1. Thursday, September 30 AP Today’s topic: What is introspection?
Contemporary Approaches, Research in Psychology, and Nature/Nurture
Upcoming Dates:
Homework:
All of chapter 1 should be read by today
Read chapter 2 (pages 29-33)
Work on terms
Assessments:
Quiz this week
FRQ next week
Test: September 14
What is introspection?
Which approach focuses on how individuals encode, process, store, and retrieve information?
Which approach focuses on how behaviors and thinking vary across situations and cultures?
What is the difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist?

2. Thursday, September 30 H Today’s topic: What is introspection?
Contemporary Approaches and Nature/Nurture
Upcoming Dates:
Homework:
All of chapter 1 should be read by today
Read chapter 2 (pages 29-33)
Work on terms
Assessments:
Test:
What is introspection?
What is the difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist?
Name a way that you are similar to your birth mom or dad (besides physical appearance).

3. Psychology’s Historical BIG Issue
The Nature – Nurture Issue

4. The Nature vs. Nurture Question
Nature-nurture question is the debate concerning the relative contribution of genetic factors and environmental factors to a person’s intelligence as well as to his or her biological, emotional, cognitive, personal, and social development
Nature – the biological groundwork that prepares a person to develop in certain ways; what people inherit
Nurture – environmental factors; what a person is exposed to in life

5. Nature AND Nurture: Intelligence and your biological, emotional, cognitive, personal, and social development
Think
Name 3 examples of how you think you are more influenced by NATURE.
Name 3 examples of how you think you are more influenced by NURTURE.
Partner up
Share your examples
Discuss – “Do you think nature or nurture plays a greater role in shaping human mental processes and behaviors?”

6. Kinship and Twin Studies
CBS Sunday Morning – Twins