AP Psychology Summer 2012 Assignment /Beachwood High School/Mrs. Buddenhagen
Welcome to Introduction to Psychology! Over the next months we will undertake an exploration of the foundations of modern psychology. To get a head start on the required material for the AP exam, the following introductory assignments will be due on the first day of school. Work on the vocabulary and prominent psychologists assignments are to be handwritten in your notebook and on Notecards.
Unit 1 & 2 Reading and Vocabulary: Please complete the following for Unit 1 & 2 in your text. The AP in Psychology is comprised 14 units and covers a wide variety of terms and concepts related to the field. Please read Unit 1&2 carefully. (We will have a test the second week of class on these units. For each unit you will receive a vocabulary list of the important terms/concepts for that unit. The terms for Unit 1 & 2 are at the end of this assignment. You will need a spiral notebook dedicated to psychology vocabulary for these tasks. You may complete your vocabulary work in one of two ways;
1. VOCABULARY NOTEBOOK: a. Fold the notebook page lengthwise. In the left column write the vocabulary word (be sure to number it so that it matches my list). On the right hand side in complete sentences define the term. Underneath that think of an example or application for that term and write it out in complete sentences. 2. CHAPTER OUTLINES W/VOCAB NOTED: a. Complete a handwritten outline of the unit in your notebook. Your outline must include a thorough framework of the chapters main ideas and a complete definition of all vocabulary terms (please number them to correspond with the list I provide)
Unit 1: Psychology’s History & Approaches Unit 1 Terms are listed in your book on page 16. Remember you must include a definition AND example/application for each term. Writing MUST be done in COMPLETE SENTENCES!
1. Edward Bradford Titchener 2. Charles Darwin 3. Mary Whiton Calkins 4. Margaret Floy Washburn 5. Empiricism 6. Structuralism 7. Functionalism 8. Experimental Psychology 9. Behaviorism 10. Humanistic Psychology 11. Cognitive Neuroscience 12. Psychology 13. Nature-nurture issue 14. Natural selection 15. Levels of analysis 16. Biopsychosocial approach 17. Biological psychology 18. Evolutionary Psychology 19. Psychodynamic psychology 20. Behavioral psychology 21. Cognitive psychology 22. Social-cultural psychology 23. Psychometrics 24. Basic Research 25. Developmental psychology 26. Educational psychology 27. Personality psychology 28. Social psychology 29. Applied research 30. Industrial-organizational (I/O) psychology 31. Human factors psychology 32. Counseling psychology 33. Clinical psychology 34. Psychiatry
Unit 2: Research Methods
1. Hindsight bias 2. Critical thinking 3. Hypothesis 4. Theory 5. Operational definition 6. Replication 7. Case study 8. Survey 9. Population 10. Random sample 11. Naturalistic observation 12. Correlation 13. Correlation coefficient 14. Scatterplot 15. Illusory correlation 16. Experiment 17. Random assignment 18. Double-blind procedure 19. Placebo effect 20. Experimental group 21. Control group 22. Independent variable 23. Confounding variable 24. Dependent variable 25. Mode 26. Mean 27. Median 28. Range 29. Standard deviation 30. Normal curve 31. Statistical significance 32. Culture 33. Informed consent 34. Debriefing
Prominent Names in Psychology: Please research the following figures in Psychology. As a relatively new field the prominent research and researchers are limited to the last 100 years or so. Over the course of this class we will be diving into the ideas made famous by the following people and knowledge of their field of expertise, area of research and general findings are often included on the exam. With that in mind please make a notecard for each of the following and include; On the front please put the name and their dates (born/died) On the back, include: What area or field of psychology did they work or focus on? AND Which research, theories, findings did they contribute to the field of psychology? (This will likely require a short paragraph and as always MUST be written in complete sentences. If you do not like Notecards you may put your prominent names work in your vocabulary notebook be sure to write in complete sentences.
Prominent Names in Psychology 1. Sigmund Freud 2. Anna Freud 3. Carl Jung 4. Erik Erikson 5. Lawrence Köhlberg 6. Carol Gilligan 7. William James 8. William Wundt 9. BF Skinner 10. John B Watson 11. Jean Piaget 12. Harry Harlow 13. Carl Rogers 14. Abraham Maslow 15. Karen Horney 16. Alfred Adler 17. Gordon Allport 18. Hermann Rorschach 19. Solomon Asch 20. Stanley Schachter 21. Stanley Milgram 22. Philip Zimbardo 23. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross 24. Elizabeth Loftus 26. Albert Bandura 27. Raymond Cattell 28. Aaron Beck 29. Noam Chomsky 30. Edward Thorndike 31. HJ Eysenck 32. Mary Ainsworth 33. Kenneth Clark 34. Lev Vygotsky 35. Martin Seligman 36. Howard Gardner 37. Kurt Lewin 38. Ivan Pavlov 39. Hermann Ebbinghaus 40. Benjamin Whorf 41. Robert Rosenthal 42. Lenore Jacobson 43. Judith Langlois 44. David Rosenhan 45. Daniel Goleman 46. Charles Spearman 47. Albert Ellis 48. Harry Stack Sullivan 49. Robert Yerkes 50. Alfred Binet