Objectives for the 3rd Midterm part of the exam

Personality

Define personality.

Describe the function of personality.

Define trait.

Compare/contrast clinically based, lab based, and psychometric measures of personality.

Describe stability versus change in personality over the life span.

Compare/contrast ultimate and proximate explanations of personality.

Recognize relationships between personality and behaviour.

Recognize basic tenets of theories that consider personality in terms of traits, adaptation, and mental process.

Compare/contrast psychodynamic, social-cognitive, and humanistic theories of personality.

Distinguish between different defense mechanisms.

Distinguish success attribution and failure attribution as they relate to external vs. internal locus of control and stable vs. unstable forces.

Recognize the relationship between self-efficacy and success.

Recognize the sequence in Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

Mental Disorders

Define mental disorder.

Recognize that mental disorders are maladaptive.

Identify the criteria used by the American Psychological Association (1994) to diagnose mental disorders.

Use the diasthesis-stress model to describe causes of mental disorders.

Recognize cases of anxiety disorders, dissociative disorders, eating disorders, and schizophrenia.

Distinguish among different types of phobia.

Recognize symptoms of phobia.

Define dissociative identity disorder (DID).

Define schizophrenia.

Identify biological/medical, cognitive/behavioural/psychodynamic, and sociocultural perspectives of anxiety disorders such as phobia.

Identify biological/medical, cognitive/behavioural/psychodynamic, and sociocultural perspectives of schizophrenia.

Identify biological/medical, cognitive/behavioural/psychodynamic, and sociocultural perspectives of dissociative disorders such as DID.

Identify biological/medical, cognitive/behavioural/psychodynamic, and sociocultural perspectives of eating disorders.

Identify effects that labeling can have on people with mental disorders.

Reports of Empirical Research 

Contrast interpersonality amnesia and interpersonality priming.

Identify the research questions that Eich, Macaulay, Loewenstein, & Dihle (1997) addressed. 

Recognize the design used by Eich, et al (1997). 

Describe the measures used by Eich et al. (1997). 

Recognize the results obtained by Eich et al. (1997). 

Recognize ways in which Eich et al.’s (1997) results can be generalized beyond the context of the study.

Rationalize the importance of Eich et al.'s (1996) conclusions. 

Therapy

Define psychotherapy, cognitive therapy, behavioural therapy, and drug therapy.

Compare/contrast the differences among psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive, behavioural, and biomedical forms of therapy in terms of their goals and methods of therapy.

Distinguish educational requirements for being a psychiatrist, a clinical psychologist, a counseling psychologist, and a counselor in Alberta.

Identify a "typical" client according to a recent U.S. therapy use rate study.

Rationalize which therapy (or therapies) is more suited for treating anxiety disorders, dissociative disorders, eating disorders, and schizophrenia.

Identify the type of therapy offered by a "simple therapy."

Compare components of a "simple therapy" with more traditional forms of psychotherapy.

Identify what characteristics of phobia are treated in drug therapy, behavioural, and insight therapies for phobia.

Distinguish among different therapies in terms of the "advice" a consultant might give a client.

Objectives for the final exam part of the exam

Methods 

Recognize which research design (experiment, correlation, or descriptive study) can address specific research questions. 

Identify specific data collection methods used in a research example. 

Define reliability, sensitivity, and validity in the context of a research example. 

Human Intellect

Identify arguments as reflecting a nature or a nurture perspective of intelligence. 

Recognize different "types" of intelligence.

Cognitive and Social Development 

Define critical periods in development..

Compare/contrast information processing and Piagetian theories of cognitive development. 

Recognize the myth of invulnerability as explanations of risky adolescent behaviour. 

Reports of Empirical Research

Distinguish the different parts of a report of empirical research. 

Recognize the functions of the different parts of a report of empirical research.

Social Perception and Attitudes 

Define stereotype. 

Recognize attributions for behaviour. 

Identify the functions of attitudes. 

Social Behaviour

Contrast social facilitation and social loafing. 

Define deindividuation. 

Define cooperation. 

Relate different strategies used in prisoner's dilemma games to social situations. 

Personality

Define personality. 

Describe the function of personality. 

Recognize relationships between personality and behaviour. 

Compare/contrast psychodynamic, social-cognitive, and humanistic theories of personality.

Mental Disorders

Define mental disorder.

Recognize that mental disorders are maladaptive.

Compare/contrast the psychodynamic, biological/medical, cognitive/behavioural, and sociocultural perspectives on the origins of mental disorders.

Identify cases of anxiety disorders, dissociative disorders, eating disorders, and schizophrenia.

Therapy

Define psychotherapy, cognitive therapy, behavioural therapy, and drug therapy.

Compare/contrast the differences among psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive, behavioural, and biomedical forms of therapy in terms of their goals and methods of therapy.
 
 

Sample Questions

Objective: Compare/contrast the different perspectives on the origins of mental disorders.

Sally is a little girl with bad dreams. Her waking life is also full of imaginary friends and enemies. Although she has never seen one up close and personal before, Sally is absolutely phobic about snakes. Her family doctor tells Sally's parents that Sally likely developed this phobia in part through her active imagination. The family doctor is likely basing his conclusion on 

Objective: Identify biological/medical, cognitive/behavioural, and sociocultural perspectives of schizophrenia.

Which is true about schizophrenia, according to the sociocultural perspective?

Objective:  Contrast interpersonality amnesia and interpersonality priming.
Interpersonality amnesia involves ______ and interpersonality priming involves ______.

Objective:  Distinguish among different therapies in terms of the "advice" a consultant might give a client.

A recent "Ask Siggy" question was about diagnosing and treating attention deficit disorder. The consultant advised the person to investigate retraining her brain waves. What perspective of mental disorders and treatment is this therapist basing his advice on?

Objective:  Recognize the functions of the different parts of a report of empirical research.

The following statement most likely came from which section of a report of empirical research?
"Data from the younger teenage males would provide one of the most interesting differential tests of the evolutionary as opposed to the sociocultural model."

Objective:  Compare/contrast the basic tenets of psychodynamic, humanistic, social cognitive, and psychometric theories of personality.

Psychodynamic personality theory emphasizes _______; social cognitive theory emphasizes ________.