The student will be able to:
1. Define psychology.
2. Explain the APA divisions of psychology.
3. Summarize the behavioral, psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive, physiological, and evolutionary
approaches to psychology.
4. Explain naturalistic observation, directed observation and introspection.
5. Describe a case study
6. Explain the concepts of sampling including population, representative sample, biased sample,
random sample and stratified sample.
7. Explain the interview process.
8. Explain psychological tests and measurements.
9. Define and give examples of the scientific method.
10. Explain and give examples of the various parts of an experiment including: hypothesis, independent
variable, dependent variable, control group, experimental group, and operational definitions.
11. Explain and give examples of subject relevant confounding variables including random sampling,
Hawthorne effect, and single blind experiments.
12. Explain and give examples of situation relevant confounding variables including experimenter
biased, double blind experiments, and placebos.
13. Summarize ethical guidelines for human and animal research.
14. Explain and be able to calculate measures of central tendency.
15. Explain and be able to calculate measures of variability.
16. Describe various forms of distribution including normal, positively skewed and negatively skewed.
17. Explain correlation including strength and types of correlations.
18. Explain validity.
19. Explain reliability.