Unit+1

Directions: As you read chapter one and two (yes, the book calls units chapters, but we are calling them chapters like all other books), answer the following questions in complete sentences.

1. In a paragraph, trace the early history of psychology from its roots as a philosophy to contemporary psychology. Be brief, but specific.

2. Summarize the nature-nurture debate.

3. List the 7 current perspectives in psychology and describe their foci.

4. How does psychology use the scientific method?

5. Explain each of the 5 major types of research conducted by psychologists and what they are useful for displaying (Case Study, Survey, Naturalistic Observation, Correlation, and Experimentation)?

6. Why are experiments superior to other research design?

7. Why is it important for psychologists to use statistics to make inferences?

8. When is it ethical to experiment on animals?

Vocabulary: psychology empiricism structuralism functionalism humanistic psychology nature-nurture issue levels of analysis biopsychosocial approach counseling psychology clinical psychology psychiatry hindsight bias


 * 1) critical thinking
 * 2) theory


 * 1) hypothesis


 * 1) operational definition


 * 1) replication


 * 1) case study


 * 1) survey


 * 1) false consensus effect


 * 1) population


 * 1) random sample
 * 2) naturalistic observation


 * 1) correlation


 * 1) scatterplot


 * 1) illusory correlation


 * 1) experiment


 * 1) double-blind procedure


 * 1) placebo effect


 * 1) experimental condition


 * 1) control condition


 * 1) random assignment


 * 1) independent variable


 * 1) dependent variable


 * 1) mode


 * 1) mean


 * 1) median


 * 1) range


 * 1) standard deviation


 * 1) statistical significance