Psyc

1.  What is the study of psychology?

2.  What are some of the major historical psychological theories about behavior?

3.  For each of the major theories think about whether it focused on inside the person or the external environment.

4.  What is the difference between structuralism and functionalism?

5.  What was the basic idea behind the psychodynamic approach to behavior?

6.  What type of behavior is Gestalt psychology especially good at understanding?

7.  What did behaviorists feel was most important about behavior?

8.  What did the humanism theory emphasize in human behavior?

9.  What are the two current theories psychologists use to explain behavior today?

10.  What is the focus of the cognitive approach to behavior?

11.  Like engineers and other disciplines, psychologists also specialize in different areas of psychology.  What are some basic sub-areas in psychology?

12.  How is developmental psychology different from educational psychology?

13.  How are experimental and quantitative psychological approaches related?

14.  What do social and personality psychologists each study?

15.  How is a clinical psychologist different from a health psychologist?

16.  How is a health psychologist different from a sport psychologist?

17.  What type of behavior does a forensic psychologist focus upon?

18.  What type of psychologist is Dr. Doherty?  (Two answers apply here.)

19.  What are some of the major issues the psychology attempts to answer?

20.  What are the steps in the scientific process?

21.  Why does the scientific process matter for psychology?

Development

NOTE:  The focus in this chapter is primarily in all the different stages in each model for the different kinds of development.

1.  What is the focus of developmental psychology?

2.  Based on the textbook and lectures, what are six different types of development that psychologists typically focus upon?

3.  What are the three stages of physical development prior to birth?

4.  What physical activities occur at those three stages?

5.  What are some of the physical characteristics we have when we’re born related to vision, hearing, and taste?

6.  What are some common teratogens that can impact the physical characteristics of children when they’re born?

7.  What are some common reflexes we’re born with as children?

8.  What are developmental norms?

9.  What are some of the major problems with the idea of developmental norms?

10.  What are the four stages of cognitive development, according to Piaget?

11.  What types of behaviors occur at each of those stages?

12.  What is object permanence?

13.  What is conservation?

14.  What are the eight stages of social development, according to Erikson?

15.  Why was each stage a social conflict, according to Erikson?

16.  Why does the order of the stages matter for social development?

17.  What did Harlow’s studies with monkeys and attachment demonstrate?  

18.  What are the different child attachment styles that were found in the Strange Situation studies?

19.  What are the four types of parenting styles that are typically found?

20.  How many levels of moral development did Kohlberg say existed?

21.  How many stages of each level does Kohlberg say existed?

22.  What does “conventional” morality mean?

23.  What’s the difference between “gender” and “sex” in psychology?

24.  According to the textbook and lectures, what are some things that happen as we age?