Psychology and the MCAT: Foundational Concept 6

Anexos:

• Sensation and Perception

1. Sensation

   Anexos:

   • 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

   Anexos:

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

1. Auditory processing
2. Sensory reception by hair cells

   Anexos:

   • Physiology of Hearing
   • Physiology of Hearing

1. Somatosensation
2. Taste

   Anexos:

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

   Anexos:

   • The Vestibular System (Balance)

Anexos:

• Psychology - The Visual Perception System

1. Parallel processing
2. Feature detection

1. Selective
2. Divided

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

      Anexos:

      • Biological Rhythms and Sleep
   4. Dreaming

      Anexos:

      • The nature of dreams
   5. Disorders

      Anexos:

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

1. Information-processing model

   Anexos:

   • Information Processing
2. Cognitive development

   Anexos:

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

   Anexos:

   • thinking 2: problem solving
5. Intellectual functioning

1. Encoding

   Anexos:

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

      Anexos:

      • Developmental plasticity
      • Plasticity- Rewiring the Brain

1. Theories of language development

   Anexos:

   • 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

   Anexos:

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

   Anexos:

   • 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

   Anexos:

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