Psychology and the MCAT: Foundational Concept 6

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• Sensation and Perception

1. Sensation

   Adjunto:

   • 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

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

1. Auditory processing
2. Sensory reception by hair cells

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   • Physiology of Hearing
   • Physiology of Hearing

1. Somatosensation
2. Taste

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

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   • The Vestibular System (Balance)

Adjunto:

• Psychology - The Visual Perception System

1. Parallel processing
2. Feature detection

1. Selective
2. Divided

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

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      • Biological Rhythms and Sleep
   4. Dreaming

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      • The nature of dreams
   5. Disorders

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

1. Information-processing model

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   • Information Processing
2. Cognitive development

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

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   • thinking 2: problem solving
5. Intellectual functioning

1. Encoding

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

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      • Developmental plasticity
      • Plasticity- Rewiring the Brain

1. Theories of language development

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   • 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

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

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   • 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

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