PSYC 100 Final: Psyc 100 Winter Term (Week 12-24)

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Caroline F Pukall

Document Summary

Week 1: cognitive psychology: intelligence, reasoning and decision-making. Identify the barriers to typical development for each stage: explain the functional significance of the nature and timing of developmental changes, summarize erikson"s psychosocial development stages. Theories of cognitive development: compare and contrast the theories of piaget, vygotsky, as well as core. Week 6: social psychology: define self-concept and social cognition and explain the factors that guide our interpretation of our own and other people"s behaviour (e. g. , fundamental attribution error, in-group bias, describe self-esteem and explain how people manage it. Explain common biases and methods to improve it. Queen"s sos: students offering support: describe how emotions and other forms of affect can influence judgments about the self and others. Manual of mental disorders (dsm-5) and the pros and cons of this classification system: describe anxiety, ocd, ptsd, somatic-related, and dissociative disorders, explain the nature and evolutionary purpose of anxiety.