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Fully summarises the book chapters for the Psychology Brain and Cognition specialisation course 3.6C The Brain. This summary contains the updated literature list for 2022-2023 in the suggested reading order.

Complete summary of the literature for 3.6C "The Brain" Theme 1: Brain Basics for the Psychology "Brain and Cognition" specialisation. The summary covers the following book chapters: - Stahl (2000): 1. Part of Chapter 4: How synaptic neurotransmission mediates emotional disorders (pg. 105 – 130) 2. Part of Chapter 3: Agonists and Antagonists, Allosteric modulation, Co-transmission versus allosteric modulation, (pg 82-98) - Stahl, S.M (2008): 1. Chapter 7: Circuits in ...

Complete summary of the literature for 3.6C "The Brain" Theme 2: Changing Brain for the Psychology "Brain and Cognition" specialisation. The summary covers the following book chapters: - Purves et al. (2019): Chapters 25 and 26 - Carlson (2017): Chapter 13: Learning and Memory

Complete summary of the literature for 3.6C "The Brain" Theme 1: Brain Basics for the Psychology "Brain and Cognition" specialisation. The summary covers the following book chapters: Breedlove & Watson (2017). Behavioural neuroscience Chapter 6: Evolution of the brain and behaviour (pg 163 - 191) Breedlove & Watson (2013). Behavioural neuroscience (7th ed.) First part of Chapter 2 Functional Neuroanatomy, (pg. 23-33) Gazzaniga (2009). Cognitive Neuroscience, last part of chapter 2. Cellul...

Summarises the following articles: 1. A Basic-Systems Approach to Autobiographical Memory, Rubin (2005) 2. A Neurocognitive Perspective on the Forms and Functions of Autobiographical Memory Retrieval, Sheldon et al. (2019) 3. Sleep-dependent memory consolidation, Stickgold (2005) 4. Forgetting Our Personal Past: Socially Shared Retrieval-Induced Forgetting of Autobiographical Memories, Stone et al. (2013) 5. A Theory About Why We Forget What We Once Knew, Wixted (2005)

A detailed summary of the two articles for the "semantic memory" discussion meeting: 1. Acute stress enhances general-knowledge semantic memory, Smith et al. (2019) 2. The Effect of Stress on Semantic Memory Retrieval: A Multiverse Analysis, Heyman et al. (2022)

Summarises the following chapters and articles: 1. Baddeley et al. (2015): Chapter 7: Semantic Memory and Stored Knowledge 2. The Parallel Distributed Processing Approach To Semantic Cognition, McClelland & Rogers (2003) 3. The neural and computational bases of semantic cognition, Ralph et al. (2017) 4. Large-Scale Network Representations of Semantics in the Mental Lexicon, De Deyne et al. (2017) 5. Visual and Affective Multimodal Models of Word Meaning in Language and Mind, De Deyne et al....

Summarises the following chapters and articles: 1. Radvansky Chapter 4: In Human Memory 2. Working Memory: Theories, Models, and Controversies, Baddeley (2012) 3. Attention to Information in Working Memory, Oberauer & Hein (2012) 4. Changing concepts of working memory, Ma et al. (2014) 5. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Working Memory, Esposito & Postle (2015) 6. What is attentional refreshing in working memory? Camos et al. (2018)

Summarises the following articles: 1. Pandemics and infodemics: Research on the effects of misinformation on memory (Greenspan & Loftus, 2020) 2. The Digital Expansion of the Mind: Implications of Internet Usage for Memory and Cognition Marsh & Rajaram (2019) 3. From Cognitive Maps to Spatial Schemas Farzanfar et al. (2022) 4. The Many Faces of Forgetting: Toward a Constructive View of Forgetting in Everyday Life Fawcett & Hulbert (2020)

A full summary of UPDATED literature: note that in 2022-2023 the curriculum for 3.5 Memory changed substantially from previous years. This summary contains the new literature only, and in full. Also contains a summary of the two articles for the third discussion meeting "semantic memory".

A full summary of chapters 5-10 of Goodwin's "Research in Psychology: Methods and Designs" for the Erasmus University Psychology elective "Psychological Science". Covers all material needed from the book for the theory exam.

Summary notes and mock exam for Psychological Science Elective. Includes full and visually accessible notes of Goodwin & Goodwin chapters 6-10, and the mock exam includes 20 questions (15 MCQ and 5 open-ended)

A summary of all notes needed for the Psychological Science elective, summarising chapters 6-10 of Goodwin & Goodwin (full curriculum for the course). Notes are visually accessible for individuals with impairments.

Practice exam with 20 questions (15 MCQ and 5 open-ended) for preparation for the Psychological Science elective theory exam. These questions are SUPPLEMENTARY and do NOT include any of the questions that are in the mock exam provided by the course coordinator.

This is a mock exam for course 2.1 cognitive psychology at Erasmus University. I scored 9.5 on this exam, so I tried to make a practice exam for other students that is representative of the important questions they should be able to answer.

Questions and answers FROM THE REAL EXAM for course 2.3 History and Methods of Psychology.

A mock exam on course 1.1 social psychology, consisting of 38 questions. All questions have 4 possible answers with only 1 correct one and the answer sheet is included at the end.

A mock exam consisting of 38 questions and answers for the 1.5 Changing Man course, a.k.a., developmental psychology. There are multiple-choice questions with 4 answer options.

A mock exam for block 1.4 on biological psychology. Contains 44 MCQ questions with 4 options each, and an answer sheet at the end.

Summary of problem 1 concerning motivation at the workplace, the impact of organisational justice on employee motivation, and Core Job Characteristics