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Welcome. Friday 26. Agenda. Pass Up Movie Slips Picture Day Bell Ringer Quiz U1Q2 U1Q3 Homework: Limerick Project—Due Tuesday Read Text – Pages 8-15 GR – Contemporary & Close up questions. Unit 1 Question 2.
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Welcome Friday 26
Agenda • Pass Up Movie Slips • Picture Day • Bell Ringer Quiz • U1Q2 • U1Q3 • Homework: Limerick Project—Due Tuesday Read Text – Pages 8-15 GR – Contemporary & Close up questions
Unit 1 Question 2 When and how did modern psychological science begin?
Modern Psychology begins… • Philosopher’s thinking about thinking continued until the birth of psychology as we know it, on a December day in 1879. • In a room at Germany’s University of Leipzig, a middle-age professor, Wilhelm Wundt, created an experimental apparatus.
Modern Psych Begins…..U1Q2 • Psychological Science is Born • Wilhelm Wundt (1879) • University of Leipzig
Modern Psych Begins…….U1Q2 • Wundt was both a philosopher and a physiologist. • The young science of psychology evolved from the more established fields of philosophy and biology. • Experimental Psychology • The study of behavior and thinking using the scientific method
Modern Psych Begins…..U1Q2 • Wundt was seeking to measure the “atoms of the mind”-the fastest and simplest mental processes. • Established the first psychological laboratory • Conducted the 1st experiment • Reaction time experiment • Launched first psychological institute.
Modern Psych Continues…U1Q2 • Thinking About the Mind’s Structure • Edward Titchener • Structuralism • introspection
Unit One Project Limerick A limerick is a short ‘ditty’ about some person. It is usually a stanza of five lines, three of which rhyme. You are going to write a limerick about one of the figures from Unit One. DUE: Tuesday August 30, 2011
Example There was a man named Wilhelm who Wundted to know my mind. To his lab he asked I come, mind structure he hoped to unwind Reflect. Talk! No thought is too dumb. Is introspection really the key or is Wundt just a bum?
Modern Psych continues…..U1Q2 • Thinking About the Mind’s Function • William James • Functionalism • Mary Calkins • Margaret Floy Washburn
Progress Check… U1Q2 • End of U1Q2 • Rate your level of understanding after the following opportunities for learning; • Pre-Test • Reading Text • GR—Fill in the blank • Vocabulary • Lecture/Notes • Karate Kid Memory Aid
Unit 1 Question 3 How did psychology continue to develop from the 1920’s through today?
Prior to 1920 • Introspection • Wundt • Titchener • James • Freud • Dream Analysis • Childhood memories ALL SUBJECTIVE: BASED ON VERBALIZATION OF IMAGES, THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS
Post 1920 • Behaviorism • John B. Watson • B.F. Skinner • Don’t care what you think/ feel • Objective • “Study of observable behavior”
1960’s • Humanistic psychology • Carl Rogers • Abraham Maslow
Contempory • Cognitive Neuroscience • Psychology • Science • Behavior • Mental processes
Progress Check U1Q3 • End of U1Q3 • Rate your level of understanding after the following opportunities for learning; • Pre-Test • Reading Text • GR—Fill in the blank • Vocabulary • Lecture/Notes • Q&A Game