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Chapter 1: Lessons 1, 2 & 3 – Review
Assignment Upload from Student Guided Notes
Dawn Loshigian, PsyD, LCP, LMHC
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Directions: Using your student guided notes, read the prompt and fill in all of the definitions in
the spaces provided. Pay particular attention to highlighted terms. Include an example when
possible. Upload your assignment when it is due. The lowest grade is dropped, and there are no
make ups.
Key Terms: Chapter 1 – Lesson 1
1. Behaviorism Definition: Shaped by environmental interactions.
Example: B.F. Skinner focused on radical behaviorism,
emphasizing rewards and punishments in shaping
behavior.
2. Biological psychology Definition: Considers how biological factors influence
cognitive and behavioral factors.
3. Classical Conditioning Definition: How a conditioned stimulus can influence a
desired response.
Example: Ivan Pavlov is known for classical
conditioning experiments with dogs, revealing how
stimuli influence responses.
4. Clinical psychologist Definition: Focuses on healthy and unhealthy behavior.
Example: Clinical psychologists use various therapeutic
approaches to help individuals manage psychological
disorders, such as anxiety, depression, and
schizophrenia.
5. Counseling psychologist Definition: Focuses on milder issues such as work or
school.
6. Cognitive psychology Definition: Emphasizes thinking and how these
processes affect behavior.
Example: An example of cognitive psychology in
practice could be a researcher studying how people
remember information from a lecture and what
techniques improve retention, such as the use of
mnemonics or spaced repetition.
7. Developmental psychology Definition: Studies change throughout life stages.
8. Diversity Definition: Are the qualities that make us unique.
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Example: Mary Whiton Calkins was the first female
Harvard graduate in psychology, first APA president.
9. Ethics Definition: The rules of profession that protect people.
Example: Knowing the difference between wrong and
right.
10. Functionalism Definition: A major theoretical perspective in
psychology that focuses on the purpose of
consciousness and behavior, emphasizing how mental
processes help individuals adapt to their environments.
Example: A functionalist might study how habits form
and how they assist individuals in navigating daily tasks
efficiently, such as developing a routine to effectively
manage time between work and personal life.
11. Gestalt psychology Definition: Focuses on the whole of a person.
12. Humanistic psychology Definition: Focuses on the unique human experience
and considers human potential.
13. Introspection Definition: Used personal observations but later
deemed subjective and not a viable method today.
Example: Wilheim Wundt’s practice of encouraging
people to look inward to learn.
14. Operant Conditioning Definition: Human behavior is affected by rewards and
punishments.
Example: For example, a teacher gives students praise
(positive reinforcement) when they complete their
homework on time, encouraging them to continue their
behavior.
15. Psychiatrist Definition: Are medical doctors who go to medical
school and can prescribe medicine.
Example: A psychiatrist may evaluate a patient with
depression and prescribe antidepressant medication
while also offering psychotherapy sessions too.
16. Psychodynamic Definition: Behavior is directed by hidden or
unconscious forces.
17. Psychologist Definition: Do not go to medical school, but they have
Chapter 1: Lessons 1, 2 & 3 – Review
Assignment Upload from Student Guided Notes
Dawn Loshigian, PsyD, LCP, LMHC
Accessibility Checked
Directions: Using your student guided notes, read the prompt and fill in all of the definitions in
the spaces provided. Pay particular attention to highlighted terms. Include an example when
possible. Upload your assignment when it is due. The lowest grade is dropped, and there are no
make ups.
Key Terms: Chapter 1 – Lesson 1
1. Behaviorism Definition: Shaped by environmental interactions.
Example: B.F. Skinner focused on radical behaviorism,
emphasizing rewards and punishments in shaping
behavior.
2. Biological psychology Definition: Considers how biological factors influence
cognitive and behavioral factors.
3. Classical Conditioning Definition: How a conditioned stimulus can influence a
desired response.
Example: Ivan Pavlov is known for classical
conditioning experiments with dogs, revealing how
stimuli influence responses.
4. Clinical psychologist Definition: Focuses on healthy and unhealthy behavior.
Example: Clinical psychologists use various therapeutic
approaches to help individuals manage psychological
disorders, such as anxiety, depression, and
schizophrenia.
5. Counseling psychologist Definition: Focuses on milder issues such as work or
school.
6. Cognitive psychology Definition: Emphasizes thinking and how these
processes affect behavior.
Example: An example of cognitive psychology in
practice could be a researcher studying how people
remember information from a lecture and what
techniques improve retention, such as the use of
mnemonics or spaced repetition.
7. Developmental psychology Definition: Studies change throughout life stages.
8. Diversity Definition: Are the qualities that make us unique.
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Example: Mary Whiton Calkins was the first female
Harvard graduate in psychology, first APA president.
9. Ethics Definition: The rules of profession that protect people.
Example: Knowing the difference between wrong and
right.
10. Functionalism Definition: A major theoretical perspective in
psychology that focuses on the purpose of
consciousness and behavior, emphasizing how mental
processes help individuals adapt to their environments.
Example: A functionalist might study how habits form
and how they assist individuals in navigating daily tasks
efficiently, such as developing a routine to effectively
manage time between work and personal life.
11. Gestalt psychology Definition: Focuses on the whole of a person.
12. Humanistic psychology Definition: Focuses on the unique human experience
and considers human potential.
13. Introspection Definition: Used personal observations but later
deemed subjective and not a viable method today.
Example: Wilheim Wundt’s practice of encouraging
people to look inward to learn.
14. Operant Conditioning Definition: Human behavior is affected by rewards and
punishments.
Example: For example, a teacher gives students praise
(positive reinforcement) when they complete their
homework on time, encouraging them to continue their
behavior.
15. Psychiatrist Definition: Are medical doctors who go to medical
school and can prescribe medicine.
Example: A psychiatrist may evaluate a patient with
depression and prescribe antidepressant medication
while also offering psychotherapy sessions too.
16. Psychodynamic Definition: Behavior is directed by hidden or
unconscious forces.
17. Psychologist Definition: Do not go to medical school, but they have
