Boost Your grades with this fully illustrated quick-study guide. You will use it from an undergraduate school all the way to medical school.AudienceIntended for everyone interested in psychology, particularly undergraduate and graduate students, medical students, nursing, and dental students.Table of ContentsI. IntroductionII. NeuropsychologyIII. Sensory SystemsIV. PerceptionV. Learning and MemoryVI. Thinking, Language, IntelligenceVII. DevelopmentVIII. Personality, Mind, and Social PsychologyIX. Abnormal PsychologyX. Psychoactive DrugsI. IntroductionIntroduction: History | Principles | Scope | Research psychology | Applied psychology | Research methods | CriticismII. NeuropsychologyNeuron: Axon | Dendrite | Synapse | Neurotransmitters | Action Potential | Postsynaptic PotentialNervous System Organization: Brain | Spinal cord | Central nervous system | Peripheral nervous system | Somatic nervous system | Autonomic nervous systemBrain Stem: Medulla oblongata | Pons | MidbrainDiencephalon: Thalamus | Hypothalamus | Pituitary glandTelencephalon: Brain | Gyri and sulci | Brodmann area | Cerebral cortex | Cerebral hemisphere | Lateralization of brain function | Frontal lobe | Occipital lobe | Parietal lobe | Temporal lobe | Corpus callosum | FornixLimbic System: Amygdala | Cingulate gyrus | Fornicate gyrus | Hippocampus | Hypothalamus | Mammillary body | Nucleus accumbens | Orbitofrontal cortex | Parahippocampal gyrusIII. Sensory SystemsVisual system: Eye | Lateral geniculate nucleus | Optic radiation | Visual cortexAuditory system: Outer ear | Middle ear | Cochlea | Medial geniculate nuclei | Primary auditory cortexOlfactory system: Olfactory receptor neurons | Piriform cortexGustatory system: Tongue | Taste bud | Basic tastes | Primary gustatory areaSomatosensory system: Nociception | Thermoreception | Vestibular system | Mechanoreception | Proprioception | Golgi organ | Muscle spindleIV. PerceptionPerception: Weber-Fechner law | Stevens’ power law | Absolute threshold | Just noticeable difference | Psychometric function | LimenPerceptual Cues: Perceptual constancy | Visual perception | Depth perception | Motion perceptionAttention: Top-down and bottom-up information processing | Cocktail party effect | Stroop effectV. Learning and MemoryLearning: Habituation | Classical conditioning | Backward conditioning | Second-order conditioning | Rescorla-Wagner model | Eyeblink conditioning | Operant conditioning | SensitizationMemory: Short-term memory | Long-term memory | Working memory | Cortical plasticity | Hebbian learning | Forgetting | AmnesiaVI. Thinking, Language, IntelligenceThinking: Abstraction | Concept | Mental image | Animal cognition | Problem solving : Algorithm | Heuristic | Reasoning: Deductive reasoning | Inductive reasoning | Abductive reasoning | AnalogyLanguage: Phoneme | Morpheme | Syntax | Language acquisition | Aphasia: Broca’s (expressive) aphasia | Wernicke’s (receptive) aphasiaIntelligence: IQ | Stanford-Binet IQ test | Raven’s Progressive Matrices | Wechsler Adult Intelligence ScaleVII. DevelopmentDevelopmental Psychology: Theory | History | Stages of development | Schools of psychology | Research methods | Theorists & theories