Psychology and the MCAT: Foundational Concept 6

Psychology and the MCAT: Foundational Concept 6

1. Content Category 6A: Sensing the environment

   • Sensory processing
     • Sensation and Perception
     • Sensation
       • Chapter 4: Sensing the Environment
       • Threshold
       • Weber’s Law
       • Signal detection theory
       • Sensory adaptation
       • Psychophysics
     • Sensory receptors
       • Sensory pathways
       • Types of sensory receptor
   • Perception
     • Bottom-up/Top-down processing
       • top-down processing
     • Perceptual organization
     • Gestalt principles
   • Hearing
     • Auditory processing
     • Sensory reception by hair cells
       • Physiology of Hearing
       • Physiology of Hearing
   • Other Senses
     • Somatosensation
     • Taste
       • Gustation and Olfaction
     • Smell
     • Kinesthetic sense
     • Vestibular sense
       • The Vestibular System (Balance)
   • Vision
     • Psychology - The Visual Perception System
     • Parallel processing
     • Feature detection

2. Content Category 6B: Making sense of the environment

   • Attention
     • Selective
     • Divided
   • Consciousness
     • Sleep
       • Stages
       • Cycles
       • Circadian Rhythms
         • Biological Rhythms and Sleep
       • Dreaming
         • The nature of dreams
       • Disorders
         • Disorders of Sleep
     • Alertness
     • Consciousness altering drugs
       • Effects
       • Addiction
     • Hypnosis and meditation
   • Cognition
     • Information-processing model
       • Information Processing
     • Cognitive development
       • cognitive development
     • Biological factors
     • Problem solving and decision making
       • thinking 2: problem solving
     • Intellectual functioning
   • Memory
     • Encoding
       • The MSM research; Encoding, Duration and Capacity for STM and LTM
     • Storage
     • Retrieval
     • Forgetting
     • synaptic connections
       • Neural plasticity
         • Developmental plasticity
         • Plasticity- Rewiring the Brain
   • Language
     • Theories of language development
       • Theories of Language Acquisition
       • Match the Theory to the Theorist - Language Acquisition
     • Influence of language on cognition
     • Brain areas that control language and speech

3. Content Category 6C: Responding to the world

   • Emotion
     • Components
       • Cognitive
       • Physiological
       • Behavioral
     • Universal emotions
       • 72. Seven basic emotions
     • Adaptive function
     • Role of biological processes in perceiving emotion
     • Theories of emotion
       • COGNITION & EMOTION
       • James–Lange
       • Cannon–Bard
       • Schachter–Singer
   • Stress
     • Nature of stress
       • Appraisal
       • Stressors
       • Effects on psychological functions
     • Outcomes
       • Physiological
       • Emotional
       • Behavioral
     • Managing stress
       • Psychological methods of stress management
       • Exercise
       • Relaxation
       • Spirituality