Unit 3 Psychology: The Conscious Self

Mind, Brain and Body
1. Consciousness
  1. Levels of Awareness
    1. Content Limitations
      1. Selective Attention
      2. Divided Attention
    2. Controlled v.s Autonomic Processes
    3. Perceptual And Cognitive Distortions
    4. Emotional Awareness
    5. Self Control
    6. Time Orientation
  2. Altered State Of Consciousness
    1. Daydreaming
    2. Drug/Alcohol Induced
    3. Meditative State
  3. Normal Waking Consciousness
2. Sleep
  1. Non-Rapid Eye Movement (NREM)
    1. Stage 1
      1. Hypnic Jerk
    2. Stage 2
      1. K-Complexes
      2. Sleep Spindles
    3. Stage 3 (Moderate Deep Sleep)
    4. Stage 4 (Very Deep Sleep)
  2. Rapid Eye Movement (REM)
  3. Sleep Deprivation
    1. Microsleep
    2. Total Sleep Deprivation
    3. Partial Sleep Deprivation
  4. Purpose Of Sleep
    1. Survival/Adaptive
    2. Restorative
  5. Sleep-Wake Cycle
    1. Adolescence
  6. Use Of Sleep Laboratories
    1. Self Report
    2. Subjective Data
    3. Objective Data
    4. Video Monitoring
3. Polysomnograph
  1. Electroencephalograph
  2. Electro-oculograph (EOG)
  3. Electromyograph (EMG)
  4. Heart Rate
  5. Galvanic Skin Response
  6. Body Temperature
4. Nervous System
  1. Central Nervous System
    1. Brain
      1. Temporal Lobe
        Wernicke's Area
        Wernicke's Aphasia
      2. Occipital Lobe
        Primary Visual Cortex
      3. Parietal Lobe
        Primary Somatosensory Cortex
        Spatial Neglect (Right Lobe Only)
      4. Frontal Lobe
        Broca's Area
        Broca's Aphasia
        Primary Motor Cortex
      5. Corpus Callosum
      6. Hemispheric Specialisation
        Right Hemisphere
        Left Hemisphere
        Split Brain - Sperry and Gazzaniga
    2. Spinal Cord
  2. Neuron
    1. Sensory/Afferent
    2. Interneuron
    3. Motor/Efferent
  3. Peripheral Nervous System
    1. Somatic Nervous System
    2. Autonomic Nervous System
      1. Sympathetic Nervous System
      2. Parasympathetic Nervous System
Memory
1. Models For Explaining Human Memory
  1. Atkinson-Shiffrin's Multi-Store Model Of Memory
    1. Sensory Memory
      1. Iconic Memory (Sperling)
      2. Echoic Memory
    2. STM (Working Memory)
      1. Forgetting
        Decay
        Displacement
      2. Increase Duration
        Maintenance Rehearsal
        Elaborative Rehearsal
      3. Chunking
      4. Serial Position Effect
        Primacy Effect
        Recency Effect
    3. Control Processes
      1. Attention
      2. Rehearsal
      3. Retrieval
  2. Craik And Lockharts Levels of Processing Framework
    1. Deep Processing
    2. Shallow Processing
  3. Baddeley and Hitch's Model of Working Memory
    1. The Episodic Buffer
    2. The Visuo-Spatial Sketchpad
    3. The Phonological Loop
    4. Central Executive
  4. Encoding-Storage-Retrieval
  5. Long Term Memory
    1. Semantic Network Theory
      1. Spreading Activation
    2. Procedural Memory (Implicit Memory)
    3. Declarative Memory (Explicit Memory)
      1. Episodic Memory (Events)
      2. Semantic Memory (Facts)
2. Mechanisms For Memory Formation
  1. Brain Structures In Memory
    1. Temporal Lobe
      1. Amygdala
      2. Hippocampus
  2. Consolidation Theory
    1. Reconsolidation
  3. Neurotransmitters
    1. Glutamate
    2. Norepinephrine (NE)
    3. Acetylcholine (ACh)
    4. Dopamine (DA)
  4. Neurons
    1. Dendrites
    2. Synaptic Gap
      1. Receptor Sites
      2. Presynaptic Neuron
      3. Post-Synaptic Neuron
      4. Synapse
    3. Soma/Cell body
    4. Nucleus
    5. Myelin Sheath
    6. Terminal Buttons
    7. Axon Buttons
  5. Amnesia Resulting From Brain Trauma And Neurodegenerative Diseases
    1. Dementia
    2. Alzheimer's Disease
    3. Amnesia
      1. Anterograde Amnesia
      2. Retrograde Amnesia
  6. Memory Decline Over Lifespan
    1. Effect On LTM
    2. Effect on STM
  7. Changes In Structure and Function Of Neurons
    1. Long Term Potentiation (LTP)
      1. Synaptic Growth
      2. More Dendrite Spines
      3. More Responsive
    2. Neurotransmitter
      1. Greater Effect Of NT at Receptor Sites
    3. Increase # of NT Produced and Released
3. Theories Of Forgetting
  1. Forgetting
    1. Accessibility
    2. Availability
  2. Forgetting Curve
    1. Hermann Ebbinghaus
  3. Motivated Forgetting
    1. Repression
    2. Suppression
  4. Interference Theory
    1. Proactive Interference
    2. Retroactive Interference
  5. Retrieval Failure Theory
    1. Tip-Of-The-Tongue Phenomenon
    2. Retrieval Cues
  6. Decay Theory
4. Manipulation and Improvement Of Memory
  1. Mnemonic Devices
    1. Acronyms
    2. Acrostics
    3. Narrative Chaining
  2. Retrieval Cues
    1. Context Dependent
    2. State Dependent Cues
  3. Measures Of Retention
    1. Recall
      1. Free Recall
      2. Cued Recall
    2. Relearning
    3. Recognition
  4. Elizabeth Loftus

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