Psychology and the MCAT: Foundational Concept 6

Anlagen:

• Sensation and Perception

1. Sensation

   Anlagen:

   • Chapter 4: Sensing the Environment
   1. Threshold
   2. Weber’s Law
   3. Signal detection theory
   4. Sensory adaptation
   5. Psychophysics
2. Sensory receptors
   1. Sensory pathways
   2. Types of sensory receptor

1. Bottom-up/Top-down processing

   Anlagen:

   • top-down processing
2. Perceptual organization
3. Gestalt principles

1. Auditory processing
2. Sensory reception by hair cells

   Anlagen:

   • Physiology of Hearing
   • Physiology of Hearing

1. Somatosensation
2. Taste

   Anlagen:

   • Gustation and Olfaction
3. Smell
4. Kinesthetic sense
5. Vestibular sense

   Anlagen:

   • The Vestibular System (Balance)

Anlagen:

• Psychology - The Visual Perception System

1. Parallel processing
2. Feature detection

1. Selective
2. Divided

1. Sleep
   1. Stages
   2. Cycles
   3. Circadian Rhythms

      Anlagen:

      • Biological Rhythms and Sleep
   4. Dreaming

      Anlagen:

      • The nature of dreams
   5. Disorders

      Anlagen:

      • Disorders of Sleep
2. Alertness
3. Consciousness altering drugs
   1. Effects
   2. Addiction
4. Hypnosis and meditation

1. Information-processing model

   Anlagen:

   • Information Processing
2. Cognitive development

   Anlagen:

   • cognitive development
3. Biological factors
4. Problem solving and decision making

   Anlagen:

   • thinking 2: problem solving
5. Intellectual functioning

1. Encoding

   Anlagen:

   • The MSM research; Encoding, Duration and Capacity for STM and LTM
2. Storage
3. Retrieval
4. Forgetting
5. synaptic connections
   1. Neural plasticity

      Anlagen:

      • Developmental plasticity
      • Plasticity- Rewiring the Brain

1. Theories of language development

   Anlagen:

   • Theories of Language Acquisition
   • Match the Theory to the Theorist - Language Acquisition
2. Influence of language on cognition
3. Brain areas that control language and speech

1. Components
   1. Cognitive
   2. Physiological
   3. Behavioral
2. Universal emotions

   Anlagen:

   • 72. Seven basic emotions
3. Adaptive function
4. Role of biological processes in perceiving emotion
5. Theories of emotion

   Anlagen:

   • COGNITION & EMOTION
   1. James–Lange
   2. Cannon–Bard
   3. Schachter–Singer

1. Nature of stress
   1. Appraisal
   2. Stressors
   3. Effects on psychological functions
2. Outcomes
   1. Physiological
   2. Emotional
   3. Behavioral
3. Managing stress

   Anlagen:

   • Psychological methods of stress management
   1. Exercise
   2. Relaxation
   3. Spirituality