Psychology:
Definitions, Goals, and Tasks
Psychology's
Historical Foundations
Current
Psychological Perspectives
Psychological
Research Methods
Chapter 1 Introduction/ History of Psychology
1. Define psychology and trace its historical development.
2. Describe the different perspectives from which psychologists examine the nature-nurture issue.
3. Identify the major subfields of psychology.
4. Discuss the attitudes that characterize scientific inquiry and explain the nature of critical thinking.
5. Identify two pitfalls in thinking that make intuition and common sense untrustworthy.
6. Explain the importance of theories, hypotheses, and replication in psychology.
7. Discuss the descriptive research strategies.
8. Discuss the limitations and possible pitfalls of descriptive research.
9. Describe the types of correlation and discuss why correlation enables prediction but not explanation.
10. Explain the nature and significance of illusory correlation's.
11. Describe the nature and advantage of experimentation.
12. Discuss the importance of operational definitions and control techniques in experimental research.
13. (text and Close-Up) Discuss questions regarding the artificiality of experimentation and whether psychological principles are culture- or gender-free.
14. Explain why psychologists study animals and discuss the ethics of experimentation.
15. Describe how psychologists' values influence their work and discuss whether psychology is potentially dangerous.
16. Explain the SQ3R study method.
Psychology Links
American Psychological AssociationAmerican Psychological Society
Scholarly Psychological Resources
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