Orange Coast College

This is the note from Global Studies A101 class of Professor Alix Ziff. The note contains material of her first class.

This is a full study guide I made for extra credit for the midterm exam in my Social Psychology class. It covers chapter 1 through 6 in the Social Psychology Perusall Online Textbook. I covered all the terms my professor gave us, and added some more information that I think I will be on the exam. I am a psychology major and an A student, and all the information is accurate, proofread and in my own words.

Detailed Note on Ethical Relativism: ER and Cross-Cultural Tolerance, Vitue of ER, traditional assumptions, ER and Basic themes.

Detailed Notes on Epistemology: Rene Descartes: The Meditations, rationalists vs empiricists , John Locke and Tabula Rosa, Foundationalists

Detailed lecture notes on logical terminology, the notion of validity, modus ponens, the notion of soundness.

This document includes questions and answers for test 1 questions: Define “Philosophical Scepticism”, Provide/Explain in detail 2 ways that you can combat philosophical skepticism. Present 3 steps version of the Design Argument

Detailed Notes on the Utilitarian School of Ethics: Bentham's basic principle, two distinguishing traits, virtues of Act Utilitarianism

Detailed note on divine command theory, primary justification, virtues of DCI, traditional assumption, basic ethical themes, problems with DCI

A detailed note on unit 5: Consciousness: State of consciousness, EEG patterns, unconscious mind, Freud's theory, sleep, REM, Dream interpretation

A detailed note on unit 4: Sensation and perception: transduction, measuring thresholds, hearing, smell, taste, somesthetic senses, the physiology of pain, vision, color blindness, Gestalt school of thought