First week of Psychology and Social
Unit 1 Psychology’s History and
Approaches
Behaviors
1) What is psychology? Analyze the
major contemporary perspectives
in psychology.
2) Which school of psychology would
you like to study and why?
3) Describe the Freudian view of
psychology. Include in your
answer Sigmund Freud’s
perspective on dreams, childhood,
and talk therapy.
4) The founder of psychodynamic
psychology?
5) Explain the bystander effect and
who developed it?
6) What is group think?
7) Who was Kitty Genovese and what
was her impact on psychology?
1) Who wrote Principles of Psychology,
the first psychology textbook?
2) Behavior can be studied by
psychologists in which main two
groups?
3) Tabula Rasa
4) Wilhelm Wundt
5) William James
6) Structuralism
7) Functionalism
8) John Watson and Rosalie Raynor
9) BF Skinner
10) Sigmund Freud
11) Confirmation Bias
12) Clinical psychology
13) Industrial psychology
The Schools of Psychology define each
14)
Humanistic
15)
Psychodynamic
16)
Cognitive
17)
Socio-Cultural
18)
Behavioral
19)
Evolutionary
20)
Socio-cultural
21)
Gestalt Psychology
22)
Biology and the Brain
1)
Use the reference charts attached
to study and memorize all of the
brain functions
Unit III Biological Basis of Behavior
1) The purpose of the myelin sheath is
to…
2) Breathing and heartbeat are
controlled by the
3) Difference between the Wernicke’s
Area and Brocas
4) What are the 4 lobes and their
functions?
5) What is aphasia?
6) Who was Phineas Gage and why was
he significant?
7) Which of the following is a task
more likely to be accomplished by
the right side of the brain?
8) Explain the effects of a spilt brain
patient
9) Structure and Function of the cortex
10) A researcher interested in
determining the size of a particular
area of the brain would most likely to
use a(n)
11) The endocrine system
12) Hormones
13) Pituitary gland
14) PNS vs. CNS
15) Interneurons
16) Motor neurons
17) What are neurons and how do they
transmit information?
18) Brain plasticity refers to the
…………..
19) Dendrites
20) How do neurotransmitters influence
behavior?
21) The basic building block of the
nervous system is the
Research methods
1) Compare and contrast the methods
of research in psychology?
2) Compare and contrast, naturalistic
observation, experimentation, and
Unit II: Research Methods
Define each:
1)
The Milgram Experiment
2)
The Stanford Prison Experiment
3)
The Hawthorne Effect
4)
Jane Elliot’s Brown vs. Blue eyed
case studies.
3) Include your opinion of how these
study
5)
The Asch Experiment
methods support psychology as a
science.
6)
Case study
7)
Naturalistic observation
8)
Experimentation
9)
Survey
10)
Theory
11)
Hypothesis
12)
Population
13)
Experiment
14)
Independent variable
15)
Dependent variable
16)
Confounding variable
17)
Placebo effect
18)
Double-blind procedure
19)
Scatterplot
20)
Replication
21)
Control group
22)
Mode, median, mean
23)
Debriefing
24)
Correlation
25)
The different methods and which
ones to use for exact situations
26)
The hindsight bias
27)
Confirmation bias
28)
The drawbacks and benefits of
surveys
29)
Learning
Informed consent
Unit VI: Learning and how we learn
1) Classical conditioning
2) Operant conditioning
3) Law of Effect by Thorndike
4) Shaping
5) BF Skinner/ Skinner’s box and his
discoveries
6) John Watson and his study on Little
Albert
7) Ivan Pavlov and his salivating Dogs
8) Reinforcement schedules
9) Types of reinforces
10) Learned Helplessness
11) Latent learning
12) Mirroring
13) Albert Bandura’s study on social
Learning Theory
14) John Garcia’s study on taste aversion
in rats
15) Spontaneous recovery