Download Unit 1-History, Approaches and Research Methods

SOCIAL STUDIES
HIGH SCHOOL – AP PSYCHOLOGY
Content Vocabulary:
Experimental, Correlational, and
Reliability and Validity
Clinical Research
Logic,
Philosophy
and History
of Science
Research
Methods
Unit 1--History,
Approaches,
and Research
Methods
Biological
Sociocultural
Statistics
Ethics in
Research
Cognitive
Psychodynamic
Approaches
Evolutionary/
Sociobiological
Behavioral
Nature vs. Nurture
Humanistic
Empiricism
Scientific method
Structuralism
Correlate
Functionalism
Causation
Experimental
Theory
Behaviorism
Experiment
Cognitive
Variables
Psychoanalytic
Ethics
Humanist
Measurement
Natural selection
Case study
Nature-nurture
Survey
Research
Sample
Biopsychological approach
Essential Understandings/Learning Goals:
• Trace the historical development of the field of psychology
• Identify the various schools of thought
• Compare different methods of conduction research (case study, survey, correlational, observational, and
experimental)
• Identify the components of an experiment (variables, sampling, independent and dependent variables)
• Compute the measures of central tendency
• Evaluate the limitations of the various methods of conducting research