Lesson Overview: An Introduction to Psychology
Key Terms and Concepts

• animal model
• B. F. Skinner
• behaviorism
• biopsychology
• case study
• cognitive psychology
• community psychology
• control group
• correlation
• correlation versus causation
• correlational study
• counseling psychology
• critical thinking
• empiricism
• functionalism
• Gestalt psychology
• humanism
• hypothesis
• industrial-organizational psychology
• Ivan Pavlov
• John Watson
• natural clinical test
• naturalistic observation
• observation versus inference
• operational definition
• oversimplification
• overt and covert behavior
• professional ethics
• pseudo-psychology
• psychodynamic psychology
• psychology
• replication
• representative sample
• research method
• research method
• sample population
• scientific method
• single examples
• skepticism
• structuralism
• survey method
• theory
• Wilhelm Wundt

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