AP Psych Unit 1-1 Name: Period: AP Psychology Guided Reading Unit 1 Psychology s History and Approaches Preview Questions: What is psychology? Why are all of our personalities, motivations, thoughts, and behaviors different? How can a psychology degree be used? Section 1 What is Psychology? Psychology is a science that seeks to answer all sorts of questions how and why we think, feel, and act as we do. 1. What are four questions early thinkers wondered? a. b. c. d. 2. Socrates and Plato concluded that: 3. Aristotle disagreed with Socrates and Plato. What did he say about knowledge? 4. According to Descartes, what was his conclusion in the relationship between the brain and muscles?
AP Psych Unit 1-2 5. was the English philosopher that believed the human mind at birth is a blank slate, or tabula rasa. a. He also founded empiricism, which is: 6. Who founded the first psychological laboratory in 1879? 7. What is structuralism and who founded this school of thought? a. How is this related to introspection? b. What were the criticisms of structuralism? 8. What is functionalism and who founded this school of thought? 9. The first female president American Psychological Association was: 10. The first woman to receive a Ph.D. in psychology was: 11. Define experimental psychologists:
AP Psych Unit 1-3 12. What two fields helped develop psychology? 13. Identify the main focus of study of the following people: a. Ivan Pavlov b. Sigmund Freud c. Jean Piaget 14. Define behaviorism (behaviorists): a. How did John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner define psychology? 15. Define humanistic psychology (humanism) a. What was the humanistic emphasis of Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow? 16. What is cognitive neuroscience? a. How can it be used? 17. Today, how is psychology defined? a. What is behavior? b. What are mental processes?
AP Psych Unit 1-4 Section 2 Contemporary Psychology 1. What is the nature nurture issue? a. What does this argument deal with? 2. What is natural selection? a. Who proposed this idea? b. How is evolution related to psychology? 3. Define levels of analysis: Describe the three levels: a. Biological influences: b. Psychological influences: c. Socio-cultural influences: The levels form an integrated biopsychosocial approach, which means: Each level has good perspectives at looking at behavior, but each is incomplete. Describe the focus of the following approaches, along with a couple sample questions. Biological
AP Psych Unit 1-5 Evolutionary Psychodynamic Behavioral Cognitive
AP Psych Unit 1-6 Humanistic Social-cultural Sample Questions Describe the following subfields/jobs that conduct basic research pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base. Biological psychologists Development psychologists Cognitive psychologists Educational psychologists Personality psychologists Social psychologists Describe the following subfields/jobs that conduct applied research tackles practical problems Industrial-organizational psychologists Human factors psychologists Counseling psychologists Clinical psychologists Psychiatrists -
AP Psych Unit 1-7 Review: What parts of the chapter do you find most interesting? Why? List 3 questions you have or things you want to know more about.