Psychology - Fox Valley Lutheran High School



Myers’ Psychology for AP Name: __________________________

Unit 1 Study Sheet

Psychology’s History and Approaches (Appendix E-1)

What is Psychology?

1. Describe the evolution of scientific psychology from its early pioneers to contemporary concerns.

Learning Objective (LO) #1

empiricism –

LO#2

structuralism –

introspection –

functionalism –

experimental psychologists –

2. Describe the evolution of psychology as defined from the 1920s through today.

LO #3

behaviorists –

humanistic psychology –

cognitive neuroscience –

psychology –

Contemporary Psychology

3. Summarize the nature-nurture debate in psychology, and describe the principle of natural selection.

LO #4

nature-nurture issue –

natural selection –

4. Identify the three main levels of analysis in the biopsychosocial approach, and explain why psychology’s varied perspectives are complementary.

LO #5

levels of analysis –

biopsychosocial approach –

biological perspective –

evolutionary perspective –

psychodynamic perspective –

behavioral perspective –

cognitive perspective –

humanistic perspective –

social-cultural perspective –

5. Identify some of psychology’s subfields, and explain the difference between clinical psychology and psychiatry.

LO #6

psychometrics –

basic research –

developmental psychologists –

educational psychologists –

personality psychologists –

social psychologists –

applied research –

industrial-organizational psychologists –

human factors psychologists –

counseling psychology –

clinical psychology –

psychiatry –

Unit 1 Competition Review

Unit 1 Test

Reading People video and activity

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People

Socrates

Plato

Aristotle

Rene Descartes

Francis Bacon

John Locke

Wilhelm Wundt

Edward Titchener

William James

Mary Calkins

Margaret Washburn

Sigmund Freud

John Watson

B.F. Skinner

Charles Darwin

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