FOCUS: What is one characteristic about yourself that you can trace to a relative.
| Teacher Objectives
1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, 1-5, 1-6
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MODULE LENGTH: 4 Days
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SWBAT:
1-1 Define Psychology
1-2Trace psychology’s prescientific roots, to beginnings of modern science.
1-3 Explain how early psychologists sought to understand the minds structure, functions and leading psychologists who led the way.
1-4 Describe the evolution of psychology as defined from the 1920’s through today
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1-5 Summarize the nature-nurture debate and process of natural selection.
1-6 Identify the three main levels of analysis in the biopsychosocial approach – how do they complement each other.
| Materials Needed -
Pen
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Notebook
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Text: “Psychology and You”
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Article: Stream of Consciousness – from Psychology to Literature
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Essential Questions:
(Steps to check for student understanding)
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Psychology is the study of?
What is the difference between behavior and mental processes?
What is a theory?
Who was Wilhelm Wundt? William James? Jean Piaget? Sigmund Freud? Carl Rogers, B.F. Skinner? John Watson?
What is the difference between basic and applied research?
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Key Terms: psychology, empiricism, structuralism, functionalism, humanistic, nature v. nurture, natural selection, biopsychosocial, research: basic and applied, counseling psychology, psychiatry.
| Other Resources
Projector/Computer/Photos
Venn Diagrams
Comparative Charts
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Activities -
Introspection Activity
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Stream of Consciousness Activity
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Empathy Activity
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Students view a series of photographs and write down their immediate reaction to each – then discuss.
Students will view a series of faces and identify the emotion they perceive using “Empathy”. – then discuss
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Photos/PowerPoint
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Assessment:
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QUIZ: Early Functionalists & Structuralists
TEST: MODULE 1 TEST
Hand out 1st Quarter Project: Choose your Approach
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