Unit 1

Introduction to Psychology

Mr. Ring

UNIT 1: Introduction to Psychology

ESSENTIAL QUESTION 1.1: What is Psychology and how would one perform
research in this field?
Unit Theme: Understanding the foundations of the field of Psychology.
Unit Topic: Historical and fundamental basis for Psychology.
PSYCH 01: Contemporary perspectives used by psychologists to
understand behavior and mental processes in context
- PSYCH 01.01 Describe and compare the biological, behavioral, cognitive,
socio-cultural, humanistic, and psychodynamic perspectives.
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PSYCH 02: Major subfields and career opportunities that comprise
psychology.
- PSYCH 02.01 List and explain major subfields in psychology.
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PSYCH 03: Research strategies used by psychologists to explore
behavior and mental processes.
- PSYCH 03.01 Describe elements of an experiment.
- PSYCH 03.02 Explain the importance of sampling and random
assignment in psychological research.
- PSYCH 03.03 Describe and compare quantitative and qualitative research
strategies.
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PSYCH 04: Purpose and basic concepts of statistics.
- PSYCH 04.01 Define descriptive statistics and explain how they are used
by behavioral scientists.
- PSYCH 04.02 Explain and describe measures of central tendency and
variability..
- PSYCH 04.03 Describe concepts of correlation and explain how it is used
in psychology.
- PSYCH 04.04 Recognize how inferential statistics are used in
psychological research.

Unit 1

Introduction to Psychology

Mr. Ring

Glencoe: Understanding Psychology; Chapter 2

PSYCH 05: Ethical issues in research with human and other animals
are important to psychologists.
- PSYCH 05.01 Identify ethical issues in psychological research.
Glencoe: Understanding Psychology; Chapter 2
PSYCH 06: Development of psychology as an empirical science.
- PSYCH 06.01 Discuss psychologys roots in philosophy and natural
science.
- PSYCH 06.02 Describe the emergence of experimental psychology.
- PSYCH 06.03 Recognize the diversity of psychological theories in the 20th
and 21st centuries.
- PSYCH 06.04 Describe psychologys increasing inclusiveness of diverse
interests and constituents.
Glencoe: Understanding Psychology; Chapter 1

Key Terms:
Physiological
Hypothesis
Applied Science
Introspection
Behaviorist
Psychobiologist
Psychologist
Counseling Psychologist
Psychologist
Community Psychologist
Psychologist
Naturalistic Observation
Longitudinal Study
Hypothesis
Control Group
Distribution
Normal Curve
Standard Deviation
Statistics

Cognitive
Theory
Scientific Method
Functionalist
Humanist
Psychiatry

Psychology
Basic Science
Structuralist
Psychoanalyst
Cognitivist
Clinical

Developmental Psychologist
Industrial Psychologist

Educational

Experimental

Case Study
Survey
Cross-Sectional Study
Correlation
Variable
Experimental Group
Descriptive Statistics
Frequency
Central Tendency
Correlation coefficient

Variance
Inferential