1. 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

2. 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.

3. 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

4. Psychology’s Big Debate
Nature versus Nurture
Darwin ( )
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.
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5. 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.
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6. 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?

7. 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?

8. 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.
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9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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