STUDY GUIDE: UNIT 1 – HISTORY and APPROACHES



STUDY GUIDE: UNIT 1 – HISTORY and APPROACHES

AP Psychology

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Terms & Concepts

1. structuralism

2. functionalism

3. behaviorism

4. humanistic psychology

5. cognitive neuroscience

6. psychology

7. nature-nurture issue

8. natural selection

9. level of analysis

10. biopsychosocial approach

11. basic research

12. applied research

13. counseling psychology

14. clinical psychology

15. psychiatry

16. SQ3R

Big Ideas

1: When and how did psychological science begin?

➢ Who was Wilhelm Wundt and what type of experimental studies did he conduct?

➢ What is structuralism? Who introduced it?

➢ What is introspection?

➢ Who wrote the first psychology textbook? When?

➢ Who was the first female president of the APA? (What is the APA?)

2: How did psychology develop from the 1920s through today?

➢ Who was Sigmund Freud? Which psychological perspective is he associated with?

➢ Who were Watson and Skinner? Which psychological perspective are they associated with?

➢ Who were Maslow and Rogers? Which psychological perspective are they associated with?

3: What is psychology’s historic big issue?

➢ Who was Charles Darwin? What does he have to do with psychology?

4: What are psychology’s levels of analysis and related perspectives?

➢ What is the humanist perspective? How does this perspective explain human thought and behavior? Be able to apply this perspective to real-world scenarios.

➢ What is the psychoanalytic/psychodynamic perspective? How does this perspective explain human thought and behavior? Be able to apply this perspective to real-world scenarios.

➢ What is the biological/neuroscience perspective? How does this perspective explain human thought and behavior? Be able to apply this perspective to real-world scenarios.

➢ What is the evolutionary perspective? How does this perspective explain human thought and behavior? Be able to apply this perspective to real-world scenarios.

➢ What is the behavioral perspective? How does this perspective explain human thought and behavior? Be able to apply this perspective to real-world scenarios.

➢ What is the cognitive perspective? How does this perspective explain human thought and behavior? Be able to apply this perspective to real-world scenarios.

➢ What is the social-cultural/sociocultural perspective? How does this perspective explain human thought and behavior? Be able to apply this perspective to real-world scenarios.

➢ What is the biopsychosocial approach?

5: What are psychology’s main subfields?

➢ What are the 5 subfields of research psychology?

➢ What does a biological psychologist do? Be able to apply this field to real-world scenarios.

➢ What does a developmental psychologist do? Be able to apply this field to real-world scenarios.

➢ What does a cognitive psychologist do? Be able to apply this field to real-world scenarios.

➢ What does a personality psychologist do? Be able to apply this field to real-world scenarios.

➢ What does a social psychologist do? Be able to apply this field to real-world scenarios.

➢ What are the 4 subfields of applied psychology?

➢ What does a clinical psychologist do? Be able to apply this field to real-world scenarios.

➢ What does a counseling psychologist do? Be able to apply this field to real-world scenarios.

➢ What does a educational psychologist do? Be able to apply this field to real-world scenarios.

➢ What does a industrial/organizational psychologist do? Be able to apply this field to real-world scenarios.

➢ What is a psychiatrist? How does this profession differ from psychology?

6: How can psychological principles help you as a student?

➢ What is the SQ3R method?

➢ What is the best method in answering multiple-choice test items?

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