In your Interactive Notebook: Unit.Day 1.3 Careers and Big Shots Unit 1 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: What is (and isn’t) Psychology? How do psychologists conduct reliable and ethical research? DAILY COMMENTARY After reading the birth order article, do you believe nature or nurture is a greater factor? Do the observations in the article fit well in describing your family dynamics? Place Discussion Questions in can. Make sure your name is on them. ON YOUR DESK: 1) reading journal 2) Daily commentary notebook 3) Laptop (warming up but closed) Today’s OBJECTIVE(S) -- WRITE THESE DOWN: I can identify the range of career options available in Psychology

Today’s Discussion Questions Make sure your name is on the questions you submit, and that your question is unique. This will be factored into your grade.

DQ’S, Updates & Reminders BIG PICTURE Friday Quizzes August 30 & September 6 Projects Due Thursday, September 5th Experiment Project Unit Exam: Monday, September 9th Tonight’s Homework: RJ 1.4 Griggs 7-17 / Myers 24-30

Psychology’s Big Debate Nature versus Nurture Darwin (1809-1882) OBJECTIVE 5| Summarize the nature-nurture debate in psychology, and describe the principle of natural selection. Darwin stated that nature selects those that best enable the organism to survive and reproduce in a particular environment. Psychology 7e in Modules

Psychology’s Current Perspectives Focus Sample Questions Neuroscience How the body and brain enables emotions? How are messages transmitted in the body? How is blood chemistry linked with moods and motives? Evolutionary How the natural selection of traits the promotes the perpetuation of one’s genes? How does evolution influence behavior tendencies? Behavior genetics How much our genes and our environments influence our individual differences? To what extent are psychological traits such as intelligence, personality, sexual orientation, and vulnerability to depression attributable to our genes? To our environment? Although debates arise among the psychologists working from differing perspectives, each point of view addresses important questions. Psychology 7e in Modules

Psychology’s Current Perspectives Focus Sample Questions Psychodynamic (Freud) How behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts? How can someone’s personality traits and disorders be explained in terms of sexual and aggressive drives or as disguised effects of unfulfilled wishes and childhood traumas? Behavioral (Pavlov, Watson, Skinner) How we learn observable responses? How do we learn to fear particular objects or situations? What is the most effective way to alter our behavior, say to lose weight or quit smoking?

Psychology’s Current Perspectives Focus Sample Questions Cognitive How we encode, process, store and retrieve information? How do we use information in remembering? Reasoning? Problem solving? Social-cultural (Rogers, Maslow, Bandura) How behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures? How are we — as Africans, Asians, Australians or North Americans – alike as members of human family? As products of different environmental contexts, how do we differ?

Psychology’s Three Main Levels of Analysis OBJECTIVE 6| Identify the three main levels of analysis in the biopsychosocial approach, and explain why psychology’s varied perspectives are complementary. Biopsychosocial approach considers the influence of biological, psychological, and socio-cultural factors on behavior. Each approach provides an incomplete explanation of behaviors. Psychology 7e in Modules

Partner Activity How might each scenario be interpreted according to the four major perspectives (biological, sociocultural, cognitive, and behavioral) A repeat drunk driver A student who is intelligent but does not apply themself in school The decision by people to play football despite the serious threats of brain injury

Two Options Group 1 (in pairs): Career Poster select a career from the hat and research it Create a job recruitment poster for that career, including: Job description Educational requirements Starting salary Other interesting info Group 2 (individually): Big Shot Poster Draw names of major Psychologists to research Research the contributions of the one you pick Create a poster about that person, their work, and its significance

Career Fair / Biographical Report Put your posters up on the wall Everyone does a gallery walk Move around the room to take down notes on each career and major contributor as you review each poster, use post-it notes to write “I wonder” statements

DQ’S, Updates & Reminders BIG PICTURE Friday Quizzes August 30 & September 6 Projects Due Thursday, September 5th Experiment Project Unit Exam: Monday, September 9th Tonight’s Homework: RJ 1.4 Griggs 7-17 / Myers 24-30