The final exam is not a comprehensive exam.  In other words, it covers material only from the second half of the course.  This includes the Behavioral, Personal Construct, Social-Cognitive, and Phenomenological approaches -- plus a small amount of coverage of Evolutionary Psychology.  The final exam will have approximately 50 question, just as the mid-term exam did.  The style of the questions will resemble those of the first exam, so the mid-term is, in essence, your best "preview of" the final.
   As announced in the syllabus, the final exam will be held on the regularly scheduled, university-assigned exam day and time, which is Friday, May 3, 10:30-12:30. The exam is to be held in our regular lecture room.
 Perhaps the most valuable information on this review sheet concerns material you can skip.  There are some sections of the book that are not covered on the exam, and these are listed below.

 Textbook Coverage

Behaviorism -- Chapter 10
     skip stimulus-response theory, pp. 371-376
 Be sure that you do know the terminology of classical conditioning and operant condition introduced in the text.  This terminology will be used within various exam questions.
Personal Construct Theory
 Chapter 11 -  skip "green boxes" on pp. 399 and 401
 Chapter 12 -  nothing from the case studies, pp. 421-426
   comparison to other theories, pp. 430-435, won't be directly included in exam
Social-Cognitive and Information-Processing Theories
 Chapter 13 –  all relevant to exam
 Chapter 14 --  nothing from Gary W or Jim cases, pp. 478-480
 Chapter 15 --  again, no case of Jim on exam; also you can skip pp. 524-529.
 The relative lack of skipped material here indicates that this material constituted much of our coverage during the second half of the semester, and thus will appear prominently on the exam.  Note that there are numerous overlaps between the textbook coverage and the class lectures in these chapters; these overlap areas are particularly likely to be on the exam.
Phenomenological Theories
 Chapter 5 –  all relevant to exam *except for* "Current Questions" in the green boxes
 Chapter 6 –  skip box on p. 197, skip case studies pp. 199-204
   skip material on Goldstein, Maslow, and Angelou green-box bio pp. 207-212
Culture and Psychology
 Note that this was covered, in class, as a special topic.

 Lecture Material

 There was greater discussion of experimental evidence in the second half of the course than the first.  (This is only natural, since the Behavioral and Social-Cognitive approaches were so heavily grounded in experimental data.)  When going over your notes, be sure that you know the results of the experiments we discussed in class.  As you can guess from the style of questions on the first exam, I will not be asking you who ran the experiments, when the experiment was published, or other minute details.  Instead, the questions will focus on the results of the experiment.  Keep in mind that we discussed quite a number of experiments that were not reviewed in the textbook, so if you missed a class you should try to get someone's notes.
     In general, the same rules-of-thumb that applied to the first exam apply here.  It's useful to use the outlines that have appeared on the board as a way of organizing your notes.  You should know the terms that appear on these outlines, since they will be used in the exam questions.