`INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY

STUDY GUIDE FOR EXAM #1

CHAPTERS 1,2,3,8, AND 15

CHAPTER 1 - SEARCH FOR UNDERSTANDING

• Defining psychology

• Overt and Covert behaviors

• Empiricism

• Scientific observation

• 4 goals of psychology

• Structuralism/Wilhelm Wundt

• Functionalism/William James

• Gestalt Psychology/Max Wertheimer

• Cultural relativity

• Pseudo-psychology

Chapter 2 - RESEARCH METHODS

• The scientific method

• Naturalistic observation

• Correlational studies

• Experimental method

• Placebo effect

• Clinical method/case study

• Survey method

CHAPTER 3 - BRAIN, BIOLOGY, BEHAVIOR

• Parts of the neuron

• Synapses

• Neurotransmitters

• CT Scanning

• MRI

• PET scan

CHAPTER 8 - STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

• Altered state of consciousness

• Microsleep

• Stages of Sleep

• REM sleep

• non-REM sleep

• Insomnia

• Somnambulists

• Narcolepsy

• Sleep Apnea

• SIDS

• Psychoactive drugs

• Stimulant

• Depressant

• Physical dependence

• Psychological dependence

CHAPTER 15 - PERSONALITY

• Personality defined

• Gordon Allport/Trait Theories

• Raymond Catell

• Five factor model of traits

• Freud/Psychoanalytic theory

• Neo-Freudians

• Koren Horney

• Carl Jung

• Rotter/Social Learning Theory

• Miller and Dollard/Social Reinforcement

• Abraham Maslow

• Self-actualization

• Carl Rogers/Humanistic theory

• Personality Assessment