1) Psychology studies the human mind and behavior.
2) Psychologists observe, analyze and explain the negative behavior.
3) Specialists investigate human development from birth to death.
4) To investigate human mind psychologists apply new methods and approaches.
5) The practitioner changes the wrong patterns of thinking and behavior.
6) If a specialist understands a problem, he can take it under control.
*Exercise 11. Read about 15 mind blowing psychology facts. Which of them seem to be
interesting to you? Discuss them.
1. Blind people do dream like you, they do not dream as a blind.
2. You become more selfish if you eat in your room.
3. Men change their mind 2 3 times more than women.
4. Do you know why you are happy when you eat a chocolate? Thats because it contains phenylephylamine.
5. The time frame to feel romantic love is for about 1 year only, after that, its an attachment.
6. Children, well breastfed, tend to have an IQ level of approximately 10 points more by 3 years of age.
7. Women have slightly higher IQ than Men.
8. Chocolate and Shopping are both more addictive than drugs or steroids.
9. Most of the decisions we make are taken unconsciously.
10. A right-handed individual generally looks towards his left while thinking something (events, images, sound) that happened actually and downwards or towards the right while making something.
11. You are more attracted to individuals having similar features.
12. Even if you are in a bad mood, you should smile. It will automatically bring improvement in your mood.
13. People, who lie, tend to discretely cover their mouth or nose.
14. Our body is virtually paralyzed, when we are asleep.
15. If a person permanently loses the sense of smell, he will develop depression.
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What does the word psychology literally mean?
What does psychology study?
What sciences does psychology border on?
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THE HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY
Exercise 1. Topic Vocabulary
evidence [ˈɛvɪd(ə)ns] - ,
to speculate -
ability -
conscious [ˈkɒnʃəs] -
awareness [əˈwɛːnəs] - ,
pulse rate -
insomnia -
nightmare - ,
to be subject to - ,
empiricism [ɛmˈpɪrɪsɪz(ə)m] -
nativism [ˈneɪtɪvɪz(ə)m] -
sensory -
skills -
innate [ɪˈneɪt] -
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a field of study -
Exercise 2. Pronounce correctly
Egypt [i:dʒɪpt], Socrates [ˈsɒkrətiːz], Plato [ˈpleɪtoʊ], Aristotle [ˈærɪˌstɒtəl], Asia [ˈeɪʒə or ˈeɪʃə], Lin Xie [lin sai], Avicenna [ˌævɪˈsɛnə], Marco Marulić [ˈmɑrko maˈru:litʃ], Descartes [deɪˌkɑrt], Renaissance [rəˈneɪsəns (UK) ˌrenəˈsɑːns(US)], medieval [ˌmɛdɪˈiːv(ə)l], Wilhelm Wundt [ˈvɪl hɛlm ˈvu̇nt], Leipzig [ˈlaɪpsɪɡ],
Exercise 3. Translate into Ukrainian
a study of the mind and behaviour, an independent scientific discipline, to speculate on the nature of the mind, ancient thinkers, to investigate the limits of human knowledge, memory and conscious awareness, to draw a square with one hand, to carry out the first psychology experiment, to treat patients suffering from a variety of diseases, inner feelings, late in the 19th century, a science apart from biology and philosophy, "father of experimental psychology, psychological research, an independent field of study
Exercise 4. Translate the sentences. Explain the use of the underlined verbs in the Active
And Passive Voice.
1) Educational psychologists apply theories of human development to understand individual learning styles.
2) Psychologists working in the field of education are focused on better understanding how people absorb and retain new information.
3) Social psychology studies how humans think about each other and how they relate to each other.
4) Educational psychology is often included in teacher education programs in places such as North America, Australia, and New Zealand.
5) Today mental testing is used for people of all ages in Western societies.
Grammar. Past Simple
| Many scientists of the 20th century investigated mental conditions. Avicenna wrote * The Canon of Medicine where he described melancholia. |
| Did many scientists of the 20th century investigate mental conditions? Did Avicenna write The Canon of Medicine? Who investigated mental conditions? Who wrote The Canon of Medicine? What did many scientists of the 20th century investigate? What didAvicenna write? |
| Avicenna did not (didnt) write Passions of the Soul. |
* 䳺 ( ): take → took, give → gave, go → went
Exercise 5. Translate the text. What information seems the most interesting to you?
