Topics for the Mid-Semester Examination

Note: This is merely a guide sheet. It is not an exhaustive list of the topics that are on the midsemester examination.
What is psychology?
1. Definitions of key types of psychology (e.g. personality, social, developmental, cognitive,
physiological, behavioural neuroscience, etc.)
2. Origins of modern psychology (When was it born? From which disciplines?)
3. Structuralism vs. Functionalism
Scientific Methods
1. Correlations
2. Research designs and techniques (correlational, experimental, survey, naturalistic
observation)
Development over the Lifespan
1. Physical changes that occur during various developmental stages
2. Attachment
3. Eriksons stages of psychosocial development
4. Piagets stages of development
Personality
1. Elements of personality structure according to Freud
2. Defense mechanisms
3. Key personality psychology scholars
Motivation
1. Motives to eat
2. Motives to love (e.g. predictors of whom people will love)
Overarching
1. Key persons in various types of psychology
2. How different persons theories differed from their colleagues

PSYC 1000 Guide Sheet for Topics on Mid-Semester Examination Created by Dr. Ishtar Govia