1. what is the capacity of our short-term and working memory?
2. what are effortful processing strategies that can us remember new information?
3. what structures of the brain are involved in memory formation and how?
4. what are the differences between a cross-sectional study and a longitudinal study? 5. describe the four stages of piaget’s theory of cognitive development and the major developmental phenomena that occur within each stage.
6. what are the limitations of piaget’s theory of cognitive development?
7. what is personality? how do theories of personality traditionally explain behavior?
8. describe freud’s structure of personality and how the various components work together (i. e., id, ego, and super-ego).
9. what are defense mechanisms? why do we have them?
11. which of the defense mechanisms have been supported by current research? what role does self-esteem play in defense mechanisms?
12. what is the 5-factor model? be able to describe each factor.
13. in what ways is the 5-factor model of personality a good theory? in what ways is it flawed?