BECKER

Know the following concepts and how they are related to each other: Infantilization, self-consciousness, freedom from reactivity, symbolic reinstinctivization

How does Becker define neurosis?

According to Becker, what is the function of Self-esteem and Culture?

What are the foundations of prejudice according to Becker?

Evolutionary theory & the pitfalls of evolutionary thinking in psychology

FREUD & the NEO FREUDIANS

Be able to distinguish between the ID, EGO, & SUPEREGO (how do these relate to Freud’s developmental model of personality?)

What is the difference between Freud’s and Becker’s notion of socialization? Along the same lines, how do the neo Freudians (Horney, Jung, Adler) differ from Freud?

Know Karen Horney’s theory of personality (i.e., neurotic trends)

What is the Humanist perspective (e.g., Carl Rogers & Abraham Maslow) & how does it differ from a psychoanalytic perspective?

EMOTION

What is the role of culture in emotion?

Schachter’s 2-factor theory of emotion

Zillman’s excitation transfer theory

MOTIVATION

Know Csikszentmihalyi’s notion of the flow experience

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

Intrinsic vs. extrinsic forms of motivation

COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Be able to identify Piaget’s stages of cognitive development

Bowlby’s attachment theory

Know the main findings & implications of Harlow’s research with infant monkeys

Be able to differentiate between the different attachment styles in the strange situation

THINKING & SOCIAL COGNITION

What are the stages of problem solving? What are incubation effects?

Know the different Heuristics: representativeness (base-rate & conjunction fallacies), availability, illusory correlation, anchor-adjustment

Rational vs. experiential modes of thought

PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS

What are the different dissociative disorders? What are the main features of Multiple Personality disorder?

Depression— know the different causes & theories of depression

Know the symptoms, course, and different types of schizophrenia

Know the different anxiety disorders (from the textbook)

TREATMENT OF MENTAL DISORDERS

Be able to distinguish between the following treatment approaches (client centered, psychoanalytic, behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, Family systems/structural therapy)

Know what techniques are used with which type of therapy