What are four primary goals of psychology?

What were the basic ideas and who were the important people behind the early approaches known as
structuralism, functionalism, gestalt, psychoanalysis and behaviorism?

What are basic concepts of the modern perspectives known as psychodynamics, humanism,
biopsychology, cognative psychology, the evolutionary perspective, and socicultral perspective?

Whats the difference between a psychiatrist and a psychologist and what other types of professionals
work in the various areas of psychology?

Why is psychololgy a science and what are the steps in using the scientific method?

How do psychologists use naturalistic and laboratory settings to describe behavior and what are the
advantages and disadvantages associated with these settings?

How do psychologists use case studies and surveys to describe behavior and what are some drawbacks
to each of these methods?

What is correlational technique and what does it tell researchers about relationships?

How do researchers use operational definition, independent and dependent variable, experimental and
control group and random assignment in designing an experiment?

What are placebo effect and the experimenter effect and how do single blind and double blind studies
control for these effects?

How might a real experiment be conducted?

What are the ethical concerns when conducting research with people and animals?

How do all parts of nervous system related to one another?

What are neurons and nerves and how they work?

What are different neurotransmitters?

How does the somatic nervous system allow people and animals to interact with their surroundings?

How does the autonomic nervous system control the bodys autonomic functions and its reaction to
stress?

How do psychologists study brain and how it works?

What are the structures of the brain that control emotion, learning, memory and motivation?

How do the hormones released by glands interact with the nervous system and affect behavior?

What does it mean to be conscious and are there different levels of consciousness?
Why do people sleep, and how does sleep work?

What are stages of sleep?

What kinds of problems can happen during sleep?

Why do people dream and what they dream about?

What is hypnosis and how dose it work?

What is difference between a physical dependency and a psychological dependency on a drug?

What are stimulants and the dangers associated with taking them?

What are different types of depressants and how can they be harmful?

How do narcotics work and why are they so addictive?

How do hallucinogens work?

What is marijuana and what are the risks of using it?

How serious is the problem of sleep deprivation?