First Year Psychology (SLK 110 & SLK 120)

This summary covers the content pertaining to the treatment of abnormal behaviour in psychology. It includes terminology, a psychological approach, combined approaches, types of treatments (insight, behaviour, client-centered and psychopharmacology therapies), the role of a mental health-care profes...

The summary is focused on Abnormal Behaviour. It contains terminology, disorders (anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, dissociative disorders, trauma and stressor-related, depressive and bipolar, schizophrenic, and personality disorders). This summary is written according to Chapter 15 from the textbook...

This summary focuses on Personality Theories. It contains: terminology, personality traits, five-factor model of personality, different perspectives on personality theories, development of psychosexual stages, social cognitive theory, behavioural perspectives, humanistic perspectives, Maslow's theo...

This summary focuses on Theories of Motives and Emotions. It contains: terminology, Needs-Based Theory, Motivations and Emotions. This summary is written according to Chapter 10 from the textbook: PSYCHOLOGY: THEMES AND VARIATIONS by Wayne Weiten.

This summary focuses on Conditioning and Learning. It contains: terminology, Classical Conditioning, Basic Processes in Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Basic Processes in Operant Conditioning, Observational Learning and other related subthemes. This summary is written according to Ch...

This summary focuses on the Evolution of Psychology. It contains: terminology, a history on psychology, structuralism and functionalism schools of thought, Freud and Jung's perspectives, Behaviourism, Humanism, and Evolutionary Psychology, This summary is written according to Chapter 1 from the t...

This summary focuses on Human Intelligence. It contains: terminology, intelligence testing, theories of intelligence: single vs multiple factor view, fluid intelligence and crystallised intelligence, psychometric concepts, Psychometrics, South African perspective, extremes of intelligence, nature v...

This summary focuses on Cognition and Language. It contains: terminology, structure of language, 3 areas of language, milestones in language development, bilingualism, theories of language acquisition, problem-solving, and decision making. This summary is written according to Chapter 8 from the tex...

This summary focuses on Memory (Key Processes). It contains: 3 key processes in memory: encoding, storage and retrieval, Levels of Processing theory, short-term memory, long-term memory, working memory, different types of memory systems, forgetting, why we forget, memory as a constructive process, ...

This summary focuses on States of Consciousness. It contains: terminology, the nature of consciousness, levels of awareness, EEG patterns, biological rhythms and sleep, circadian rhythms, sleeping and waking cycle, REM sleep and non-REM sleep, sleep problems, world of dreams, hypnosis, meditation, a...

This summary focuses on Sensation and Perception. It contains: terminology, viewing the world in colour, trichromatic theory of colour vision, perceiving forms, patterns and objects, feature analysis: assembling forms, Gestalt Principles, phi phenomenon, optical illusions, perceiving depth and dist...

This summary focuses on sensory systems and perception from a biological perspective. It contains: terminology, types of sensory systems, psychophysics, signal-detection theory, the visual system, anatomy of the eye, the auditory system, anatomy of the ear, chemical senses, taste, smell, gustatory s...

This summary focuses on the Biology of Behaviour. It contains: terminology, communication in the nervous systems, neurons, glia, neural impulse, action potentials, synapse, neurotransmitters, characteristics and organisation of the nervous system, peripheral nervous system, central nervous system, ...