Chapter 1

From Speculation to Science: How Psychology Developed

1. Describe the methods used by philosophers and physiologists and discuss the contributions of these fields to the birth of psychology.
 
2. Summarize Wundt's accomplishments and contributions to the evolution of psychology.
 
3. Compare structuralism and functionalism and discuss their impact on the subsequent development of psychology.
 
4. Summarize Watson's view on the appropriate subject matter of psychology, nature versus nurture, and animal research.
 
5. Explain how Gestalt psychologists challenged the views of structuralism and behaviorism.
 
6. Summarize Freud's principal ideas and why they inspired controversy.
 
7. Summarize Skinner's work, views, and influence.
 
8. Summarize Rogers' and Maslow's ideas and the contributions of humanistic psychology.
 
9. Explain how historical events since World War I have contributed to the emergence of psychology as a profession.
 
10. Describe two recent trends in research in psychology that reflect a return to psychology's intellectual roots.
 
11. Explain why Western psychology traditionally had scant interest in other cultures and why this situation has begun to change.
 

Psychology Today: Vigorous and Diversified

12. List and describe seven major research areas in psychology.
 
13. List and describe the four professional specialties in psychology.
 
14. Explain the difference between psychology and psychiatry.
 

Putting it in Perspective: Seven Key Themes

15. Discuss the text's three organizing themes relating to psychology as a field of study.
 
16. Discuss the text's four organizing themes relating to psychology's subject matter.
 

Application: Improving Academic Performance

17. Discuss three important considerations in designing a program to promote adequate studying.
 
18. Describe the SQ4R method and explain what makes it effective.
 
19. Summarize advice provided on how to get more out of lectures.
 
20. Summarize advice provided on improving test-taking strategies.

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Terms
Stimulus

Applied psychology

Structuralism

Introspection

Functionalism

Behaviorism

Behavior

Psychoanalytic theory

Unconscious

Humanism

Clinical psychology

Cognition

Psychology

Psychiatry

Empiricism

Theory

SQ4R

Testwiseness

Key People
Sigmund Freud 

G. Stanley Hall 

William James 

Carl Rogers 

B.F. Skinner 

John B. Watson 

Wilhelm Wundt 




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