The FINAL EXAM will take place on Monday, May 20, at 1:45 pm. The FINAL list of key words and concepts appears below. .

Psychoactive Drugs
Secondary plant compounds
Blood-brain barrier
Depressants: alcohol, barbiturates, benzodiazepines
Stimulants: amphetamines, cocaine, nicotine, caffeine
Role of amphetamines on dopamine: amphetamine psychosis
Use of ritalin
Effects of cocaine on peripheral and central NS
Role of endothelan in heart attacks
Effect of benzodiazepines on GABA
Opiates: codeine, heroine, morphine
Use of naloxone and methadone
Placebo effect
Drug effects on human fetus vs mother
Agonist vs antagonist drugs
Tolerance and the dose-response curve
Drug tolerance
Withdrawal
Rebound effect
Physical vs psychological dependence (addiction)
Role of liver in drug metabolism
Reward center of brain - nucleus accumbuns - dopamine

Sleep And Dreams
Proximate vs ultimate causation
Evolution of sleep
Homeostasis
EEG
Nightly sleep cycle through life span
Sleep patterns of infants vs adults
REM (paradoxical; dream)
NREM sleep
Theories of why we sleep (Restoration; Protection)
Dream theories (Freudian; Activation-Synthesis)
Altricial vs precocial species
Correlation of sleep with animal ecology

Abnormal Behavior
Insanity defense
DSM-IV
Anxiety disorders: panic; phobic, post traumatic stress
Distinction among agoraphobia, acrophobia, claustrophobia
Obsessive-compulsive (OCD) disorders
Somatoform disorders
Antisocial personality disorders
Mood disorders - depression: causes, symptoms, treatment
Mood disorders - bipolar (manic-depression): causes, symptoms, treatment
Schizophrenic disorders: paranoid; catatonic; disorganized
Schizophrenic disorders: symptoms; treatments; theories of causation
Schizophrenic disorders: brain chemistry
Tardive dyskinesia
Autism: symptoms; treatment

Perception
Gestalt principles of grouping (similarity, proximity, common fate)
Figure-ground relationships
Cues for depth perception (monocular, binocular)

Learning

schedules of reinforcement (FI, FR, VI, VR)
positive reinforcement
negative reinforcement
punishment
shaping
successive approximation
acquisition
extinction
observational learning
escape conditioning
avoidance conditioning