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!