Psych 2.0 Online Experience Guide Book

Student Activities in Psych 2.0

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Psychological Perspectives
Multiple Causes of Behavior
Five Perspectives in Psychology
Subfields and Careers*

Science and Methodology
The Scientific Method
Naturalistic Observation
Self-Report Bias in Surveys
Correlation
Designing an Experiment: Dependent and Independent Variables*
Ethical Dilemmas

The Brain and Behavior
The Structure of Neurons
Areas and Functions of the Brain
Brain Lateralization
Localization of Function: 2nd Language Learning and Brain Plasticity*

Sensation and Perception
Weber’s Law
How Do We See?
Basic Sensory Processes*
Perception: Integrating the Senses*
Top-down v Bottom-up processing*
Depth Perception
Visual Illusions*

States of Consciousness
REM Sleep: Thinking*
REM Sleep: Dreaming*
Drug Effects
Hypnosis*

Learning
Classical Conditioning: Pavlov's Dogs
Classical Conditioning and Advertising*
Operant Conditioning: Teaching a Dog New Tricks
Reinforcement and Punishment*
Shaping
Schedules of Reinforcement*
Observational Learning: Monkey See, Monkey Do*

Memory
Sensory Memory
Working Memory: Decay v Interference
Working Memory: Putting Memory to Work*
Long Term Memory
Levels of Processing: Transferring Information from Short Term Memory to Long Term Memory
Eyewitness Fallibility: Witnessing a Crime Eyewitness Fallibility: FocusingAttention*
Alzheimer's Disease

Language, Cognition, and Intelligence
Thinking and Reasoning: Centenarians*
Heuristics
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
IQ Tests: Are they accurate measures of intelligence?*
Group Differences in IQ*
Mental Retardation: Down Syndrome*
Language Development*

Motivation and Emotion
The Need for Achievement
Emotion: Language of the Face*
Emotion: Body Language*
Detection of Deception

Sexuality and Gender
Gender Stereotypes: Implicit Associations Test
Sexual Response: Masters and Johnson*
Sex and Medicine: Sex, Sin, and Sickness*
Sex and Medicine: Alfred Kinsey*
Biological Aspects of Sexuality: Sexual Identity*
Adolescence: Sexual Identity*
Sexual Response: Viagra*
Science of Sexuality: Evolutionary Psychology & Mate Selection*
Adulthood: Interracial Relationships*

Development
Nature and Nurture
Genes and Behavior: Twin Studies*
Infant Vision: Seeing Through the Eyes of a Child*
Cognitive Development: Categorization*
Conservation
Stages of Moral Development
Adolescence: Adolescent Development*
Suicide Risk Factors

Personality
Defense Mechanisms
Your Ideal Self
Trait Theory of Personality*
Personality Assessment

Health Psychology
College Stress Test
Type A Behavior

Abnormal Psychology, Therapy and Treatment
Distinguishing Abnormality: A Continuum Approach*
Understanding the DSM
Depression*
Bipolar Disorder
Phobia
Anxiety Disorder*
Schizophrenia
Historical Perspectives: Treatment of Schizophrenia*
Substance Abuse*
Eating Disorders*
Borderline Personality Disorder
Systematic Desensitization
Compare and Contrast Approaches to Therapy

Social Psychology
Fundamental Attribution Error
Prejudice
Social Cognition: Stereotype Threat*
Asch's Conformity Study*
Milgram’s Obedience Study*
The Stanford Prison Study: How Power Corrupts*
First Impressions and Attraction
Social Neuroscience: Using fMRI to Study Morality*