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Unit 1 and 2 Review Guide
Know the definitions and how to apply each of the following terms. Identify the key people's
contributions to Psychology.
Key Terms
empiricism
structuralism
functionalism
experimental psychology
behaviorism
humanistic psychology
cognitive neuroscience
psychology
nature-nurture
natural selection
levels of analysis
biopsychosocial approach
biological psychology
evolutionary psychology
psychodynamic psychology
behavioral psychology
cognitive psychology
social-cultural psychology
psychometrics
basic research
developmental psychology
educational psychology
personality psychology
educational psychology
personality psychology
social psychology
applied research
industrial-organizational psychology
human factors psychology
counseling psychology
clinical psychology
psychiatry
SQ3R
hindsight bias
critical thinking
theory
hypothesis
operational definition
replication
case study
survey
population
random sample
naturalistic observation
correlation
correlation coefficient
scatterplot
illusory correlation
experiment
random assignment
double-blind procedure
placebo effect
experimental group
control group
independent variable
confounding variable
dependent variable
mode
mean
meduan
range
standard deviation
normal curve
statistical significance
culture
informed consent
debriefing
Key People
Aristotle
Francis Bacon
Mary Whiton Calkins
Charles Darwin
Rene Descartes
Dorothea Dix
Sigmund Freud
C. Stanley Hall
William James
John Locke
Abraham Maslow
Ivan Pavlov
Jean Piaget
Plato
Rosalie Rayner
Carl Rogers
B.F. Skinner
Socrates
E.B. Titchener
Margaret Floy Washburn
John B. Watson
Wilhelm Wundt
Kenneth Clark
Mamie Phipps Clark
Daniel Kahnerman
James Randi
Amos Tversky
Answer the following Questions
How did psychology develop from its prescientific roots in early understandings of mind and
body to the beginnings of modern science?
When and how did modern psychological science begin?
How did psychology continue to develop from the 1920s through today?
What is psychology's historic big issue?
What are psychology's levels of analysis and related prospectives?
What are psychology's main subfields?
How can psychological principles help you as a student?
Why are the answers that flow from the scientific approach more reliable than those based on
intuition and common sense?
What are the main components of scientific attitude?
How do theories advance psychological science?
How do psychologists observe and describe behavior?
What are positive and negative correlations, and why do they enable prediction but not causeeffect explanation?
What are illusory correlations?
How do experiments powered by random assignment, clarify cause and effect?
How can we describe data with measures of central tendency and variation?
What principles can guide our making generalizations from samples and deciding whether
differences are significant?
Can laboratory experiments illuminate everyday life?
Does behavior depend on one's culture and gender?
Why do psychologists study animals, and is it ethical to experiment on animals?
Is it ethical to experiment on people?
Is Psychology free of value judgments?
Unit 1 Daily Assigned Readings
August 8th read p. 1-7
August 9th, 10th, 11th read p. 8-15
August 12th review unit 1
August 13th Review unit 1
August 14th read p. 19-22
August 15th read p. 22-26
August 16th read p. 26-29
August 17th-18th Review p. 19-29
August 19th read p. 29-33
August 20th read p. 34-37
August 21st read p. 37-40
August 22nd read p. 40-43
August 23rd read p. 44-46
August 24th-25th review unit 2
August 26th review unit 1 and unit 2
August 27th Unit 1 and 2 Test