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1 Chapter 1, Section 1 Book Notes (pg. 3-6) Introduction to Psychology: Why Study Psychology? 1. What will studying psychology allow you to do in your personal life? 2. What is the definition of psychology? 3. What is behavior? 4. Give three examples of various behaviors. 5. What are cognitive activities? 6. Give three examples of various cognitive activities. 7. What are the five goals of psychology? 8. Why/How do psychologists use these goals? 9. In what way is psychology a social science? 10. How is psychology related to the natural sciences? 11. What are the two most common research methods used by psychologists? 12. What is a psychological theory?

2 Chapter 1, Section 2 Book Notes (pg. 8-11, ) Introduction to Psychology: What Psychologists Do / Careers in Psychology 1. What are all psychologists interested in? 2. What is the area of psychology most people think of when they hear the word psychologist? (pg. 507) 3. What is the first step to pursuing a career in psychology? (pg. 507) 4. What are some examples of careers in psychology that do not require a graduate degree? (pg. 507) 5. What types of degrees do most careers in psychology require? (pg. 507) 6. What types of careers recommend a doctoral degree? (pg. 508) 7. Using the pages listed, summarize the information given about each of the following areas of psychology. What types of work do they do? What are some of the topics they study? Where do they work? Do they work with and help people or do they only research people? Any other pertinent information. A. Clinical Psychologists (pg. 8, 508) B. Counseling Psychologist (pg. 8-9, ) C. School Psychologists (pg. 9) D. Educational Psychologists (pg. 9, )

3 E. Developmental Psychologists (pg. 9-10, ) F. Personality Psychologists (pg. 10) G. Social Psychologists (pg. 10, ) H. Experimental Psychologists (pg. 10, ) I. Industrial / Organizational Psychologists (pg. 11, 514) J. Environmental Psychologists (pg. 11) K. Consumer Psychologists (pg. 11) L. Forensic Psychologists (pg. 11) M. Health Psychologists (pg. 11) 8. In what ways do psychologists and psychiatrists differ? 9. If you decided to become a psychologist, what area of psychology do you think you would prefer and why?

4 Chapter 1, Section 3 Book Notes (pg ) Introduction to Psychology: A History of Psychology 1. How can modern psychology trace its roots back to Ancient Greece? 2. What is introspection? 3. What view did Hippocrates hold that was way ahead of its time? 4. What was the primary belief about abnormal behavior in the Middle Ages? 5. What kinds of methods were used to treat abnormal behavior in the Middle Ages? 6. What were two scientific advances made in between ? 7. How did these scientific advances lead to the birth of modern psychology? 8. What historical event important to psychology happened in 1879? (who, what, where?) 9. What is structuralism? 10. Who was William James (i.e. what did he do/what is he known for)? 11. What is functionalism?

5 12. How did functionalism differ from structuralism? 13. What were the beliefs of John B. Watson? 14. What is behaviorism? 15. What were the beliefs of B.F. Skinner? 16. What were the beliefs of Gestalt psychology? 17. What were the beliefs of Sigmund Freud? 18. What was the emphasis of psychoanalysis?

6 Chapter 1, Section 4 Book Notes (pg ) Introduction to Psychology: Contemporary Perspectives 1. What are contemporary perspectives? 2. What does the biological perspective believe is the cause of human behavior? 3. What techniques do psychologists operating from the biological perspective use to study human behavior and mental processes? 4. How are hormones and genes related to the biological perspective? 5. What does the cognitive perspective believe is the cause of human behavior? 6. How is the cognitive perspective related to computer processing? 7. What types of things influence our behavior according to the cognitive perspective? 8. What does the humanistic perspective stress as the driving forces behind human behavior? 9. How does the humanistic perspective view people? 10. How is the humanistic perspective criticized? 11. What does the psychoanalytic perspective stress as the cause of human behavior? 12. How does the psychoanalytic perspective still influence psychology today?

7 13. What does the learning perspective (from now on this will be called the behaviorist perspective) believe drives human behavior? 14. What are behaviorists concerned with? 15. What are the beliefs of the social-learning theory? We will not be focusing on the Sociocultural Perspective.

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