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Transcript of Kerri Dowd Hazen High School Myers’ Psychology for AP.
Kerri Dowd
Hazen High School
Myers’ Psychology for AP
Do now:
• Please get a book from the cart.
• If you haven’t already, read the “Have you ever” bullet points on pages 1 and 2.
• Which of these questions most intrigue you?
• What are three things you have always wondered about human behavior?
Psychology’s History & Approaches
How would you establish the validity of these statements?
• God is dead
• The best things in life are free
• Abortion is wrong
• There is a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia
• The mind is just like a computer
• Attitudes affect cancer
• Macklemore is better than Miley Cyrus
Do now!
Elevator: I need eight volunteers!
What gestures can you think of that mean different things in different cultures?
The same or different?
• Ivan Pavlov• Jean Piaget• Plato• Rosalie Rayner• Carl Rogers• B.F. Skinner• Socrates• E.B. Titchener• Margaret Floy Washburn• John B. Watson• Wilhelm Wundt
• Aristotle• Francis Bacon• Mary Whiton Calkins• Charles Darwin• Rene Descartes• Dorothea Dix• Sigmund Freud• G. Stanley Hall• William James• John Locke• Abraham Maslow
Key Names for this Unit:
Discussion: What do you know about any of these people already?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1wKZqnsi6E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsxKcY94EB4
And now: A brief history
Do now! How easy was it to learn from the two videos? How did they work with your learning style?
What is Psychology?• Empiricism• Structuralism• Functionalism• Experimental Psychology• Behaviorism• Humanistic Psychology• Cognitive Neuroscience• Psychology
Key Terms: What is Psychology?
Discussion: What’s the difference between structuralism & functionalism?
• Developmental psychology
• Educational psychology• Personality psychology• Social psychology• Applied research• Industrial-organizational
(I/O) psychology• Human factors psychology• Counseling psychology• Clinical psychology• Psychiatry
• Nature-nurture issue• Natural selection• Levels of analysis• Biopsychosoocial
approach• Biological psychology• Evolutionary psychology• Psychodynamic
psychology• Behavioral psychology• Cognitive psychology• Social-cultural
psychology• Psychometrics• Basic research
Key Terms: Contemporary Psych
Three levels of biopsychosocial analysis
Biological
Psychological
Social-cultural
A timeline overview
Approaches & Perspectives: Bio
Approach FocusBiological How the body and brain
enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences; how genes combine with environment to influence individual differences.
Sample Questions
• How are messages transmitted within the body?
• How is blood chemistry linked with moods and motives?
• What traits are attributable to our genes?
A&P: Evolutionary & Psychodynamic
Approach FocusEvolutionary How the natural selection
of traits promoted the survival of genes*
Sample Questions • How does evolution influence behavior tendencies?
Psychodynamic
How behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts
Sample Questions • How can someone's personality traits and disorders be explained in terms of drives?
• How can someone's behavior be explained as disguised effects of childhood trauma?
A&P: Behavioral & Cognitive
Approach FocusBehavioral How we learn observable
responsesSample Questions • How do we learn to fear particular
objects or situations?• What is the best way to alter our
behavior?
Cognitive How we encode, process, store, and retrieve information
Sample Questions • How do we use information in remembering?
• Reasoning?• Solving problems?
A&P: Humanistic & Social-cultural
Approach FocusHumanistic How we meet our needs for
love and acceptance and achieve self-fulfillment
Sample Questions • How can we work toward our potential?
• How can we break through barriers to personal growth?
Social-Cultural
How behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures
Sample Questions • How are we alike as members of one human family?
• How do our environments influence differences?
A mnemonic device you can TAKE WITH YOU to the exam!
• On the sheet of paper you’ve been given, trace your hand!
• Now label your hand as follows to remember the approaches:
Ugh! How will I remember?
Pscychoanalytic/
Psychodynamic:
Freud/childhood influences
Biological:Brain
structure, chemicals &
heredity influence
Behaviorism:
Can “flip off” rewards
& punishment
s
Humanistic/Existential:Needs for
love/belonging
Cognitive: Perception, sensation, memory, problem solving
Sociocultural: The effects of
gender, ethnicity,
culture and SE status on
behavior & mental
processes
Whole Hand—Evolutionary:
Behaviors adapt to
continue the species
• Buttons Activity
• Why the Heck do I do that? (Uh oh… homework!!!)
• The Outrageous Celebrity
Let’s Practice!