Highlights from Textbook Readings Chapter 1: Mind, Behavior, and Psychological Science. What is psychology and what is it not? Types of psychological research and research ethics. What is pseudo-psychology? Chapter 2: Biopsychology, Neuroscience, and Human Nature Focus on the brain and in this chapter. Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception Focus especially on perception. Chapter 4: Learning and Human Nurture. What is learning? Habituation; classical and operant conditioning; stimulus, reinforcement (positive and negative) punishment. Cognitive psychology: Bandura’s observational learning, Chapter 5: Memory (1) Forming Memory: What are the three basic tasks of memory? What are the three stagesof memory? What is chunking and maintenance rehearsal?(2) Retrieving Memory: Understand how we retrieve memorie s. Identify some factors that may affect memory retrieval (memory’s “seven sins”). Chapter 6: Thinking and Intelligence Problem-solving strategies and blocks, decision-making and cognitive illusions (or biases in decision -making). Differing views on intelligence (i.e., g factor, Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory, and Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences) Format The format is short answer question