AP Psychology 2014 & 2015
Chapters 1,2, & Appendix B
9/5 & 9/8- Expectations and Opening Skinner’s Box
9/9 & 9/10- Opening Skinner’s Box and Discussion
HW Due: Bring Opening Skinner’s Box book
9/11 & 9/12- Quiz (CH 1, 2 and Opening Skinners Box), Chapter 1- Schools of Thought
9/15 & 9/16 Chapter 2- Research Methods
9/17 & 9/18- Chapter 2 continued
HW Due: Article “Think-Drink Effect”
9/19 & 9/22 - Appendix B- Statistics
HW Due: Flashcards for Chapter1, 2 and Appendix B
9/23& 9/24- Catch-up & going over skills for the test
HW Due: Schools of thought project due
9/29 & 9/30-TEST
Vocabulary to Know
1. Psychology
2. Structuralism
3. Functionalism
4. APA
5. Introspection
6. Natural selection
7. Behaviorism
8. Psychoanalysis/psychoanalytic theory
9. Applied psychology
10. Behavior
11. Stimulus
12. Gestalt psychology
13. Nature v. Nurture
14. Unconscious & conscious
15. Humanism
16. Clinical psychology
17. Cognition
18. Cognitive psychology/perspective
19. Biological/Physiological psychology/perspective
20. Evolutionary psychology
21. Ethnocentrism
22. Developmental psychology
23. Social psychology
24. Experimental psychology
25. Personality psychology
26. Health Psychology
27. Forensic Psychology
28. Psychometrics
29. Counseling psychology
30. Educational/School psychology
31. Industrial & Organizational psychology
32. Empiricism
33. Psychiatry
34. Positive Psychology
35. Culture
People to Know
59. Wilhelm Wundt
60. Edward Titchner
61. Stanley Hall
62. William James
63. Mary Whiton Calkins
64. Charles Darwin
65. Margaret Floy Washburn
66. Leta Stetter Hollingworth
67. John Watson
68. Ivan Pavlov
69. Sigmund Freud
70. BF Skinner
71. Carl Rogers
72. Abraham Maslow
73. Noam Chomsky
74. Jean Piaget
75. Herbert Simon
76. James Olds
77. Roger Sperry
78. David Buss
79. Martin Seligman
80. Participants/subjects
81. Data collection techniques
82. Journal
83. Experiment
84. Independent variable
85. Dependent variable
86. Experimental group
87. Control group
88. Extraneous variables
36. Hypothesis
37. Variables
38. Steps of Scientific Investigation
39. Operational definition
40. Naturalistic observation
41. Survey
42. Single & Double blind procedure
43. Sample
44. Sampling Bias
45. Social desirability bias
46. Ethical guidelines
47. Frequency distribution
48. Median, mean, mode
49. Histogram
50. Negative & positive skewed distribution
51. Standard deviation
52. Correlation coefficient
53. Scatter diagram
54. Statistical significance
55. Meta-Analysis
56. Null hypothesis
57. Reactivity
58. Descriptive Statistics
89. Confounding variables
90. Random assignment
91. Random sample
92. Descriptive/Correlational Research
93. Case study
94. Self-fulfilling prophecy
95. Replication
96. Population
97. Placebo & Placebo effect
98. Experimenter bias
99. Statistics
100. Central tendency
101. Variability
102. Frequency polygon
103. Normal distribution (bell-curve)
104. Correlation
105. Positive & negative correlations
106. Coefficient of determination
107. Inferential statistics
108. Response Set
109. Halo Effect
INTEGRITY POLICY
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