: Abstraction | Concept | Mental image | Animal cognition | Problem solving : Algorithm | Heuristic | Reasoning: Deductive reasoning | Inductive reasoning | Abductive reasoning | Analogy
Language: Phoneme | Morpheme | Syntax | Language acquisition | Aphasia: Brocas (expressive) aphasia | Wernickes (receptive) aphasia
Intelligence: IQ | Stanford-Binet IQ test | Ravens Progressive Matrices | Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
VII. Development
Developmental Psychology: Theory | History | Stages of development | Schools of psychology | Research methods | Theorists & theories