Chapter 1 Introducing the World of Psychology
Learning Objectives
1.1 Psychology Explains Your Mental Activity and Behavior
1.1a. Understand all bold and italic terms by writing explanations of them in your own words.
1.1b. Apply psychology to your life by writing an example of your own mental activity and behavior in a situation.
1.2 Psychology Teaches You to Think Critically
1.2a. Understand all bold and italic terms by writing explanations of them in your own words.
1.2b. Apply critical thinking to real life by writing an example of each of the following: an intuition, a belief, an opinion, a pseudofact, and objective evidence.
1.3 Psychology Improves Your Life
1.3a. Understand all bold and italic terms by writing explanations of them in your own words.
1.3b. Apply psychology to your life by writing one example each of how psychology can help you: do well in school, improve your personal life, and succeed at your job.
1.4 Psychology Originated in Philosophical Questions
1.4a. Understand all bold and italic terms by writing explanations of them in your own words.
1.4b. Apply the nature/nurture debate to your own life by writing an example of how one of your traits might reflect the impact of both nature and nurture.
1.5 Psychologists Investigate the Conscious Mind and the Unconscious Mind
1.5a. Understand all bold and italic terms by writing explanations of them in your own words.
1.5b. Understand the three psychology schools of thought that investigated the conscious mind and the unconscious mind by using your own words to describe each school.
1.6 Psychologists Explore Behavior and Mental Activity
1.6a. Understand all bold and italic terms by writing explanations of them in your own words.
1.6b. Apply the four psychology schools of thought that investigated behavior and mental activity by writing an example of a topic that each school of thought would investigate.
1.7 Psychologists Today Investigate Many Different Topics
1.7a. Understand all bold and italic terms by writing explanations of them in your own words.
1.7b. Apply the subfields of psychology by choosing two subfields that interest you and explaining what research topic you would study in each subfield if you were a psychologist.
1.8 Psychologists Use the Scientific Method
1.8a. Understand all bold and italic terms by writing explanations of them in your own words.
1.8b. Apply the four goals of science by writing how each one could be used to investigate students’ use of active processes to learn material being read in a textbook.
1.8c. Understand the scientific method by naming the five steps in this cycle and explaining each one in your own words.
1.9 Descriptive Methods Describe What Is Happening
1.9a. Understand all bold and italic terms by writing explanations of them in your own words.
1.9b. Apply the three descriptive methods by explaining how you could use each one to investigate a psychological topic you are interested in.
1.10 Correlational Methods Study Relationships
1.10a. Understand all bold and italic terms by writing explanations of them in your own words.
1.10b. Apply correlations by describing one example of a correlation in your life and explaining why the relationship is not causal.
1.11 Experimental Methods Test Causation
1.11a. Understand all bold and italic terms by writing explanations of them in your own words.
1.11b. Apply experimental methods by explaining the control group, the experimental group(s), the independent variable(s), and the dependent variable(s) in a study exploring the effect of texting while driving on driving performance.
1.12 Psychologists Today Follow Strict Ethical Guidelines
1.12a. Understand all bold and italic terms by writing explanations of them in your own words.
1.12b. Understand ethical issues in psychology by summarizing in your own words the four ethical guidelines that psychologists must address in their research.
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which of the following is the best definition of psychology?
a.the study of the brain and its inner function
b.the analysis of the mind and its unconscious thoughts
c.the study of mental activity and behavior based on brain processes
d.the study of thoughts, social interactions, and emotions
ANS: C DIF: Moderate
REF: 1.1 Psychology Explains Your Mental Activity and Behavior
OBJ: 1.1a NAT: APA Goal 1, Knowledge Base in Psychology
Learning Objectives
1.1 Psychology Explains Your Mental Activity and Behavior
1.1a. Understand all bold and italic terms by writing explanations of them in your own words.
1.1b. Apply psychology to your life by writing an example of your own mental activity and behavior in a situation.
1.2 Psychology Teaches You to Think Critically
1.2a. Understand all bold and italic terms by writing explanations of them in your own words.
1.2b. Apply critical thinking to real life by writing an example of each of the following: an intuition, a belief, an opinion, a pseudofact, and objective evidence.
1.3 Psychology Improves Your Life
1.3a. Understand all bold and italic terms by writing explanations of them in your own words.
1.3b. Apply psychology to your life by writing one example each of how psychology can help you: do well in school, improve your personal life, and succeed at your job.
1.4 Psychology Originated in Philosophical Questions
1.4a. Understand all bold and italic terms by writing explanations of them in your own words.
1.4b. Apply the nature/nurture debate to your own life by writing an example of how one of your traits might reflect the impact of both nature and nurture.
1.5 Psychologists Investigate the Conscious Mind and the Unconscious Mind
1.5a. Understand all bold and italic terms by writing explanations of them in your own words.
1.5b. Understand the three psychology schools of thought that investigated the conscious mind and the unconscious mind by using your own words to describe each school.
1.6 Psychologists Explore Behavior and Mental Activity
1.6a. Understand all bold and italic terms by writing explanations of them in your own words.
1.6b. Apply the four psychology schools of thought that investigated behavior and mental activity by writing an example of a topic that each school of thought would investigate.
1.7 Psychologists Today Investigate Many Different Topics
1.7a. Understand all bold and italic terms by writing explanations of them in your own words.
1.7b. Apply the subfields of psychology by choosing two subfields that interest you and explaining what research topic you would study in each subfield if you were a psychologist.
1.8 Psychologists Use the Scientific Method
1.8a. Understand all bold and italic terms by writing explanations of them in your own words.
1.8b. Apply the four goals of science by writing how each one could be used to investigate students’ use of active processes to learn material being read in a textbook.
1.8c. Understand the scientific method by naming the five steps in this cycle and explaining each one in your own words.
1.9 Descriptive Methods Describe What Is Happening
1.9a. Understand all bold and italic terms by writing explanations of them in your own words.
1.9b. Apply the three descriptive methods by explaining how you could use each one to investigate a psychological topic you are interested in.
1.10 Correlational Methods Study Relationships
1.10a. Understand all bold and italic terms by writing explanations of them in your own words.
1.10b. Apply correlations by describing one example of a correlation in your life and explaining why the relationship is not causal.
1.11 Experimental Methods Test Causation
1.11a. Understand all bold and italic terms by writing explanations of them in your own words.
1.11b. Apply experimental methods by explaining the control group, the experimental group(s), the independent variable(s), and the dependent variable(s) in a study exploring the effect of texting while driving on driving performance.
1.12 Psychologists Today Follow Strict Ethical Guidelines
1.12a. Understand all bold and italic terms by writing explanations of them in your own words.
1.12b. Understand ethical issues in psychology by summarizing in your own words the four ethical guidelines that psychologists must address in their research.
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which of the following is the best definition of psychology?
a.the study of the brain and its inner function
b.the analysis of the mind and its unconscious thoughts
c.the study of mental activity and behavior based on brain processes
d.the study of thoughts, social interactions, and emotions
ANS: C DIF: Moderate
REF: 1.1 Psychology Explains Your Mental Activity and Behavior
OBJ: 1.1a NAT: APA Goal 1, Knowledge Base in Psychology