Psychology and the MCAT: Foundational Concept 6

Attachments:

• Sensation and Perception

1. Sensation

   Attachments:

   • 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

   Attachments:

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

1. Auditory processing
2. Sensory reception by hair cells

   Attachments:

   • Physiology of Hearing
   • Physiology of Hearing

1. Somatosensation
2. Taste

   Attachments:

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

   Attachments:

   • The Vestibular System (Balance)

Attachments:

• Psychology - The Visual Perception System

1. Parallel processing
2. Feature detection

1. Selective
2. Divided

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

      Attachments:

      • Biological Rhythms and Sleep
   4. Dreaming

      Attachments:

      • The nature of dreams
   5. Disorders

      Attachments:

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

1. Information-processing model

   Attachments:

   • Information Processing
2. Cognitive development

   Attachments:

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

   Attachments:

   • thinking 2: problem solving
5. Intellectual functioning

1. Encoding

   Attachments:

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

      Attachments:

      • Developmental plasticity
      • Plasticity- Rewiring the Brain

1. Theories of language development

   Attachments:

   • 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

   Attachments:

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

   Attachments:

   • 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

   Attachments:

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