I.

Memory
a. Three interrelated processes
i. Encoding
ii. Storage
iii. Retrieval
b. Atkinson-Shiffrin model
i. Sensory memory
ii. Short term/working memory
1. Loss through decay
2. Loss through displacement/use of chunking
3. Loss through interference
4. Use of rehearsal
a. Maintenance rehearsal
b. Elaborative rehearsal
iii. Long term memory
1. Declarative/explicit
a. Episodic
b. Semantic
2. Non-declarative/implicit
c. The Nature of Remembering
i. Recall
1. Mnemonics
2. Method of Loci
ii. Recognition
iii. Relearning
iv. Serial position effect
1. Primacy effect
2. Recency effect
v. Context and memory
vi. Flashbulb memories
vii. Eidetic imagery/photographic memories
d. Reliability of Memories
i. Eyewitnesses
ii. Hypnosis
iii. Positive bias
iv. Fundamental/Universal attribution error
v. Repressed memories
vi. Infantile amnesia
e. Memory loss
i. Amnesia
1. Anterograde amnesia
2. Retrograde amnesia
ii. Dementia
1. Alzheimers

iii. Forgetting
1. Ebbinghaus curve of forgetting
2. Encoding failure
3. Storage failure
4. Decay theory
5. Retrieval failure
II.

Psychological Disorders
A. What makes behavior abnormal? What constitutes a disorder?
a. Continuum between well-adjusted and maladaptive
b. Cultural factors
c. Effect on persons emotions
d. Effect on others
e. Effect on functioning
f. Danger of harm
g. Legal responsibility/Insanity
B. Classifying psychological disorders:
a. DSM V
b. Changes over time
c. Diagnostic criteria
C. Anxiety Disorders
a. Panic Attacks
b. Agoraphobia
c. Generalized Anxiety Disorder
d. Social Phobias and Specific Phobias
i. Common phobias
ii. Treatment for phobias
e. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
f. Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders
D. Mood Disorders
a. Major Depressive Disorder
b. Bipolar Disorder
c. Seasonal Affective Disorder
d. Increased suicide risk
e. Risk factors for mood disorders
i. Neurological factors
ii. Environmental factors
iii. Heredity
iv. Stressors
v. Culture
vi. Gender

E. Schizophrenia
a. Positive symptoms
b. Negative symptoms
c. Theory on cause of schizophrenia
F. Somatoform disorders
a. Conversion disorder
b. Hypochondriasis
c. Munchausens syndrome
d. Munchausens by Proxy
G. Dissociative Disorders
a. Dissociative Fugue
b. Dissociative Identity Disorder
H. Personality Disorders
a. Cluster A (odd or eccentric)
i. Paranoid Personality Disorder
ii. Schizoid Personality Disorder
iii. Schizotypal Personality Disorder
b. Cluster B (dramatic, emotional or erratic)
i. Antisocial Personality Disorder
ii. Borderline Personality Disorder
iii. Histrionic V
iv. Narcissistic Personality Disorder
c. Cluster C (anxious or fearful)
i. Avoidant Personality Disorder
ii. Dependent Personality Disorder
iii. Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder
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Eating Disorders
a. Pica
b. Anorexia Nervosa
c. Binge Eating Disorder
d. Bulimia Nervosa