Yes, Joan we probably have different types of study guides.  I did not
say that mine were like answer sheets, but that some students seem to
expect them to be that way.  I agree, the best students seem to be able
to use almost any device, handout, etc. to their learning advantage. 
The poorer students do not know how to learn yet.    Here is an excerpt
from one of my study guides.  Notice that they assume the student has
notes from lecture and the aim here for me is to get the student to
actively review what we covered.   Cheers,  Gary P
 
FINAL STUDY GUIDE   GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY   FALL 06
USE AS A TENTATIVE GUIDE ONLY NOT AS A CRUTCH!
 
 1.  Be sure to review scientific principles handout, critical thinking
guidelines, basic research methods, ideas of control, random assignment,
operational definitions, that are covered on all exams!
 2.  Review problems with the term instinct and know what the idea is
behind genetic influences from FAPs. Hint: Review Nominal fallacies,
circular reasoning.
 3.  Know major motivational approaches, Yerkes-Dodson law and how this
works with easy, difficult tasks.
 4.  What is the overjustification effect and how does this relate to
incentive theory?  What types of research established the
overjustification effect and just how would you use rewards properly?
 5.  What is the problem with Maslow*s approach to motivation?
 6.  What causal factors may influence sexual orientation?  How does
orientation differ from sexual identity?  What is a sexual script?  How
does cultural conditioning play a role in acquaintance rape?
 7.  What are the similarities between the sexual desires of human
males and males of other animal species?
 8.  How do men and women differ in the approach to sexual desire and
romantic attachment?
 9.  What role do hormones play in sexual desire?
10.  What role does gender nonconformity play in the emergence of
homosexuality?  Having homosexual parents does not appear to influence
the likelihood of children becoming homosexual.  What else could be
going on here?
11.  Why might people who are uncomfortable about sex and sexual organs
have more unplanned children?
12.  Review the non-biological factors and the biological factors
associated with eating and hunger.
13.  How do hi and lo achievement oriented individuals differ?  How is
nAch operationally defined?


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