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1 ) Trace the development of psychology as a scientific discipline evolving from other fields of study.
Describing early psychological and biological inquiries that led to contemporary approaches and methods of experimentation, including ideologies of Aristotle, John Locke, Wilhelm Wundt, Charles Darwin, William James, Frantz Fanon, and G. Stanley Hall
Differentiating among various modern schools of thought and perspectives in psychology that have evolved since 1879, including each school's view on concepts of aggression or appetite
Illustrating how modern psychologists utilize multiple perspectives to understand behavior and mental processes
Identifying major subfields and career opportunities related to psychology
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2 ) Describe research strategies used by psychologists to explore mental processes and behavior.
Describing the type of methodology and strategies used by researchers in different psychological studies
Examples: surveys, naturalistic observations, case studies, longitudinal studies, cross-sectional studies
Contrasting independent, dependent, and confounding variables and control and experimental groups
Identifying systematic procedures necessary for conducting an experiment and improving the validity of results
Describing the use of statistics in evaluating research, including calculating the mean, median, and mode from a set of data; conducting a simple correlational analysis using either calculators or computer software; and explaining the meaning of statistical significance
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3 ) Explain how processes of the central and peripheral nervous systems underlie behavior and mental processes, including how neurons are the basis for neural communication.
Describing how neurons communicate, including the role of neurotransmitters in behavior and the electrochemical process
Comparing the effect of drugs and toxins on the brain and neurotransmitters
Describing how different sections of the brain have specialized yet interdependent functions, including functions of different lobes and hemispheres of the cerebral cortex and consequences of damage to specific sections of the brain
Describing different technologies used to study the brain and nervous system
Analyzing behavior genetics for its contribution to the understanding of behavior and mental processes, including differentiating between deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), chromosomes, and genes; identifying effects of chromosomal abnormalities; and explaining how genetics and environmental factors work together to determine inherited traits
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4 ) Describe the interconnected processes of sensation and perception.
Explaining the role of sensory systems in human behavior, including sight, sound, smell, touch, and pain
Explaining how what is perceived can be different from what is sensed, including how attention and environmental cues can affect the ability to accurately sense and perceive the world
Describing the role of Gestalt principles and concepts in perception
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5 ) Explain ways to promote psychological wellness.
Describing physiological processes associated with stress, including hormones associated with stress responses
Describing Hans Selye's general adaptation syndrome (GAS)
Describing the flight-or-fight response in terms of the autonomic and somatic nervous systems
Contrasting positive and negative ways of coping with stress related to problem-focused coping, aggression, and emotion-focused coping
Explaining approach-approach, approach-avoidance, and avoidance-avoidance conflicts
Identifying various eating disorders and conditions
Examples: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, obesity
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6 ) Describe the physical, cognitive, and social development across the life span of a person from the prenatal through aging stages.
Outlining the stage-of-development theories of Jean Piaget, Erik H. Erikson, Sigmund Freud, Carol Gilligan, and Lawrence Kohlberg
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7 ) Describe the processes and importance of memory, including how information is encoded and stored, mnemonic devices, schemas related to short-term memory, working memory, and long-term memory.
Distinguishing between surface and deep processing in memory development
Comparing ways memories are stored in the brain, including episodic and procedural
Identifying different parts of the brain that store memory
Differentiating among different types of amnesia
Describing how information is retrieved from memory
Explaining how memories can be reconstructed and misremembered
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8 ) Describe ways in which organisms learn, including the processes of classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational conditioning.
Identifying unconditioned stimuli (UCS), conditioned stimuli (CS), unconditioned responses (UCR), and conditioned responses (CR)
Describing the law of effect
Describing original experiments conducted by B. F. Skinner, Albert Bandura, Ivan Pavlov, John B. Watson, and Rosalie Rayner
Differentiating between reinforcement and punishment, positive and negative reinforcement, and various schedules of reinforcement
Describing biological limitations on operantly conditioned learning
Differentiating between observational learning and modeling
Analyzing watching violent media for effects on violent behavior
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9 ) Describe how organisms think and solve problems, including processes involved in accurate thinking.
Identifying the role of mental images and verbal symbols in the thought process
Explaining how concepts are formed
Differentiating between algorithms and heuristics
Analyzing different types of heuristics to determine effects on problem solving
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10 ) Describe the qualities and development of language.
Identifying common phonemes and morphemes of language
Describing how understanding syntax and grammar affect language comprehension
Demonstrating how qualities of sign language are similar to spoken language
Describing how infants move from babbling to usage of complete sentences
Explaining how hearing loss in infants and children can affect the development of spoken language
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11 ) Compare various states of consciousness evident in human behavior, including the process of sleeping and dreaming.
Explaining states of sleep throughout an average night's sleep, including nonrapid eye movement (NREM) and rapid eye movement (REM)
Describing the mechanism of the circadian rhythm
Evaluating the importance of sleep to good performance
Comparing theories regarding the use and meaning of dreams
Analyzing the use of psychoactive drugs for effects on people, including the mechanisms of addiction, withdrawal, and tolerance
Evaluating the phenomenon of hypnosis and its possible uses
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12 ) Describe the role of motivation and emotion in human behavior.
Identifying theories that explain motivational processes, including cognitive, biological, and psychological reasons for motivational behavior, and Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs and arousal theory
Describing situational cues that cause emotions, including anger, curiosity, and anxiety
Differentiating among theories of emotion
Identifying universally recognized emotions
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13 ) Describe methods of assessing individual differences and theories of intelligence, including Charles E. Spearman's general (g) factor of intelligence, Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences, and Robert J. Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence.
Describing different types of intelligence tests, including the Flynn effect
Describing how intelligence may be influenced by differences in heredity and environment and by biases toward ethnic minority and socioeconomic groups
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14 ) Explain the role of personality development in human behavior.
Differentiating among personality theories, including psychoanalytic, sociocognitive, trait, and humanistic theories of personality
Describing different measures of personality, including the Neuroticism-Extroversion-Openness Personality Inventory (NEO-PI), the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), and projective tests
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15 ) Describe major psychological disorders and their treatments.
Differentiating between normal and abnormal behavior
Describing different approaches for explaining mental illness, including biological and medical, cognitive, and sociocultural models
Differentiating types of mental illness, including mood, anxiety, somatoform, schizophrenic, dissociative, and personality disorders
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16 ) Describe how attitudes, conditions of obedience and conformity, and other influences affect actions and shape human behavior, including actor-observer, self-server, social facilitation, social loafing, bystander effect, groupthink, and group polarization.
Explaining the fundamental attribution error
Critiquing Stanley Milgram's work with obedience and S. E. Asch's work with conformity
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17 ) Describe various careers pursued by psychologists, including medical and mental health care fields, the business world, education, law and criminal justice, and research.
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18 ) Explain how culture and gender influence behavior.
Identifying gender differences and similarities
Explaining ways in which gender differences are developed
Describing ways in which gender roles are assigned in different cultures
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