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PSY 101 Introductory Psychology Study Guides

I may edit study guides as we progress through the semester, so don't download one until you need it.
   

Unit 1. What is Psychology?

  • Unit 1 study guide
  • Freud is Widely Taught, Except in Psychology Departments
  • Association for Psychological Science
  • American Psychological Association

Unit 2. Research in Psychology

  • Unit 2 study guide
  • Candace Newmaker, victim of pseudoscience
  • Confirmation Bias

Unit 3. Genes, Evolution, and Environment

  • Unit 3 study guide
  • Mickey Mantle's Greatest Error -- The Fallacy of Genetic Determinism
  • The Nurture of Nature: How does behavior get written into the genes? It doesn't
  • Videos of vampire bat feeding and blood sharing
  • Epigenetics video

Unit 4. Brain, Body, Mind, and Behavior

  • Unit 4 study guide
  • How to Spot Pseudoneuroscience and Biobunk (Tavris)

Unit 5. Biological Rhythms and Mental States

  • Unit 5 study guide
  • The pseudoscience of biorhythms (not to be confused with biological rhythms)
  • Sleep Information (Harvard Medical School)
  • Narcolepsy video

Unit 6. Sensation and Perception

  • Unit 6 study guide
  • visual illusions
  • more visual illusions
  • demonstration of inattentional blindness

Unit 7. Learning and Conditioning

  • Unit 7 study guide
  • Teach your dog to turn on the light (example of shaping)

Unit 8. Behavior in Social and Cultural Context

  • Unit 8 study guide
  • Implicit Association Test (Click on "I wish to proceed", then select the age IAT test. Print out or write down your results.)
  • How evil might you become? (Discovery Channel videos)

Unit 9: Thinking and Intelligence

  • Unit 9 study guide
  • Tower of Hanoi problem

Unit 10: Remembering and Forgetting

  • Unit 10 study guide
  • The man who couldn't remember
  • When should I be concerned about a senior’s forgetfulness?
  • Retrieval practice (testing) improves memory

Unit 11 (Chapter 15): Psychological Disorders

  • Unit 11 study guide
  • Facts about mental illness in the US

Unit 12 (Chapter 16): Treatment and Therapy

  • Unit 12 study guide
  • Treating anxiety disorders (APA)
  • Treating depression (APA)
  • Cognitive-behavior therapy helps for depression when drugs don't (BBC News)
  • Example of a "crazy" therapy: Thought Field Therapy

Final Exam Review

  • Final Exam Information and Review Questions