AP Psych_Unit 1_Review Sheet
Review: Unit 1 – Scientific Foundations
Name ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Period _______
Review: Unit 1 – Scientific Foundations
| Historical Figures and Key Terms |
|---|
| Wilhelm Wundt |
| Structuralism |
| introspection |
| Functionalism |
| William James |
| Mary Whiton Calkins |
| Margaret Floy Washburn |
| Sigmund Freud |
| unconscious |
| psychoanalytic theory (psychoanalysis) |
| Behaviorism |
| John B. Watson |
| behavior |
| B.F. Skinner |
| Ivan Pavlov |
| humanism |
| Carl Rogers |
| Abraham Maslow |
| cognitive psychology |
| biological perspective |
| evolutionary psychology |
| Charles Darwin |
| positive psychology |
| socio-cultural perspective |
| Dorothea Dix |
| G. Stanley Hall |
| William James |
| Jean Piaget |
| psychometrics |
| Scientific Methods |
| hypothesis |
| operational definitions |
| data collection techniques/research methods |
| population |
| sample |
| independent variable |
| dependent variable |
| confounding/extraneous variables |
| random sampling |
| random assignment |
| experimental group |
| control group |
| sampling bias |
| placebo effect |
| social desirability bias |
| halo effect |
| experimenter bias |
| double-blind procedure |
| correlational studies |
| naturalistic observation |
| case study |
| survey |
| longitudinal study |
| cross-sectional study |
| replication |
| IRB |
| informed consent |
| right to withdraw |
| debrief |
| Statistics |
|---|
| example of a normal curve |
| example of histogram/bar graph |
| 3 measures of central tendency |
| mean |
| median |
| mode |
| range |
| standard deviation |
| percentage in 1st, 2nd, 3rd standard deviations |
| statistical significance |
| p-value (and how to interpret it) |
| positive skew |
| negative skew |
| correlation coefficient |
| meta-analysis |